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Those golden years

A dramatisation of Haydn Middleton’s The Ballad of Syd & Morgan is on BBC Sounds

DAVID BOWIE CERTAINLY KNEWhow to spring a surprise. In 2013, ten years into a recording silence many feared might be terminal, he caught us all on the hop with , his hugely-acclaimed penultimate album. Scroll back another 30 years, and his collection turned the former nabob of glam rock into an unlikely icon of post-disco, scoring him his career bestseller.

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