David Bowie Black Book

Author : Miles Charlesworth
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1783230266
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bowie Black Book written by Miles Charlesworth and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print due to popular demand; the David Bowie Black Book remains one of the most elegant books about the iconic superstar ever to have been published. Art directed by acclaimed graphic designer, Pierce Marchbank, and with text written by former NME journalist and cultural commentator, Barry Miles, the David Bowie Black Book contains photographs from every era of Bowie's genre-defining career and was for many years the world's best-selling Bowie book.

Author : Barry Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783051830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bowie Black Book written by Barry Miles and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowie's career year-by-year, 1963-1987.

Author : Leah Kardos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501365398
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackstar Theory written by Leah Kardos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie's ambitious last works: his surprise 'comeback' project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist's death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon. These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.

Author : Adrian Hopkins
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 0857129724
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Black Songbook: David Bowie written by Adrian Hopkins and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late, great David Bowie left an indelible mark of popular culture and a legacy of songs which still continue to inspire generations. Now, with the help of The Little Black Songbook you too can play more than 90 songs from his vast cannon. With Complete lyrics and chord diagrams, this handy songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to play with and explore the genius of David Bowie. This little book includes: - Aladdin Sane - Ashes To Ashes - All The Young Dudes - Boys Keep Swinging - The Buddha Of Suburbia - Changes - Diamond Dogs - Fame - "Heroes" - The Jean Genie - John, I'm Only Dancing - Letter To Hermione - Life On Mars? - Loving The Alien - The Man Who Sold The World - Modern Love - Moonage Daydream - Oh! You Pretty Things - Rebel Rebel - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide - Space Oddity - Sound And Vision - Starman - Suffragette City - Under Pressure - TVC15 - The Width Of A Circle - Young Americans - Ziggy Stardust And many, many more!

Author : Barry Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780825632365
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bowie Black Book written by Barry Miles and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugo Wilcken
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826416845
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bowie's Low written by Hugo Wilcken and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernail clippings in the fridge. There are occasional trips out to visit his friend Iggy Pop in a mental institution. His latest album is the cocaine-fuelled Station To Station (Bowie: "I know it was recorded in LA because I read it was"), which welds R&B rhythms to lyrics that mix the occult with a yearning for Europe, after three mad years in the New World. Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 1787590380
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bowie: Blackstar (PVG) written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bowie: Blackstar (PVG) presents every song from the late, great David Bowie's number one album Blackstar, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar, with full lyrics, chord symbols and chord boxes. Blackstar was released just two days before Bowie tragically passed away, and was hailed by critics and audiences as one of his greatest, taking his music in new directions. A music video for the single Lazarus, released a day before the album, showed Bowie in a hospital bed, with a bandage covering his eyes before walking into a wardrobe at the end. Bowie passed away two days after Blackstar was released and much of the album relates to life and death. The lyrical themes have been interpreted as a "parting gift" for fans before his death. The songs have been almost universally acclaimed for their music and lyrics, as well as the ultimate artistic swansong for a man whose life was exceptionally creative and boundary-pushing. With this folio you can learn to play David Bowie's last album in all its glory.

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Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576871812
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bowie written by and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billedværk med David Bowie on tour 2002

Author : Victoria Broackes
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781851777372
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bowie Is... written by Victoria Broackes and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bowie's career as a pioneering artist spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He continues to be cited as a major influence on contemporary artists and designers working across the creative arts. This book, published to accompany the blockbuster international exhibition launched at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, is the only volume that grants access to Bowie's personal archive of performance costumes, ephemera, and original design artwork by the artist, bringing it together to present a completely new perspective on his creative work and collaborations. The book traces his career from its beginnings in London, through the breakthroughs of Space Oddity and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and on to his enormous impact on 20th-century avant-garde music and art. Essays by V&A curators on Bowie's London, image, and influence on the fashion world are complemented by Howard Goodall on musicology; Camille Paglia on gender and decadence, and Jon Savage on Bowie's relationship with William Burroughs and his fans. The more than 300 color illustrations include personal and performance photographs, album covers, costumes, original lyric sheets, and much more. Praise for David Bowie Is "Perusing David Bowie Is (V&A Publishing, distributed by Abrams), the exhibition's catalog, with its procession of poses and costumes and weighty essays tracking the cross-references to pop culture and high art, you get a sense of how much hard work it took to be Mr. Bowie." --The New York Times "The fans of 50 years or those making discoveries in retrospect will be intrigued by the accompanying book David Bowie Is that is far more than a fanzine."--The New York Times "Lends context and picks away at Bowie with such insight that it's a rare hagiography with soul." --Chicago Tribune "Combining top-notch articles on the singer/actor's life and work with official images and reproductions of his fashion and associated ephemera, the hefty, mango-colored book is nothing short of a treasure trove of all things Bowie; a one-stop smorgasbord for the eyes whose pictorials chronicle the groundbreaking star from Ziggy Stardust to Thin White Duke to Heathen and every personality in between." --Examiner.com

Author : John O'Connell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982112557
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bowie's Bookshelf written by John O'Connell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. “An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” ―David Bowie Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’s life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie’s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O’Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie’s lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie’s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.