David Bowie. A Brief History

I listened to the record for 72 hours. Day and night. While watching television and in my sleep. — Patti Smith about David Bowie's album Heroes. David Bowie is rightly recognized as the most influential musician of the century, but his merits and talents do not stop there. He not only made a breakthrough in music, experimenting with various genres and innovative musical techniques, while always staying within the confines of his individual style, but also gained fame as a legendary master of transformation and mystification, a remarkable actor and artist. The unexpected death of David Bowie on January 10, 2016, was a great shock to fans, who never managed to decipher this great man. But this book will help you get closer to that: to look at the creative history of the great musician through the eyes of an authoritative scholar and Bowie fan, Frank Kelleter! Frank Kelleter is an Einstein professor of North American culture and cultural history at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University of Berlin. In this book, part of the popular series Legends of Music: Biographies in 100 Pages, you will: - Get acquainted with the key stages of the life and creativity of the great musician in just one hundred pages, - Read an analysis of the most important songs that shaped Bowie's individual style and learn about their creative history and the characteristics of their perception by contemporaries, - Explore with the author the leading motifs of Bowie's work: the path of their transformation and development throughout the career of the legendary chameleon of rock music, - and discover many new unknown facts about the life and creative destiny of David Bowie.