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Book by book, year by year, the ultimate literary trip through Bowie's greatest decade. This limited edition of the fifth instalment is, published in hardback, with an alternative cover design.

Simon Goddard's electric ride through Bowie's greatest decade reaches the halfway mark with this fifth instalment. Wickedly funny and shockingly tragic, Bowie Odyssey 74 is the story of one man trying to find his soul in a world that's gone to the devil.

Fourth entry in Simon Goddard's year-by-year study of David Bowie. Spans entirety of 1973.

1972 – David Bowies künstlerischer Höhepunkt: Extrem, wegweisend, grenzüberschreitend 1972 verbreitete sich der Glamrock wie ein Lauffeuer und strahlte bis in die letzten Winkel der Musikwelt. Die Rolle des Macho-Frontmanns gehörte der Vergangenheit an, war einem androgynen Image gewichen – und wie kein anderer stand David Bowie mit seinem damals aktuellen Kunstwerk The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars für diesen Jugendkult. Hier vereinten sich Themen wie Science Fiction, Religion, kultische Verehrung und eine frei ausgelebte, ausschweifende Sexualität, die bei der 72er-Tournee durch eine Bühnenshow mit dramatischen Theaterelementen noch intensiviert wurden. Dank Simon Goddards fesselndem Schreibstil, bei dem er exzellent recherchierte Fakten durch überzeugende fiktionale Ausflüge belebt, entsteht ein plastisches Bild, das Bowie und sein Werk fassbar macht. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Publikationen stellt er eine unvergleichliche Nähe zum Künstler und seinen kreativen Experimenten her, die den Leser zum Zeitzeugen des stilprägenden Jahres macht.

Changes, 1972. Rock is now glam, kids are now droogs, and David Bowie is now Ziggy Stardust--the first openly bisexual rock'n'roll idol crashlanding into the gloomy blacked-out Britain of the three-day week. Perfect conditions to finally realise his dream of becoming the ultimate singing star, blowing minds, stages, and TV screens as he liberates a generation with tight satin, lip gloss, and the irresistible wham-bam of his Spiders From Mars. Music, fashion, and the old codes of gender will never be the same again. But as his runaway fame quickly blurs all lines between fantasy and reality, neither will David. The third volume in the Bowie Odyssey series places the reader in the screaming front rows of Ziggymania as Simon Goddard continues his entrancing journey through the decade Bowie changed pop forever.

In the sequel to Bowie Odyssey 70 (a Sunday Times Book Of The Year), Simon Goddard continues his groundbreaking VR narrative into the world inside and around Bowie, year by year, through the decade he changed pop forever.

Starting at the beginning of Bowie's incredible ten-year odyssey changing the course of pop music, Simon Goddard's bold and expressionistic biography weaves time, space, rock'n'roll and social history to relive Bowie's 1970 - moment by vivid moment.

It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music - the rock god who came from the stars - which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens. When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy to a superstar who changed the face of music forever. But who was Ziggy Stardust?