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The emergence from seclusion of David Bowie - the man many call the David Miliband of pop - has excited a certain stirring in middle-aged hearts. Acres of newsprint have been devoted to his comeback. The Today programme has cleared the decks for two successive mornings, the better to educate its listeners about the life and times of the Thin White Duke.
We have been treated to exhaustive analysis of every line of the new single. The album cover has been lauded, panned and lauded again. Bowie's years in Berlin have been exhumed so thoroughly you can probably download a...