Even when he was starting out, however garish he looked, Bowie also seemed — incongruously — mature, not a bratty teenager spouting embarrassing drivel.
Paradoxically, that self-contained maturity enhanced his “cool” rather than undermined it.
Bowie was, and is, more Dean Martin than James Dean.
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