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Is Bowie The Greatest Pop Star There Has Ever Been?

With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump, Dressed like a priest you was...

The January 2009 edition of The WORD magazine has a page on the best ever gimmicks in rock and roll.

Among the twenty or so entries are Hendrix's burning guitar, Alice Cooper's snake, Kraftwerk's robots, Cameo's codpieces, Pete Burns' scary eyepatch and Marilyn Manson's gammy eye...the latter three being 'gimmicks' David Bowie had already used along the way.

The piece concludes with the entry above which ends on a question with a pretty obvious answer...Yes!

Though the item is tongue-in-cheek, I have to say I never thought of Bowie's identity changes as pre-conceived gimmicks, but rather natural progressions triggered by a curious and easily bored imagination.

And don't even get me started on chameleon!

categories: News
Monday 12.01.08
Posted by Mark Adams
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