Bowie Odyssey 73

Simon Goddard

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OMNI BOOKS
25 May 2023

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: Bowie Odyssey

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

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 lovers than he can count on one hand, more appetites than he can satisfy with one nose and still more success. But at what cost?

Continuing his vivid real-time journey through the decade David changed pop forever, the fourth volume of the Bowie Odyssey series sees Simon Goddard mainline to the dark heart of Seventies sex, drugs and debauched rock'n'roll - a gripping, unsentimental portrait of inspiration, insanity and the thin line that divides.

PRAISE FOR THE BOWIE ODYSSEY SERIES

'My god, it's brilliant. A delicious romp.' MIKE SCOTT, THE WATERBOYS

'The best book written about its subject... Stupendous.' CLASSIC ROCK

'The wonderful Bowie Odyssey series ... Goddard's prose is like an all-seeing eye.' RECORD COLLECTOR

'A full-on sensory immersion in Bowie's universe.' SUNDAY TIMES

'It's as if we were there.' 4
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'Goddard's scintillating series... with its meticulous fact-checking and almost poetic prose, paints a beautifully written portrait that's almost as otherworldly as its subject... [it] strikes the perfect balance... granting us an all-access-areas pass to accompany Bowie to every gig, every engagement and to some of the most important moments in rock'

CLASSIC POP

'The project's ambition is matched only by the sumptuousness of Goddard's writing... At times as I read Bowie Odyssey 73 I felt like his shadow.' CHRIS CHARLESWORTH

By: Simon Goddard
Imprint: OMNI BOOKS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781913172817
ISBN 10: 1913172813
Series: Bowie Odyssey
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 25 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Goddard is a British music journalist. His writing has appeared in Uncut, Mojo, and the Guardian amongst other publications. He is currently writing a multi-part, year-by-year study of David Bowie.

Reviews for Bowie Odyssey 73

'Goddard's book-per-year series is so devotional and healthily delirious you can smell the greasepaint and hormones... Fantastic.' Record Collector, 5* 'David Bowie was at the Big Bang of my music consciousness. Simon Goddard's immersive yearly look at the world in which Bowie operated, have become a must read for me.' Tim Burgess