David Bowie

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Bowie’s top 100 books - the complete list

“Lend us a book we can read up alone”

It’s likely that most people reading this will have already seen either the original story on openbookstoronto.com last week, or a version of it referring back to that original list of “DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS”.
There have also been numerous suggestions of a Bowie Book Club to tackle each of the 100 volumes. However, there was a problem with that particular openbookstoronto.com feature in that only 75% of the books were actually listed!
For anybody planning on completing this epic voyage of discovery, we’ve listed every single one of the 100 books here (in no particular order) for your reference.
You may have also noticed the two chaps in the middle of our montage. Well, it’s none other than David Bowie sporting a Clockwork Orange T-shirt (the book by Anthony Burgess is in the list) with his old chum, George Underwood.
George kindly supplied the previously unpublished photograph, which according to him was taken aboard Amtrak somewhere between New Orleans and Chicago on the first US tour in 1972.

And so, on to that COMPLETE list of David Bowie’s Top 100 (count 'em) Books.

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Room At The Top by John Braine
On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
City Of Night by John Rechy
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Iliad by Homer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell
Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
David Bomberg by Richard Cork
Blast by Wyndham Lewis
Passing by Nella Larson
Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman
The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
McTeague by Frank Norris
Money by Martin Amis
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Strange People by Frank Edwards
English Journey by J.B. Priestley
A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
1984 by George Orwell
The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Beano (comic, ’50s)
Raw (comic, ’80s)
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete
Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky
The Street by Ann Petry
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
The Bridge by Hart Crane
All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Teenage by Jon Savage
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Viz (comic, early ’80s)
Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamont
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan
A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

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The Songs of David Bowie

Iggy Pop

 

Ahead of tonight's David Bowie Prom, Iggy spins two hours of his favourite Bowie numbers and chats about the times their paths crossed.

Iggy's musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll's alternative spirit since the late Sixties and his stage antics have marked him as a truly iconic frontman.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07llby4

[Indy]

 

[Indy]

David Bowie's Warsaw: How Warszawa Came To Be

https://fotostrasse.com/david-bowies-warsaw/

 

 

 

[Indy]

 

Nedavno je ovo objavljeno... prva četiri diska (od 5) su baš za "kompletiste", ali peti CD (mislim da ima i LP verzija - tj. ima i zove se Space Oddity (2019) - ima i vrlo ograničeno izdanje na zlatnim i srebrnim vinilima, to je verovatno sve odavno već otišlo) je zaista praznik za uši svakog Bowie fana(tika).

Disc: 5

  1. Space Oddity (2019 Mix)

  2. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (2019 Mix)

  3. Letter To Hermione (2019 Mix)

  4. Cygnet Committee (2019 Mix)

  5. Janine (2019 Mix)

  6. An Occasional Dream (2019 Mix)

  7. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (2019 Mix)

  8. Conversation Piece (2019 Mix)

  9. God Knows I'm Good (2019 Mix)

  10. Memory Of A Free Festival (2019 Mix)

  11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Single Version) [2019 Mix]

  12. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (2019 Mix)

 

Ovde Mr. Tony objašnjava šta je rađeno (što ono kažu, get yourself someone who talks about you like he talks of David Bowie) ... Elem, selekcija pesama na tom disku broj 5 je sjajna (čak i italijanski cover Space Oddity je šarmantan), Dejvidov glas ima taj svetlosni kvalitet (kao u njegovim najboljim pesmama), a ovo što priča Mr. Tony, dvanaestica zvuči... bolje i veće od života.

 

 

Wild Eyed Boy... jeste jedan od zaboravljenih dragulja (i tamo sa Lady Grinning Soul među njegovim najpotcenjenijim velikim pesmama). Cygnet Committee je drugi sleeper.

 

Najlepše je kad preslušavaš The Next Day i Blackstar, i otkrivaš tu istu "svetlosno-arhitektonsku" dimenziju i u poslednjim stvarima koje je snimio... 

 

(Slična selekcija je na albumu David Bowie aka Space Oddity - što je remiks iz 2015 - u pitanju je oficijelno "isti" album kao disk #5 iz gornjeg izdanja, ali drugi remiks):

 

[Anonymous]

On 20.12.2019. at 23:19, Indy said:

... Cygnet Committee ...

 

 

+1

 

Lady Grinning Soul je ipak mnogo poznatija.

 

Meni je od tih njegovih zaboravljenih pesama The Bewlay Brothers možda i najdraža.

[Indy]

Bewlay Brothers je donekle zaboravljena i zato što je nikad (osim jednom, 2002) nije izvodio u živo - pošto ima "suviše teksta".

 

 

 

 

 

[Anonymous]

E sjajno. Nisam ni znao da ovo postoji.

 

Ali kako je promenio glas (i način pevanja) od onda, to se tek shvati kad se kad se uporede obe verzije.

[Frank Pembleton]

Uhhh mene je u svet  pop/rock kakve god muzike kao klinca uveo brat od strica koji je bio na studijama u BG i dobijao ploce i kasete iz Londona...

 

I za njega kao i za mnoge ce se, na zalost , potvrditi on da ne shvatas velicinu dogadjaja dok oni traju.Obicno tek posle...

[Anonymous]

 

 

Potvrdio je legendu da je sve ono genijalno na Heroes odsvirao za tri dana.

Edited December 22, 2019 by Anonymous

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[Indy]

 

 

[Indy]

Ekstra  za dvanaestožičnu

 

 

[Indy]

Puno toga je ostalo na dnu kace, a ja se nikako ne žalim.

 

[Indy]