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Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

Malcolm McDowell

JANUARY 1966

In the spring of 1974, DAVID BOWIE arrived in the United States by boat. By the time he left in the spring of 1976, his marriage was ending, his cocaine addiction was spiralling, and he'd become obsessed with Nazis. He'd also made another masterpiece: Station To Station. "We went days without sleeping," his valiant co-conspirators tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. "Inhibitions were out the window."

Remembering the king of the one-sheet