Bowie Odyssey 75 Limited Collectors Edition Hardback Book w Alternative Artwork

ultimate literary trip through Bowies greatest decade. This special edition is limited to just 500 copies. It is the fifth in a series of Bowie Odyssey collector\’s editions. It is the only way to acquire the book in hardback and it features a special alternative cover. With his first starring role in a feature film and his first number 1s on both sides of the Atlantic, 1975 ought to be David Bowies golden year. But away from the spotlight the suave soul boy of Young Americans is tumbling into a self-made hell of cocaine, witchcraft and the dark fantasies of his new fascist alter-ego, the Thin White Duke. As David goes berserk in the Hollywood hills, back in the Britain hes forsaken theres a Nazi-crazed murderer stalking the streets where he was born, a masked rapist at large and a power-mad grocers daughter on the rise, while sappy nostalgia grinds pop to a standstill. But there are also restless scamps hanging around a certain Kings Road clothes shop, and Davids own drug-fuelled genius daring him to make the album of his life. The Seventies are about to reignite with a bang. The sixth volume in Simon Goddards epic adventure through Bowies greatest decade, Bowie Odyssey 75 is an intricately plotted tour de force of rocknroll, crime, punishment, politics, punk and a cautionary tale of tragicomic addiction.