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