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Bowie locks away an old life-style

Wayne Robins, Newsday, 27 November 1977

FIVE YEARS ago, David Bowie created "Ziggy Stardust." Ziggy was the prototypical glitter rock star: Rich, beautiful, stylishly pansexual. The 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars established glitter rock and androgynous clothing as pop's dominant trend that year.

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