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David Bowie: Awards? Bowie puffed nervously on his Gitanes, smiled, said...'I use most of them as paperweights'

Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 February 1974

TELLING BOWIE he'd won five Disc Music Poll Awards didn't seem much of a big deal. In the past few months he must have collected ...

David Bowie: Music Hall, Aberdeen

Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 26 May 1973

OUTSIDE ABERDEEN Music Hall last Wednesday a whole crowd of dour little Scottish guys stood touting programmes and posters, looking acutely self-conscious with Aladdin Sane ...

Lady Gaga, David Bowie: Lady Gaga's David Bowie tribute didn't do either artist justice

Comment by Maura Johnston, The Guardian, 16 February 2016

Gaga has Bowie's shapeshifting abilities and a strong voice, but the late star's legacy was ill-served by the hectic megamix she performed. ...

David Bowie: Cha...Cha...Cha...Changes — A Journey with Aladdin

Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 12 May 1973

CHARING CROSS STATION, London, 9.10 pm: And when he arrived they screamed and they cried, and they rushed, and gushed forth and beat their feverish ...

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: 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. ...

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: 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 ...

Marc Bolan, David Bowie: Tony Visconti: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy — The Autobiography (Harper Collins)

Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 18 February 2007

IT CAN'T have been easy choosing the alliterative lineup for the sub-title of this rock'n'roll memoir. After Phil Spector, Tony Visconti is probably the most ...

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 Spiders from Mars' Trevor Bolder (1979)

Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 March 1979

The Spider from Mars bass-man talks about his roots (and Rats) in Hull with Mick Ronson and getting together with David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, glamming up and the end of the band.

File format: mp3; file size: 13.6mb, interview length: 14' 51" sound quality: ****

David Bowie's DNA: Spaceboy Keeps Swinging

Essay by Steve Pafford, DNA, June 2015

David Bowie was the bisexual alien rock star who sold genderfuck to the world. He's also claimed to be the first pop star to declare ...

David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust: The Album That Killed The Sixties

Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, June 1998

Bowie's Ziggy Stardust redefined the meaning of rock artistry. ...

David Bowie, Suede, Slade, T. Rex, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Gary Glitter, Roxy Music, New York Dolls, Runaways, The, Joan Jett, Morrissey, Jobriath, Lou Reed, Goldfrapp: Various Artists: Oh Yes We Can Love – A History Of Glam Rock

Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, Universal Records, August 2013

GLAMOUR HAS always been pivotal to pop music. Elvis Presley was Glam, and so were Little Richard ('Ooh My Soul') and Billy Fury ('Jealousy'). The ...

David Bowie: Me and David: An Interview with Photographer Mick Rock

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Rise of David Bowie' (Taschen), February 2014

YOU COULDN'T make the name up: as the man himself says in the interview that follows, "Mick Rock" sounds like a cartoon character, a distillation ...

David Bowie, T. Rex: Glad to be Glam!

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 12 September 1998

What do the original devotees think of Ziggy, Bolan, platform boots and glitter 25 years on? Will the latest revival of '70s androgyny take off? ...

David Bowie, Elliott Murphy, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones, The: Farewell Androgyny n. hermaphroditism (Gr. Gyne, woman)

Overview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974

Is it time to shut the closet door? OUR HERO SEES THROUGH THE SEE-THROUGHS AND COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ELEGANCE IS MORE THAN A LIMP ...

Iggy Pop, David Bowie: Nick Kent: Once Upon a Life

Memoir by Nick Kent, The Observer, 14 March 2010

In 1972 he was sorting mail in a Sussex post office. Twelve months later he was partying with Led Zeppelin. Here, the hugely influential music ...