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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,
“... Reynolds being properly respectful to a big influence on Bowie that other critics shy away from: Anthony Newley, a Light Entertainment renaissance man – actor, singer, songwriter – who trod the thin line between shameless MOR schmaltz and nervy conceptual daring. This is a great lost period of pop history, with its dozens of little papers and ... ”