David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) (33 1/3)

"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he?s built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernail clippings in the fridge. There are occasional trips out to visit his friend Iggy Pop in a mental institution. His latest album is the cocaine-fuelled Station To Station (Bowie: "I know it was recorded in LA because I read it was"), which welds R&B rhythms to lyrics that mix the occult with a yearning for Europe, after three mad years in the New World.

Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-03-2009; Oh if only I hadn't read this one first; Hugo Wilcken, you've ruined me for other 33 1/3 books.The bar has been set high. I expected other writers to educate me as thoroughly, to supply with the same richness of information. Granted, I've not read many of the 33 1/3 series. But...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-05-2008; 33 1/3 Bowie - Low, one of the best of 33 1/3; I've read 7 or 8 of the 33 1/3 book series, which I consider to be a great idea for people to experience their favorite albums with deeper understanding. The 2 best, in my mind, are the Kinks Village Green Preservation Society, and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-05-2008; 33 1/3 Bowie - Low, one of the best of 33 1/3; I've read 7 or 8 of the 33 1/3 book series, which I consider to be a great idea for people to experience their favorite albums with deeper understanding. The 2 best, in my mind, are the Kinks Village Green Preservation Society, and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-01-2008; great book on on a great album; If you want to know more about David Bowie's Low album, this is the book to read. I've listened to Low a lot over the years and read a lot of reviews and articles on it, but I have never learned so much about Bowie's fragile state of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-03-2009; Oh if only I hadn't read this one first; Hugo Wilcken, you've ruined me for other 33 1/3 books.The bar has been set high. I expected other writers to educate me as thoroughly, to supply with the same richness of information. Granted, I've not read many of the 33 1/3 series. But...; read full review | report as inappropriate