Cutting Up The Cut-Up is presented by Ken Hollings on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30 BST on 25 June - or catch up on BBC iPlayer Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to ...

In a 1997 interview with the BBC, Bowie considered how the cut-up technique had helped him to generate new ideas, suggesting that “…if you put three or four dissociated ideas together and ...