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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 ...

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: 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: Oh, You Pretty Thing: David Bowie

Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 22 January 1972

DAVID BOWIE, rock's swishiest outrage; a self-confessed lover of effeminate clothes, Bowie, who has hardly performed in public since his 'Space Oddity' hit of three ...

David Bowie: Bent on Success

Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 6 May 1972

DAVID BOWIE is at last letting the Great British Public catch up with him. With grasshopper alacrity, he has kept ahead of us for years ...

David Bowie: The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (RCA)

Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972

Bowie at his best ...

David Bowie & the Spiders From Mars: City Hall, Sheffield

Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 17 June 1972

THE LAST time I saw David Bowie was six months ago when he was playing a purely acoustic set. And although I'd heard his new ...

David Bowie: The Elvis Of the Seventies

Comment by 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 ...

David Bowie: Central London Polytechnic, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, 1 July 1972

"YES, I'M DAVID BOWIE. These are the Spiders from Mars. And we're the slickest show in town." ...

David Bowie: David at the Dorchester: Bowie on Ziggy and other matters

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 July 1972

THREE CHANGES of dress and a kiss from Lou Reed. The waiters were horrified. ...

T. Rex, Ringo Starr: T. Rex: Marc

Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 5 August 1972

MARC BOLAN'S first film, titled Born To Boogie, is due for release on the cinema circuit in September. It would appear that it's a logical ...

David Bowie: The Wild Mutation As A Rock 'n' Roll Star

Profile by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, September 1972

SATURDAY NIGHT was star night down at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park and how! I mean, my dear, you just wouldn't believe all those ...

David Bowie, Roxy Music, Rod Stewart, T. Rex: Albums from David Bowie, T. Rex, Rod Stewart and Roxy Music

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 September 1972

Stars of rock: T. Rex: The Slider; Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment; David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars; Roxy Music: Roxy ...

Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes (CBS 65184, £2.29)

Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 September 1972

At last Mott get it all on wax! ...

David Bowie: Carnegie Hall, New York NY

Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Daily News, 30 September 1972

David Bowie Can Do It All ...

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 ...

David Bowie, Fumble: David Bowie & the Spiders from Mars: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY

Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 22 February 1973

THE BEST that New York had to offer came out in the rain to witness David Bowie's triumphant return last Wednesday. No less a personage ...

David Bowie: Gay Guerillas & Private Movies

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 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 ...

Sweet: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 April 1973

I'M STILL trying to work this one out, but here's a brief rundown of what basically happened at the Sweet's Rainbow gig. ...

Geordie, Sweet: Sweet, Geordie: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 7 April 1973

Bitter Sweet ...