How to Speak an Unpopular Truth

As I write this, I just finished watching a documentary about the first ten years of David Bowie’s career. It focused on the long string of failed bands, low-selling albums, and unsuccessful singles he had to persevere through before he finally got some real traction with Ziggy Stardust. It’s tempting to think of him as this towering pop-culture colossus, but he was just as fallible as the rest of us. The documentary really did a great job of humanizing him.

In fact, it could be argued that the photos from the period when he was working as a mime might have humanized him too much.

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