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Bowie: A Biography
The first vinyl records (Remember those? Big, round, black, shiny disks with tiny grooves that played music when you put in on a turntable and dropped the needle down? I know, I love them, too) I ever bought were Journey's "Escape", the self-titled album by Madness ("Our house in the middle of our street"), and "Let's Dance" by David Bowie.
I still have them, somewhere; most likely tucked away on a shelf next to my parents' surprisingly hip vinyl collection. I grew up listening to Tom Jones, ABBA, Three Dog Night, The Guess Who, the Kinks, the Beatles: not a bad soundtrack for my childhood.
While I liked Journey and Madness a lot, throughout the years my fascination for Bowie grew and matured in a way that didn't happen for most of the other bands and singers I had in my record collection. (The Police will always have a place in my heart, Jackson Browne was a memorable fling, and the Pretenders still kick ass, but I'm not sure what I was thinking with Rick Springfield, Menudo or Bruce W
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Bowie: A Biography
book by Marc Spitz
Bowie: A Biography is a biography on the life and times of musician David Bowie, a twentieth century music and cultural icon. The book is written by Marc Spitz and was released on October 27, , by the Crown Publishing Group.[1][2]
Synopsis
[edit]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 stardom as David Bowie, Bowie recounts his career and also reveals how much his music has influenced other musicians. Along the way, Spitz reflects on how growing up with Bowie as his soundtrack and how writing this book on Bowie influenced him in ways he never expected.
Bowie takes a look at the culture of postwarEngland 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 status as an elder statesman of alternative culture.
The book explores Bowie's struggles to go from follower to leader, his tricky relationship with art and commerce and Buddhism and the occult, his family life, and his open romantic relationship. An evaluation of his recorded wo