He starts the decade a teenage pop idol. But the one-hit wonder who sang 'Space Oddity' is still very far from becoming the star who will one day define the 1970s. Not when he still has a band to find, a manager to sack, a mentally ill brother to save, a wife to marry and a rival called Marc Bolan to beat. Not when David Bowie still has no idea who or what David Bowie is. Starting at the beginning of Bowie's incredible ten-year odyssey changing the course of pop music, Simon Goddard's bold...

Book by book, year by year, the ultimate literary trip through Bowie’s greatest decade.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 Bowie’s 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 Dav...

He came from Outer Space...It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music – the rock god who came from the stars – which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens.When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy to a superstar who changed the face of music forever. But who was Ziggy Stardust? And where did he really come from?In a work of supreme pop archaeology, Simon Goddard un...

Reveals the stories behind every track (including unreleased out-takes), catalogues all the group's UK television, radio and concert appearances and features interviews with original band members, producers and associates.Formed in 1982, The Smiths' brief but brilliant career lasted just five years - but the music they left behind distinguished them as one of the greatest British guitar groups of all time.' Songs That Saved Your Life - The Art of The Sm...

The incredible story of the resurrection of Elvis, from 50’s crooner to late 60’s King of Rock n Roll.“Goddard not only knows his Elvis, but deftly weaves in the cultural background of the era.” –MOJOAs 1968 dawns, the once King of rock‘n’roll faces cultural oblivion. While elsewhere the Sixties are swinging, for Elvis they’re sinking– in terrible films, drug addiction, paranoia, religious mania and the mercenary wiles of his psych...

They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense and not a clue between them how to run a record company. But when Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins decided to start their own label from a shabby Glasgow flat in 1979, nobody was going to stand in their way.Postcard Records was the mad, makeshift and quite preposterous result. Launching the careers of Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and cult heroes Josef K, the self-styled ‘So...

Steven Patrick Morrissey is one of the most original and controversial voices in the history of popular music. With The Smiths, he led the most influential British guitar group of the 1980s, his enigmatic wit and style defining a generation. As a solo artist, he has continued to broach subjects no other singer would dare.Worshipped by some, vilified by others, Morrissey is a unique rock and roll creation. The 300,000 words of Mozipedia make this the most intimate and in-de...

Darkness looms in 1974. It could be the winter energy crisis. It could be The Exorcist. Or it could be the shock that Britain’s biggest pop star, David Bowie, is about to leave its shores for good. Bidding the corpse of glam, Ziggy’s haircut and loyal ‘Bowietania’ farewell, the plan is to storm America with his highly theatrical Diamond Dogs tour. But by opening night he’s already wishing he was Barry White instead. Then there’s that nasty sniff he can’t get rid of. And that fly in his mil...

David Bowie 1971: schicksalhafte Bewegungen Mit Bowie Odyssee 71 erscheint jetzt Band 2 der aufregenden neuen Reihe über David Bowies Leben und Werk in den schillernden Siebzigern. In Bowie Odyssee 70 hatte Autor Simon Goddard bereits einige der Protagonisten etabliert, die für Bowies Karriere von entscheidender Bedeutung werden sollten - darunter Gattin Angie, den zwielichtigen Manager Tony Defries, den genialen Produzenten Tony Visconti und die Band, mit der Bowie den großen Durchbruch s...

1972 – David Bowies künstlerischer Höhepunkt: Extrem, wegweisend, grenzüberschreitend 1972 verbreitete sich der Glamrock wie ein Lauffeuer und strahlte bis in die letzten Winkel der Musikwelt. Die Rolle des Macho-Frontmanns gehörte der Vergangenheit an, war einem androgynen Image gewichen – und wie kein anderer stand David Bowie mit seinem damals aktuellen Kunstwerk The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars für diesen Jugendkult. Hier vereinten sich Themen wie Science F...

David Bowies Weg zum Erfolg: fesselnd wie ein Roman Wir schreiben das Jahr 1970, und David Bowie steht kurz vor seinem großen Durchbruch. Nach mäßig erfolgreichen Lehrjahren mit Beatbands und Songs über lachende Gnome, dem kreativen Ausprobieren von Rock, Folk, Avantgarde und Pantomime ist er bereit für das erste Album, das sein künstlerisches Genie angemessen inszeniert - das versponnene und kontroverse "The Man Who Sold The World". Vor allem aber haben sich in diesem Schicksalsjahr alle ...

It is 1973. David Bowie is finally a superstar. All he has to do to remain there is to keep pretending he’s Ziggy Stardust, keep playing to thousands, keep selling to millions and keep on staying relatively sane … As glam rock crashes and burns in a sleazy scandal-ridden Britain, a world tour convinces David to make radical changes with devastating consequences for Ziggy, his fans and his band. However, his planned ‘retirement’ is anything but quiet – now a friend of the Jaggers, with more...