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- <text id=89TT1470>
- <title>
- June 05, 1989: Tuneful Wonder
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 05, 1989 People Power:Beijing-Moscow
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 88
- Tuneful Wonder
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- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Jeannie Park
- </p>
- <p> In his time, he has assumed many guises: rock star,
- galactic alien, fashion dandy, androgynous poseur. Now, with
- former Iggy Poppers Tony and Hunt Sales and guitarist Reeves
- Gabrels, the multitalented David Bowie has put together a new
- band called Tin Machine, which will play its first live gig this
- week at the International Rock Awards in New York City. On its
- premier album, the songwriter turned social critic grimly
- assails pop-music idols ("blue-suede tuneless wonders"), lashes
- out at drug dealers ("may razors slash your main line"), and
- warns of a "psycho-time-bomb planet poised to meet its maker."
- Tin Machine's new stuff, Bowie promises, "will float your
- guppies to the top of the tank."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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