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David Bowie's Low (33 1/3)
Hugo Wilcken
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Description for David Bowie's Low (33 1/3)
Paperback. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into paranoia and confusion. Bowie has long been haunted by the emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on "Low", his own expressionist mood-piece. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 122 x 8. Weight in Grams: 144.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
33 1/3
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826416841
SKU
V9780826416841
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About Hugo Wilcken
Hugo Wilcken is a Paris-based, Australian-born writer and translator. His first novel, The Execution, was published by HarperCollins in 2002. ("A remarkably accomplished debut heralding the arrival of a noteworthy talent" - Publishers Weekly) It was well reviewed, and has since been translated into Dutch and German. A second novel, Colony, will be published in 2005.
Reviews for David Bowie's Low (33 1/3)
"'A brilliant series of pocket-sized books focussing on a classic album. Each one a work of real love.' NME"