The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
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'A thrilling hymn to a brilliant and beloved song and dance manDavid Bowie did make a world of difference, and Paul Morley explains why.'
-- Barney Hoskyns * The Observer *
'Thank God Paul Morley's The Age of Bowie doesn't try to be an objective, sensible biography. His stream-of-consciousness critique of Bowie's posthumous legacy from cradle to Blackstar is respectfully mournful, and slightly rhapsodic in tone. He understands that Bowie lifted many of his now orphaned fans from suburbia to bohemia (sort of) and opened up an imaginative space that was inside us anyway. There is a great deal of cultural history to enjoy in this personal, engaged and slyly scholarly biography. Morley's triumph is to know there is no such thing as the definitive story: new generations of fans will continue to make it up as they go along.' -- Deborah Levy * New Statesman *
'Morley has a deep understanding of Bowie's music . . . this is great fun.' * The Times *
'A discursive, free-associating ride across the life and work of the Starman Who Changed the World [...] The Age of Bowie does feel like an outpouring of the sincerest love for its subject, the fruit of an obsessive emersion of everything Bowie meant to him and us. Eschewing the conventionally dry biographical voice, Morley's expansive present-tense prose flows [...] I hold him to be one of the great pop writers. You might even call him the Bowie of rock journalism.' * The Guardian *
'A huge sprawl of Bowieania that takes us from skiffle to social media' * The Herald *
'Morley has not only plenty of insights into Bowie's life and work but also the kind of details that only a diligent biographer unearths' * The Times *
-- Barney Hoskyns * The Observer *
'Thank God Paul Morley's The Age of Bowie doesn't try to be an objective, sensible biography. His stream-of-consciousness critique of Bowie's posthumous legacy from cradle to Blackstar is respectfully mournful, and slightly rhapsodic in tone. He understands that Bowie lifted many of his now orphaned fans from suburbia to bohemia (sort of) and opened up an imaginative space that was inside us anyway. There is a great deal of cultural history to enjoy in this personal, engaged and slyly scholarly biography. Morley's triumph is to know there is no such thing as the definitive story: new generations of fans will continue to make it up as they go along.' -- Deborah Levy * New Statesman *
'Morley has a deep understanding of Bowie's music . . . this is great fun.' * The Times *
'A discursive, free-associating ride across the life and work of the Starman Who Changed the World [...] The Age of Bowie does feel like an outpouring of the sincerest love for its subject, the fruit of an obsessive emersion of everything Bowie meant to him and us. Eschewing the conventionally dry biographical voice, Morley's expansive present-tense prose flows [...] I hold him to be one of the great pop writers. You might even call him the Bowie of rock journalism.' * The Guardian *
'A huge sprawl of Bowieania that takes us from skiffle to social media' * The Herald *
'Morley has not only plenty of insights into Bowie's life and work but also the kind of details that only a diligent biographer unearths' * The Times *
Writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic PAUL MORLEY has written about music, art, and entertainment since the 1970s. A founding member of the electronic collective Art of Noise and a member of staff at the Royal Academy of Music, he is the author of Ask: Chatter of Pop; Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City; Piece by Piece: Writing About Joy Division 1977–2007; Earthbound; The North; and Nothing, and he collaborated with music icon Grace Jones on her memoir, I'll Never Write My Memoirs.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781471148088 |
| ISBN 10 | 1471148084 |
| Title | The Age of Bowie |
| Author | Paul Morley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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