The Importance of David Bowie "His impact as a musician, as a brand, as a sign of the times, has been as great as Dylan and the Beatles, his influence as an otherworldly pop star actually greater … [an] erudite pop combination of shaman, singer, thinker and shameless self-promoter." Financial Times 09/04/10







Confronted with AHTSJournal piffle like this we must post these three TWXSTER covers, including one we ran just the other day. How often must we confront shameless self-promotion? Take the promotion away from most news rags and you have ads, and a stuttering graf or two of that pablum called "news". And FT always boasts of how a gazillion readers pay umpteen bazillion dollars -- for PR? Here again is why we must not trust news hacks, and why we must never stoop to paying for PR, however elite the source.

And we intend to root through all eighty-seven years of TWXSTERISM in hunt of embarrassing covers like these, and will devote a weekly post to them.