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Bowie in Berlin tells the fascinating story of the three years David Bowie spent in Germany in the mid-1970s, making the most extraordinary music of his career. Driven to the brink of madness by cocaine, overwork, marital strife, and a paranoid obsession with the occult, Bowie fled Los Angeles in 1975 and ended up in Berlin, the divided city on the frontline between communist East and capitalist West. There he sought anonymity, taking an apartment in a run-down district with his sometime collaborator Iggy Pop, another refugee from drugs and debauchery, while they explored the city and its notorious nightlife. In this intensely creative period, Bowie put together three classic albums - Low, "Heroes," and Lodger - with collaborators who included Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Tony Visconti. He also found time to produce two albums for Iggy Pop - The Idiot and Lust for Life - and to take a leading role in a movie, the ill-starred Just a Gigolo. Bowie in Berlin tells the story of that period and those records, exploring Bowie's fascination with the city, unearthing his sources of inspiration, detailing his working methods, and teasing out the elusive meanings of the songs. Painstakingly researched and vividly written, the book casts a new light on the most creative and influential era in David Bowie's career.
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
At last, a decent Book on Bowie's Berlin period,
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This review is from: Bowie in Berlin: A New Career In A New Town (Paperback)
There are only a handful of decent books written about Bowie - period. They are written by Charles Shaar Murray and Roy Carr, Nicholas Pegg, and David Buckley. After that things get decidedly thin on the ground.
I'm glad to say that Thomas Jerome Seabrook can be added to the list. A New Career In A New Town: Bowie in Berlin is a tremendous book which I happily read in one go. It is well written and entertaining with many anecdotes and observations that I've never encountered before. The author clearly has an understanding of Bowie and the music, withough coming over as a gushing fanboy. Although I've been a great fan of Bowie's so-called 'Berlin' period, this book made me go back a relisten to virtually all Bowie's work from David Live to Heathen. Whilst an appreciation of Bowie, especially his late 70's output, is helpful, it's not essential as the book is effectively the story of a successful artist who ignoring commercial success, took a potentially suicidal career left turn and inspired and influenced a generation and beyond. I can't recommend this book enough.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A bit disappointing,
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This review is from: Bowie in Berlin: A New Career In A New Town (Paperback)
I've always regarded Bowie's Berlin period as the most interesting phase of his career so I looked forward to reading what I thought would be a fascinating insight into his 3 years there, complete with revealing stories of his experiences in the city, his escapades with Iggy Pop and a real feeling for what it was like for him living in Berlin. Unfortunately this book almost totally fails to deliver on those counts. The book only really focuses on the recording of his 3 albums (although the third, Lodger gets a very cursory examination, Low & Heroes recieving a track-by-track analasis, in fact even Iggy Pop's 2 Berlin album's recieve track by track examinations, so why not Lodger?) and these come across as rather tiresome and not particularly interesting. There's very little of the feel of Berlin in the book and next to nothing about what Bowie really got up tp there - the book almost leaves you with the impression that aside from recording albums, Bowie did little else in Berlin! Better parts of the book are the first section covering Bowie's LA cocaine nightmare and the filming of The Man Who fell to Earth, which features information I'd never heard before and was genuinely interesting, and later on the movie Just A Gigolo that Bowie made gets a surprisingly detailed section, as well as shorter articles on Bowie's TV appearances. Overall, though, for a book that is supposed to be about Bowie in Berlin, I found this book to be something of a disappointment.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Far from Repetition,
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This book is definately worth a read, though I would suggest either reading Pegg or Buckley' books which span Bowie's whole career first. You will find Bowie in Berlin goes into more depth, so you won't be re-reading the same information.
Bowie in Berlin gives a good introduction into how Low arrived by covering Bowie's time in LA and a detailed account of his time touring and recording with Iggy Pop. The books strongest point though is the detailed techinal analysis of each song from 'The Idiot' to 'Heroes', it could of been improved if Lodger had recieved the same treatment. There is a good conclusion of the impact of the Berlin Trilogy's impact and legacy. Overall an enjoying read.
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