Table of Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
The Making of David Bowie: 1947-1968 17
The Songs of David Bowie: 1969-1980 55
Essays
Sound and Vision #1: Love you till Tuesday 63
David Bowie LP 80
The Lure of the Occult 92
The Man who sold the world LP 105
Bowie and the Homo Superior 110
The making of a star #1: Arnold Corns 124
Andy Warhol: Pop to Pork and Back Again 136
Hunky Dory LP 151
Glad to be Gay 154
The making of a star #2: The birth of Ziggy Stardust 164
The making of a star #3: The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars LP 172
Glam, Glitter, and Fag Rock 177
Transformer: Bowie and Lou Reed 182
Fashion: Turn to the Left 195
Aladdin Sane LP 203
The Unmaking of a Star #1: Rock 'N' Roll Suicide 205
Sixties Nostalgia and Myth: Pin Ups LP 217
The Art of Fragmentation 233
Diamond Dogs LP 247
The Heart of Plastic Soul 250
The Unmaking of a star #2: David Live LP 254
Young Americans LP 278
Sound and Vision #2: The man who fell to earth 279
The unmaking of a star #3: Cocaine and the Kabbalah 282
Station to Station LP 296
Fascism: Turn to the Right 299
The Actor and the Idiot: Bowie and Iggy 302
The Art of Minimalism 314
Berlin 320
Low LP 324
Rock on the Titanic: Punk 326
"Heroes" LP 340
The Art of Expressionism 341
Sound and Vision #3: Just a Gigolo 347
Exit the Actor: Stage LP 349
Lodger LP 361
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) LP 384
Sound and Vision #4: A New Career in a New Medium 385
Afterword 389
Appendix: The Songs of David Bowie: 1963-1968 399
Acknowledgments 453
Notes 455
Bibliography 471
Index 479