Cocaine, bikers and aliens: The film that saved David Bowie at his lowest point
7 June 2026 at 04:00
In the early days of 1975, David Bowie was a broken toy. Holed up in his grotesque Los Angeles mansion, the British musician spent his days reading obscure essays on Nazi esotericism, watching television sprawled across a wide Victorian fourβposter, and performing blackβmagic rituals inspired by his new hero, the crackpot charlatan Aleister Crowley.

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