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Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia & confusion. Obsessed with black magic & the Holy Grail, hes built an altar in the living room & keeps his fingernail clippings in the fridge. There are occasional trips out to visit his friend Iggy Pop in a mental institution.
His latest album is the cocaine-fuelled Station To Station (Bowie: "I know it was recorded in LA because I read it was"), which welds R&B rhythms to lyrics that mix the occult with a yearning for Europe, after three mad years in the New World.
Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement & the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, & after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.
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This is the definitive account of the making of Bowies LOW & the album itself.
This paperback book has 136 pages & measures: 16.5 x 12.2 x 0.8cm.