Bowie in Berlin A New Career in a New Town

Name: Bowie in Berlin A New Career in a New Town
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ISBN: 9781906002084

ISBN-10: 1906002088

ISBN-13: 9781906002084

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thomas Jerome Seabrook

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Bowie in Berlin tells the fascinating story of the three years David Bowie spent in Germany in the mid-1970s, making the most extraordinary music of his career. Driven to the brink of madness by cocaine, overwork, marital strife, and a paranoid obsession with the occult, Bowie fled Los Angeles in 1975 and ended up in Berlin, the divided city on the frontline between communist East and capitalist West. There he sought anonymity, taking an apartment in a run-down district with his sometime collaborator Iggy Pop, another refugee from drugs and debauchery, while they explored the city and its notorious nightlife. In this intensely creative period, Bowie put together three classic albums - Low,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Outline Press, Limited
Publication date: 2/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Picture section


Introduction



Speed of Life



Black Noise: How David Bowie became British pop's brightest 70s star



The Year of Magical Thinking: Los Angeles: The Man Who Fell to Earth and Station To Station



Going Round & Round: Reality slips and Europe beckons



New Music: Night and Day



Dum Dum Days: Iggy Pop, The Idiot, and the move to Berlin


Iggy Pop: The Idiot - track by track



What in the World: Collaborating with Eno and recording Low


David Bowie: Low - track by track



Neighbourhood Threat: Playing keyboards with Iggy Pop and making Lust For Life


Iggy Pop: Lust For Life - track by track



Fur Einen Tag: Settling in Berlin and recording "Heroes"


David Bowie: "Heroes" - track by track



Peace on Earth



Stage & screen: Back to the world: TV; Just A Gigolo; world tour



Do Something Boring: Lodger: completing the trilogy or making a new start?



The Heart's Filthy Lesson: The continuing influence of Bowie and his late-70s records


Endnotes


Selected discography


Tour dates


Bibliography / websites / periodicals


Index


Acknowledgements