Wilcken, Hugo.
Summary: One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernail clippings in the fridge. There are occasional trips out to visit his friend Iggy Pop in a mental institution. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2005
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Summary: A lonely boy feels like a stranger on his own planet until the day his radio bursts to life with the rhythm of stardust energy. Includes notes and facts about David Bowie's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIGSummary: The first and only documentary about David Bowie authorized by the Bowie Estate, narrated by Bowie himself, explores Bowie's artistic journey over the years and illuminates many of his intellectual and artistic philosophies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Decal 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOOMorley, Paul
Summary: Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to the curators of the highly successful retrospective exhibition David Bowie is for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, constructs a definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, influenced others, invented the future, and entered history as someone who could and would never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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Summary: "In January 2016, the unexpected death of David Bowie rocked the globe. For millions of people, he was an icon celebrated for his music, his film and theatrical roles, and his trendsetting influence on fashion and gender norms. But no one from his inner circle has told the story of how David Jones -- a young folksinger, dancer, and aspiring mime -- became one of the most influential artists of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODMANSEY, WOODY WOODoggett, Peter.
Summary: Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of the David Bowie's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID DOGSummary: "An ecstatic voyage through the creative and spiritual universe of David Bowie, Moonage Daydream is a fittingly unclassifiable tribute to the shape-shifting rock iconoclast and his singular sound and vision. Exploding the conventions of the music documentary, director Brett Morgen remixes dazzling, never-before-seen footage of the artist throughout his career, reveling in his otherworldly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews David Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each featured interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time in all of his various incarnations, from a young novelty hit-maker and Ziggy Stardust to plastic soul player, 1980s sell-out, and the artistically reborn and beloved elder statesman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID BOWJones, Dylan
Summary: Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID JONO'Connell, John
Summary: ""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 OCOWelch, Chris
Summary: Bowie the performer. Bowie the songwriter. Bowie the fashion icon. Chameleon-like, David Bowie has consistently reinvented his stage persona, while blurring the boundaries of art, performance, fashion and music. From art school to Major Tom, the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the iconic lightning bolt of Aladdin Sane to Bowie's film career and current renaissance, this book is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID WELSummary: Boy George was in the cloak room, admittedly stealing money from club goers' belongings. Bowie, synth beats and a new freedom of sexual identity were in the air. The Blitz Club spell was cast and a hotbed of talent emerged: Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox, Culture Club, Sade and practically everyone else you've ever heard from the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLILeigh, Wendy.
Summary: In an unexpurgated exploration of Bowie's kaleidoscopic personal life, biographer Leigh reveals his star-crossed inheritance--his mother was once an acolyte of the British Fascist party; his father, the PR genius who masterminded his early career--in a dramatic contrast to those family members grappling with mental illness, fears that would haunt Bowie for most of his life. Above all, there is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID LEIContents: Opening titles including underground -- Into the labyrinth -- Magic dance (David Bowie) -- Sarah -- Chilly down (David Bowie) -- Hallucination -- As the world falls down (David Bowie) -- The goblin battle -- Within you (David Bowie) -- Thirteen o'clock -- Home at last -- Underground (David Bowie).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol/EMI 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC LABBowie, David
Contents: Space oddity -- John, I'm only dancing -- Changes -- Ziggy Stardust -- Suffragette city -- Jean Genie -- Diamond dogs -- Rebel rebel -- Young Americans -- Fame '90 (remix) / David Bowie, Carlos Alomar, and John Lennon -- Golden years -- Heroes / David Bowie and Brian Eno -- Ashes to ashes -- Fashion -- Let's dance -- China girl / David Bowie, Iggy Pop -- Modern love -- Blue Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1990
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Summary: The second studio album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release, and his second collaboration with David Bowie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018