Wham Bang, Teatime
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,
“... the World’. Recall: Bryan Ferry duetting with Cilla (‘and special guests Gerald Harper and Tony Blackburn!’). Recall: a newly shorn Bowie guest-starring on Bolan’s camp-for-kids teatime show, Marc. This was what made them who they were: they could play in both keys, MOR versions of avant-garde modernity. People still get into knots about the ... ”