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ISBN 978-1906002084 - Jawbone Press

Softcover. Copyright 2008.

Bowie in Berlin tells the fascinating story of the three years David Bowie spent in Germany in the mid-1970s making the most extraordinary music of his career. Driven to the brink of madness by cocaine overwork marital strife and a paranoid obsession with the occult Bowie fled Los Angeles in 1975 and ended up in Berlin the divided city on the frontline between communist East and capitalist West. There he sought anonymity taking an apartment in a run-down district with his sometime collaborator Iggy Pop another refugee from drugs and debauchery while they explored the city and its notorious nightlife.ÞIn this intensely creative period Bowie put together three classic albums