“Listen to tracks by Sam Therapy and King Dice”
The November 2017 issue of Uncut magazine has a 9/10 review of David Bowie: A New Career In A New Town (1977–1982) by John Robinson. Here’s his concluding paragraph to give you a flavour of the thing...
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Much as the idea of ‘the 1960s’ meant more than the strict confinement of a decade, Bowie’s Berlin is more about a state of mind, a population and it’s thinking than actual place. Brian Eno and his intellectual playfulness; Robert Fripp’s alien guitar; Tony Visconti’s embrace of meaningful technology. Between them they gave Bowie the materials to build a city larger and more magnificent than anywhere you could hope to find on a map.
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Elsewhere in the mag there’s a full page advert for DAVID BOWIE: A LIFE IN PICTURES (due on September 28th), which we’ll tell you more about next week.
Go here for more detail regarding the November issue of Uncut, which is on shelves tomorrow.
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