The Telegraph
How Sixties star Anthony Newley torpedoed his brilliant career
In 2016 an audio recording came to light in which David Bowie mimics other male singers. Horsing around in an outtake during a soundtrack session for Absolute Beginners in 1985, he renders the same verse in different voices: Bruce Springsteen, Marc Bolan, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop. But in one take, singing in a declamatory holler tinged with Cockney vowels, he seems to impersonate himself. But no, the voice he’s doing belongs to Tony Newley.
