Ziggy Stardust – it was all worthwhile | Dorian Lynskey

David Bowie's androgynous alter ego, now honoured with a blue plaque, shot an electric current through less enlightened timesIn Strange Fascination, his biography of David Bowie, critic David Buckley treats Bowie's performance of Starman on Top of the Pops on 5 July 1972 as one of pop music's rare JFK moments, asking a selection of younger musicians where they were when they saw Bowie, plastered in makeup, drape his arm around guitarist Mick Ronson. Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen remembe...

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