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ANTHONY ACKROYD

David Bowie and the Power of our Creative Call

"Once there were mountains on mountains and once there were sunbirds to soar with and once I could never be down" - David Bowie, Station to Station

With the welcome arrival in cinemas of the excellent documentary Moonage Daydream it’s a good time to talk Bowie. To be honest for me anytime is a good time. I am a Bowie fanatic. My story I'm sure is not too dissimilar to many others. DB reached out to me across oceans and nations to impact my adolescent life in an obscure Hobart suburb at the bottom of Australia. In fact Hobart's poorest and toughest suburb called Warrane. But when Bowie's latest 70s vinyl masterpiece spun on the turntable in my bedroom I was always transported to a world of astonishing potentials. Anything seemed possible.

Each Bowie album released in the 70s - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Diamond Dogs, Low, Heroes and his other unique and powerful artistic statements - was an event we fans anticipated breathlessly. We also must...

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