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Way back in the spring of 1971, in his first fevered rush of Ziggysongs, David intended the project to be fronted by someone else. And maybe, if he had found someone more competent than Freddie Buretti, the whole course of British pop would have looked very different. Years later he
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Who kills Ziggy Stardust? In the spring of 1973 the smart money is on MainMan head honcho Tony Defries. The second leg of the US Tour has built to a rapturous climax at the Hollywood Palladium on 12 March, but with Aladdin Sane not to be released for another month,
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17 September 1972 and Ziggy Stardust arrives in the new world. He’s spent a stately transatlantic week with Angie on the QE2, and when they emerge through customs he has plenty to declare. He’s left behind a land of Ford Cortinas, Bloody Sunday and Slade, and arrived in