David Bowie: "Plays Himself" Feature (1978)

David Bowie’s "Plays Himself," a four-page feature in Rolling Stone, January 12, 1978.

I FIRST SAW David Bowie about half a year ago, sitting several tables away in a Detroit soul-food restaurant called Mama's Palace. I was interviewing Iggy Pop, for whom he was playing key- boards at the time. Bowie wouldn't talk to me or any other journalist because he wanted all the... By Charles M. Young