DAVID BOWIE: TAKE FIVE!
Reliably-visionary genius gadfly round-up from our resident punk rocker, Matt Riedl.
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REBEL REBEL: All the Songs of David Bowie from ’64 to ‘76 by Chris O’Leary
ASHES TO ASHES: The Songs of David Bowie 1976-2016 by Chris O’Leary
Read along and discover or revisit the amazing and groundbreaking work of this most visionary pop artist, broken down song-by-song for meaning, context, history and delivery! Enjoyable, revealing, definitive.
THE COMPLETE DAVID BOWIE, Expanded & Updated by Nicholas Pegg
I barely know what to say here. Roughly 800 pages of everything one could possibly know about every song, show, album, video, session and all ephemera in one place. Not a page is wasted on so much as a photograph. Utterly invaluable: thank you, Mr Pegg!
THE RISE OF DAVID BOWIE 1972-73 by Mick Rock
So here’s some pictures, then. Mick Rock displays the goods in this relatively affordable and fairly large Taschen photo set. Bowie at some of his wildest, in his gaudier years! Fifteen-year old me would have paid twice this much for this – somehow.
WHERE’S BOWIE? Search for David Bowie in Berlin, New York, Outer Space and More by Kev Gahan (Illustrator) and Aisling Coughlan (Text)
The ridiculous becomes the sublime herein. I do believe there’s also a puzzle of the Berlin Bowie-search, if you’re interested. Gotta catch ‘em all!