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33 1/3 - David Bowie's Low


  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • by Hugo Wilcken
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 which welds R&B rhythms to lyrics that mix the occult with a yearning for Europe.

ISBN 9780826416841 | E | PB
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Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 9780826416841
Author(s) Hugo Wilcken
Publication date November 2005
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 166 x 122 mm
Pages 144
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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.

33 1/3 - David Bowie's Low

33 1/3 - David Bowie's Low

€13.50