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‘Don’t look over your shoulder, but the Sex Pistols are coming’: 40th anniversary of their first review

Today is the 40th anniversary of the gig at central London venue The Marquee by the Sex Pistols which generated their first substantial media coverage, a prescient 200-word review by Neil Spencer on page 31 of the February 21, 1976 issue of the New Musical Express.

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Exclusive: Published for the first time anywhere – photograph of David Bowie with Derek Boshier and his daughters

DB - Bowie+Boshier+daughters_1 copy — //David Bowie with Derek Boshier and his daughters Lily and Rosa, 1993. Courtesy Derek Boshier. No reproduction without permission//

To mark the publication of my piece about Derek Boshier’s creative collaborations with David Bowie in this month’s British GQ, here is a photograph taken when the rock star visited the artist and his family at his home outside London in the early 90s.

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