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Confession #3: I missed the touring exhibition David Bowie Is at the Museum of Contemporary Art last year, which is where this beautiful book is from. I waited until the last two weeks of the show and then it was all sold out and I missed the chance of a lifetime. In the U.S., David Bowie Is only came to Chicago's MCA, and I was too dumb to get there for it.

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George kindly supplied the previously unpublished photograph, which according to him was taken aboard Amtrak somewhere between New Orleans and Chicago on the first US tour in 1972.While this biography was published a decade before Bowie died—look elsewhere for coverage of his death, his legacy, and his last two albums—this is likely the most insightful critical biography we have, deeply learned about not just the songs, but the albums, the tours, the personas, and the artistic vision. You’ll have to put a bit more into it than most of the rest of these books, but you’ll reap more from it as well. David Bowie: Icon gathers the greatest photographs of one of the greatest stars in history, into a single, luxurious volume. The result is the most important anthology of David Bowie images that has ever been compiled. With work by many of the most eminent names in photography, this book showcases a stunning portfolio of imagery, featuring the iconic, the awe inspiring, the candid and the surprising. With the Victoria and Albert Museum’s unprecedented, career-spanning retrospective, “David Bowie” is underway and Bowie’s newest album The Next Day having shot straight up to number one on the music charts, now is the perfect time for fans to engross themselves in the best David Bowie book currently available. Alongside the supremely well-read Bob Dylan, David Bowie was probably popular music’s most bookish star. Christopher Isherwood was an obvious influence on his so-called Berlin period; George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four inspired much of his classic album Diamond Dogs. Judging by a much-circulated list of his favourite 100 books released in 2013, he was also a fan of such literary touchstones as William Faulkner, Albert Camus and F Scott Fitzgerald, as well as a range of modern works, from Martin Amis’s Money to the ribald British comic-cum-institution Viz.

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Bowie: Album by Album examines every one of Bowie’s studio albums in fine detail, placing each within the context of the time in which it was recorded and charting all the albums’ subsequent influence and legacy. As well as commentary from the musicians, engineers and producers who worked on the recordings – such as Brian Eno and Tony Visconti – Bowie’s own quotes provide a fascinating insight into his restlessly creative mind.

From portraits and album covers, performances and rehearsals, to rarely seen private moments and candid snapshots, this collection is at once powerful, sentimental and inspiring. The thoughts and reminiscences of the photographers, many sharing their memories for the first time, give us an insight into this artist unlike any other. A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T.Rex and Iggy Pop to David Bowie and U2. This is the compelling life story of the man who helped shape music history, and gives a unique, first-hand insight into life in London during the late 1960s and ’70s. And influenced by William Burroughs, Bowie used the surrealist author’s cut-up technique (cutting words and phrases from newspapers and magazines and rearranging them) for songwriting inspiration. In a video spot, he likens the technique to “a kind of Western Tarot.” (Decades later, Kurt Cobain also used cut-ups of his own poems to construct song lyrics.) Burroughs interviewed Bowie for Rolling Stone in 1974, in which the two discussed creative control, growing up middle class, the power of art to change the world, the inspiration for Ziggy Stardust, and love and sexuality. Bowie lived in West Berlin in the late 1970s and spent his time there as a literary reenactor. He yearned to be in the Berlin of Christopher Isherwood’s novels, to the point of even looking at times like Michael York’s character in Cabaret. One tourist guide was Friedrich’s portrait of Weimar Berlin, a doomed city of exiles, revolutionaries and artists. Bowie would later use a Vladimir Nabokov quote from Friedrich’s book in “I’d Rather Be High.” I've been a fan of Bowie's music for a very long time ever since I came across a best of cd in a now long gone record shop. There was something that sparked with me musically that I could not shake off. I suppose much like a lot of people when I first found him I never looked too deeply into the lyrics to me they were catchy tunes about people from space. But with all great artists who have multi-decade careers, we are given the opportunity to dig deeper into their works and discover more layers with the passage of time. And that is never more present when it comes to Bowie. I can't think of many other musical artists who have reinvented themselves so many times and managed for the greater part to pull it off. So when I was given a copy of this book as a present I could not wait to jump in and see what they could offer.

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