David Bowie

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curious fellow from Bromley who, through the lens of a series of thinly autobiographical personas, invented the idea of the pop star as a living work of art, was early progenitor of gender fluidity, and precipitated the global financial crisis by securitising his back-catalog.

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• David Bowie, Dad’s Army, and financial armageddon