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Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Adam Steiner
4.14/5 (22 ratings)
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Silhouettes and Shadows explores the secret history of David Bowie’s 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)—an avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear which closed Bowie’s golden years of the 1970s.

Featuring exclusive interviews with close collaborators, this book uncovers the studio stories and hidden meanings behind Scary Monsters as Bowie stood at the crossroads of the new decade. Caught between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s smash hit Let’s Dance, it is here Bowie reached the end of his long road to recovery, overcame his demons, and buried the ghosts of his past to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans.

Scary Monsters’ hit singles “Fashion” and “Ashes to Ashes” would break Bowie back into the charts, confronting listeners with chaotic images of paranoia, addiction, social breakdown, and state control. Bowie would ride a new wave of inspiration with the post-punk of Joy Division, synth-pop of Gary Numan, and Culture Club’s sexual emancipation to the Blitz Kids and the New Romantics that followed in his wake…
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Globe Pequot / Backbeat
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1493065645
ISBN13:
9781493065646
kindle Asin:
B0DL24ZLFF

Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Adam Steiner
4.14/5 (22 ratings)
Read Download
Silhouettes and Shadows explores the secret history of David Bowie’s 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)—an avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear which closed Bowie’s golden years of the 1970s.

Featuring exclusive interviews with close collaborators, this book uncovers the studio stories and hidden meanings behind Scary Monsters as Bowie stood at the crossroads of the new decade. Caught between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s smash hit Let’s Dance, it is here Bowie reached the end of his long road to recovery, overcame his demons, and buried the ghosts of his past to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans.

Scary Monsters’ hit singles “Fashion” and “Ashes to Ashes” would break Bowie back into the charts, confronting listeners with chaotic images of paranoia, addiction, social breakdown, and state control. Bowie would ride a new wave of inspiration with the post-punk of Joy Division, synth-pop of Gary Numan, and Culture Club’s sexual emancipation to the Blitz Kids and the New Romantics that followed in his wake…
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Globe Pequot / Backbeat
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1493065645
ISBN13:
9781493065646
kindle Asin:
B0DL24ZLFF

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