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On Bowie (Paperback, Main)
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On Bowie (Paperback, Main)
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What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is
today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into
his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking
for all along? These are the questions asked by Simon Critchley in
this keen-eyed, moving and textured tribute to Bowie. Each of the
two dozen deceptively short chapters looks at Bowie from a new
angle, slowly unfolding the enigma that was his artistic life into
a celebration of what made him unique. From the author's earliest
childhood exposure to the bizarre musical and sexual contours of
Ziggy Stardust right through to the supernova glow of Blackstar,
and covering everything in between, Critchley traces the
development of Bowie's music and lyrics to tell the story of how he
tapped into zeitgeist - and into our hearts. Growing up in
working-class suburban England, the young Critchley was instantly
drawn to this creature from another planet, 'so sexual, so knowing,
so strange'. Now a celebrated philosopher who Jonathan Lethem has
called 'a figure of quite startling brilliance', Critchley draws on
a plethora of cultural and philosophical touchpoints, as well as
his own intensely personal response to the music, to paint an
essential portrait of Bowie as songwriter, poet, performer and
icon.
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