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At the Birth of Bowie - Life with the Man Who Became a Legend (Paperback)
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At the Birth of Bowie - Life with the Man Who Became a Legend (Paperback)
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It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. The
streets are alive with mods and rockers, playboys and good-time
girls, all revelling in the blossoming artistic, creative and
cultural energies of the decade. Amid the colour and chaos is a boy
sporting drainpipe jeans, an immaculately tailored sports coat and
a half-inch wide tie. A devoted fan of The Who, he looks the part
in his pristine mod gear. As the lead singer of the Lower Third,
his talent is shaping itself into something truly special. His name
is Davie Jones. In ten years, he will be unrecognisable as
fresh-faced boy of 1965, and in just over fifty years, his death
will be mourned by millions, his legacy the story of the greatest
rock star of all time. And, all through the years of the late
sixties, Phil Lancaster was by his side. As the drummer in Bowie's
band, the Lower Third, Phil was there as the singer's musical
stripes began to show, and was witness to his early recording
techniques, his first experimental forays into drug-taking, and the
band's discovery of his bisexuality in shocking circumstances. In
this riveting - and often very funny - memoir, Phil tells the story
of life alongside the insecure yet blazingly talented boy who
became Bowie, at a critical crossroad of time and place in music
history. What follows is an intimate, personal and important
perspective on the genesis of one of the most iconic musicians of
the twentieth century - one that gets under the skin of the man
himself, before the personas and alter-egos masked the fascinating
figure beneath them. At the Birth of Bowie is essential reading for
anyone who knows what happened on Bowie's journey, but wants to
understand how, and why, it ever began.
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