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Ian Penman: Bowie, 5 January 2017
The Age of Bowie: How David Bowie Made a World of Difference
by Paul Morley.
Simon & Schuster, 484 pp., £20, July 2016,978 1 4711 4808 8 Show More
by Paul Morley.
Simon & Schuster, 484 pp., £20, July 2016,
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy
by Simon Reynolds.
Faber, 704 pp., £25, October 2016,978 0 571 30171 3 Show More
by Simon Reynolds.
Faber, 704 pp., £25, October 2016,
“... about the homeless in the US. Ditto this one about Chernobyl. Ditto the one about (what else?) Margaret Thatcher. Those song ‘explanations’ are exactly the kind of thing you might have expected from someone not quite as smart as Bowie trying to do a Bowie: Bowie lite. Ironically, they gave the game away by being way too heavy. He could seem almost like ... ”