Covering the decade when David Bowie rebranded himself as Ziggy Stardust, this book features individual discussions for each of the 189 tracks he recorded between Space Oddity in 1969 and the 1980 Scary Monsters album. These are interspersed with essays about Bowies influences during this hugely productive period, including his interest in the occult and his time in West Berlin. An appendix surveys earlier songs recorded between 1963 and 1968.

the man who sold the world: david bowie and the 1970s. peter doggett

Biographies & Memoirs

PETER DOGGETT

Arts & Literature

Vintage

In 1969, at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, American music changed for ever. Bob Dylan, the most daredevil spirit of the rock era, took the stage for the first time with Johnny Cash, country music superstar. This show at the temple of country music, The Grand Ole Opry, was the most public evidence of a collision of styles which first occurred in the mid-1950s and has sent shockwaves through American music ever since. Country Rock, as played by the Byrds, the Eagles and Gram Parsons, was to become the dominant style in American music during the 1970s. In this work, Peter Doggett introduces us to all the main personalities - from pioneers like Hank Williams and Elvis Presley, through icons such as the brilliant but self-destructive Gram Parsons and Johnny Cash, to superstars like Neil Young and Willie Nelson and modern artists such as Beck and Wilco. In doing so he traces the uneasy and often explosive relationship between country and rock, which has mirrored the cultural divide between North and South, between Yankee and Rebel. Rich, detailed and comprehensive,

Are You Ready for the Country

Arts & Photography

Music

VIKING

Ever since forming the Velvet Underground in 1965, Lou Reed has been acclaimed as the poet of the New York streets, creating a body of work that comes closer to great literature than conventional rock and roll. Through his music, he chronicled the potency and pain of sex and drug excesses with a gritty articulation and streetwise wisdom that inspired an entire generation of punk artists. He was the first rock writer to deal with the hunger of drug addiction. He unashamedly explored the contradictory pleasures of homosexuality and sado-masochism. He took a long walk on the wild side of self-absorption, sensuality and suicide. Yet his achievements over the past 25 years have been observed by his public image. He appeared to inject himself with drugs through a syringe during concerts. He spent several years in the company of an exotic man named Rachel. He narrowly escaped death during a lengthy battle with drugs. But he has emerged on the other side a wiser man who has spent the last decade producing the finest work of his career. "Growing Up In Public" is the first book to penetrate the private poetry and public persona of Lou Reed, integrating the man and myth to establish and clear view of the artist and his contributions to rock and roll. It weaves its way through the carefully assembled images which have been Reed's defence from the world since the beginning of his career, and traces the unapologetic way he has played out his personal obsessions in songs. For the first time, it examines the relationship and impact on his work by Andy Warhol and Delmore Schwartz, his acknowledged mentors. It also explains the American musical, artistic and literary traditions which have inspired and provoked Reed's writing and mystique. Cutting through the masks which Reed has used to separate his real self from his media image, "Growing Up In Public" is a remarkable study of one of the most important American artists of the 20th century and includes rare photos and the most exhaustive discography available anywhere.

Lou Reed, Growing Up in Public

Omnibus Press

Hollywood was a city of extremes: not for Tinseltown the carefully judged subtleties of shot and tone that were the hallmark of the art-house auteurs. It demanded passion, thrills, suspense, violent outbursts of emotion and movement--and so for every protagonist sweeping his way across the screen with a silvery rapier or a sensuous leer, there had to be a victim, waiting to be tossed aside with contemptuous ease or devoured whole in a paroxysm of lust. And so it was that innocent maidens were pinned down by rapacious seducers; monstrous villains chained to receive their just desserts; valiant heroes manacled or trussed or viciously tied, awaiting the cruelest of tortures, physical or psychological--only to free themselves in the final reel, and carry off the equally endangered heroines to safety and starry-eyed romance. Researched and collated with typical stylish flair by editor Tony Nourmand and featuring insightful text by author Peter Doggett, Hollywood Bound is a photographic guide to the history of movie bondage.

Hollywood Bound

Photography & Video

Reel Art Press

First ever authorized book of photos, lyrics and music printed ever! Detailing the core music of his career spanning almost 5 decades. Bob Dylan is popular music's most celebrated poet/singer/songwriter - a legend, a maverick and a superstar who has rarely given away much about his personal life. Now comes Dylan: 100 Songs &amp; Pictures, a truly unique collectable book about the man, featuring the full sheet music of his most important songs plus the intimate stories behind them - all accompanied by 100 rare photographs.

Dylan 100 Songs & Pictures

Chris Charlesworth

MJF_Books

Growing Up: Sex in the 1960s

Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution, from the Black Panthers to the Gay Liberation Front, from the Yippies to the IRA. Rock and soul music supplied the revolutionary tide with anthems and iconic imagery; and renowned musicians such as John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan were particularly influential in the movement. This is the definitive account of this unique period in modern history; a compelling portrait of an era when revolutionaries turned into rock stars, and rock stars dressed up as revolutionaries.

There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture

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Doggett says the four Beatles' individual efforts will never match the magic they created as a foursome. Yet the story of the post-breakup Beatles is intriguing and fascinating in its own right. Doggett begins at the end, with the 1980 murder of John Lennon outside the Dakota apartment building in New York, then turns back to the late-1960s, when Sgt. Pepper was released and the glow of the group's innocent days had long dimmed. In that tumultuous time, the foundation of the band's eventual demise several years later was laid. Doggett captures the competitive sparks that flew among the four men, especially between Lennon and Paul McCartney, and also the mutual affection that formed the basis of their complicated relationships. He covers all the many lawsuits and legal maneuverings that consumed so much of their time as well as the feelings of anger and betrayal and the weariness of it all. And he discusses each member's solo albums. A must for Beatles fans and good for more casual pop-music enthusiasts, too. --June Sawyers

You Never Give Me Your Money

Bodley Head

* No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Through his multi-faceted and inventive work, he encapsulated many of the social, political and cultural themes that ran through this most fascinating of decades, from the elusive promise of scientific progress to the persistent fear of apocalypse that stalked the globe. * In The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie and the 1970s, cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of the artist's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him. * The book follows his career from 'Space Oddity', his dark vision of mankind's voyage into the unknown terrain of space, to the Scary Monsters album. It examines in detail his audacious creation of an 'alien' rock star, Ziggy Stardust, and his own increasingly perilous explorations of the nature of identity and the meaning of fame, against the backdrop of his family heritage of mental instability. * Among the book's wider themes are the West's growing sense of insecurity in the age of oil shortages and terrorism; the changing nature of sexual roles, as represented by Bowie's pioneering adoption of a bisexual persona; the emergence of a new experimental form of rock music that would leave an indelible mark on the decades to come; and the changing nature of many of the world's great cities, including London, New York, Los Angeles and Berlin, each of which played host to Bowie during particularly creative periods of his career. * Mixing brilliant musical critique with biographical insight and acute cultural analysis, The Man Who Sold The World is a unique study of a major artist and his times.

The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s

Humor & Entertainment

Man Who Sold the World

Random House Export

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