David Bowie's Low
"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out."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 r…
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- Full title :David Bowie's Low.
Summary
"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out."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 and B rhythms to lyrics that mix the occult with a yearning for Europe, a.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Continuum International Pub
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (126 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781441131294, 1441131299
- oclc:ocn781614734
- LC Classification:ML420.L38 .W384 2005
- Dewey Decimal:782.42166092
Table of Contents
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; From Kether to Melkuth; The Visitor; One Magical Movement; Talking Through the Gloom; What Can I Do About My Dreams?; Waiting for the Gift; Through Morning's Thoughts; I'll Never Touch You; Je Est un Autre; A Little Girl With Grey Eyes; Nothing to Do, Nothing to Say; Round and Round; Sometimes you Get Nowhere; Moving On; Honky Château; City of Ghosts; Do you Remember That Dream?; All that Fall; Pulsations; Afterlife; Homesick Blues; Crash your Plane, Walk Away; Bibliography; Footnote; ch12_fn1.
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