On Bowie, 'Starman' and Top of the Pops
Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield's new book, On Bowie, arrives today.
July 6, 1972. That’s when David Bowie performed “Starman” on the BBC-TV show Top of the Pops, a seminal moment revisited by Rolling Stone executive editor Nathan Brackett and contributing editor Rob Sheffield on this week’s magazine podcast.
Sheffield’s book about Bowie, written quickly and intensively following the performer’s death from cancer in January, is out today. Here’s Sheffield, from the podcast:
“It’s weird how David Bowie was so obscure going into this. He was the guy who had a one-hit wonder record, kind of, three years earlier, Space Oddity.
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