Gary Kemp: My teen crush on David Bowie

Ziggy Stardust wore nail varnish and platforms, and he changed Gary Kemp's life for ever. The Spandau Ballet guitarist recalls his love affair with glamThe first time I fell in love it was with a man. It happened one Thursday evening in the bedroom of a flat in King's Cross. I was a wide-eyed boy of 12 and the object of my passion had dyed orange hair and white nail varnish. Looking out from a tiny TV screen was a Mephistophelean messenger from the space age, a tinselled troubadour to give vo...

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