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David Bowie: Meeting the Bromley Boy

Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 26 February 1966

WITHOUT DOUBT David Bowie has talent. And also without doubt it will be exploited. For, Mr. Bowie, a 19-year-old Bromley boy, not only writes and ...

David Bowie: David Bowie (Deram)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 10 June 1967

Hear David Bowie — he's something new ...

Tyrannosaurus Rex: Marc Bolan: The Man Behind Tyrannosaurus Rex

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 May 1968

AGE AND world wearyness are the enemies of pop. Marc Bolan has youth and enthusiasm. His are the qualities which must be the saviours of ...

David Bowie: 'Space Oddity'

Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 10 July 1969

DAVID BOWIE – AMAZING SOUND! ...

David Bowie: 'Space Oddity' (Philips)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 July 1969

DAVID IS A talented young man who has written many fine songs and now concentrates on mime shows. ...

David Bowie: Big Week For Bowie: A new star shoots upwawrds

Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, February 1970

DAVID BOWIE has had a good week. ...

The Strawbs

Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970

ONE OF OUR most original groups that has not yet achieved the recognition it deserves is the Strawbs. They stand out instant by being an ...

David Bowie: Bowie, Music And Life

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 6 February 1971

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 ...

Rock Has Nowhere To Go But Up

Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, The Rag, 15 February 1971

AH, IT'S GREAT to be living in these days of "progressive" rock. Or so the record companies, hip record stores, and groups themselves would have ...

David Bowie: The Man Who Sold The World

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 18 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 ...

David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World (Mercury)

Review by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, March 1971

THE MAN Who Sold the World is a vaguely-sophomoric, vaguely-mystical, thoroughly logical extension of the Music Hall tradition in British pop music. This is a ...

David Bowie: Pantomime Rock?

Report and Interview by John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone, 1 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 ...

John Cale, Velvet Underground, The: John Cale: Welsh Underground

Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 12 April 1971

Author's note, 2018. The Velvet Underground and Nico and to a lesser extent White Light/White Heat are the albums that above all others up to ...

David Bowie: Why does David Bowie like dressing up in ladies' clothes?

Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 April 1971

A straight answer to Chris Welch ...

David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World (Mercury SR 61325)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Creem, May 1971

SOMEHOW IT seems that it is during my occasional moments of paranoid fantasy that all the strange social phenomena that the media-systems funnel into my ...

David Bowie: Contemporary Songwriters: David Bowie

Profile by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 1 May 1971

THE WORK of songwriters is conditioned by many things. Their environment, their childhood, their brushes with love, their hopes and dreams, their disillusionment. And they ...

David Bowie: Rudi will be the new Mick Jagger' said David Bowie. Rudi blushed

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 1 May 1971

Who will be the first male to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine? Rudi Valentino, says spaced oddity David Bowie. David has big plans ...

David Bowie: 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 ...

David Bowie: The Space Oddity Comes Down To Earth

Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 14 August 1971

AT ONE TIME singer/songwriter David Bowie used to write songs because, "I truly believed we songwriters were going to change the face of the world." ...

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 ...