The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by Peter Doggett – review

A song-by-song analysis shows how David Bowie embodied a decadeWhat's this? A book about David Bowie with no pictures inside? Your average Bowie book is composed of little but pictures, the better for purchasers to feast on all that satin and tat. Not for nothing did Bowie call one of his records Pin Ups. He knew that his fans liked looking at him at least as much as they liked listening to him. Brian Duffy, who shot the famously homoerotic image for the cover of Aladdin Sane, wasn't wrong when ...

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