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"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.

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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 05, 2008 Type: User Review 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 David Bowie's...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 01, 2008 Type: User Review 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 mind, the...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 07, 2008 Type: User Review Very good

Being a big fan of David Bowie, I picked up this book to learn more about one of my favorite albums. I'd read reviews of some of the other 33 1/3 books and was a little bit worried that the author might go off topic or write mostly about his own...
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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 13, 2007 Type: User Review Low is a Bowie high point ...

Hugo Wilcken does an excellent job of bringing on the ambience of Bowie's world, circa mid 70s, not only focusing on the first disc of the Berlin Trilogy, Low, but capturing the mindset of the world in which Bowie lived, ne full of drugs, Iggy...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 14, 2007 Type: User Review Interesting Book

Having first listened to this record years ago, and understanding it is among Bowie's best, I found refreshing history bits about the record I never knew about. REcommended read for Bowie fans.
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