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On Bowie Hardcover – Illustrated, June 28, 2016
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fans
Innovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David Bowie created art that not only pushed boundaries, but helped fans understand themselves and view the world from fantastic new perspectives.
When the shocking news of his death on January 10, 2016 broke, the outpouring of grief and adulation was immediate and ongoing. Fans around the world and across generations paid homage to this brilliant, innovate, ever evolving artist who both shaped and embodied our times.
In this concise and penetrating book, featuring color photographs, highly regarded Rolling Stone critic, bestselling author, and lifelong Bowie fan Rob Sheffield shares his own feelings about the passing of this icon and explains why Bowie’s death has elicited such an unprecedented emotional outpouring from so many lives.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDey Street Books
- Publication dateJune 28, 2016
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.77 x 7.25 inches
- ISBN-100062562703
- ISBN-13978-0062562708
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“Funny, poignant and wickedly insightful” — Billboard
“A passionate, witty, not entirely uncritical homage to the shape-shifting superstar.” — USA Today
“Rob Sheffield explores the British rock icon’s career, his legacy and his powerful, enduring connection with his fans in the thoughtful and meditative On Bowie.” — Parade
“With On Bowie, Sheffield offers a galaxy of admirers a concise primer through which we may relive our favorite moments with the Thin White Duke again and again.” — Shelf Awareness
“On Bowie is shot through with color and feeling….The true delight of On Bowie is that it succeeds in grieving for all of us.” — Pop Matters
About the Author
Rob Sheffieldis a columnist for Rolling Stone, where he has been writing about music, TV, and pop culture since 1997. He is the author of the national bestsellers Love Is a Mix Tape: Love and Loss, One Song at a Time and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut, as well as Turn Around Bright Eyes: A Karaoke Journey of Starting Over, Falling in Love, and Finding Your Voice and On Bowie.
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- Publisher : Dey Street Books; Illustrated edition (June 28, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062562703
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062562708
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.77 x 7.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #404,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,236 in Rock Band Biographies
- #1,725 in Rock Music (Books)
- #3,360 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
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Rob Sheffield has been a music journalist for more than twenty years. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he writes about music, TV, and pop culture, and regularly appears on MTV and VH1. He is the author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape, which has been translated into French, German, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and other languages he cannot read. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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He does however make a valid point that not everyone likes all of Bowie's phases, but to dismiss Outside as a dull Eno collaboration and to favour the rather sterile Stage over the raw emotion of David Live is questionable.
I rather lost interest after he devoted a disproportionate amount of time to Space Oddity and raved on inexplicably about the German novelty hit Major Tom (Coming Home).
I'm sure to some folks this book is . For me it's not
My love and indeed obsession with music came (like most) in my teen years and it was then that I discovered Bowie the musician not Jareth the Goblin King. Bowie wasn’t and still isn’t someone that you can listen to passively. His music dictates that you give him your full attention. Likewise this is what I gave to Rob Sheffield when I read his book On Bowie. The book was written in light of Bowie’s death in January and released a few months after and what I loved about it is that the biography (I feel weird calling it this) mixes moments from David Bowie’s life and shows the resonance that Bowie had on his audience. How what he did and how he did it impacted people. That is what, in my humble opinion, makes Rob Sheffield’s writing really exciting. You see it in his previous books and you definitely see it in On Bowie. It is the book that makes you shout “Yes! You get it. That is exactly how I feel.”
If you love Bowie then read On Bowie. If you love music then read On Bowie. And if you love it when an author just gets it then read On Bowie.
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