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By Mark Jefferies & Dean Rousewell He may have been born in South London, but pop legend David Bowie’s accent would often head north to Yorkshire. It all started when he and his band The Spiders from Mars – all from Yorkshire – went to see Leeds-born Malcolm McDowell in 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange. Drummer Mick “Woody” Woodmansey revealed in Uncut magazine: “We all went and watched it together. It made sense as we wanted something solid, like a gang. We really were like that in the early days. “He’d even start talking in a Yorkshire accent – and he did it quite well, to be fair.” Spiders gui…