January 22, 1972 David Bowie Melody Maker Cover & Article

DAVID BOWIE, rock's swishiest outrage: a self-confessed lover of effeminate clothes, Bowie, who has hardly performed in public since his "Space Oddity" hit of three years ago, is coming back in super- style. In the States critics have hailed him as the new Bob Dylan, and his tour de force album, Hunky Dory," looks set to enter the British charts. Changes," the single taken from it, was Tony Blackburn's Record Of The Week recently. David will be appearing, suitably spiffy and with his three- piece band, at the Lanchester Festival on February 3. Breathless for more? Turn to page 19.