David Bowie Black Book

David Bowie Black Book
Title David Bowie Black Book PDF eBook
Author Miles Charlesworth
Publisher Omnibus Press
Total Pages 160
Release 2013-07-16
Genre Music
ISBN 1783230266

Download David Bowie Black Book Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Back in print due to popular demand; the David Bowie Black Book remains one of the most elegant books about the iconic superstar ever to have been published. Art directed by acclaimed graphic designer, Pierce Marchbank, and with text written by former NME journalist and cultural commentator, Barry Miles, the David Bowie Black Book contains photographs from every era of Bowie's genre-defining career and was for many years the world's best-selling Bowie book.

Blackstar Theory

Blackstar Theory
Title Blackstar Theory PDF eBook
Author Leah Kardos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages 265
Release 2021-12-16
Genre Music
ISBN 1501365398

Download Blackstar Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie's ambitious last works: his surprise 'comeback' project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist's death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon. These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.

David Bowie Black Book

David Bowie Black Book
Title David Bowie Black Book PDF eBook
Author Barry Miles
Publisher
Total Pages 143
Release 1984-01-01
Genre Rock musicians
ISBN 9780825632365

Download David Bowie Black Book Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Little Black Songbook: David Bowie

The Little Black Songbook: David Bowie
Title The Little Black Songbook: David Bowie PDF eBook
Author Adrian Hopkins
Publisher Wise Publications
Total Pages 224
Release 2012-10-24
Genre Music
ISBN 0857129724

Download The Little Black Songbook: David Bowie Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The late, great David Bowie left an indelible mark of popular culture and a legacy of songs which still continue to inspire generations. Now, with the help of The Little Black Songbook you too can play more than 90 songs from his vast cannon. With Complete lyrics and chord diagrams, this handy songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to play with and explore the genius of David Bowie. This little book includes: - Aladdin Sane - Ashes To Ashes - All The Young Dudes - Boys Keep Swinging - The Buddha Of Suburbia - Changes - Diamond Dogs - Fame - "Heroes" - The Jean Genie - John, I'm Only Dancing - Letter To Hermione - Life On Mars? - Loving The Alien - The Man Who Sold The World - Modern Love - Moonage Daydream - Oh! You Pretty Things - Rebel Rebel - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide - Space Oddity - Sound And Vision - Starman - Suffragette City - Under Pressure - TVC15 - The Width Of A Circle - Young Americans - Ziggy Stardust And many, many more!

David Bowie's Low

David Bowie's Low
Title David Bowie's Low PDF eBook
Author Hugo Wilcken
Publisher A&C Black
Total Pages 147
Release 2005-08-19
Genre Music
ISBN 0826416845

Download David Bowie's Low Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernail clippings in the fridge. There are occasional trips out to visit his friend Iggy Pop in a mental institution. His latest album is the cocaine-fuelled Station To Station (Bowie: "I know it was recorded in LA because I read it was"), which welds R&B rhythms to lyrics that mix the occult with a yearning for Europe, after three mad years in the New World. Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.

Bowie's Bookshelf

Bowie's Bookshelf
Title Bowie's Bookshelf PDF eBook
Author John O'Connell
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total Pages 320
Release 2019-11-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1982112557

Download Bowie's Bookshelf Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. “An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” ―David Bowie Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’s life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie’s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O’Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie’s lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie’s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.

Backstage Passes

Backstage Passes
Title Backstage Passes PDF eBook
Author Angela Bowie
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages 369
Release 2000
Genre Rock musicians' spouses
ISBN 0815410018

Download Backstage Passes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Having outlasted the gag order that was part of their divorce agreement, Angela Bowie produced this memoir of her turbulent life with David.