33 “Two superstars of their time” – Quoted in Peter Doggett, The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s (Bodley Head, 2011), p. 254.
34 “I could have been Hitler in England” – Cameron Crowe, “Ground Control to Davy Jones”, Rolling Stone, February 12, 1976.
35 “You always felt you were in 1984” – Steve Malins, “Duke of Hazard”, Vox, October 1995.
36 “For a person who married” and “To be quite honest” – Ben Edmonds, “Bowie Meets the Press: Plastic Man or Godhead of the Seventies?”, Circus, April 27, 1976.
37 “a backward look at the sixties and seventies” – Nicholas Pegg, The Complete David Bowie (Titan, 2011), p. 333.
38 “I had in my mind” and “staggered through” – Ibid., 68.
39 “That was our world” – Paul Du Noyer, “Contact”, Mojo, no. 104, July 2002.
40 “not, in my view, a very good novel” – Burgess, p. 91.
41 “It is better to have our streets” – Ibid., p. 93.
42 “Rats the size of cats” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 54.
43 “Oh dress yourself my urchin one” – David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (RCA, 1974).
44 “a heavy vibe” – Buckley, p. 185.
45 “the warnings from right and left” and “It is very difficult” – Eder, “Battle of Britain, 1974.”
46 “conceptualizes the vision” – Quoted in Doggett, p. 211.
47 “Power, Nuremburg” – Quoted in Pegg, p. 555.
48 “World Assembly building” – Sketch for Hunger City film, 1974, reprinted in David Bowie Is (V&A Publishing, 2013), p. 135.
49 “diabolical” – Richard Cromelin, “David Bowie: The Darling of the Avant-Garde”, Phonograph Record, January 1972.
50 “Really I’m a very one-track person” – Robert Hilburn, “Bowie Finds His Voice!”, Melody Maker, September 14, 1974.
51 “media artist” – Cameron Crowe, Playboy Interview, Playboy, September 1976.
52 “a very medieval, firm-handed” – Crowe, “Ground Control to Davy Jone.s”