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2 Oct 2024

Better Dead Than Woke: Reflections on Sam Tyler's Suicide in 'Life on Mars'

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  The central cast of Life on Mars (BBC One, 2006-07)     I.    Whether by accident or subconscious design, I have long avoided watching th...
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16 Apr 2023

Brief Notes on David Bowie's 'Life on Mars'

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David Bowie looking perfect in the video for  'Life on Mars' (dir. Mick Rock, 1973)     David Bowie's arty glam rock ballad ...
15 Apr 2023

Is There Life on Mars?

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Is There Life on Mars? (SA/2023)     The question of whether there is - or at some point has been - life on Mars is one that continues to ex...
20 Jul 2022

Get It On and Punk It Up With Marc Bolan

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Marc Bolan with Dave Vanian of the Damned  and Siouxsie Sioux in 1977   According to Sebastian Horsley, Marc Bolan was super-plastic profoun...
24 Apr 2022

Muses with Dirty Faces: In Praise of the Groupie

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  Four of the GTOs looking fabulous and freaky in 1969 Photo by Ed Caraeff / Morgan Media / Getty Images     I.    Are groupies still a thin...
8 Feb 2022

Sweet Sixteen (In Memory of Sid Vicious and My Own Punk Youth)

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John Beverley, aged 16, in his pre-punk days  prior to becoming Sid Vicious, Sex Pistol. Me, aged 16, in my post-punk days, but still sporti...
3 Apr 2021

Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll History as Seen on TV: Bowie Performs 'Starman' on Top of the Pops (6 July 1972)

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David Bowie performing 'Starman' on Top of the Pops   (6 July 1972): click here to watch on YouTube There's a starman waiting i...
29 Mar 2020

Turn and Face the Strange (On Coronavirus and the State of Funk)

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It's interesting (to me at least) how extraordinarily relevant some of D. H. Lawrence's essays and articles still seem, even ...
19 Dec 2017

On the Designers Who Dressed Ziggy Stardust

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Photo of David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita  wearing a striped bodysuit  by Kansai Yamamoto  designed for the Aladdin Sane Tour (19...
16 Jul 2017

Notes on the Case of Andrew Dobson and the Chinese Sex Doll

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The doll in the Andrew Dobson case:  thoughtfully pixelated by the British Press  so as not to cause offence or arouse illicit de...
5 Feb 2016

On the Art of Death and Disappearance in the Case of David Bowie

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Bowie makes good his disappearance in the video  for Lazarus  (dir. Johan Renck, 2016) The poet and critic Simon Solomon is right...
5 Mar 2014

On the Question of Scottish Independence

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David Bowie's unexpected and rather pitiful plea that Scotland stay with us - made at the Brit Awards and voiced via Kate Moss -...
30 Mar 2013

David Bowie

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One of the people I've always quite liked but have never quite allowed myself to quite like, is David Bowie. I was perhaps just a l...