Changes charts Bowie''s career from working class beginnings as a balladeer, the awakenings of Bowie the entertainer, the disposable idol of the glitter years, the experimental albums, and his renaissance in 1980 with Scary Monsters.'
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This book does such a bad job that I don't see why the guy bothered publishing it at all. Chris Welch lacks a few basic features to make him a legitimate Bowie interpreter - a taste for glam being the most prominent.
Worse than that - he does not try to follow the progression of ideas in Bowie's music, and regards each song as if standing on its own. That becomes a real obstacle when he deals with the "story" albums - Ziggy Stardust & Diamond Dogs. He completely misses the big story, and the place each song has in them.
There are much better books on Bowie - save your money for one of them.
Worse than that - he does not try to follow the progression of ideas in Bowie's music, and regards each song as if standing on its own. That becomes a real obstacle when he deals with the "story" albums - Ziggy Stardust & Diamond Dogs. He completely misses the big story, and the place each song has in them.
There are much better books on Bowie - save your money for one of them.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By D. M. Deeks
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If you've read Nicholas Pegg's masterful Complete David Bowie, you already know more about Bowie and his music than this author. Furthermore, he doesn't seem to like Bowie's music very much. Being a diehard fan, I was often irritated by the cloth-eared pronouncements in this book and the wobbly facts, so easily checked in a dozen other sources.
If you love Bowie you'll hate this. If you're just starting to appreciate his work, read Nicholas Pegg, or Strange Fascination by David Buckley - or better still, just buy every album Bowie released between 1969-80 and 1995-2002 and really listen!
If you love Bowie you'll hate this. If you're just starting to appreciate his work, read Nicholas Pegg, or Strange Fascination by David Buckley - or better still, just buy every album Bowie released between 1969-80 and 1995-2002 and really listen!
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