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Ten Years On: In Bowie’s Footsteps

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It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a decade since the world lost David Bowie, a performer known as much for his musical talent as for his flamboyant dress sense, chameleon-like approach to identity and queer-forward ways of thinking and living. Bowie captured the imaginations of a generation - and continues to do so, ten years after his death.

Musical pilgrimages are nothing new - the millions who descend upon Elvis Presley’s Graceland are testament to that - but Bowie was somewhat unique in that his musical career was peripatetic in a way that Elvis, who only ever travelled outside of the United States to Germany, could never lay claim to. As the artist himself sang, “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” In...

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