Experiencing David Bowie
Subtitle: a listener's companion
By: Ian Chapman
Series: The listener's companion; Listener's companion
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781442237513
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Rock music; Analysis, appreciation; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: "Timeline": pages xv-xix.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212), discography (page 213), and index.
Table of contents: title: Rock and role : The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars, 1972; title: The actor emerges : Hunky dory, 1971; title: Musical beginnings : David Bowie, 1967; title: Messages from ground control : David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) and The man who sold the world, 1969-1971; title: Irresistible decadence : Aladdin sane, Pin ups, and Diamond dogs, 1973-1974; title: Plastic soul and the birth of the European canon : Young Americans and Station to station, 1975-1976; title: The sounds of Europe : Low, "Heroes," and Lodger, 1977-1979; title: The rise and fall of David Bowie : Scary monsters (and super creeps), Let's dance, Tonight, Never let me down, Tin Machine, and Tin Machine II, 1980-1991; title: Rediscovering the alien : Black tie white noise, The Buddha of suburbia, Outside, Earthling, and 'hours ...' 1993-1999; title: Twenty-first century man : Heathen, Reality, and The next day, 2003-2013.