Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story - Couverture souple

Buckley, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753510022 ISBN 13 : 9780753510025

Editeur : Virgin Books, 2005

Synopsis

Strange Fascination Bowie's pioneering sexual experimentation, cracked actor showmanship and ability to embrace every musical genre from glam rock to drum'n'bass have made him into the biggest commercial success in rock history since the Beatles and the Stones. Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in Liverpool in 1965, David Buckley has written eight books, including two on David Bowie: The Complete Guide To The Music Of David Bowie (Omnibus Press, 1996) and Strange Fascination - David Bowie: the Definitive Story (Virgin Books). Strange Fascination has sold in excess of 50,000 copies worldwide. The Guardian called David ‘the best of [Bowie’s] umpteen biographers.’ Other works are the official biography of the Stranglers, No Mercy (Hodder and Stoughton), a biography of R.E.M., Fiction - an Alternative Biography (Virgin Books), The Thrill of It All - the Story of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music (Andre Deutsch), Elton: the Biography (Andre Deutsch) and Kraftwerk: Publikation (Omnibus Press,).

David is a regular contributor to Mojo magazine, and has written press notes and booklets for EMI for Bowie’s back catalogue reissues. He has appeared on British TV and radio on a number of popular music programmes, including Channel 4’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. In 2013, he gave the closing lecture at the Victoria & Albert’s record-breaking exhibition, Bowie Is.

He also worked for many years as a part-time university lecturer and tutor and has written for various academic publications, including Larousse, The Year’s Work in Critical And Cultural Theory (Blackwell), The New Grove Dictionary Of Music and Musicians, and The Encyclopaedia Of The Popular Music Of The World (Continuum). He was the UK’s first-ever full-time postgraduate student in Popular Music. He lives in Munich. For more information go to www.david-buckley.com

Quatrième de couverture

DAVID BOWIE is now into his fiftth decade of making music. From his first hit single, 'Space Oddity', to his vital 21st-century albums Heathen and Reality, he remains the most influential rock star of his generation. Strange Fascination chronicles Bowie's career against the colourful backdrop of post-Beatles pop culture, taking us from the glam-era gender-bending of the early 1970s, through plastic soul, the Berlin period, Scary Monsters and the huge international success of Let's Dance right the way up to his most recent collaborations and his poineering use of the Internet. It's a story of amazing creativity, of huge, showboating theatricality and of a never-ending quest to remain relevant and at pop's cutting edge.
David Buckley's unique approach to unravelling the Bowie enigma, via interviews with many of the singer's closest associates, biography and academic analysis, makes this unrivalled biography a classic for Bowie fans old and new. This revised edition of Strange Fascination comes at a time when Bowie is, once again, on a creative roll, and captures exclusive details about the tours, the making of the albums, the arguments, the split-ups, the music and , most importantly, the man himself. Also including exclusive photographic material, Strange Fascination is the most complete account of David Bowie and his impact on pop culture ever written.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virgin Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0753510022
• ISBN 13: 9780753510025
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 592