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This Defunkt Life

Lesley White, The Face, August 1982

According to Joe Bowie, only his trombone and his funk-jazz band Defunkt stand between him and the imminent nuclear apocalypse. LESLEY WHITE talks to the conceptual dictator who's a regular prophet of gloom and doom. Does he know a few cosmic truths we don't, or is he just lacking in dialectical finesse?

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