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Despite his long-term access to Bowie and others close to him, British rock journalist Tremlett (Dylan Thomas, 1992, etc.) is stronger in its portrayal of the finances of the rock biz than in profiling one of pop music's most enigmatic figures. Born David Jones in 1947, David Bowie flitted about the mod and hippie fringes of 1960s London until he hit it big in the early '70s as Ziggy Stardust, one of the first of a series of adopted stage personas. By 1973, by dint of canny songwriting and even cannier self-promotion, Bowie was an international sensation who traveled with a huge entourage and embodied the decadent, high-living rock-'n'-roll lifestyle. While Bowie's concert tours and records were raking in huge amounts of money, he was seeing relatively little of it, and his musicians even less. This was perhaps as much the due to his enormous cash outlays for cocaine and limousines as to greedy management. Nevertheless, following the advice of John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and others, Bowie eventually wrested control of the company that ran his career (but as he belatedly learned, was not owned by him) and again reinvented himself, this time as a successful rock burgher, living in Swiss tax exile. Since then, Bowie's new albums have, by turns, been greeted by critics as crassly commercial or myopically self- indulgent. Fans and fellow musicians have been kinder, as evidenced by accolades at his recent 50th-birthday concert. Certainly, Bowie fans will learn a lot in this book: that despite his flamboyant gender-bending reputation, he was, for the most part, a voracious heterosexual; that he was a devoted and intensely private father; that his ability to get into and out of character might have stemmed from a family history of schizophrenia. This sober look at one of pop's most mercurial icons will no doubt send fans scurrying to dust off their Bowie platters and listen to them anew. (photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The story of one of rock music's enduring stars--the creation of a reputation and a fortune. Behind the imagery revealed in this fascinating biography lies a remarkable man: charming and uncompromising, endlessly gifted, and determined to control every aspect of his career. of photos.
Despite his long-term access to Bowie and others close to him, British rock journalist Tremlett (Dylan Thomas, 1992, etc.) is stronger in its portrayal of the finances of the rock biz than in profiling one of pop music's most enigmatic figures. Born David Jones in 1947, David Bowie flitted about the mod and hippie fringes of 1960s London until he hit it big in the early '70s as Ziggy Stardust, one of the first of a series of adopted stage personas. By 1973, by dint of canny songwriting and even cannier self-promotion, Bowie was an international sensation who traveled with a huge entourage and embodied the decadent, high-living rock-'n'-roll lifestyle. While Bowie's concert tours and records were raking in huge amounts of money, he was seeing relatively little of it, and his musicians even less. This was perhaps as much the due to his enormous cash outlays for cocaine and limousines as to greedy management. Nevertheless, following the advice of John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and others, Bowie eventually wrested control of the company that ran his career (but as he belatedly learned, was not owned by him) and again reinvented himself, this time as a successful rock burgher, living in Swiss tax exile. Since then, Bowie's new albums have, by turns, been greeted by critics as crassly commercial or myopically self- indulgent. Fans and fellow musicians have been kinder, as evidenced by accolades at his recent 50th-birthday concert. Certainly, Bowie fans will learn a lot in this book: that despite his flamboyant gender-bending reputation, he was, for the most part, a voracious heterosexual; that he was a devoted and intensely private father; that his ability to get into and out of character might have stemmed from a family history of schizophrenia. This sober look at one of pop's most mercurial icons will no doubt send fans scurrying to dust off their Bowie platters and listen to them anew. (photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The story of one of rock music's enduring stars--the creation of a reputation and a fortune. Behind the imagery revealed in this fascinating biography lies a remarkable man: charming and uncompromising, endlessly gifted, and determined to control every aspect of his career. of photos.
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When David Bowie was 12, a teacher asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
laughing gnome, mime classes, glass spider, backing group, music papers, tax exile Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust, Iggy Pop, Diamond Dogs, Haddon Hall, United States, Los Angeles, Lou Reed, Space Oddity, Andy Warhol, The Beatles, The Spiders, John Jones, Plaistow Grove, Tin Machine, Marc Bolan, Hunky Dory, Lindsay Kemp, Manchester Street, Essex Music, Mick Jagger, Melody Maker, The Man Who Sold The World, The Rolling Stones New!
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When David Bowie was 12, a teacher asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
laughing gnome, mime classes, glass spider, backing group, music papers, tax exile Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust, Iggy Pop, Diamond Dogs, Haddon Hall, United States, Los Angeles, Lou Reed, Space Oddity, Andy Warhol, The Beatles, The Spiders, John Jones, Plaistow Grove, Tin Machine, Marc Bolan, Hunky Dory, Lindsay Kemp, Manchester Street, Essex Music, Mick Jagger, Melody Maker, The Man Who Sold The World, The Rolling Stones New!
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- Backstage Passes by Angela Bowie on 14 pages
- Free Spirit by Angie Bowie on 6 pages
- Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie on page 130, page 172, and Back Matter
- David Bowie Profile by Chris Charlesworth in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- White Heat by Marco Pierre White on page 48, and page 351
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