Ziggy’s Truth

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“I suppose the majority of what I was writing about initially came from news coverage and media events. I’m like everyone else, I know what’s going on in the world basically through television and the newspaper — one for the pictures, the other for the truth.”

—David Bowie (1947-2016), iconic English glam-rocker, 1987

• Editorial Comment: The truth looks very diff-er-ent today.

• Astronomers give David Bowie his own constellation, The Guardian


PeezPix by Ted Pease

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