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David Bowie: The Elvis Of the Seventies

Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 June 1972

IT WAS just after the Elvis concert and David Bowie and I were sitting in his suite at the Park Lane Hotel (that's where record companies put people when they think they're going to make money for them) discussing how primitive the by-products of rock business are.

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