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David Bowie is: V&A, London

Nicky Charlish, Culture Wars, 9 November 2013

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David Bowie has been all of these, and more. So an exhibition which purports to tell us about him faces a challenge of scarily monstrous proportions. Does it deliver the goods on this rock god?

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