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David Bowie: Reality

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 12 September 2003

LIKE ALL PROPER Dave albums, Bowie's 26th has at its core a concept, around which 11 songs uneasily cluster to articulate the master's daft vision. At the age of 56, he has decided to address the daftest of them all: What is reality? (Or, as he chuckles: "The basis [of reality] is more an all-pervasive influence of contingency than a defined structure of absolutes.")

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