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The new April issue of Uncut, out now, features David Bowie peering from the cover in his guise as sleazy space-star Ziggy Stardust. To celebrate this look at Bowie’s greatest creation 40 years on, here’s a fantastic piece from Uncut’s 18th issue, in November 1998, in which Chris Roberts looks back at the glammed-up, transgressive superstars who changed his adolescent world.

Plus full details of the winners

We explore Dylan's weirdest and most controversial decade

An extraordinary interview with Brian Wilson

Here, Grant talks us through his career – both band and solo. “One day, I’ll learn to separate the feelings from the music,” he says.

From the Uncut archives, Yoko Ono recalls their relationship

David Gilmour, Nick Mason and famous fans pick the greatest Floyd tracks

A track-by-track commentary on 20 of the band's most explosive tracks

Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Tony Visconti, Johnny Marr and more choose their favourites…

I've been playing the new Jeff Tweedy album, "Sukierae", a good deal these past few weeks - or, I should say, the new Tweedy album, since these quietly wired tracks are, strictly speaking, collaborations between the Wilco man and his eldest son, Spencer. I'm slowly beginning to think it might be the best studio album he's been involved with since "A Ghost Is Born".