Genre: English pop/rock
Places I remember: RCA Victor Record Club (yes, it arrived in my letterbox back in 1972 with the el cheapo cover as pictured)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Andy Warhol
Gear costume: Life On Mars, Queen Bitch
Active compensatory factors: Apart from budget concerns, I have no idea why NZ went for this crappy cover (light brown annotated lithograph like picture and same image and writing on front and back). The copy appears to be written by Bowie (I played some guitar...) but the crossings out and the amateur lay out (left and right is cut off on each side) add up to tacky!
Hunky Dory is a weird mixture of styles that somehow hang together. Queen Bitch looks forward to Ziggy, there are name checks for zowie Bowie, Dylan and Warhol (and Lennon's on sale again on Mars, sic), The Bewlay Brothers is spooky, Kooks is kooky, and so on.
But it's Bowie, so it all works!
Where do they all belong? Ziggy was itching to emerge from that yonder star.
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