Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town

Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town
by Thomas Jerome Seabrook

Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town
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Author: Thomas Jerome Seabrook
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN: 1906002088
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Jawbone Press

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Book Review: Excellent Bowie Book!
Summary: 5 Stars

I was motivated to write a review for this when I saw an other customer complain that the book is "written by a fan for other fans". Well, obviously! If you're writer that's motivated enough by non-fiction, you want to share all of your knowledge to others. That's exactly what the writer does.

Very quick and simple read about the happenings of Bowie, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, and the underrated Tony Visconti during the Berlin Triad. If goes into very nice detail about Bowie's cocaine psychosis in Los Angeles to the creation of the Iggy Pop albums. He gives lots of credit to Tony Visconti on making the Berlin albums as amazing as they are and giving them that signature sound.

My only complaint, as mentioned in an other review, is that he goes into too much detail about "The Man Who Fell to Earth". I've seen the movie several times and read the book. I know already how it goes. Besides that, it's an excellent book on an important moment in popular music that avoids because a piece of fanboy dribble.

Summary of Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town

By 1975 rock icon David Bowie was in crisis. Lost in Los Angeles, he was ravaged by cocaine abuse, overwork, and an obsession with the occult, while his marriage lay in tatters. Desperate to reignite his creative spark, Bowie relocated in mid-1976 to Berlin, accompanied by an equally troubled Iggy Pop, former Stooges frontman. The move to Berlin proved fortuitous both personally and professionally. There he produced two of Iggy Pop's best albums and starred in Just a Gigolo. Most importantly, he wrote and recorded three of his finest works ? Low, Heroes, and Lodger ? with the help of such legends as Brian Eno, Tony Visconti, and Robert Fripp. New Music Night and Day explores the sometimes dark forces that fueled Bowie's artistry during the time and the creation of these albums. The book explores how the albums ushered rock and pop into the electronic era and examines their continued influence on the contemporary musical landscape.

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