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Speaker 1: Musician, martian, performer, transformer, seductive, to struggle. There are many

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Speaker 1: words that come to mind when you think of David Bowie.

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Speaker 1: But who was he? Well, that depends on who you

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Speaker 1: ask or which record you're playing. To some he ziggy stardust,

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Speaker 1: to others the thin white Duke or a Ladin Saying

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Speaker 1: or Major Tom. But who is David Bowie real? To

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Speaker 1: answer that question, we'll have to go off the record.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jordan runt Tog and I'm the host

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Speaker 1: of Off the Record, a new music biography podcast for

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Speaker 1: my Heart Radio. Off the Record goes beyond the songs

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Speaker 1: and into the hearts and minds of rock's greatest legends.

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Speaker 1: Every season profiles one classic artist, taking listeners on a

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Speaker 1: wild ride through their extraordinary career. We'll examine their public

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Speaker 1: triumphs and private turmoil, the moments that made them and

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Speaker 1: the music that made them stars. The first season examines

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Speaker 1: the life, or rather lives, of David Bowie. Each episode

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Speaker 1: of the eleven part audio event tells the story of

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Speaker 1: one of his iconic personas. Together, these faces form an

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Speaker 1: intimate portrait of one of the twentieth centuries most influential figures.

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Speaker 1: There's Little David Jones, the shy boy haunted by the

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Speaker 1: pain of a troubled home life and a dark family secret.

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Speaker 1: Then there's Major Tom, the avant garde space hippie struggling

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Speaker 1: to make his musical mark on the psychedelic scene of

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Speaker 1: swinging sixties London. Of course, there's Ziggy Stardust, the persona

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Speaker 1: that rocketed David from small town pubs to the world's

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Speaker 1: biggest arenas in just a few short months. To cope

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Speaker 1: with a sudden rush of fame, David fortified himself with

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Speaker 1: drugs and a new character, the icy thin White Duke.

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Speaker 1: Cocaine drove him the craft, the sound, and vision in

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Speaker 1: his mind, but it also drove him towards the brink

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Speaker 1: of madness, fade he'd always feared was his destiny. But

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Speaker 1: the fates had another destiny in store, one more thrilling

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Speaker 1: than he could ever imagine. So who was David Bowie

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Speaker 1: tuned into Off the Record to find out. The series

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Speaker 1: premieres on Monday, January. Listen to follow on the I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to

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Speaker 1: your favorite shows.