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David Bowie - The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974

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Album Review

Release date: 02 May 2000

David Bowie - The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974

Station To Station/Low/Heroes/Stage

He might have floated himself on the stock market recently, but there was a time when David Bowie was close to the zeitgeist.

HE MIGHT HAVE FLOATED himself on the stock market recently, but there was a time when David Bowie was close to the zeitgeist. In 1976, he introduced himself as The Thin White Duke and managed somehow, unlike his peers, not to totally alienate the outrageous, safety-pinned and body-scarred punk youth. As a rock star who personified otherness and inspired clones by the thousand, Bowie...

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