Rolling Stone David Bowie: The Ultimate Guide to His Music & Legacy

by Rolling Stone Magazine, Meredith (Contributor)

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Genres: Biography

100 pages, Single Issue Magazine

Published January 19, 2018

About the author

Rolling Stone is a U.S.-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner (who is still editor and publisher) and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.

Reviews

[Catherine Siemann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of interviews is weighted more heavily towards Bowie's early 70s career, when presumably he was getting more featured interviews in Rolling Stone magazine. His Ziggy Stardust persona and then his sudden shifts to plastic soul and the Thin White Duke were big news -- and his problematics are fully on display -- significantly, his dismissive attitude towards his own music and his self-aggrandizing notions of projects that never materialized. (Meanwhile, his music and his persona become something that told so many it was okay not to be "normal.") But reading it as a whole, and after a second visit to the David Bowie Is exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum was useful and touching -- to follow discussions of his studio albums step by step and fill in the blanks of what I'd just seen, and to see his personal evolution from a brilliant but cocaine-fueled rock star who said outrageous things for effect, to an artist who never lost his power or creativity, but matured into a thoughtful and even self-deprecating rest of life. Not to dismiss early Bowie, who burned so brightly and so easily could have been one of those we lost early -- we still lost him too early, but we had him for 69 years, and we were so very lucky for that.

[Mark Bunch · Rating 4 out of 5]

David Bowie was a great live performer. I saw the China Girl tour in Atlanta, GA back in the day. If you want a quick, comprehensive, bio of Bowie, this works. It contains the articles from the Rolling Stone Magazine and a review of each album (26). I really enjoyed this publication. In college I can't tell how many times my friends and I spun the greatest hits album "Changes". It is a great collection of Bowie at his best.