When Ziggy Played Guitar

Informationen zum Autor Dylan Jones is the multi-award winning editor of GQ magazine.He has been an editor at i-D magazine! The Face! Arena! the Observer and the Sunday Times. He is a Trustee of the Hay Festival! a board member of the Norman Mailer Foundation and was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to publishing. He has written twenty books including the critically aclaimed When Ziggy Played Guitar and From the Ground Up! U2's celebration of their record-breaking 360° tour. Klappentext And then there was David Bowie! the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils! the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowie's third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience! the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist. This is the performance that turned Bowie into a star! embedding his Ziggy Stardust persona into the nation's consciousness. With a tall! flame-orange cockade quiff (stolen from a Kansai Yamamoto model on the cover of Honey)! lavishly applied make-up! white nail polish! and wearing a multi-coloured jump-suit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin (chosen by Ziggy co-shaper! the designer Freddie Buretti)! and carrying a brand spanking new! blue acoustic guitar! a bone-thin Bowie appeared not so much as a pop singer! but rather as some sort of benevolent alien! a concept helped along by the provocative appearance of his guitarist! the chicken-headed Mick Ronson! with both of them unapologetically sporting knee-length patent leather wrestler's boots (Bowie's were red). 'Most people are scared of colour!' Bowie said later. 'Their lives are built up in shades of grey. It doesn't matter how straight the style is! make it brightly coloured material and everyone starts acting weird.' Suddenly Bowie - a man called alias - had the world at his nail-varnished fingertips! and in no time at all he would be the biggest star in the world. Zusammenfassung And then there was David Bowie! the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils! the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowie's third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience! the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist. This is the performance that turned Bowie into a star! embedding his Ziggy Stardust persona into the nation's consciousness. With a tall! flame-orange cockade quiff (stolen from a Kansai Yamamoto model on the cover of Honey )! lavishly applied make-up! white nail polish! and wearing a multi-coloured jump-suit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin (chosen by Ziggy co-shaper! the designer Freddie Buretti)! and carrying a brand spanking new! blue acoustic guitar! a bone-thin Bowie appeared not so much as a pop singer! but rather as some sort of benevolent alien! a concept helped along by the provocative appearance of his guitarist! the chicken-headed Mick Ronson! with both of them unapologetically sporting knee-length patent leather wrestler's boots (Bowie's were red). 'Most people are scared of colour!' Bowie said later. 'Their lives are built up in shades of grey. It doesn't matter how straight the style is! make it brightly coloured material and everyone starts acting weird.' Suddenly Bowie - a man called alias - had the world at his nail-varnished fingertips! and in no time at all he would be the biggest star in the world. ...

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"The best pop book I have ever read, dislodging Revolution in the Head and England's Dreaming. Superb in every way." Matthew d'Ancona 20120619

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Dylan Jones
• Edition: Preface Publishing
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 28.06.2012
• EAN: 9781848093850
• ISBN: 978-1-84809-385-0
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Monographies