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A lovingly thorough dissection of every album and every track ever released by David Bowie over the span of his nearly 50 year career, David Bowie All the Songs follows the musician from his self-titled debut album released in 1967 all the way through Blackstar, his final album.
Delving deep into Bowies past and featuring new commentary and archival interviews with a wide range of models, actors, musicians, producers, and recording executives who all worked with and knew the so-called Thin White Duke, David Bowie All the Songs charts the musicians course from a young upstart in 1960s London to a musical behemoth who collaborated with everyone from Queen Latifah and Bing Crosby, to Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire.
This one-of-a-kind book draws upon years of research in order to recount how each song was written, composed, and recorded, down to the instruments used and the people who played them. Featuring hundreds of vivid photographs that celebrate one of musics most visually arresting performers, David Bowie All the Songs is a must-have book for any true fan of classic rock.
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Copyright 2021, ditions E/P/AHachette Livre
Translation copyright 2021 by Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers
Translation by Simon Burrows, Caroline Higgitt, and Paul Ratcliffe by arrangement with Jackie Dobbyne of Jacaranda Publishing Services Limited
Cover design by Katie Benezra
Cover copyright 2021 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Front cover photograph Michael Ochs/Getty Images
Back cover photograph Lester Cohen/Getty Images
Original title: David Bowie, La Totale
Texts: Benot Clerc
Published by ditions E/P/AHachette Livre, 2021
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ISBNs: 978-0-7624-7471-4 (hardcover), 978-0-7624-7472-1 (ebook)
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It never fails: Mention David Bowie, and your listeners face lights up with a big smile. David Bowie, we love him, even if we sometimes know only a handful of his recordings. How do you explain this strange fascination? Is it his unique voice? His androgynous beauty? Or is it simply that his songs speak to the heart? Its difficult to say because its hard to pin down the reasons for the admirationa better word might be lovethat fans have felt for David Bowie since the mid-1970s, when he rose to international rock stardom.
Who was this man, hiding behind the characters of Rainbow Man, Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and Nathan Adler? Interviews with the singer himselffrequently described as a chameleonand the observations of those who worked with him all point to a single truth: This was a man who was generous, accessible, and responsive to others. An (almost) normal man, in his personal life he was far removed from the alien-like image that he sometimes projected for public consumption. His career was quite unusual, though. From the very beginning, in 1964, until his death in 2016, David Bowie worked incessantly, constantly creating new works, adopting new musical trends, and reinventing himself with each new album. He never stopped surprising his fans with his risk-taking.
By establishing the chronology of an extraordinary life and career, David Bowie All The Songs sets out to unravel the mystery of this intriguing singer, tracing the recording sessions of his twenty-six studio albums, as well as his side adventure with Tin Machine, and his many collaborations with various contemporaries in the recording industry. Out of respect for the work created by this demanding artist, only songs recorded and published according to his wishes are discussed in this book. This is why, as connoisseurs will not fail to notice, we have omitted many compositions that never progressed past early demo stages (Bars of the County Jail, Thats Where My Heart Is, Ill Follow You, I Want My Baby Back), songs sung by other artists (Rupert the Riley, recorded by Nick King All Stars in 1971) or those published in unorthodox ways (Ching-A-Ling, When Im Five, from the promotional film Love You till Tuesday).
From Liza Jane to Lazarus, David Bowies 456 songs tell us more about the man than any traditional biography ever could. A detailed look at his discography sheds light on the lasting legacy of an unforgettable artist. David Bowie All the Songs is a listeners perfect companion to the catalog of one of the most important recording artists of the last hundred years.
A Note on the Text
In the interest of consistency, compilation albums and box sets featuring Bowies works are listed at the end of this book. Only works issued by record labels in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States are included.
Titles issued solely in the maxi 45 rpm format are not considered singles.
The chart listings referenced throughout David Bowie All the Songs, are:
For the UK: The Official Charts Company
For the US: The Billboard Hot 100 (singles), The Billboard 200 (albums).
Unless otherwise stated, the references and rankings included herein relate only to a specific albums first edition.
Born in Brixton, South London, on January 8, 1947, David Robert Jones emerged into a Britain that was still recovering from the effects of the war years. Clement Attlee was the prime minister, and it was a time of deep social and economic hardship that saw rationing of food after a winter with unusual amounts of snow and freezing temperatures caused significant damage to agriculture across the country. Davids father, Haywood Stenton Jones, better known as John, had worked since 1935 as a public relations officer for the childrens charity Dr. Barnardos Homes. Praiseworthy as this type of work was, his past was rather murky. Earlier in his life, Davids father had been the owner of two clubs and it was in one of them, the Boop-a-Doop club, that he met a singer named Hilda Louise Sullivan, who was to become his first wife in 1933. A few years later, Hilda adopted a little girl, Annette, who was the result of Johns liaison with another woman. Johns marriage to Hilda ended in 1945 when he met Margaret Peggy Mary Burns, who was an employee at the Ritz, a cinema in Tunbridge Wells, which is a small town in western Kent, located about thirty miles to the south of London. Even before his divorce to Hilda had been finalized, John went to live with his new partner in Kentish Town, moving not long afterward to Brixton. John and Peggy officially married in 1947.
Elvis, Dean Moriarty, and Little Richard: Davids Early Influences
In 1953, the Jones family moved to Bromley in South London. The household expanded rapidly when Annette came to live with her father, soon to be joined by Terry, a second child born to Peggy shortly before the war. Terrys father was a Frenchman who quickly disappeared from Peggys life, and this new half brother was to play an important role in young Davids artistic development. In particular, Terry gave David a copy of Jack Kerouacs On the Road, thereby introducing David to the countercultural movement emerging on the other side of the Atlantic, as personified by Kerouacs character Dean Moriarty, who became the standard bearer of the Beat Generation. The young David Joness introduction to rock n roll also came through Terry, who played him Elvis Presleys early singles, including the famous Thats All Right, which was itself a cover of blues musician Arthur Crudups original. But it was not only Elvis and the advent of this new music from America that was exciting for young David; indeed, he was fascinated by everything about the United States.
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