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The Androgynous Mirror

Jim Farber, 'Rolling Stone: The Seventies' (Little, Brown), 1998

ON A SWAMPY July night in 1974, I left my suburban home bound for David Bowie's Diamond Dogs concert, dressed in midnight-blue eyeliner, hepatitis-yellow platforms and a lollipop-green jacket pooled at the shoulder and bustled at the back.

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