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DAVID BOWIE 1964-1982 ON TRACK

EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

Carl Ewens

ISBN 978-1-78952-324-9

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Publication: 30 MAY 2024
th
ISBN: 9781789523249
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 176 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789520033 Queen On Track

• The first of two volumes examining Bowie’s
entire career. The second is due in late 2024.
• Hugely popular in the UK from the Ziggy Stardust
period onwards. Eleven top 5 albums in this
period, and four number ones
• Fifteen top 10 singles, including three number
ones: ‘Space Oddity’, ‘Ashes To Ashes’ and
‘Under Pressure’ with Queen

When David Bowie died in 2016 some people say the world
went to hell in a handcart. It seems that while Bowie was alive
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ his songs and their strange commentaries on modern life had
some kind of deep significance that made sense of it all for
Carl Ewens, born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1960, has previously many people. His music evokes something futuristic and
published an absurdist science fiction novel, two books of poetry and prophetic to his fans. In this book, there is light shed on
similar book about the songwriting of Marc Bolan. He also produces Bowie’s songwriting in the early, most-lauded part of his
music under the pseudonym Psyfolk. His interests range from career, his much-vaunted sense of alienation and his
reading novels to football, art, photography, film and history, as well desperate search to make music that was art. Art-rock is an
as UAPs and spirituality. He also has a degree in Social odd sort of genre to be associated with, but it fits David Bowie
to a tee.
Anthropology and Comparative Religion. He is a lover of real ale but
isn’t keen on the currently trendy obsession with hazy IPAs as he Everything he did was infused with a kind of indescribable
thinks they all taste of grapefruit. He lives in West Sussex. oddness, like his two mismatched eyes, the result of a teenage
spat with a school friend over a girl. He had a lifelong interest
in ideas about life on other worlds, and yet one of his many
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP songs associated with this theme, ‘Life On Mars’, is more
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Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. This is a complete examination of all the songs from Bowie’s
Email: orders@combook.co.uk golden years, which extends from his days as a mod
Phone: 01892 837171 saxophonist through to his astonishing 1980 hit album, Scary
Monsters (And Super Creeps). His songs run the gamut from
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change extraordinary to esoteric but were always written from the
without notice. 07/12/2023 heart.