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VINYL VOWS: A BOWIE LOVE STORY:
In the shadowed glow of 1997 Sydney, where cassette tapes hiss and memory hums like feedback, music journalist Evie Callahan presses play on the interview that changed her life, and begins to unravel the decades that led her there.
Fresh from a rare conversation with David Bowie, intimate, unrehearsed, quietly electrifying, Evie returns home to write the story she’s carried for seventeen years. But as Bowie’s voice crackles through her old tape recorder, each answer pulls her back through to Berlin’s post-punk squats, to smoky dive bars and gallery openings, and to Lukas Weber, the reclusive German painter she once loved with reckless devotion.
Their romance was all nerve endings and neon, tangled in politics, ambition, and the ache of youth. But in chasing Bowie’s ever-shifting shadow, Evie lost sight of her own reflection. Now, as she listens to the music that raised her, and the man who once saw her most clearly, Evie must decide if the past is a closed door… or an unfinished verse.
From the concrete poetry of Berlin to the salt-air solitude of Elizabeth Bay, Vinyl A Bowie Love Story is a sweeping, time-twisting love story about the lives we build through the music we live by. Featuring an unforgettable supporting cast, Graeme, a Bowie impersonator with a fading spotlight; Tony, a café owner who unknowingly served tea to a legend; and Lukas, whose silence paints louder than words, this novel hums with nostalgia, longing, and grace.
For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Museum of Modern Love, and anyone who ever loved someone like a song, Vinyl A Bowie Love Story is a reverent, romantic ode to the people, and the music, that shape who we become.
Tune in. Turn it over. This is a love story that lingers in the static.
Fresh from a rare conversation with David Bowie, intimate, unrehearsed, quietly electrifying, Evie returns home to write the story she’s carried for seventeen years. But as Bowie’s voice crackles through her old tape recorder, each answer pulls her back through to Berlin’s post-punk squats, to smoky dive bars and gallery openings, and to Lukas Weber, the reclusive German painter she once loved with reckless devotion.
Their romance was all nerve endings and neon, tangled in politics, ambition, and the ache of youth. But in chasing Bowie’s ever-shifting shadow, Evie lost sight of her own reflection. Now, as she listens to the music that raised her, and the man who once saw her most clearly, Evie must decide if the past is a closed door… or an unfinished verse.
From the concrete poetry of Berlin to the salt-air solitude of Elizabeth Bay, Vinyl A Bowie Love Story is a sweeping, time-twisting love story about the lives we build through the music we live by. Featuring an unforgettable supporting cast, Graeme, a Bowie impersonator with a fading spotlight; Tony, a café owner who unknowingly served tea to a legend; and Lukas, whose silence paints louder than words, this novel hums with nostalgia, longing, and grace.
For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Museum of Modern Love, and anyone who ever loved someone like a song, Vinyl A Bowie Love Story is a reverent, romantic ode to the people, and the music, that shape who we become.
Tune in. Turn it over. This is a love story that lingers in the static.
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Published June 12, 2025
About the author
Nick Pollack
112 books5 followersNick comes to writing through a visual lens, spending most of his career directing short films & commercials in Australia.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
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