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Doggett's book on bowie meticulously researchedDoggett's book on bowie meticulously researched
Bob doggett's"The man who sold everybody"Is not so much a book as it is a project carefully documenting the whole of david bowie's oeuvre during the 1970s, when his star burned cleverest.
Doggett discusses the hits and misses while getting alternate takes, miscellaneous b sides and a great deal of unreleased material recorded as bowie transforms himself from a hippy dippy Cheap Pandora Charms Canada folk singer into ziggy stardust, aladdin satisfied, the thin white duke and outside of.
Doggett convincingly argues that bowie was the emblematic performer of the 1970s in very similar way the beatles and rolling stones were emblematic of the 1960s.That bowie didn't share their common acclaim is more than made up for, doggett claims, by his managing to stay relevant even as punk rock and disco consigned the classic rockers to the status of dinosaurs toward the end of the decade.
The ebook also makes many good points about bowie's bisexuality and flirtation with fascism, but its fractured structure with issues arising poor one song only to disappear in the discussion of the next makes it hard to consider these things in depth.
You can find explanatory essays and discussions of each album as a cohesive work, but that often means that one Cheap Pandora Bracelets Canada repeated allusions in individual songs will only make sense hundreds of pages into the book.
"The man who sold society we live in"Is painstakingly researched and full of obscure details, but while such dogged thoroughness is exquisite, it can leave the reader who doesn't need a lot of time and the entire bowie catalog close at hand feeling a little lost.
It also helps to have a basic knowledge of musical principles otherwise all the descriptions of minor key bass lines descending while the guitars rise over diatonic scales to end in eb can get a little tedious.
