Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie (Musicians in Their Own Words) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1613738781 ISBN 13: 9781613738788

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2017

Synopsis

Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews David Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each featured interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time in all of his various incarnations, from a young novelty hit-maker and Ziggy Stardust to plastic soul player, 1980s sell-out, and the artistically reborn and beloved elder statesman of challenging popular music. In all of these iterations he is remarkably articulate and also preternaturally polite as almost every interviewer remarks upon his charm. The features in this book come from outlets both prestigious—Melody Maker, MOJO, New Musical Express, Q, Rolling Stone—and less well-known—the Drummer, Guitar, Ikon, Mr. Showbiz—but no matter the renown of the magazine, newspaper, or website, Bowie lets us approach the nerve center of his notoriously creative output.

About this title

About the Author:

Sean Egan is an author and journalist who has interviewed members of the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, the Velvet Underground, the Who, and many others. He is the author of several books, including Defining Moments in Music, Jimi Hendrix and the Making of Are You Experienced, Keith Richards on Keith Richards, The Mammoth Book of the Beatles, and The Rough Guide to the Rolling Stones.

Review:

“David Bowie has always been a consummate mythmaker, and this fascinating anthology captures him at his most mysterious and mischievous, laying himself bare and building walls around himself in the same mercurial instant.”—Peter Doggett, author of The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s

“[T]his is a fascinating journey through the mind of a musician many people claim to “know” but who proves time and again that his own essence is often foreign to himself. An asset for Bowie fans.” —Library Journal

“A must for Bowie fans.” —Booklist

“It’s great fun to browse through. And it’s the closest you’ll get to an actual Bowie autobiography.” —Goldmine, The Music Collector's Magazine

“...this imaginative compendium of more than thirty interviews is a welcome addition to an ever-lengthening bibliography. [...]So good, you want to read it as you revisit his peerless catalog.” —Classic Pop

“Bowie on Bowie is an incredible glimpse into the man who unarguably made the world not only more interesting and more enjoyable, but more inspirational.” —Blogcritics

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1613738781
• ISBN 13: 9781613738788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Egan Sean