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 David goes berserk in the Hollywood hills, back in the Britain he’s forsaken there’s a Nazi-crazed murderer stalking the streets where he was born, a masked rapist at large and a power-mad grocer’s daughter on the rise, while sappy nostalgia grinds pop to a standstill. But there are also restless scamps hanging around a certain King’s Road clothes shop, and David’s 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 Goddard’s epic adventure through Bowie’s greatest decade, Bowie Odyssey 75 is an intricately plotted tour de force of rock’n’roll, crime, punishment, politics, punk – and a cautionary tale of tragicomic addiction. PRAISE FOR BOWIE ODYSSEY 74 “Almost hallucinatory in the telling, this book, like its predecessors, is unputdownable.” MOJO “Funny, poignant, intriguing, full of mischief, a brilliant piece of work. It might be my favourite Bowie book ever.” MARC RILEY, BBC 6MUSIC “It is Goddard’s exquisite writing style that elevates his story . . . massaging the facts into a beautifully written, transcendent tapestry embroidered with figures and events – political, societal and cultural – and examines the superstar’s place within them.” CLASSIC POP
