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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | David Bowie; David Bowie; David Bowie; David Bowie |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Jerome Seabrook |
ISBN: | 9781906002084 1906002088 |
OCLC Number: | 166390017 |
Description: | 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Picture section -- Introduction -- Part 1. 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 -- Part 2. 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 Love. David Bowie : Love, track by track -- Neighbourhood threat : playing keyboards with Iggy Pop and making Lust for life. Iggy Pop : Lust for life, track by track -- Für einen tag : settling in Berlin and recording "Heroes". David Bowie : "Heroes," track by track -- Part 3. 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. |
Responsibility: | Thomas Jerome Seabrook. |
Abstract:
This is a biographical and historical account of the recording of David Bowie's albums 'Low', ''Heroes'' and 'Lodger'. Set against the backdrop of post-war Berlin it features a cast of characters including Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk and Robert Fripp. It also looks at the influence Bowie's 'Berlin Trilogy' has exerted on other musicians.
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- Bowie, David.
- Sound -- Recording and reproducing.
- Sound recording industry -- Germany -- Berlin.
- Sound recording industry -- California -- Los Angeles.
- Rock musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Rock music -- History and criticism.
- Son -- Enregistrement et reproduction.
- Musiciens rock -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies.
- Rock (Musique) -- Histoire et critique.
- Rock music.
- Rock musicians.
- Sound recording industry.
- California -- Los Angeles.
- Germany -- Berlin.
- Great Britain.
- Bowie, David -- 1947-2016
- Berlin