No artist offered a more compelling portrayal of the landscape
of the 1970s than David Bowie. From his first hit, "Space Oddity,"
in 1969 to the release of the LP Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
in 1980, Bowie cultivated an innovative and shocking brand of
performance, a mesmerizing blend of high-concept science fiction
and old-fashioned rock 'n' roll, delivered in skintight spandex and
operatic alien makeup. Through songs at once prescient and
esoteric, beautiful and haunting, Bowie cut hard against the grain
of '60s and '70s pop music, replacing it with something far more
intriguing: a dark, fantastical vision that heralded the dawn of a
new decade.
In The Man Who Sold the World, acclaimed journalist Peter
Doggett explores the rich heritage of Bowie's most productive and
inspired decade. Viewing the artist through the lens of his music
and his many guises, Doggett offers a detailed analysis--musical,
lyrical, conceptual, social--of every song Bowie wrote and recorded
during that period, as well as a brilliant exploration of the
development of a performer who profoundly affected popular music
and the idea of stardom itself.
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