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Where's Bowie?

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1925811190
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Where's Bowie? written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scour these intricately illustrated pages for our most beloved icon of pop culture, the late and great David Bowie. This book is a reverent and interactive homage to David Bowie, with dense illustrations of the many real and imagined universes of his own making. Hidden somewhere on each of these double-page spreads, a Bowie is patiently waiting to be spotted by the well-trained eye of a fan. As the chameleonic Bowie took on so many iconic personas across his illustrious career, each moment is celebrated chronologically in this book. You will have to find young and dapper David Jones in 1960s Brixton; look for Ziggy Stardust in spaced-out Outer Space, crawling with Martian spiders and nestled between the stars; then search for glam Bowie among the revelers at Studio 54; and ask yourself, is that the Thin White Duke outside Hansa by the Wall in late-'70s Berlin? Each page of this book is so laden with Bowie references that you might even pick up a factoid or two in your search. With fun, detailed illustrations that explore Bowie's world--and that of his influences--Where's Bowie? is the perfect guide to the cultural icon for both adults and children. Plus, who doesn't want to raise their kid as a Bowie super-geek? No one--that's who.

Where's Bowie?: David Bowie in Berlin

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922417084
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Where's Bowie?: David Bowie in Berlin written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find David Bowie in this interactive jigsaw puzzle, set in 70s Berlin - a city divided and in crisis, and one that Bowie called his home. Where's Bowie? is both a fun 500-piece detail-focused jigsaw puzzle, and a 'Find Bowie' activity too. Hidden in multiple places on the puzzle, Bowie - in his various chameleonic guises - is patiently waiting to be spotted by a well-trained eye as the puzzle reveals itself. Music aficionados and Bowie nerds alike will explain that the "Berlin Trilogy" of the albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger, are some of the best he ever recorded. They are infused with electronic, ambient and world music - thanks in great part to Bowie's collaboration with Brian Eno throughout this time. It's a vital chapter in the annals of Bowie, and is explored in this intricate jigsaw.

Where's Bowie?: 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1925811557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Where's Bowie?: 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a jiiiigsaaaaw, waiting in this box / It'd like for you to solve it / but it thinks it'll blow your mind! Not unlike the lyrical genius of David Bowie, jigsaw puzzles are at times mystifying yet always satisfying. Not only is the Where's Bowie? Jigsaw Puzzle a fun 500-piece detail-focused puzzle, it's also a find-Bowie interactive adventure. On the finished eight-by-eight-inch puzzle, hidden in multiple places across the detailed image, Bowie--in his various chameleonic guises--is patiently waiting to be spotted by a well-trained eye. It's like Where's Waldo? but, well, better, because it's about Bowie! This jigsaw is jam-packed with Bowie references that might even teach the most hardened Bowie aficionado a thing or two. In case you missed it--jigsaws are back, baby! Give yourself a much-needed digital detox, turn off your phone/tablet/laptop screen, grab a stiff drink, and put on your puzzle hat. This 500-piece jig saw puzzle is going to take some good old-fashioned puzzling. Maybe whack on Aladdin Sane, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, or whichever Bowie record you adore the most, for the ideal backing track to your puzzle-solving adventure.

Heroes

Author : Tobias Rüther
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780234007
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Heroes written by Tobias Rüther and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976, David Bowie left Los Angeles and the success of his celebrated albums Diamond Dogs and Young Americans for Europe. The rocker settled in Berlin, where he would make his “Berlin Trilogy”—the albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger, which are now considered some of the most critically acclaimed and innovative of the late twentieth century. But Bowie’s time in Berlin was about more than producing new music. As Tobias Rüther describes in this fascinating tale of Bowie’s Berlin years, the musician traveled to West Berlin—the capital of his childhood dreams and the city of Expressionism—to repair his body and mind from the devastation of drug addiction, delusions, and mania. Painting a vivid picture of Bowie’s life in the Schöneberg area of the city, Rüther describes the artist’s friendships and collaborations with his roommate, Iggy Pop, as well as Brian Eno and Tony Visconti. Rüther illustrates Bowie’s return to painting, days cycling to the Die Brücke museum, and his exploration of the city’s nightlife, both the wild side and the gay scene. In West Berlin, Bowie also met singer and actress Romy Haag; came to know Hansa Studios, where he would record Low and Heroes; and even landed the part of a Prussian aristocrat in Just a Gigolo, starring alongside Marlene Dietrich. Eventually Rüther uses Bowie and his explorations of the cultural and historical undercurrents of West Berlin to examine the city itself: divided, caught in the Cold War, and how it began to redefine itself as a cultural metropolis, turning to the arts to start a new history. Tying in with an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in September, 2014, Heroes tells the fascinating story of how the music of the future arose from the spirit of the past. It is an unforgettable look at one of the world’s most renowned musicians in one of its most inspiring cities.

Bowie in Berlin

Author : Thomas Jerome Seabrook
Publisher : Jawbone Press
ISBN 13 : 1906002088
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Bowie in Berlin written by Thomas Jerome Seabrook and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biographical and historical account of the recording of David Bowie's albums 'Low', ''Heroes'' and 'Lodger'. Set against the backdrop of post-war Berlin it features a cast of characters including Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk and Robert Fripp. It also looks at the influence Bowie's 'Berlin Trilogy' has exerted on other musicians.

Bowie's Bookshelf

Author : John O'Connell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982112557
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Bowie's Bookshelf written by John O'Connell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. “An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” ―David Bowie Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’s life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie’s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O’Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie’s lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie’s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.

David Bowie All the Songs

Author : Benoît Clerc
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0762474726
Total Pages : 861 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book David Bowie All the Songs written by Benoît Clerc and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Album by album and track by track, this first-of-its-kind catalog of David Bowie's entire 50-year and 27-album career tells the story of one of rock's all-time greatest artists. A lovingly thorough dissection of every album and every track ever released by David Bowie over the span of his nearly 50 year career, David Bowie All the Songs follows the musician from his self-titled debut album released in 1967 all the way through Blackstar, his final album. Delving deep into Bowie's past and featuring new commentary and archival interviews with a wide range of models, actors, musicians, producers, and recording executives who all worked with and knew the so-called "Thin White Duke", David Bowie All the Songs charts the musician's course from a young upstart in 1960s London to a musical behemoth who collaborated with everyone from Queen Latifah and Bing Crosby, to Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire. This one-of-a-kind book draws upon years of research in order to recount how each song was written, composed, and recorded, down to the instruments used and the people who played them. Featuring hundreds of vivid photographs that celebrate one of music's most visually arresting performers, David Bowie All the Songs is a must-have book for any true fan of classic rock.

David Bowie Is...

Author : Camille Paglia
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book David Bowie Is... written by Camille Paglia and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bowie's career as a pioneering artist spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He continues to be cited as a major influence on contemporary artists and designers working across the creative arts. This book, published to accompany the blockbuster international exhibition launched at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, is the only volume that grants access to Bowie's personal archive of performance costumes, ephemera, and original design artwork by the artist, bringing it together to present a completely new perspective on his creative work and collaborations. The book traces his career from its beginnings in London, through the breakthroughs of Space Oddity and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and on to his enormous impact on 20th-century avant-garde music and art. Essays by V&A curators on Bowie's London, image, and influence on the fashion world are complemented by Howard Goodall on musicology; Camille Paglia on gender and decadence, and Jon Savage on Bowie's relationship with William Burroughs and his fans. The more than 300 color illustrations include personal and performance photographs, album covers, costumes, original lyric sheets, and much more. Praise for David Bowie Is "Perusing David Bowie Is (V&A Publishing, distributed by Abrams), the exhibition's catalog, with its procession of poses and costumes and weighty essays tracking the cross-references to pop culture and high art, you get a sense of how much hard work it took to be Mr. Bowie." --The New York Times "The fans of 50 years or those making discoveries in retrospect will be intrigued by the accompanying book David Bowie Is that is far more than a fanzine."--The New York Times "Lends context and picks away at Bowie with such insight that it's a rare hagiography with soul." --Chicago Tribune "Combining top-notch articles on the singer/actor's life and work with official images and reproductions of his fashion and associated ephemera, the hefty, mango-colored book is nothing short of a treasure trove of all things Bowie; a one-stop smorgasbord for the eyes whose pictorials chronicle the groundbreaking star from Ziggy Stardust to Thin White Duke to Heathen and every personality in between." --Examiner.com

BOWIE

Author : Michael Allred
Publisher : Insight Comics
ISBN 13 : 1683834488
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book BOWIE written by Michael Allred and published by Insight Comics. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the legendary David Bowie, BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams is the original graphic memoir of the great Ziggy Stardust! This graphic novel chronicles the rise of Bowie's career from obscurity to fame; and paralleled by the rise and fall of his alter ego as well as the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. As the Spiders from Mars slowly implode, Bowie wrestles with his Ziggy persona. The outcome of this internal conflict will change not only David Bowie, but also, the world. MASSIVELY SUCCESSFUL GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2020: A New York Times Best Seller CELEBRITY COLLABORATION: Foreword by Neil Gaiman SUPERSTAR ARTIST: Illustrated by Michael Allred CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! "The Allreds’ art and love for Bowie’s work makes this one stand apart." – Entertainment Weekly STAR-STUDDED: Read of Bowie’s encounters with Elton John, Mark Bolan, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, and more

Before the Deluge

Author : Otto Friedrich
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060926791
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Before the Deluge written by Otto Friedrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-10-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.

Pocket Bowie Wisdom

Author : Hardie Grant Books
Publisher : Hardie Grant
ISBN 13 : 9781784880736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Pocket Bowie Wisdom written by Hardie Grant Books and published by Hardie Grant. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of Bowie's most famous and insightful words that will continue to inspire generations On the January 10th 2016, the world lost a hero. Here are some of his most provocative and memorable sayings to inspire and treasure. "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." "I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman." "I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking." "I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir" This is the perfect memento or gift for any Bowie fan and an affectionate tribute to a true icon.

Forever Stardust

Author : Will Brooker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786721538
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Forever Stardust written by Will Brooker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic 'changes' chronologically throughout his career. This book, uniquely, examines Bowie's 'sameness': his recurring themes, images, motifs and concepts as an artist, across all his creative work, from lyrics and music through to costumes, storyboards, films, plays and painting.To be published on Bowie's 70th birthday, Forever Stardust looks at Bowie's work not as a linear evolution through calendar time, to his tragic death in January 2016, but as a matrix, a dialogue, a network of ideas that echo back and forth across the five decades of his career, interacting with each other and with the surrounding culture. It explores Bowie's creative output as a whole, tracing the repetitions and obsessions that structure his work, discovering what they tell us about Bowie in all his forms, from Ziggy Stardust to David Jones.David Bowie challenged cultural expectations from the early 1970s until his final masterpiece, Blackstar. Forever Stardust offers a new understanding of this remarkable & significant artist.

David Bowie Starman

Author : Laura Coulman
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780859655507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book David Bowie Starman written by Laura Coulman and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chameleonic, hypnotising and utterly irreplaceable, David Bowie was more than just a pop star. More underdog than diamond dog, he was an inspiration to millions: a hot tramp from the streets of London, who proved that anything's possible when you follow your dreams. Whether posing as an electrifying alien rock god or a thin white duke, Bowie's career is a veritable kaleidoscope of ever-changing colors, styles and sounds. From Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust, from Goblin King to China boy, from sharp-suited aristocrat to androgynous bohemian Queen, Starman collects black-and-white sketches of his most iconic looks, stardusted visions and stylistic moments. Filled with quotes, facts and memories of Bowie from those who knew him best, David Bowie: Starman offers a uniquely creative way to remember the Starman and his incredible life on Earth - essential reading for fans of every generation.

David Bowie

Author : Iconic Images
Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9781788840965
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book David Bowie written by Iconic Images and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant collection of David Bowie images ever assembledA luxurious opus published to coincide with the 5th anniversary of David Bowie's deathImpeccably printed, sumptuously designed, large format hardback bookTop photographers, iconic images, wonderful surprisesMajor marketing campaign, including radio, print and online promotionsEvents with photographers, including on-stage Q&As and book signingsTie-in to exhibitions at galleries, globally David Bowie: Icon gathers the greatest images of one of the greatest stars in history, into a single, luxurious volume. The result is the most important anthology of David Bowie images that has ever been compiled. Featuring work from many of the greatest names in photography, this book showcases an incredible portfolio of imagery, featuring the iconic, the awe inspiring, the candid and the surprising.Follow the visual evolution of Bowie over the years, through the lenses of his famous photographer collaborators.Photography and text by: Gerald Fearnley, Justin de Villeneuve, Terry O'Neill, Masayoshi Sukita, Norman Parkinson, Kevin Cummins, Janet Macoska, Lynn Goldsmith, Geoff MacCormack, Alec Byrne, Brian Aris, Andrew Kent, Vernon Dewhurst, Gavin Evans, Fernando Aceves, Barry Schultz, Ray Stevenson, Chalkie Davies, Markus Klinko, Greg Gorman, John Scarisbrick, Denis O'Regan, Mick Rock, Philippe Auliac, Steve Schapiro. When David Bowie passed away on 10 January 2016, the world lost an icon. And yet, his legacy lives on. From his humble origins as a teen musician in the 1960s up until the very end, David Bowie's music, lyrics and provocative performances inspired not only his generation, but every generation that followed. While his sound and style underwent several alterations throughout his career, two facts never changed. He was an innovator, and photographers adored him. This book pays homage to this once-in-a-lifetime icon.

The Age of Bowie

Author : Paul Morley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501151185
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Bowie written by Paul Morley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and industry insider Paul Morley explores the musical and cultural legacies left behind by “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to the curators of the highly successful retrospective exhibition David Bowie is for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, constructs a definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, influenced others, invented the future, and entered history as someone who could and would never be forgotten. Morley captures the greatest moments from across Bowie’s life and career; how young Davie Jones of South London became the international David Bowie; his pioneering collaborations in the recording studio with the likes of Tony Visconti, Mick Ronson, and Brian Eno; to iconic live, film, theatre, and television performances from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, as well as the various encounters and artistic relationships he developed with musicians from John Lennon, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop to Trent Reznor and Arcade Fire. And of course, discusses in detail his much-heralded and critically acclaimed finale with the release of Blackstar just days before his shocking death in New York. Morley offers a startling biographical critique of David Bowie’s legacy, showing how he never stayed still even when he withdrew from the spotlight, how he always knew his own worth, and released a dazzling plethora of personalities, concepts, and works into the world with a single-minded determination and a voluptuous imagination to create something the likes of which the world had never seen before—and likely will never see again.

The Man Who Sold the World

Author : Peter Doggett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062097148
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Sold the World written by Peter Doggett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Sold the World is a critical study of David Bowie's most inventive and influential decade, from his first hit, "Space Oddity," in 1969, to the release of the LP Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) in 1980. Viewing the artist through the lens of his music and his many guises, the acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett offers a detailed analysis—musical, lyrical, conceptual, social—of every song Bowie wrote and recorded during that period, as well as a brilliant exploration of the development of a performer who profoundly affected popular music and the idea of stardom itself. Dissecting close to 250 songs, Doggett traces the major themes that inspired and shaped Bowie's career, from his flirtations with fascist imagery and infatuation with the occult to his pioneering creation of his alter-ego self in the character of Ziggy Stardust. What emerges is an illuminating account of how Bowie escaped his working-class London background to become a global phenomenon. The Man Who Sold the World lays bare the evolution of Bowie's various personas and unrivaled career of innovation as a musician, singer, composer, lyricist, actor, and conceptual artist. It is a fan's ultimate resource—the most rigorous and insightful assessment to date of Bowie's artistic achievement during this crucial period.

Bowie

Author : Marc Spitz
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307462390
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Bowie written by Marc Spitz and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive biography of David Bowie, one of the twentieth century’s greatest music and cultural icons. From noted author and rock ’n’ roll journalist Marc Spitz comes a major David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie’s life from his start as David Jones, an R & B—loving kid from Bromley, England, to his rise to rock ’n’ roll aristocracy as David Bowie, Bowie recounts his career but also reveals how much his music has influenced other musicians and forever changed the landscape of the modern era. Along the way, Spitz reflects on how growing up with Bowie as his soundtrack and how writing this definitive book on Bowie influenced him in ways he never expected, adding a personal dimension that Bowie fans and those passionate about art and culture will connect with and that no other bio on the artist offers. Bowie takes an in-depth look at the culture of postwar England in which Bowie grew up, the mod and hippie scenes of swinging London in the sixties, the sex and drug-fueled glitter scene of the early seventies when Bowie’s alter-ego Ziggy Stardust was born, his rise to global stardom in the eighties and his subsequent status as an elder statesman of alternative culture. Spitz puts each incarnation of Bowie into the context of its era, creating a cultural time line that is intriguing both for its historical significance as well as for its delineation of this rock ’n’ roll legend, the first musician to evolve a coherent vision after the death of the sixties dream. Amid the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll mayhem, a deeper portrait of the artist emerges. Bowie’s early struggles to go from follower to leader, his tricky relationship with art and commerce and Buddhism and the occult, his complicated family life, his open romantic relationship and, finally, his perceived disavowal of all that made him a touchstone for outcasts are all thoughtfully explored. A fresh evaluation of his recorded work, as well as his film, stage and video performances, is included as well. Based on a hundred original interviews with those who knew him best and those familiar with his work, including ex-wife Angie Bowie, former Bowie manager Kenneth Pitt, Siouxsie Sioux, Camille Paglia, Dick Cavett, Todd Haynes, Ricky Gervais and Peter Frampton, Bowie gives us not only a portrait of one of the most important artists in the last century, but also an honest examination of a truly revolutionary artist and the unique impact he’s had across generations.