PRESS ARCHIVE

1970

Ronson: Ex-Rat gets his chance in big time

Author unknown
Hull Daily Mail • 13 February 1970

Hype and David Bowie's future

Raymond Telford
Melody Maker • 28 March 1970

1971

David Bowie: Pantomime rock

John Mendelssohn
Rolling Stone • 1 April 1971

1972

David Bowie: The darling of the avant garde

Richard Cromelin
Phonograph Record • January 1972

The Rise of Ziggy Stardust:
David Bowie's version of camp rock

Henry Edwards
After Dark • October 1972

Fleeting moments in a glamorous career

Ron Ross
Phonograph Record • October 1972

1973

David Bowie: Gimme yer hands

Tim Jurgens
Fusion • January 1973

The fall and rise of David Bowie

Gordon Coxhill
Petticoat • January 1973

Goodbye Ziggy and a big hello to Aladdin Sane

Charles Shaar Murray
NME • 27 January 1973

Gay guerillas & private movies

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 24 February 1973

Aladdin Sane: Brainful of Bowie

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 14 April 1973

Cha-cha-cha-changes: A journey with Aladdin

Roy Hollingsworth
Melody Maker • 12 May 1973

Aladdin Seine… or David Bowie in Paris

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 12 May 1973

David Bowie in Hollywood

Annie Tipton
Star • June 1973

The Bowie experiment

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 9 June 1973

Best dressed MainMan at the Twilight Zone Ball

Nick Kent
Creem • August 1973

Bowie-ing out at the Chateau

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 4 August 1973

Ronno

Mick Rock
Music Scene • September 1973

Ronson lights flame for new band

Author unknown
Melody Maker • 8 September 1973

Bowie divines doom in Moscow

Steve Gaines
Circus • October 1973

Outside David Bowie is the closest you're gonna get

Martin Hayman
Rock • 8 October 1973

The Ronson creative flame

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 6 October 1973

Mick Ronson: This band will be a world beater

Michael Benson
Disc • 20 October 1973

Bowie 1984 AD

Author unknown
Disc • 27 October 1973

Bowie returns to London

Bob Mackie
Sounds • 27 October 1973

Bowie's free for all

Chris Welch
Melody Maker • 27 October 1973

David Bowie: Zigs and Troggs and backless nuns

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 27 October 1973

1974

David Bowie:
How to become a cult figure in only two years

Steve Turner
Nova (unpublished) • 1974

At the Marquee

Mick Rock
Music Scene • 27 January 1974

Beat godfather meets glitter mainman

Craig Copetas
Rolling Stone • 28 February 1974

Diamond Dogs

Martin Kirkup
Sounds • 4 May 1974

Live: O'Keefe Auditorium, Toronto

Lenny Kaye
Disc and Music Echo • 29 June 1974

Live: David Bowie at the Amphitheatre

Robert Hilburn
Los Angeles Times • 4 September 1974

Bowie finds his voice

Robert Hilburn
Melody Maker • 14 September 1974

The people who turn me on

David Bowie
Fan • October 1974

David Bowie: time for another ch-ch-change

Richard Cromelin
Rolling Stone • 10 October 1974

Philly stopover: fans and funk

Matt Damsker
Rolling Stone • 10 October 1974

Bowie meets Springsteen 

Mike McGrath
The Drummer • 26 November 1974

On tour with Bowie

Leee Black Childers
Hit Parader • December 1974

Bowie Throws a Bone to His 'Dog' Fans

Ron Ross
Circus • December 1974

Bowie up the Amazon

Author unknown
Disc • 7 December 1974

1975

Johnny Ray's better whirlpool

Lester Bangs
Creem • January 1975

David Bowie: who will I be now?

Ron Ross
Circus Raves • February 1975

Flying Saucers, Hitler and David Bowie

Bruno Stein
Creem • February 1975

Mick Ronson: not just a sideman

Jim Girard
Scene • 27 March 1975

Hunter Ronson walking on gilded odds:
Just two boys in a rather spectacular band

Rosalind Russell
Disc • 29 March 1975

David Bowie: Zowie Bowie

Simon Frith
Let It Rock • April 1975

Ronson: "I’d like to kick some sense into Bowie"

Allan Jones
Melody Maker • 5 April 1975

The all new adventures of David Bowie

Diane Kelly
Hi! • 7 June 1975

Kept under wraps in Albuquerque

Howard Bryan
The Tribune • 14 June 1975

The Bowie odyssey

Tina Brown
The Sunday Times Magazine • 20 July 1975

Fame at last for soulful Bowie

Harvey Kubernik
Melody Maker • 25 October 1975

Spaced out in the desert

Steve Shroyer and John Lifflander
Creem • December 1975

1976

Bowie to tour: ‘No gimmickry’

Cameron Crowe
Rolling Stone • 15 January 1976

Ground Control to Davy Jones

Cameron Crowe
Rolling Stone • 12 February 1976

Bowie: Now I'm a businessman

Robert Hilburn
Melody Maker • 28 February 1976

The return of the Thin White Duke

Richard Cromelin
Circus • 2 March 1976

City to city

Tim Hogan
Circus • 2 March 1976

The first synthetic rock star: there is no other

Lisa Robinson
New Musical Express • 7 March 1976

Ringing the changes

Chris Charlesworth
Melody Maker • 13 March 1976

The space oddity

George Perry
The Sunday Times Magazine • 14 March 1976

Pot holds rock singer

Staff writers
Democrat and Chronicle • 22 March 1976

Bowie: "Not guilty, sir"

Staff writers
Democrat and Chronicle • 26 March 1976

Ol' orange hair is back

Ben Edmonds
RAM • 26 March 1976

Bowie meets the press

Ben Edmonds
Circus • 27 April 1976

Waiting for Bowie

Jean Rook
Daily Express • 5 May 1976

Bowie and Bassey

Derek Jewell
Sunday Times • 9 May 1976

Glitter rock’s movie nut

Rex Reed
The Baltimore Sun • 20 June 1976

David Bowie: an in-depth look at the illusion

Lisa Robinson
Hit Parader • August / September 1976

Candid conversation

Cameron Crowe
Playboy • September 1976

Rock's space oddity

Fred Hauptfuhrer
People • 6 September 1976

1977

Bowie now: new music for day and night

Wesley Strick
Circus • 28 February 1977

Music hall humourist

Marc Bolan
Melody Maker • 12 March 1977

Bowie and Bolan get it on

Chris Welch
Melody Maker • 17 September 1977

Goodbye to Ziggy and all that

Allan Jones
Melody Maker • 29 October 1977

244 words on punk from David Bowie

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 29 October 1977

Who was that (un)masked man?

Charles Shaar Murray
New Musical Express • 12 November 1977

Eno Part 2: Another false world
– how to make a modern record

Ian MacDonald
New Musical Express • 3 December 1977

1978

12 minutes with David Bowie

John Tobler
Zigzag • January 1978

Bowie plays himself

Charles M Young
Rolling Stone • 12 January 1978

Turn and face the strange

Timothy White • Crawdaddy • February 1978

Confession of an elitist

Michael Watts
Melody Maker • 18 February 1978

From Brixton to Berlin

Michael Watts
Melody Maker • 18 February 1978

David Bowie: a really strange kettle of poissons

Jonathan Mantle
Vogue • September 1978

1979

Oblique strategies

Cynthia Rose
Harpers & Queen • January 1979

Bowie reborn

Jean Rook
Daily Express • 14 February 1979

Avant AOR

Jon Savage
Melody Maker • 27 May 1979

The David Bowie question: on making decisions

Wilder Penfield III
Toronto Sun • 1979/2009

Bad boys in Berlin

Chris Hodenfield
Rolling Stone • 4 October 1979

1980

The future isn't what it used to be 

Angus MacKinnon
New Musical Express • 13 September 1980

David Bowie: the gender bender

Jon Savage
The Face • November 1980

Scary monster on Broadway

Kurt Loder
Rolling Stone • 13 November 1980

Bowie holds court

Gordon Burn
The Sunday Times Magazine • 30 November 1980

A revolution with Bowie

John Rockwell
New York Times • 25 December 1980