Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie from '64 to '76

Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie from '64 to '76

by Chris O'Leary
Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie from '64 to '76

Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie from '64 to '76

by Chris O'Leary

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Overview

David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn't know. David Bowie remains mysterious and unknowable, despite 45 years of recording and performing. His legacy is roughly 600 songs, which range from psychedelia to glam rock to Philadelphia soul, from avant-garde instrumentals to global pop anthems. Rebel Rebel catalogs Bowie's songs from 1964 to 1976, examines them in the order of their composition and recording, and digs into what makes them work. Rebel Rebel is an in-depth look at Bowie's early singles and album tracks, unreleased demos, session outtakes and cover songs. The book traces Bowie's literary, film and musical influences and the evolution of his songwriting. It also shows how Bowie exploited studio innovations, and the roles of his producers and supporting musicians, especially major collaborators like Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and Mick Ronson. This book places Bowie's music in the context of its era. Readers will discover the links between Kubrick's 2001 and "Space Oddity"; how A Clockwork Orange inspired "Suffragette City". The pages are a trip through Bowie's various lives as a young man in Swinging London, a Tibetan Buddhist, a disillusioned hippie, a rock god, and a Hollywood recluse. With a cast of thousands, including John Lennon, William S. Burroughs, Andy Warhol and Cher.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780992440
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 03/27/2015
Pages: 574
Sales rank: 943,035
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Chris O'Leary is a writer and editor, and author of the music blog "Pushing Ahead of the Dame" at http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com. (TIME's Best Blogs of 2011)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Acknowledgements 6

Chapter 1 The Junior Visualizer, 1964-1966 (early singles) 8

Chapter 2 Gnome Man's Land, 1966-1968 (David Bowie) 39

Chapter 3 The Free States' Refrain, 1969 (Space Oddity) 98

Chapter 4 The Man On the Stair, 1970 (The Man Who Sold the World) 133

Chapter 5 Moon Age, 1971-1972 (Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars) 168

Chapter 6 Ziggy In Nixonland, 1972-1973 (Aladdin Sane) 238

Chapter 7 The Anxiety of Influence, 1973 (Pin Ups) 279

Chapter 8 Tomorrow's Double Feature, 1973-1974 (Diamond Dogs) 307

Chapter 9 Campaigner, 1974-1975 (Young Americans) 346

Chapter 10 The Man In the Tower, 1975-1976 (Station to Station) 389

Appendixes The Unheard Music, Producer/Contributor, Bowipocrypha 421

List of Songs 439

Partial Discography 445

Notes 467

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