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MOONAGE DAYDREAM

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Music fans are in not just for a treat but a psychedelic banquet of Bowie footage – after the first documentary authorised by the singer's estate premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last night.

Moonage Daydream is an immersive ride into David Bowie's sound and vision, and leaves you gobsmacked by his creative genius over the course of his 50-year career.

While the newsreel footage of events around Bowie is dated, he himself always looks astonishingly ahead of the game. Time has not, as he wrote in Changes, changed him.

'Do you like girls or boys? It's confusing these days,' goes one of his prescient lyrics, and it's entertaining seeing Bowie in early interviews with worried journalists, clearly unable to get a grip on this bisexual chameleon. He is an alien to them, the Man Who Fell To Earth.

At first,

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