A short, punchy single review reacts to David Bowie’s standalone “Holy Holy” with a mix of bemusement and reluctant admiration, describing it as the “meanest man with a knife in the West” while noting its strangely attractive, almost hypnotic quality. The reviewer draws playful comparisons to John Wayne defending the Alamo and likens the sound to a “cowpoke from Beckenham,” blending Wild West imagery with Syd Barrett-like eccentricity. This January 9, 1971 Melody Maker review