David Bowie
June, 1973
When David Bowie made his Carnegie Hall debut last fall, everybody from Albert Goldman to Andy Warhol was there--plus a gaggle of weirdos expecting some sort of British Alice Cooper. That's not what they got. The concert opened as Bowie, in clockwork-orange hair, came onstage amid flashing strobe lights, to the Mooged-up strains of Beethoven's Ninth. From there, except for a simulated sex act with silver-haired guitarist Mick Ronson, it was a matter of music, ranging from the hard rock laid down...