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Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story
David Bowie is now into his fifth decade of making music. Thirty years on from his first hit single, 'Space Oddity'. he remains the most influential rock star from the post-Woodstock generation - yet unlike Hendrix, the Beatles or even Prince, his life has never been the subject of a major biography. Strange Fascination chronicles Bowie's career against the colourful backd...more
Paperback, Revised and Updated, 641 pages
Published
June 8th 2000
by Virgin Books
(first published September 16th 1999)
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David Buckley covers all of David Bowie's complicated life and career...From the earliest singles in the 60's...to his peak period in the 1970's...to his dreadful albums in the mid 80s, and his creative comeback in the 1990's...Buckley does a great job chronicling Bowie's growth and development...as well as his many changes over the years. We get to read all about the making of such classic albums as "Hunky Dory', "The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars", "Aladin Sane", "D...more
David Buckley really knows his stuff and has interesting, and new - to me, a reasonably knowledgeable fan - observations to make about the myriad twists and turns of David's career.
As a teenage Bowie freak I finally lost interest during the 1980s when David seemed more interest in making money than art. Reading this book stimulated me to revisit his 1970s glory years, and to better understand how and why his career played out the way it did. I enjoyed reading the book with my iPod on, and liste...more
As a teenage Bowie freak I finally lost interest during the 1980s when David seemed more interest in making money than art. Reading this book stimulated me to revisit his 1970s glory years, and to better understand how and why his career played out the way it did. I enjoyed reading the book with my iPod on, and liste...more
Strange Fascination David Bowie the definitive story
By David Buckley (revised and updated)
This was the second doorstopper of a biography
that I read on holiday and at 554 pages this one
is over long and nowhere near as definitive as
its author would like you to think. His claim
would only work if you have never read any other
Bowie books or aren't a real Bowie freak which
are two things he bangs on about a lot without
it would seem really being one, that said he
does a not bad job of finding abo...more
By David Buckley (revised and updated)
This was the second doorstopper of a biography
that I read on holiday and at 554 pages this one
is over long and nowhere near as definitive as
its author would like you to think. His claim
would only work if you have never read any other
Bowie books or aren't a real Bowie freak which
are two things he bangs on about a lot without
it would seem really being one, that said he
does a not bad job of finding abo...more
David Bowie was my hero when I was 12 years old, and this was before I knew anything about Ziggy or the Thin White Duke - he was the Goblin King, and that was good enough for me. Now I've stumbled upon this book that is a concise account of his rise to stardom, and I find myself even more enthralled by his perseverance and creativity as an artist. Strange Fascination focuses on his career, with anecdotes from collaborators from every period and mask he's worn. The writing is obviously biased tow...more
The best Bowie biography to read if you want to focus on his music and stay away from the gossip. Very academic and thorough
The David Bowie biography.
Essential for any Bowie fan.
Great insight. Great prose. The latter third tails off and simply takes up too much space.
Järkälemäinen opus Bowien maailmaan on hieman kalskisti kirjoitettu, eikä käännöskään vakuuta kaikilta osiltaan. Sisältö on kuitenkin taakia Bowie-kamaa faneille, ei-faneille tarjolla ei ole juurikaan hauskoja yksityiskohtia lukuunottamatta mitään tärkeää.
Kirjasta opin mm. että Bowien silmät eivät ole eriväriset. Hienoimpia musatriviayksityiskohtia ikinä!
Kirjasta opin mm. että Bowien silmät eivät ole eriväriset. Hienoimpia musatriviayksityiskohtia ikinä!
This I think is the best David Bowie bio out there. For one thing, David Buckley interviewed all the Bowie Sidemen and the tales they tell is quite interesting. This is not a gossipy book about Bowie, but more about his culture and his music and how he made some of his recordings. It's never dry, but for sure it's tailor made for the Bowie fanatic - and I am one!
This is a book for the Bowie music fans. It definetly goes deep into the creative process and music of David Bowie, however you won't come out knowing much more about the actual person. If you are interested in Bowie the musician this is good, but I came out dissapointed as I have absolutly found nothing revealing about Bowie the man
I found this book very heavy going. There's a lot of interesting stuff in here, but I'm just not sure it was worth the effort.
everything you ever wanted to know about David Bowie, plus everyting you didn't even know you wanted to know about David Bowie.
Way, way more than you ever wanted or needed to know about the Thin White Duke. But if you're a fan, you'll gobble this up and want more. Another fine bio by David Buckley, who knows how to balance fandom with critical analysis, not always as easy as it should be for music biographers.
Aug 05, 2007
Jeremy
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
true fans
Shelves:
music-biographies
It is a bit laborious and I don't know about you, but after the seventies I couldn't care less what he was doing. So, for me the first half was good (ziggy,etc.) the rest was blah.
Should you be researching David Bowie to write a reference guide for high school students, Strange Fascination is totally groovy.
Solid biog on Bowie. This is the one to get.
One of the better Bowie biographies out there.
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