Talk:The Wild Boys (novel)

There's no way copying an entire scholarly article like this is kosher. Someone who's read the book ought to do a proper write up, and the article can be linked on an outside source, but definitely not used as the entirety of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.19.125.110 (talk) 21:50, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

On the following claim: The clothes, hair, and makeup of David Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust was based on the description of the Wild Boys in the book. According to Bowie, "it was a cross between that and Clockwork Orange that really started to put together the shape and the look of what Ziggy and the Spiders were going to become. They were both powerful pieces of work, especially the marauding boy gangs of Burroughs's Wild Boys with their bowie knives. I got straight on to that. I read everything into everything. Everything had to be infinitely symbolic."[3]

Bowie did in fact make this claim later in life. However, in an conversation he had with Burroughs in late 1973--after the Ziggy Stardust tour was over--he makes clear that at that point he had not yet read The Wild Boys, or even know much about it (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beat-godfather-meets-glitter-mainman-william-burroughs-interviews-david-bowie-92508/). glenntwo (talk) 19:44, 26 November 2018 (UTC)