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David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn''t know. The legacy of David Bowie is roughly 450 songs, which he recorded or performed over half a century. They range from cabaret to psychedelia to folk rock to glam rock to Philadelphia soul, from avant-garde instrumentals to stadium anthems. Cataloging Bowie’s songs from the dawn of his career in 1963 to his Hollywood stardom in 1976, examining them in the order of their composition and recording, and digging into what makes them work, The new edition of This book aligns Bowie’s music with his times, planting his work in the context of its era. You’ll see what Bowie’s work owes to novelists like Keith Waterhouse, Jack Kerouac, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and William S. Burroughs. To films like
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Chris O’Leary is a writer and editor based in western Massachusetts. He has written for Pitchfork, Slate, New York, Mojo, Billboard, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is the author of a previous book on the music of David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes. Both Rebel Rebel and Ashes to Ashes are based on the blog that he created in 2009, "Pushing Ahead of the Dame" (http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com)
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David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn't know.
