David Bowie: A Life
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 045149783X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is a Trustee of the Hay Festival, a board member of the Norman Mailer Center, and was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to publishing. . He has been an editor at i-D, The Face, Arena, the Observer, and the Sunday Times. DYLAN JONES is the multi-award-winning editor of British GQ magazine
“A labor of love with many vivid voices and fresh insights.” —Jon Savage, author of England’s Dreaming and Teenage“Dylan Jones elevates the art of oral biography to a cinematic level. But through more than 150 interviews spanning the entirety of Bowie's extraordinary time on Earth, Dylan Jones thoroughly and seamlessly conveys the creativity, curiosity, and velocity of a visionary who transformed the very possibilities of pop music.”—Alan Light, author of The Holy and the Broken and Let’s Go Crazy. Scene by scene, this is the movie of David Bowie's life.” &m
Including illuminating, never-before-seen material from Bowie himself, drawn from a series of Jones’s interviews with him across two decades, DAVID BOWIE is an epic, unforgettable cocktail-party conversation about a man whose enigmatic shapeshifting and irrepressible creativity produced one of the most sprawling, fascinating lives of our time.. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path. Tracing Bowie’s life from the English suburbs to London to New York to Los Angeles, Berlin, and beyond, its collective voices describe a man profoundly shaped by his relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry; an intuitive artist who could absorb influences through intense relationships and yet drop people cold when they were no longer of use; and a social creature equally comfortable partying with John Lennon and dining with Frank Sinatra. It sparks with admiration and grievances, lust and envy, as the speakers bring you into studios and bedrooms they shared with Bowie, and onto stages and film sets, opening corners of his mind and experience that transform our unde