Music The Year Bowie Spent His Fame on Other People: Transformer, Dudes and The Idiot In 1972 the hottest new star in Britain gave away a hit to save Mott the Hoople and produced Transformer for a written-off Lou Reed – then rebuilt Iggy Pop in 1977. Bowie as rock’s great mechanic.
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