People, Aug. 4, 1980

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Reagan has Sinatra. Carter has Willie Nelson. But when John Anderson needs a friend who can pack a house, he calls on James Taylor. A single Anderson for President concert by Taylor in Charleston, W. Va., yielded enough signatures, to guarantee the candidate a spot on the state's ballot. Taylor —along with Brothers Livingston, Hugh and Alex and Sister Kate—plans ten concerts on Anderson's behalf. With five down, the Taylors sought reassurance that their man would go all the way. "You're not going to crap out on us?" Livingston asked at a Boston meeting with the Congressman last May. "No," vowed the button-down, born-again Christian, "I will not crap out on you."

As a rock star he created Ziggy Stardust, the orange-haired founder of bisexual chic. In his 1976 film debut, he played Thomas Jerome Newton, the cat-eyed extraterrestrial of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Now, British-born David Bowie, onetime idol of the glitter set, has come in for a landing on the legitimate stage. His typically freakish role; John Merrick, the deformed central figure in that Broadway hit The Elephant Man, which opens in Denver this week. Says Bowie of his assorted personas: "It looks like I'm always going to have a physical or psychological limp."