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    Bowie worked out this guise to tell his stories and be free

    Jan 11, 2021 4 minutes

    Johnny Flynn plays David Bowie as he becomes Ziggy in Stardust. Flynn says it’s a film that centres the human story over Bowie’s iconic musical legacy

    Five years ago this week, David Bowie died. Five years. That’s all we’ve had without him. And by any standards, it’s not been a good five years, beginning with the deaths of beloved celebrities from Victoria Wood to Prince, Muhammad Ali, George Michael and Carrie Fisher, spanning Donald Trump’s catastrophic presidency and ending with the world in the grips of a global pandemic. Some might mention Brexit here.

    Is it disingenuous to ask whether new film – starring Johnny Flynn and set during Bowie’s US tour in 1971, during which he pieced together components

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