Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David BowieChicago Review Press, 1 mag 2015 - 432 pagine Over the Rainbow Selection 2016 David Bowie has been one of pop music's greatest interviewees since January 1972, when he famously risked career death by asserting to Melody Maker that he was gay. Although he wasn't yet a big star, it was a groundbreaking moment. And over the years, Bowie has failed to give an uninteresting interview. It might be said that he has habitually used the media for his own ends, but he has paradoxically also been searingly honest, declining to ever be coy about his ambitions, his private life, and even his occasional ennui. Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time as young novelty hit-maker, hairy hippie, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, plastic soul man, fragile Germanic exile, godfather of the New Romantics, eighties sellout, Tin Machinist, and, finally, permanently, artistically reborn beloved elder statesman of challenging popular music. In all of these iterations he is remarkably articulate. He is also preternaturally polite—almost every interviewer remarks upon his charm. The features in this book come from outlets both prestigious (MelodyMaker, Mojo, New Musical Express,Q, Rolling Stone) and less well-known (The Drummer, Guitar,Ikon, Mr. Showbiz). In all cases, Bowie enables the reader to approach the nerve center of his ferociously creative and prolific output. |
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Now Im a Businessman Robert Hilburn February 28 1976 Melody Maker UK | 54 |
Goodbye to Ziggy and All That Allan Jones October 29 1977 Melody Maker UK | 61 |
The Artful Codger Steven Wells November 25 1995 New Musical Express UK | 272 |
No Longer a Lad Insane HP Newquist January 1996 Guitar US | 285 |
Turn To The Left Fashion Turn To The Right David Bowie and Alexander Mcqueen November 1996 Dazed Confused UK | 291 |
A Star Comes Back to Earth Mick Brown December 14 1996 Telegraph Magazine UK | 304 |
ChangesFiftyBowie David Cavanagh February 1997 Q UK | 317 |
Bowie Retrospective Linda Laban March 1997 Mr Showbiz US | 329 |
Now Where Did I Put Those Tunes? David Quantick October 1999 Q UK | 341 |
Most Stylish Man Dylan Jones October 2000 GQ UK | 350 |
12 Minutes with David Bowie John Tobler January 1978 ZigZag UK | 70 |
Confessions of an Elitist Michael Watts February 18 1978 Melody Maker UK | 77 |
The Future Isnt What It Used To Be Angus Mackinnon September 13 1980 New Musical Express UK | 102 |
The Face Interview David Thomas May 1983 The Face UK | 140 |
Sermon from the Savoy Charles Shaar Murray September 29 1984 New Musical Express UK | 159 |
Boys Keep Swinging Adrian Deevoy June 1989 Q UK | 175 |
Tin Machine II Interview Robin Eggar August 9 1991 | 192 |
One Day Son All This Could Be Yours Steve Sutherland March 20 and 27 1993 New Musical Express UK | 207 |
Station to Station David Sinclair June 10 1993 Rolling Stone US | 231 |
Boys Keep Swinging Dominic Wells August 30September 6 1995 Time Out UK | 249 |
Action Painting Chris Roberts October 1995 Ikon UK | 262 |
It Means More to Me Than Any Number of Hit Albums This Thanks Very Much John Robinson December 2 2000 New Musical Express UK | 356 |
Contact Paul Du Noyer July 2002 Mojo UK | 365 |
Life on Earth Ken Scrudato July 2003 Soma US | 377 |
Such a Perfect Day Mikel Jollett JulyAugust 2003 Filter US | 386 |
Do You Remember Your First Time? Paul Du Noyer November 2003 The Word UK | 394 |
Credits | 410 |
About the Contributors | 413 |
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Back Flip | 439 |
Back Cover | 440 |
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