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David Bowie: Pantomime Rock?
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, April 1971
Los Angeles: in his floral-patterned velvet midi-gown and cosmetically enhanced eyes, in his fine chest-length blonde hair and mod nutty engineer’s cap that he bought in ...

Fifty Ways To Love Your Bowie: Half a Ton of Fave Daves
Guide by William Higham, Rock's Backpages, October 2002
WITH THE Bard of Beckenham on a critical high right now (and yes, new album Heathen IS his best in years), it seems an opportune moment ...

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AUDIO: David Bowie, part 1 (1999)
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 1999
The Dame, surrounded by some splendid NYC ambience, talks about where he's at today, his workaholism, being part of Tin Machine and some of the personae ...

AUDIO: David Bowie, part 2 (1999)
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 1999
DB on being liberated by Hunky Dory, becoming Ziggy, years lost to drugs, and on his relationship with his fans via the ...

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David Bowie Says Most Things The Long Way Round!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, October 1969
ON HEARING a new LP called David Bowie, someone remarked: 'Well it's very nice, but do you think he's a lasting talent?' ...

David Bowie: Bowie, Music And Life
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 1970
David Bowie has never been a conventional anything. Certainly he is no run of the mill product of the music business, something rather that was thrown ...

David Bowie: The Man Who Sold The World
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, February 1971
"Some say the view is crazy/But you may adopt another point of view. So if it's much too hazy/You can leave my friend and me with ...

Profile: David Bowie
Profile and Interview by 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 ...

David Bowie: The Darling of the Avant Garde
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, January 1972
IS THIS FRAIL-LOOKING young Englishman with the delicate, birdlike features, arresting Capricorn eyes and page boy waves of sandy blonde hair indeed destined to become the ...

David Bowie: Hunky Dory
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, January 1972
DAVID BOWIE, the swinging/mod Garbo, male femme fatale, confidante to and darling of the avant-garde on both sides of the Atlantic, and shameless outrage, is back, ...

David Bowie: Phallus in Pigtails, or the Music of the Spheres Considered as Cosmic Boogie
Essay by Ron Ross, Words & Music, July 1972
MIGHT ONE suggest that "the longer one studies life and literature, the more strongly one feels that behind everything that is wonderful stands the individual, and ...

David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (RCA)
Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, July 1972
DAVID BOWIE, England’s Answer-To-Alice-Cooper-But-He’s-For-Real, has finally made an album with positive commercial potential and consistent strength. Ziggy Stardust is the Aftermath of the Seventies, where every ...

David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (RCA)
Review by Nick Kent, Oz, July 1972
DAVID BOWIE, easily the most brilliant young songwriter in this country, seems to have been going through quite a few rapid changes over the last year ...

David Bowie: Central London Polytechnic, London
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, July 1972
"YES, I'M DAVID BOWIE. These are the Spiders from Mars. And we're the slickest show in town." ...

David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Review by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, July 1972
UPON THE RELEASE of David Bowie's most thematically ambitious, musically coherent album to date, the record in which he unites the major strengths of his previous ...

David at the Dorchester: Bowie on Ziggy and other matters
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1972
THREE CHANGES of dress and a kiss from Lou Reed. The waiters were horrified. ...

The Rise and Rise of David Bowie
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, August 1972
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Look out you Rock 'n ...

David Bowie: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, August 1972
MUSIC FROM A Clockwork Orange heralded the spectacular performance staged by David Bowie at London's Rainbow Theatre on Sunday night. "At least it makes a change ...

David Bowie: The Super Pop Event
Live Review by Al Aronowitz, New York Post, September 1972
David Bowie: Carnegie Hall, NYC ...

David Bowie: Fleeting Moments In A Glamorous Career
Report by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, October 1972
WITH NOT SO much as the Ed Sullivan Show, Shindig or Hullabaloo, a Winky Dink screen or a fifth-Spider like Murray the K to add grease ...

Bowie Neat-O At Carnegie Debut
Live Review by Ron Ross, Record World, October 1972
David Bowie: Carnegie Hall, NYC, 28 September 1972 ...

David Bowie: Freak Out In A Moonage Daydream
Report and Interview by Lenny Kaye, Cavalier, January 1973
AYLESBURY, ENGLAND. He is, as he had planned, magnificent. The stage appears impeccably struck, lights arranged to catch the finer angles of his face, making him ...

Goodbye Ziggy And a big hello to Aladdin Sane
Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1973
Two days in the life of David Bowie - A rare interview and a preview of his new ...

David Bowie: Gay Guerillas & Private Movies
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, February 1973
ALRIGHT, so you're a rock singer out of Beckenham, Kent called David Bowie and you're hotter than a stolen atom bomb packed with pictures of Howard ...

David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1973
Bye-bye, Ziggy. It was nice seeing you, and I hope you'll keep in touch. Hello, Aladdin Sane, make yourself at home. David Bowie's new album is ...

David Bowie: Aladdin Distress
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, May 1973
"AND WHEN he arrived they screamed and they cried, and they rushed, and gushed forth and beat their feverish feminine fists into..." FORGET IT! This is ...

David Bowie: Total Sensory Overload
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1973
Following the controversial London Earls Court gig, Charles Shaar Murray and photographer Joe Stevens check out Bowie on tour – and find a riot goin' on ...

Bowie Zowie
Comment by Dave Laing, Let It Rock, June 1973
WHAT YOU THINK of Bowie depends on your idea of rock-and-roll. It's no good criticising him for falling short in what he's trying to do, because ...

David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, June 1973
FRESH FROM HIS second campaign in the American rock wars, our once and future pop boy fave David Bowie delivers Aladdin Sane as Phase III in ...

David Bowie
Comment by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, June 1973
ARGUING about pop stars is mostly a loony thing to do. So many of the judgements involved are subjective that the inarticulacy of Juke Box Jury ...

The Bowie Experiment
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1973
THIS IS ONE OF those restaurants where quiet good taste just screams its presence. You just know that they have pheasant under glass, and that at ...

T. Rex/David Bowie/Roxy Music Albums
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, July 1973
T. Rex: Tanx
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure ...

David Bowie: Best Dressed Mainman at The Twilight Zone Ball
Comment by Nick Kent, Creem, August 1973
SOME SAY THAT the only reason Mick Rock got that job as Mainman's official photographer/sometime designer was because Angie Bowie fancied his wife. That's a solid ...

David Bowie: Bowie-ing Out at The Chateau
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1973
CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY WITH THE MAIN MAN IN FRANCE. WORK ON NEW PROJECTS, REPORTS MURRAY, IS GOING AHEAD DELICIOUSLY IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT ...

David Bowie: Pin-Ups
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, October 1973
THE GOLDEN AGE Of Rock is almost universally assumed to have been in full swing between about 1954 and 1959, following which, according to every critic ...

Ziggy Storms the Marquee: Bowie’s 1980 Floor Show
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, October 1973
DAVID BOWIE in action at The Marquee (where it all began) was just one of the many rare and knee-trembling sights to be enjoyed within the ...

The Rise and Fall of David Bowie: All That Glitters is Not Gold
Comment by Jon Tiven, Good Times, November 1973
"No matter how good David Bowie may really be, the stuff he's doing now is a lot of shit."
– Chris Chesnutt, editor of the New ...

David Bowie: Pinups
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, December 1973
WITH EVERYONE from the Band to Don McLean doing oldies albums, the Who revisiting the Mod era, and David Bowie's guitarist Mick Ronson's obvious brilliance in ...

David Bowie: How to Become a Cult Figure in Only Two Years
Profile by Steve Turner, Unpublished piece for Nova, 1974
Mickie Bloomfield is a 16-year-old shipping clerk who lives in a tower block off the Old Kent Road and who in order to ‘be great like ...

The Scruffy Little Failure who became David Bowie
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, NME, April 1974
Ken Pitt, Bowie's former manager and the only man In the world who's lived with both Bowie and James Dean, reflects on the days before Ziggy ...

David Bowie: Diamond Dogs
Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, May 1974
A NEW album release by David Bowie is today looked on with as much awe as a release by the Beatles in the sixties. Later this ...

David Bowie: Birth Of The New Rock Theatre
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, June 1974
A FEW THOUSAND lucky Canadians witnessed a completely new concept in rock theatre last weekend when David Bowie opened his North American tour in Montreal on ...

David Bowie: Diamond Dogs
Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, July 1974
RUFF-RUFF-BOW-BOW: Bowie's bewitched, bothered, bewildered and back to play – 25 eastern cities in an intense five week tour concluding mid-July with his single biggest gig ...

Lindsay Kemp: The Man Who Taught Bowie His Moves
Interview by Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, September 1974
LONDON — Lindsey Kemp doesn’t converse. He orates. Words spill out, like wine from a jug, in a long, liquid flow; pictures spring to life, shaped ...

David Bowie: Time For Another Ch-ch-change
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, October 1974
LOS ANGELES – David Bowie hadn't slept for 36 hours. He'd just gone through his rigorous show at the Universal Amphitheater for the fourth night in ...

David Bowie: David Live
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, October 1974
IS THERE life on Uranus? Dunno. Things were pretty quiet last time I looked. On the other hand, Tony Defries' little redhead has a new album ...

David Bowie: Mr. Bowie Has Left The Theatre
Report by Mick Farren, NME, November 1974
NEW YORK'S Radio City Music Hall, with its elaborate art deco Thirties interior, must be the ideal place to present a David Bowie show. Unfortunately the ...

Bowie Throws A Bone To His 'Dog' Fans
Report and Interview by Ron Ross, Circus, December 1974
WHILE HARSHER CRITICS said his music was being lost behind his many theatrical masks, Bowie was planning the live album that would reveal him as a ...

David Bowie: David Live (RCA)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, January 1975
ERIK IMPORTS proudly presents David Blow-Up onstage doing the martian hop in Philadelphia, dazzling in ghostly radiance in his new blue suit and shedding his last ...

David Bowie : Young Americans
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, March 1975
WHERE have all poppa's heroes gone? Living in New York, every one. A hard city by reputation, but presumably it has its compensations for someone with ...

David Bowie: Young Americans (RCA)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, April 1975
IN VIEW OF the fact that, in his first major American interview, Bowie assured us, "If I'm mediocre I'll get out of the business: there's enough ...

Mick Ronson: "It's Strange Being On Your Own"
Interview by Ron Ross, Circus, April 1975
WHEN MICK RONSON set down his guitar and stepped out of the London studio where he was serving as "musical director" for lan Hunter's first solo ...

David Bowie: Zowie Bowie
Essay by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, April 1975
Arguing about pop stars is mostly a loony thing to do. So many of the judgements involved are subjective that the inarticulacy of a Juke Box ...

David Bowie: 'Rock and Roll is Dead'
Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, July 1975
"WELL," SAYS David Bowie. "Rock and roll is just a toothless old woman. It really ...

David Bowie: Watch Out Mate! Hitler’s On His Way Back
Interview by Anthony O'Grady, NME, August 1975
"WE THINK WE'VE got an audience," says the spokesperson in the Bowie suite. "We're pretty sure the operator will be listening in."

"This is the Los Angeles ...

David Bowie: Did We Use Him? Did We Abuse Him?
Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1975
Well, he's acting like we did, so maybe there's something in it. Two recent and much-maligned Bowie albums are herein re-evaluated for your reading pleasure... ...

Bowie: Station To Station — "It's not a Musical Album as much as an Emotional One"
Review by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, January 1976
A year ago, David Bowie's public face was a mess. The Diamond Dog tour he'd recently completed had certainly been successful enough, but it was a ...

David Bowie: Station To Station
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1976
"A sixty thousand word novel is one image corrected fifty-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times"
– Samuel R. Delaney ...

David Bowie: Station To Station (RCA)
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, January 1976
IN MY PHYSICS textbook at school was an amazing photo of two galaxies colliding. Just imagine being on a planet in a system in either of ...

Spiders from Mars
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, February 1976
"We've still got the Bowie costumes. We can wear those."
"Yeah, Dave was really into duffle coats for a hour and a half in them days." ...

David Bowie: Ol' Orange Hair Is Back
Live Review by Ben Edmonds, RAM, March 1976
MR. DAVID BOWIE could hardly have selected a more suitable jumping off point for his 1976 world tour than Vancouver, British Columbia, (somewhere in) Canada. ...

David Bowie: Station To Station
Review and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Circus, March 1976
DAVID BOWIE, never one to maintain continuity in his work or in his life, has become more elusive than ever in the past year. The disco ...

David Bowie: Ringing The Changes
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, March 1976
"I'M JUST DOING this tour for the money. I never earned any money before, but this time I'm going to make some. I think I deserve ...

Bowie Meets The Press: Plastic Man or Godhead of the Seventies?
Interview by Ben Edmonds, Circus, April 1976
AFTER THE BRILLIANT plumage of every previous David Bowie incarnation, the stark black and white figure on the Station to Station stage might have come as ...

David Bowie: The Man Who Fell Into Sinatra's Suit
Live Review by Max Bell, NME, May 1976
IT'S HALF PAST five on Sunday afternoon and I still don't know how to start this thing. Only David Bowie could return like the Prodigal, play ...

David Bowie: Soul Train Comes To Wembley
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, May 1976
David Bowie: Wembley, London ...

David Bowie: Changesonebowie
Review by Mick Farren, NME, June 1976
I GUESS that one of the main functions of any greatest hits album is to explain to anyone who isn't a hard core fan exactly what ...

Eno: "Zing!" Go the Strings of My Art...
Interview by Miles, NME, November 1976
...as Thin and Serious People gather to make music. The luscious but committed BRIAN ENO has been in recording with the skinny and deranged DAVID ...

David Bowie: Low
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, January 1977
YOU'RE JUST a little girl with grey eyes and you never leave your room. ...

David Bowie: Low
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, February 1977
WELL, THIS IS probably the strangest thing Bowie has ever recorded. First listen was a real shock...and I've come to expect surprises from this bloke. ...

David Bowie: Low
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, February 1977
THE NEW BOWIE album doesn't make much sense. While practically everybody else in rock is striving for cleaner and more accurately recorded sound, Bowie's Low has ...

Bowie and Bolan Get It On
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1977
"OH THAT'S REALLY Polaroid! You've gotta keep the ending!"

David Bowie rocked with laughter and Marc Bolan wiped away the tears that had threatened to turn ...

David Bowie: Heroes
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, October 1977
BOWIE RECKONS he's discarded the last of his image facades/personality disguises, but as his appearance gets straighter the music gets weirder. ...

Secret Secret Never Seen: An Interview with David Bowie
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, January 1978
The last couple of albums, which is really what you're here to talk about, have been, to some people, somewhat inaccessible. I think you said at ...

David Bowie: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Paul Rambali, NME, May 1978
IT WOULD make a great parlour game were some enterprising company to formalize rules. A game this writer has been known to play over the years, ...

David Bowie: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, June 1978
EVERYBODY I spoke to was complaining. A front row of seats had been sold then removed to fit the stage extension in. The roadies thought they ...

David Bowie: Stage
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, September 1978
SO: THE next stage. The ending of one, the beginning of another? But of course, all the world's a stage. Aaaaaaah... ...

Oblique Strategies
Essay by Cynthia Rose, Harpers & Queen, 1979
Cynthia Rose looks at artist/musicians David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop (touring Britain this month) and the risks they are taking with electronics, Expressionism and ...

David Bowie: Stage (RCA)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, January 1979
"Uh, I’d been listening to a Neil Young album and, uh, they phoned through and said that my wife had had a baby on Sunday morning ...

David Bowie: Lodger (RCA)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, May 1979
ANOTHER THESIS would be the straw that broke the camel's back. Now there's a line that could easily have been snipped from one of David Bowie's ...

David Bowie: Lodger
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, May 1979
ANOTHER YEAR, another record. Like Burroughs, David Jones, rootless, looks for unconventional commitment: Burroughs found it in junk, control-systems and predatory homosexuality; Jones found it in ...

David Bowie: From Low to Lodger
Retrospective by Paul Yamada, New York Rocker, July 1979
THE LAST TWO studio LPs by David Bowie seem to make up some sort of unit. The release of a third album in collaboration with Brian ...

David Bowie: Scary Monsters (RCA)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1980
LEARNING to live with somebody's depression: the man in the clown suit stops running, finds self in back-against-wall situation, attempts to deal with same. Scary Monsters ...

David Bowie: The Gender Bender
Comment by Jon Savage, The Face, November 1980
"WHAT DO YOU want to be when you grow up, ...

Bowie For Breakfast: Angie Bowie’s Free Spirit
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, July 1981
David’s golden years get shredded as Angie spills half baked ...

Tony Visconti Talks
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Record Producers' (BBC Books), 1982
IN MUCH THE same way that George Martin is known for his work with the Beatles, anyone who has ever inspected the small print on the ...

David Bowie: Brechtfast In Bed
Report by Ian Penman, NME, March 1982
IN BAAL, DAVID Bowie finally shed his skin and played the part of someone else. ...

Ziggy Stardust: From Bowie To Bauhaus… The Key To Decades Conceits
Essay by Chris Bohn, NME, October 1982
So you've seen Bauhaus performing 'Ziggy Stardust' on TV and you still don't believe in reincarnation? Ziggy, who entered the material world via David Bowie, is ...

David Bowie: Rare
Review by Chris Bohn, NME, January 1983
NEITHER RARE nor particularly well done, the latest Bowie collection of alternative cuts, outtakes, live run throughs, flipsides and flops is hardly likely to endear RCA ...

David Bowie: Let's Dance
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1983
"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues to the song they're playing on the ...

Merry Christmas Mr Bowie
Interview by Chris Bohn, NME, April 1983
I: The Missing Years

David Bowie's new film, The Hunger, opens not with the focus fixed firmly on the star but with a cameo sequence of Bauhaus ...

Live Bowie!
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1983
David Bowie: Brussels Voorst National, Belgium ...

David Bowie
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, City Limits, June 1983
In the days of Beau Brummell or even Baudelaire, to be a dandy was to be a true social outlaw – one whose fixed individuality constituted ...

David Bowie: Sermon From The Savoy
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1984
When David Bowie recently visited Britain he agreed to do one ‘official’ interview — with NME’s Charles Shaar Murray. In this exclusive story he gives a ...

David Bowie: The Byronic Man
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, The Face, October 1984
"WHAT WE'RE DOING here is bringing back the talkies," David Bowie announces self-mockingly. His livid mask recalls the white-faced clowns and demons of the Commedia del' ...

David Bowie: Labyrinth
Review by David Quantick, NME, June 1986
MOST OF us are familiar with David Bowie from his role as Vendice Partners in the sparkling musical comedy Absolute Beginners, but how many I wonder ...

David Bowie: Never Let Me Down
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, August 1987
THE PICTURE OF Dorian Bowie, in which the master remains young but his music begins to limp. Or the boy who cried wolf, so that when ...

David Bowie: NEC, Birmingham
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, March 1990
"I thought I'd play a couple of numbers from the Tin Machine album... wait, wait, where are you going...come back!" ...

David Bowie: ChangesBowie
Review by Mat Snow, Q, April 1990
BY ONE OF those neat symmetries, David Bowie introduced his prime persona at the very end of the '60s with Space Oddity, and laid it to ...

The Great Escape of the Thin White Duke: David Bowie in Berlin
Essay by Steve Turner, The Independent, May 1991
In 1976 the word was out that David Bowie was slumming it in Berlin. Rejecting the life of a rock and roll star, which was costing ...

Tin Machine: Versus
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1991
PICTURE THIS: you are in a sex shop in Sydney (for whatever twisted reasons people have for patronising such institutions), and this scholarly-looking gent with elegantly ...

David Bowie
Interview by Mat Snow, Mojo, October 1994
"ONE THING I'VE NOTICED driving around in this part of Switzerland is that there are no flowers. It's relentlessly green in Geneva – they must use ...

David Bowie/Morrissey: London, Wembley Arena
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Mojo, 1995
THE THIRD OF four nights of two thinnish white pop Dukes with great barbers and a well-honed sense of alienation. Seventies icon Bowie and 80s icon ...

David Bowie: Outside (Virgin)
Review by Ira Robbins, Addicted To Noise, 1995
Had it not been for the stiff on line in front of me at the microphone in Avery Fisher Hall at September's CMJ convention in New ...

David Bowie on the Outside
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Musicweek, 1995
THE CRITICAL AND commercial disappointment which has greeted David Bowie's output since the crossover success of 1983's Let's Dance would have forced a less adventurous artist ...

David Bowie: Outside
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Mojo, October 1995
"Fuck art, let's concept," suggests former Dame to his chrome-domed chum. "Umpteenth comeback is a corker!" cries a passing Charles Shaar ...

David Bowie/ Nine Inch Nails: Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey
Live Review by Cliff Jones, Mojo, December 1995
SOMEWHERE, ROUGHLY TWO THIRDS OF THE WAY through the non-linear-Gothic-drama-hyper-cycle-murder-mystery known as David Bowie's Outside, the seasoned pro lost his audience. What began with the odd ...

David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cardigans: The White Room
Report and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Q, March 1996
"THE BEST THING was when we had Tora Tora, or The Artist Formerly Known As Prince," says Chris Cowey, the noticeably effusive producer of The White ...

Contract Breakers
Essay by Mark Sinker, The Wire, June 1996
2005 note: Savage Pencil did a nice illustration for this: John and Yoko hilariously naked, among other excellent things. It also elicited an angry postcard from ...

David Bowie: Earthling
Review and Interview by Andy Gill, Mojo, March 1997
Is jungle exploration the right career move for a 50-year-old pop star who plans to float himself on the Stock Market this year? ...

10 Great Glam Rock Albums
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Harpers & Queen, 1998
TEN GREAT GLAM ROCK ALBUMS you cannot afford to live ...

David Bowie: Best Of 1974/1979 (EMI)
Review by Ian Fortnam, Vox, June 1998
Where the first instalment of this condensed collection of Bowie's "best" work covered the formative innocence of the man's glam rock period, 1974/1979 finds the Thin ...

Ziggy Stardust: The Album That Killed The Sixties
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, June 1998
Bowie's Ziggy Stardust redefined the meaning of rock artistry ...

David Bowie: White Lines, Black Magic
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 1998
'I ran across a monster who was sleeping by a tree. And I looked and frowned and the monster was me'
(David Bowie, 'The Width Of A ...

Glam Rock: Scary Monsters, Super Freaks #2
Special Feature by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1998
TWENTIETH CENTURY BOY ...

Rock 100: David Bowie
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999
HE IS, AS HE HAD PLANNED, MAGNIFICENT. The stage appears impeccably struck, lights arranged to catch the finer angles of his face, making him seem at ...

Major Tom.com
Profile by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, January 2000
From drifting astronaut to Ziggy Stardust to Thin White Duke and actor...the Brixton boy worth £500 million and with his own Internet bank is bringing his ...

How I alienated David Bowie!
Comment by John Mendelsohn, Rock's Backpages, May 2002
IN THE AUTUMN of 2000, I had gone from being a very well paid Web designer to being an out-of-work former Web designer. ...

David Bowie: The Dame's New Clothes
Essay by Nicky Parade, Rock's Backpages, May 2002
How David Bowie became Mr. ...

Ziggy Played Guitar (But Never Took His Eyes Off The Business)
Profile by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, June 2002
"TIME," AS DAVID BOWIE once sang. "is waiting in the wings." As far as Bowie himself, who turned 55 last January, is concerned, time seems to ...

David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, now a man of wealth and taste
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, June 2002
IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that June 2002 is turning out to be David Bowie month. This time 30 years ago, trading under the plastic-fantastic moniker Ziggy ...

David Bowie: Royal Festival Hall, London, 29th June
Live Review by William Higham, Rock's Backpages, July 2002
IT SEEMS LIKE some of the old guard are rediscovering their form over the last eighteen months: Brian Wilson, Bryan Ferry, Roger Waters and now Mr ...

David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust And the Spiders From Mars: 30th Anniversary Edition
Review and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, July 2002
"I'm really just a Photostat machine. I pour out what has already been fed in. I merely reflect what is going on around me"
– David ...

David Bowie: The star looks very different today
Comment by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, August 2003
SO FAR AS the world knows, David Bowie has been cruising in an enviable holding pattern for at least 10 years: a wealthy rock aristo with ...

The Sound and Vision of David Bowie
Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, September 2003
PLANET EARTH is blue and David Bowie's beige. Dressed down in khakis, a light tan T-shirt and a matching ball cap, he looks more like a ...

David Bowie: Reality (ISO/Columbia)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, September 2003
LIKE BOB DYLAN, David Bowie seems to have been re-invigorated by a lengthy period with a stable band: Reality appears with almost indecent haste a year ...

David Bowie: All The Old Dude Had, He's Still Got
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, November 2003
David Bowie: MEN Arena, Manchester ...

David Bowie and the Media
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, 2004
A WHIFF OF hedonism lingered amid the dense fog of cigarette smoke inside the top floor suite of Detroit's luxurious Ponchartrain hotel. David Bowie sighed, dismissing ...

David Bowie: The Story of 'Young Americans'
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, January 2004
"'YOUNG AMERICANS' wouldn't have happened without Bowie's cocaine addiction," asserted Duran Duran's John Taylor in a recent ...

Tony Visconti: Bolan, Bowie, Morrissey And Me
Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, March 2006
"WHAT A LOT of people don't realise about Morrissey," says the producer of his new album, Tony Visconti, "is that he has a sense of humour. ...

Bowie In America 1972/73
Retrospective by Ian Gittins, Mojo, January 2007
MORE THAN 30 years after the event, Ziggy Stardust remains one of the most inventive and flamboyant productions in rock history. Yet when Bowie took Ziggy ...

Bowie in Berlin
Retrospective by Ian Gittins, Mojo, January 2007
BY THE END of recording Station To Station in Los Angeles in 1975, David Bowie was in meltdown. Strung-out, paranoid and at war with his management ...

Turn and Face The Strange: David Bowie and the Making Of Hunky Dory
Retrospective by Bill DeMain, unpublished, 2008
JANUARY, 1971. There was trouble in outer space. Major Tom's signal was growing fainter by the day. And Ziggy Stardust was still an undefined blip on ...

Virgin/EMI To Issue David Bowie: Live Santa Monica '72 On July 8th
Report by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, July 2008
VIRGIN/EMI Records on July 8th will release David Bowie: Live Santa Monica '72 in limited edition CD and numbered 180-gram double vinyl LP packages culled from ...

see also Mick Ronson