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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | David Bowie; David Bowie |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Doggett |
| ISBN: | 9780062024657 0062024655 |
| OCLC Number: | 758391988 |
| Description: | ix, 499 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The making of David Bowie : 1947-1968 -- The songs of David Bowie : 1969-1980 -- Essays. Sound and vision #1 : Love you till Tuesday ; David Bowie LP ; The lure of the occult ; The man who sold the world LP ; Bowie and the Homo superior ; The making of a star #1 : Arnold Corns ; Andy Warhol : pop to Pork and back again ; Hunky dory LP ; Glad to be gay ; The making of a star #2 : the birth of Ziggy Stardust ; The making of a star #3 : The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars LP ; Glam, glitter, and fag rock ; Transformer : Bowie and Lou Reed ; Fashion : turn to the Left ; Aladdin Sane LP ; The unmaking of a star #1 : rock 'n' roll suicide ; Sixties nostalgia and myth : Pin ups LP ; The art of fragmentation ; Diamond dogs LP ; The heart of plastic soul ; The unmaking of a star #2 : David live LP ; Young Americans LP ; Sound and vision #2 : The man who fell to earth ; The unmaking of a star #3 : cocaine and the Kabbalah ; Station to station LP ; Fascism : turn to the right ; The actor and the Idiot : Bowie and Iggy ; The art of minimalism ; Berlin ; Low LP ; Rock on the Titanic : punk ; "Heroes" LP ; The art of expressionism ; Sound and vision #3 : Just a gigolo ; Exit the actor : Stage LP ; Lodger LP ; Scary Monsters (and super creeps) LP ; Sound and vision #4 : a new career in a new medium. |
| Other Titles: | David Bowie and the 1970s David Bowie and the nineteen seventies |
| Responsibility: | Peter Doggett. |
Abstract:
Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of David Bowie's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him.
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