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\”Heroes\”: The Kiss by the Berlin Wall That Became an Anthem
“Heroes”: The Kiss by the Berlin Wall That Became an Anthem In the summer of 1977, David Bowie stood at a window in Hansa Studio 2 in West Berlin, struggling with a lyric. The studio — a converted old concert hall that the Gestapo had once used as a ballroom — sat a half block…
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David Bowie: The Heart Behind the Masks
He was Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, Major Tom and the goblin king, a man who treated identity the way other musicians treated instruments. He reinvented himself so often that reinvention became his identity. But underneath every mask David Bowie ever wore was a man who wanted, more than anything, what the masks…
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How David Bowie Created “Ziggy Stardust”: Five Weeks at Trident and the Single That Almost Never Was
In the winter of 1971, David Bowie was a cult figure with one hit to his name and a new album, “Hunky Dory,” that almost nobody bought. Fourteen months later, he was the most famous alien on earth. The bridge between those two facts was “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders…
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The Untold Story of David Bowie: The Man Who Sold His Future and Invented It Anyway
David Bowie died twice. Once on a stage in London in 1973, when he murdered his own alter ego in front of three thousand stunned fans. And once in a Manhattan apartment in January 2016, two days after releasing an album about dying that almost no one realized was about dying until he was gone.…