Profile: David Bowie
Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, July 1971
David Bowie doesn't give interviews. 'I don't feel that anything I could say would be worth quoting,' he says by way of explanation. However, he made up for the lack of recorded quotes by talking informally to me for three hours at his Beckenham home.
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