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Will Brooker

Why Bowie Matters

Copyright  Will Brooker 2019

First published in English by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

 ., ., , 2021

   , 2021

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1


Things really matter to me.




2


 軠  ,     -,   BBC  1964  2006 .     .




3


Sex is good, sex is funky. Sex is best without a dunky.   : Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Toms a junkie.




4


March of flowers! March of dimes! These are the prisons! These are the crimes!




5


   Five Years: Five years, thats all weve got.




6


 ,      19051913 .




7


  ,   : https://batenka.ru/worship/bowie/.




8


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9


Space Oddity.




10


   Lazarus: Look up here, Im in heaven.




11


   -,  154  -  .




12


Living in lies by the railway line, pushing the hair from my eyes. Elvis is English and climbs the hills <> cant tell the bullshit from the lies.




13


   (18481910)  ,     XIX   XX.           ;        1970 .




14


Cant Help Thinking About Me      1966 .




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16


       (  )   1916 ,     -,              :     (Wolf Cubs),    (Packs).




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  ,   1950-.




18


Barnardos          ,       1867 .


