Public Image
Bowie, having just turned 40 the year the album was released, was a common sight on magazine covers during the year. He appeared alongside Tina Turner on the cover of In Fashion magazine (to the tagline 'Forever cool'), Musician magazine and on the cover of Rolling Stone's US 20th Anniversary "Style" issue, part of a series of contemporary photographs of Bowie taken by famed photograph Herb Ritts. Additionally, articles about Bowie's album and tour appeared inside such teen-oriented publications such as Mademoiselle and Teen magazines, with the former calling Bowie "a leading candidate for the coolest character in rock."
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