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An illustrated discography (1985) |
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max Italy Photo Book (1985) |
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Elisabeth Thomson & David Gutman "The Bowie Companion" (1993) |
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The collection approaches its subject from a wide variety of angels, giving full weight to Bowie's stage and screen career as well as his music. The editors have combed the English and American press, coming up with some surprising contemporary articles; the ballance of the book is entirely new material, written with the benefit of hindsight. Among the contributors, Gordon Burn offers a backstage look at The Elephant Man, while Philip Norman pens a critique of Absolute Beginners. Lindsay Kemp reminices on his years as Bowie's friend and mime teacher while Wilfred Mellers weighs in with a musical analysis of Hunky Dory. Anne Rice and Jon Savage examine the question of Bowie and gender, while Craig Copetas catches a curious conversation between Bowie and William Burroughs. There are acerbic words from the late rock critic Lester Bangs, and Jean Rook, former First Lady of Fleet Street, was so charmed by Bowie that she couldn't resist a second interview. Other contributors include the late Marc Bolan, Michael Bracewell, Simon Frith, Pauline Kael, John Rockwell, Leslie Thomas and Ellen Willis. A lengthy introduction puts the material in context and The Bowie Companion is completeed by a select discography and an extencive bibliography. |
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George Tremlett "David Bowie - Die Biographie" (1995) |
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.....For more than twenty years, David Bowie has kept his audience guessing, rarely talking to the press for more than fifteen minutes at a time, keeping his family away from the cameras, secretly preparing each image like a painter working on a canvas. Behind the imagery lies a remarable man - charming, ruthless, gifted in many branches of the arts, and totally determined to keep control of every aspect of his career. George Tremlett knew David Bowie well in the early days, befriended many of Bowie's contemporaries, and saw that behind the images of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Elephant Man lay an intriguing story of media manipulation, skilled management of men and money and a vast fortune made through offshore companies. This book is both a biography and also a study of the way reputations are made and fortunes created within the Rock music business. George Tremlett tells it with a droll sense of the absurdity that lies beneath its imagery. George Tremlett initially trained as a journalist and became Britain's first freelance rock music writer in 1961 representing European, Japanese and American magazines in London. He is based in Laugharne, Wales, and is a full-time author having written 26 books, including 17 rock star biographies. His books include the acclaimed Caitlin, written with Dylan Thomas's widow. |
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Christopher Sandford "Bowie - Loving the alien" (1996) |
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With contributions from family members, colleagues, lovers and the previously silent William S. Burroughs - a man Bowie has called his 'greatest influence'- Christopher Sandford's fascinating biography goes behind the changing sounds and images to tell one of rock's most exhilarating tales: how the most phenomenal success was achieved amid the wierdest, wildest excess. |
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Christopher Sandford "Bowie -Ein Mythos will nicht muede werden" (1997) |
With contributions from family members, colleagues, lovers and the previously silent William S. Burroughs - a man Bowie has called his 'greatest influence'- Christopher Sandford's fascinating biography goes behind the changing sounds and images to tell one of rock's most exhilarating tales: how the most phenomenal success was achieved amid the wierdest, wildest excess. This revised edition includes comments on the 50th birthday bash and the release of Earthling. |
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David Buckley "The complete guide to the music of David Bowie" (1996) |
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An album by album track by track examination of every song released by Bowie from his early singles, through the Ziggy Stardust era, the Eno/Berlin triology, the solo years, Tin Machine and beyond..David Buckley is a freelance writer and reviewer living in Munich. Originally from Liverpool, in 1993 he was awarded a doctorate for his PhD on David Bowie. |
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David Buckley "Strange fascination. David Bowie - The definitive story" (1999) |
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Strange Fascination reflects the obsessional and devotional nature of Bowie fans (some of whom have been interviewed for this book), but is primarily an absorbing and fascinating biography of Bowie and his times through exclusive and revelatory interviews with his closest collaborators, who have spoken in detail (many with Bowie's own blessing) about the tours, the making of the albums, the arguments and split-ups, the music and, most importantly, the man himself. With an unrivalled degree of access to the main players and exclusive photographic material, Strange Fascination is the most complete picture of David Bowie and his impact on pop culture ever written. The paperback edition (released in June 2000) adds another chapter about Reeves Gabrels departure, it now has 608 pages instead of 533 as on the hardcover edition. |
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Mark Paytress & Steve Pafford "Bowiestyles" (1999) |
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Nicholas Pegg "The complete David Bowie" (2002) |
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Iman "I AM IMAN" (2001) |
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Peeks behind the curtain and scintillating interviews are courtesy of feminist critic bell hooks, Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, model and manager Bethann Hardison, and others. With graphic design featuring pop-ups and other interactive elements, as well specially commissioned, never-before-seen images by Annie Leibowitz, Ellen Von Unwerth, Sante D'Orazio and Michel Comte, this book is an assemblage worthy of any fashionista's dream. |
If
the sixties belonged to Bob Dylan and The Beatles, the eighties to Michale
Jackson, Prince and Madonna, David Bowie was undoubtly the most important
artist to emerge from the 1970s and his influence is constantly felt
today. Yet, despite that, Bowie remains one of the most elusive figures in
rock and a few books have taken a serious look at his remarkable career.
The Bowie Companion, like the earlier Dylan Companion, provides an
entertaining overview of nearly three decades of popular cultural
commentary.
No
rock muscian knows better than David Bowie how to mould an image, but what
lies behind it? What does Bowie believe and where did he come from? Are
his chameleon-like changes of personality a refelection of the inner man,
ot is he cleverly concealing his real self?
From
Ziggy Stardust to late-90srenaissance man, David Bowie remains one of
rock's most resonant icons. Such is his influence on modern pop culture -
in fashion and style as well as music - that his 50th birthday in early
1997 was less a nostalgia-tinged event than a celebration of dynamic,
fiercely contemporary performer whose current work continues to confront
musical and artistic conventions. After surviving his dryg-crazed,
promiscuous existence of the mid-70s, and the years of critical
unpopularity that preceded the release of Outside, Bowie has become the
epitome of middle-aged cool.
From
Ziggy Stardust to late-90srenaissance man, David Bowie remains one of
rock's most resonant icons. Such is his influence on modern pop culture -
in fashion and style as well as music - that his 50th birthday in early
1997 was less a nostalgia-tinged event than a celebration of dynamic,
fiercely contemporary performer whose current work continues to confront
musical and artistic conventions. After surviving his dryg-crazed,
promiscuous existence of the mid-70s, and the years of critical
unpopularity that preceded the release of Outside, Bowie has become the
epitome of middle-aged cool.
The
indispensible consumers' guide to the music of David Bowie.
As
the millennium ends, David Bowie is about to enter his fifth decade of
making music. Thirty years on from his first hit single, 'Space Oddity',
he remains the most influential rock star from the post Woodstock
generation - yet unlike Hendrix, the Beatles or even Prince, his life has
never been the subject of a major biography. Strange Fascination
chronicles Bowie's career against the colourful backdrop of post-Beatles
pop culture; of glam-era gender-bending, implausible substance abuse and
sartorial silliness; eighties corporate schlock; nineties 'curator
culture' and laddish Britpop. For the first time, a mass of evidence has
been assembled about Bowie's art, his studio craft, his concert
performances and his cultural impact. It's a story of amazing creativity,
of huge, showboating theatricality, and of an almost pathological quest to
remain relevant and at pop's cutting edge.
A
dazzling, richly illustrated 160-page chronicle of pop's greatest exponent
of style. This visual examination of a celebrated multi-faceted career
documents the impact of David Bowie on twentieth-century fashion and
culture, brilliantly capturing his spatial odyssey from dedicated follower
to supreme arbiter of rock chic. As the book says, 'Bowie's
"style" has always amounted to more than clothes, hair and
cosmetics. Style, for Bowie, is inextricable from art...it is less a
flight from reality than an entire way of life. 'The range of photographs
is staggering. From his humble Brixton beginnings to the classy pop icon
in the last quarter of the old millennium (every year from 1962 to 1999 is
amply represented), the book shows a changing glamour gallery of Bowies
down the years, all different and yet somehow all unified by an unerring
grasp of Style with a capital S. Whether it's on-stage with The King Bees
in the Sixties, off-stage at Haddon Hall in the Seventies, on-stage
(again) with Iggy Pop in the Eighties, or back-stage with Morrissey in the
Nineties, Steve Pafford, editor of the UK's 'Crankin' Out' Bowie fan club
magazine (PO Box 3268, London NW6 4NH), has unearthed some fascinating
pix. There are close to 500 images in BowieStyle, an all-time high, and
around 40% are guaranteed previously unseen. There's also an exclusive
two-page interview with photographer Mick Rock, contributions from
ex-manager Ken Pitt, as well as previously unpublished extracts of
Crankin' Out's interviews with collaborator Tony Visconti, clothes
designer Natasha Kornilof and Manish Boy Bob Solly. The informed, incisive
text and picture captions are also littered with quotes from David
himself, compiled from various media interviews conducted over the years,
as well as his chats with Crankin' Out, which appear in print for the very
first time.
Critically
acclaimed in its first edition and now extensively revised, expanded and
updated. The Complete David Bowie is the first book to explore every facet
of Bowie's career in revealing depth and detail. The A-Z of songs and the
day-by-day dateline of Bowie's career are the most complete ever
published. From the 11-year-old's skiffle performance at the 18th Bromley
Scout's Summer Camp in 1958, to the 55-year-old's residency as artistic
director of the prestigious Meltdown in 2002. The Complete David Bowie
discusses and disects every last move in rock's most fascinating career.
Iman's
emergence in 1975 sparked an upheaval in cultural identity that continues
today, and her first book is a gloriously entertaining hybrid essay on the
cultural cum-political power of good looks. A quarter century of the most
shockingly famous photographs by HELMUT NEWTON, DAVID BAILEY, BRUCE WEBER
and other tastemakers are contextualized by well-known essayists, a chorus
of celebrity contributions, and Iman's own take on her much mythologizied
career. The book's outrageous pop design--by legendary graphic designer
JONATHAN BARNBROOK--makes it plain that this is not just one woman's
success story; Iman captures the funny, infuriating, and often absurd
validation of black and ethnic looks in a beauty industry where billions
of dollars-and the self-image of women everywhere are on the line.