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  • The May 2003 issue where Kate was made up to look like David Bowie's iconic Aladdin Sane cover was, according to Shulman, "a complete catastrophe".

    Is this the perfect magazine cover girl? 2010

  • Donn - sadly I am too occupied with essay writing and exam revision to contribute just yet - I am hoping to help reach the 1000 covers by march goal. haven't decided on an album yet, but Aladdin Sane is a very good idea.

    Spread the word, feel the power, be a part of the Phenomenon - open your paint box NOW! Fathorse 2009

  • Mr. Meyer, who is famous for those graphic Johnnie Cochran ties, did have a nod to flamboyance: His groovy slice shirts, composed of three different colors of cotton, brought back happy memories of David Bowie's Aladdin Sane makeup.

    Strictly Sauvage 2001

  • While Trynka has no answers on whether Bowie will make music again -- it's been eight years since the last studio album -- he goes beyond sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll shock value to show exactly how the pimpled schoolboy David Jones became Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Peter Doggett guides the reader expertly through Bowie's shifting personas, including Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke, to his experimental Berlin albums and beyond.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Arthur House 2011

  • Undoubtedly the most notorious version of this notorious song was recorded by David Bowie, who did a radically different version for his 1973 Aladdin Sane album that, in the minds of some critics, made the kinkiness implicit in the original much more explicit.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories scott4261 2010

  • This will be closely followed by Space Oddity and Aladdin Sane.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • I went in for an appointment and he was there in the office, in his Aladdin Sane makeup.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2010

  • I went in for an appointment and he was there in the office, in his Aladdin Sane makeup.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2010

  • Aladdin Sane says: Suppose I might get FFVI if they eventually get it up there.

    Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums 2009

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