A decadent desolation : David Bowie 1976-1979

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"By the mid 1970s David Bowie was the biggest pop star in the UK, but his personal life was in turmoil. In a bid to escape the chaos of his drug problems and to flee from the media spotlight, the p...

"By the mid 1970s David Bowie was the biggest pop star in the UK, but his personal life was in turmoil. In a bid to escape the chaos of his drug problems and to flee from the media spotlight, the performer and musician eventually found his was to West Berlin, where he started to work on what would become some of the most memorable and critically lauded recordings of his career. Bowie stopped moving from persona to persona, as he had previously done, settling instead on being simply himself, and began to blend the music he was hearing in his adopted homeland with the avant-garde methodologies used by his friend and colleague Brian Eno." -cover.

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