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Capitalist reforms and socialism with a disco beat...
Bowie's musical skills remained sharp, his sense of musical direction undiverted. Fame, from 1975's Young Americans, was co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar; the result, besides being Bowie's biggest single up till then, has a good claim to being the first breakthrough disco song. By 1975 he was living in Los Angeles, in a vast rented house in Bel Air, keeping company with dabblers in black magic and refusing to see his old friends. One of them, who managed to penetrate his defenses, recalls watching Bowie work his way through a long night of coke...
...weep. "The apples, the peaches, the strawberries are all so good here, and cheap! The first time my wife and I went to the market together," he says, "we spent $20 just on fruits and vegetables." One of his small dreams: "I'd like to go to an American disco some day and dance...
Speaking before an enthusiastic Class Day audience, Doonesbury cartoon creator Garry Trudeau yesterday called members of the Class of 1983 part of the "disco preppy generation...
Cohn, a British emigre, has written mostly about rock music. He made the trip from Grub Street toward Easy Street by way of Hollywood: the film version of his 1976 New York magazine story about Brooklyn disco culture was a box office smash. Cohn's subsequent New York cover was "24 Hours on 42nd Street," a lurid first-person account of a day and night spent swallowing street drugs amid the sexual sleaze of Times Square...