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David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (Paperback)
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David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (Paperback)
Series: 33 1/3
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List price R300
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Discovery Miles 2 710
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After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop
hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and
difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City"
populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great
glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine
lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching,
grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic
lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway
musical version of Orwell's 1984 and Bowie's formative encounter
with William S. Burroughs. In this book Glenn Hendler shows that
each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you
listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by
a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you." Diamond
Dogs is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but
uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of
the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not
just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender,
sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many
Bowie fans rate Diamond Dogs his richest and most important album
of the 1970s.
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