Numbers in square brackets, [ ], refer to individual song entries. Page numbers in bold refer to main entry for song or album.
Abba, 327
Abbey Road (Beatles LP), 270
“Abdulmajid” [145], 325–26
Abel, Lionel, 378n
Abraxas (Santana LP), 227
“Across the Universe” [124], 243, 273–74
Action, the, 38, 405
“African Night Flight” [165], 353–54
“After All” [20], 95–96, 100n, 184n, 212, 429, 432
“After Eight” (NEU!), 372
After the Gold Rush (Neil Young LP), 108
“After Today” [114], 258, 262
Aftermath (Rolling Stones), 428
“Ain’t She Sweet,” 266
“Air on the G String” (Bach), 176
“Alabama Song” [163], 351–52, 390
Aladdin Sane (LP), 11, 176, 181, 185, 187, 189, 190–93, 199–202, 203–4, 248, 265n, 268, 279, 308
“Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?),” [70], 83, 193–95, 212, 226, 288, 438
“Aladdin Vein.” See “Zion”
Alamo, The (film), 36n, 407
Ali, Muhammad, 236
Alice Cooper, 120, 122, 126, 156, 173, 175–77
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (book), 89
“All Along the Watchtower” (Bob Dylan), 189, 190
“All Day and All of the Night” (Kinks), 168
All Our Yesterdays (TV series), 57
“All Saints” [146], 325–26
“All the Madmen” [23], 95, 99–101, 366
“All the Young Dudes” [62], 101, 153–54, 432
“All You Need Is Love” (Beatles), 450
“Alley Oop” (Hollywood Argyles), 119n, 150, 175
Allman, Gregg, 322n
Almond, Marc, 11
“Almost Grown,” 129
Alomar, Carlos, 249, 272, 275, 276, 288n, 294–96, 302, 339, 349, 355, 357, 359, 360, 381
Also Sprach Zarathustra (book), 111
“Also Sprach Zarathustra” (tone poem), 212, 231, 317
“(Alternative), Candidate” [99], 232–33
“Always Crashing in the Same Car” [137], 311–13, 370
America, 360
American Graffiti (film), 190
“Amsterdam” [17], 85–86, 184
“Anarchy in the UK” (Sex Pistols), 199
“And I Say to Myself” [A15], 410–11
Anderson, Jim, 134
Andrews, Julie, 408
“Andy Warhol” [47], 129, 139–40, 152
“Angel Angel Grubby Face,” 443
“Angel Fingers” (Wizzard), 192
Anger, Kenneth, 284
Animals, the, 402
Anka, Paul, 149, 200, 444
“Another Day” (Paul McCartney), 428
“Another Girl” (Beatles), 450
Another Green World (Eno LP), 307
“Anyway Anyhow Anywhere” [86], 215, 216, 404
Apathy for the Devil (book), 305n
Apollo space missions, 1, 57, 58, 77, 80, 118, 372
“Apres Moi” (Eartha Kitt), 434n
“April’s Tooth Of Gold,” 431
Arabian Nights, The (book), 204n
Arbus, Diane, 245n
Arendt, Hannah, 378n
Arias, Joey, 387
Armed Forces (Elvis Costello LP), 383
Armstrong, Michael, 48
Arnold, Billy Boy, 211
Arnold Corns, 116–18, 124–28, 133, 159n, 163, 164
“Around and Around” (Chuck Berry), 153
“Art Decade” [141], 318–19
Ascending and Descending (artwork), 101n
“Ashes to Ashes” [184], vii, 1, 2, 341, 372–74, 376, 387
Astral Weeks (Van Morrison LP), 88
Astronettes, the, 175, 191, 224–27, 258, 376n, 380
“At the Zoo” (Simon & Garfunkel), 355
At Town Hall (Nina Simone LP), 296
“Autobahn” (Kraftwerk), 336
Average White Band, 276
Ayers, Kevin, 74n, 129n, 242, 246
Baader, Andreas, 321
Baal (TV drama), 390, 392
Babitz, Eve 387
“Baby” (Iggy Pop), 305
“Baby I Love You” (Ronettes), 378
“Baby It’s You” (Beatles), 127
“Baby Loves That Way” [A7], 404–5, 410
“Baby That’s a Promise” [A13], 408–9
“Baby’s in Black” (Beatles), 426
Bacall, Lauren, 119
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 176n, 421n
Bacharach, Burt, 54, 405
“Back to Where You’ve Never Been,” 452
Bagdasarian, Ross, 431
Bailey, Alice, 298n
Ball, Hugo, 387
Ball, Kenny, 24
“Ball Park Incident” (Wizzard), 218
“Ballad of a Thin Man” (Bob Dylan), 89
Ballard, J. G., 104n, 198, 312, 375n
Band, the, 164
Band on the Run (Paul McCartney LP), 353
Barbarella (film), 191
Barber, Anthony, 228
Barber, Chris, 24
Barberella (film), 347
Barnett, Angie. See Bowie, Mary Angela
Barrett, Syd, 98, 211, 438, 440, 446, 447
“Bars of the County Jail” [A10], 407, 411, 440
Bart, Lionel, 36
Basil Brush Show, The (TV series), 432
Bat Out of Hell (Meat Loaf LP), 379
Bates, Alan, 185
Battisti, Lucio, 222
“Battle of New Orleans” (Johnny Horton), 407
Baudelaire, Charles, 24, 172n
Baumann, Peter, 319
“Be My Baby” (Ronettes), 427
“Be My Wife” [138], 313, 388
Beach Boys, the, 123, 219, 225, 266, 292, 294, 318, 327, 357, 364, 427, 446
Beach Head (TV show), 59
Beardsley, Aubrey, 43
Beatles, the, vii, viii, 2, 5, 11, 25, 34, 42, 45–47, 61, 65, 66n, 70, 74, 76, 77, 93, 96n, 100n, 117, 123, 127, 132n, 135, 140, 147n, 151, 154, 175, 177, 183, 205, 212, 214, 223, 234, 237, 248, 250, 251, 270, 273, 274, 292, 295n, 312, 323, 334, 336, 358, 369, 371, 376n, 383, 386, 391, 392, 397, 399, 400, 406, 414n, 416n, 421n, 426, 431, 442, 447, 448, 450
Beatles for Sale (LP), 426
Beatstalkers, the, 438, 439
“Beauty and the Beast” [147], 329–30, 332n, 335
“Because They’re Young” (Duane Eddy), 383
“Because You’re Young” [189], 382–83
Beck, Jeff, 98, 211, 215, 216, 221
Beckenham Arts Lab, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 81, 90, 107, 186n
Beckett, Andy, 9, 112
Beck-Ola (Jeff Beck LP), 98
Bee Gees, the, 60, 262
Belew, Adrian, 356, 359, 362
Bellamy Brothers, the, 327
Bennett, Tony, 450
Bergman, Ingmar 347
Berlin (Lou Reed LP), 184
Berns, Bert, 210
Berry, Chuck, 116, 117, 129, 153, 192, 200, 219, 312
Bertolucci, Bernardo, 202
Besant, Annie, 93
Beuselinck, Oscar, 430
“Beware My Love” (Paul McCartney), 336
“Bewitched,” 243, 244
“Bewlay Brothers, The” [51], 147–48, 212, 241, 285, 407, 432
“Big Black Smoke” (Kinks), 418
“Big Brother” [103], 229, 240–41
Big Brother (TV series), 398
Bilk, Acker, 24
“Birds” (Neil Young), 144
Birkett, Jack, 51, 54
“Black Country Rock” [25], 101–2
“Black Hole Kids, The,” 160
Black Sabbath, 94, 107
Black Tie White Noise (LP), 354n, 394
Black Widow, 94
“Blackout” [153], 335–36
Blade Runner (film), 392
Blake, William, 95, 429, 438
Bland, Bobby “Blue,” 402<
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Blavatsky, Madame, 93
“Blockbuster” (Sweet), 186
Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan LP), 80n
Blondie, 371
Bloom, John, 34
Blow-Up (film), 347
Blue Mink, 108
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, 433
“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Queen), 386
“Boil Crisis” (Paul McCartney), 328
Bolan, Marc, 37, 60, 64, 80, 83, 102, 106, 108, 118, 120, 122, 124, 128, 134, 135, 153, 158, 166, 167, 169, 173, 175, 177–79, 185, 187, 198, 199, 200, 299, 344, 345, 370, 394n
Bolder, Trevor, 128, 129, 181, 202, 207
“Bombers” [42], 132–33, 139
“Bony Maronie” (Larry Williams), 359
Bookends (Simon & Garfunkel LP), 60n
“Boom-Bang-a-Bang” (Lulu), 426n
“Boris the Spider” (Who), 123
Boulez, Pierre, 234
Bowie, David (born David Robert Jones)
LIFE: born, 17, 19; family background, 19–21; favored son, 21; forms first band, 25; leaves school, 26; finds professional manager, 34; issues first record, 34; victimized for long hair, 35; becomes David Bowie, 36; sexually “mixed up,” 37; distanced from Swinging London, 45ff; demolishes image, 414; potential as children’s entertainer, 432; first film role, 48; writes first song cycle, 445–47; in love with Hermione, 53, 66–70; meets Angie, 53, 70; forms Arts Lab, 71; death of father, 73–75; meets Mick Ronson, 77; marries Angie, 83; meets Tony Defries, 90; son born, 129; becomes Ziggy Stardust, 166; glam-rock involvement, 177–80; first American tour, 185ff; Ziggy’s last stand, 205ff; splits from Ronson, 221; plans rock musicals, 228–31, 242, 247; moves to America, 10, 248, 249; discovers he doesn’t own MainMan, 255; unwilling to eat, 256; suicidal behavior, 257; splits from Defries, 276–78; first major film role, 279ff; collaborates with Iggy Pop, 302ff; moves to Berlin, 306–7; estranged from Angie, 306, 313; as family entertainer, 345–46; “emptied out,” 349; splits from Angie, 350–51; cultural tourist, 355, 357; confronts creative emptiness, 369; dispels characters, 384; video pioneer, 385–86; acts on Broadway, 387–89; retires to Switzerland, 389; becomes slick pop star, 391–92; forms Tin Machine, 393; emerges from torpor, 394; endures heart surgery and retires, 396
INFLUENCES: advertising, 3, 30–33, 168, 267; America, 116, 145, 219, 259–61; art, 136–38, 217, 326, 330, 331, 341–43, 363; beat writers, 23, 29, 30, 413; Berlin, 318–22, 332; Buddhism, 5, 6, 45, 49, 50, 427; drugs, 201, 282–85, 294, 372, 373, 418; fascism, 111, 112, 299–301, 347; fashion, 195–99, 375; jazz, 23, 24, 403, 412; “Krautrock,” 314–16, 324, 338, 356; mime, 50–52; minimalism, 242, 307, 314–16, 359; Mod, 37–39, 404, 409; punk, 326–29; R&B/soul, 34, 225, 227, 250–53, 401; religion, 284, 289–93, 393; rock‘n’roll, 22, 24, 25; silent film, 254, 255, 334; space, 57ff, 80, 149
THEMES: fragmentation, 4, 5, 233–35, 297, 382; madness, 5, 26–29, 46, 47, 99–101, 171, 284, 335–36; occult, 6, 89–95, 114, 144–47, 271, 284–89, 299, 309; sexuality, 11, 37, 118–21, 134, 154–58, 201, 220; stardom/fame, 3, 122, 124–27, 149–51, 164–66, 172–75, 276–78
Bowie, Jim, 36n
Bowie, Mary Angela “Angie” Barnett (DB’s first wife), 53, 70, 83, 88, 98, 99, 171, 180, 196, 224, 284n, 306, 307, 320, 350
Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy (Visconti book), 370
Bowie Showboat (concert series), 39
Bowie-ing Out (proposed LP), 206
“Boy and His Dog, A” (short story), 245
Boy George, 157
Boys International (magazine), 160n
“Boys Keep Swinging” [171], 341, 352, 358–59, 362, 386
Bradbury, Ray, 59, 149, 442
Bramlett, Bonnie, 131
Bramlett, Delaney, 165
Brando, Marlon, 201, 202
Brandt, Jerry, 220
Brave New World Revisited (book), 32
Bread, 327
“Breaking Glass” [134], 308–9, 361
Brecht, Bertolt, 286, 298, 350, 351, 390
Brel, Jacques, 49, 76, 77, 149, 160, 192
“Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, The” (artwork), 217
“Brighter Day” (Keith Christmas), 276
Brown, James, 154, 215, 251, 258, 276, 303, 305, 408
Brown, Joe, 25, 42
Brown, Oscar, 403, 450
“Brown Sugar” (Rolling Stones), 168, 202, 246
Browning, Tod, 245
B.T. Express, 276
Buckley, David, 91, 97, 243, 294, 307, 377
Buckley, Lord, 122
Buckmaster, Paul, 61, 72, 281
Buddha of Suburbia, The (novel/TV drama/LP), 394
Bulwer-Lytton, Lord, 114
“Bungalow Bill” (Beatles), 132n
“Bunny Thing” [A34], 429–30
Buñuel, Luis, 298, 386n
Burden, Chris, 330, 331
Buren, Daniel, 315
Burgess, Anthony, 195, 199
Burns, Myra Ann (DB’s half sister), 18, 20
Burns, Terence “Terry” (DB’s half brother), 18, 20–24, 26–30, 46, 99, 100, 106, 115, 148, 196
Burretti, Freddie, 126, 159n, 196
Burroughs, William S., 6, 23, 30, 49, 68, 233–35, 244–46, 293, 330, 335, 347
Buzz, the, 39, 44, 46, 411, 415, 423
“Buzz the Fuzz,” 136
“By the Light of a Magical Moon” (Tyrannosaurus Rex), 118
Byrds, the, 53, 59n, 122, 232, 323, 420, 448
Byrne, David, 354, 357, 360, 362
Cabaret (film), 174n, 193, 320
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (film), 254
Cadets, the, 273
Cale, John, 364, 423n
Cambridge, John, 87, 91, 124
Camelot (film), 347
Campbell, Glen, 327
Camus, Albert, 60
Can, 315, 354
“Can You Hear Me” [108], 249–50, 263, 264, 269, 360
“Can’t Help Thinking About Me” [A14], 39, 129, 171, 223, 379, 409–10, 411, 417
“Candidate.” See “(Alternative), Candidate” and “Sweet Thing”
Cann, Kevin, 43, 69, 108n, 124, 213, 430, 436
Captain and Tennille, the, 327
Carlos, Walter, 172
Carpenters, the, 165
“Carpet Man” (Fifth Dimension), 61
Carr, Roy, 238n
Carr-Pritchard, Mark, 128, 133, 134
Carroll, Lewis, 438
Cash, Johnny, 277, 371
Cassidy, David, 200
Castle, Roy, 433
Cat People (film), 389
Cathy Come Home (TV drama), 417, 428
Cavett, Dick, 257, 272
“C’est la Vie,” 431
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (Peter Hammill LP), 287n
Champion Flower Grower, The (play), 52
“Changes” [48], 11, 114, 140–43, 145, 150–52, 176, 185, 193, 262, 442n
ChangesOneBowie (LP), 340
“Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family” [104], 241–42, 319
Charge of the Light Brigade, The (film), 347
Chariots of the Gods (book by von Däniken), 166
Checker, Chubby, 436
Cher, 219, 263, 322n
Cherry, Ava, 224, 226, 261, 277, 283, 284n
Chic, 391
Chien Andalou, Un(film), 298, 386n
Children of God, 292
Children’s Favourites (radio series), 432
“Chim-Chim-Cheree” (Mary Poppins), 38, 408
Chimi Youngdong Rimpoche, 49
“China Girl,” 386n
“China Girl” (Iggy Pop), 305
“Ching-A-Ling” [A55], 70, 159, 193, 451–52
Chipmunks, the, 431
Christgau, Robert, 377, 379
Christiane F (film), 320
Christmas, Keith, 66, 68, 276
Church of All Worlds, 293
Church of Satan, 44, 292
Churchill, Winston S., 146
Cinderella (stage musical), 44
City of Night (book), 271
Civic Assistance, 300
Clapton, Eric, 77, 132, 211, 301, 392
“Clarietta Rag, The” (Kevin Ayers), 129n
Clark, Robin, 261
Clash, the, 380
“Cleaning Windows” (Van Morrison), 45n
Climax Blues Band, 294
Clockwork Orange, A (film), 167, 172, 195, 196, 344
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 367
Clowns Hour (dance show), 50
“C’mon Everybody” (Eddie Cochran), 117
Coasters, the, 24
Cobain, Kurt, 108
Cochran, Eddie, 116, 117, 369
Cocker, Joe, 132
Cockettes, the, 186
Cohen, Leonard, 53
Cohn, Nik, 159, 165
“Cold Turkey” (John Lennon), 376
Coleman, Ornette, 24
Collins, Joan, 41
Collins, Phil, 392
Coltrane, John, 23–26, 30
“Columbine” [16], 84
“Come and Buy My Toys” [A33], 429
“Come On” (Chuck Berry), 117
Coming Race, The (book), 114
“Comme d’Habitude” (Claude François), 149, 222, 444, 451
Como, Perry, 326
Complete David Bowie, The (book), 377
Confessions (book), 95
Conn, Leslie, 34, 35, 37, 400, 402
Connery, Sean, 346
Conrad, Jess, 436
Conrad, Peter 17, 192
Contours, the, 127
“Contra Conjugium TTB” (poem), 286
“Conversation Piece” [4], 66–67
Cook, Peter & Dudley Moore, 446
Cooper, Henry, 430
Coronation Street (TV series), 36
Corso, Gregory, 23
Costello, Elvis & the Attractions, 232, 357, 375, 382, 383
Country Joe & the Fish, 130
County, Wayne, 138, 188, 239n
“Cracked Actor” [73], 201–2
Cracked Actor (TV show), 254, 269
Crackerjack (TV series), 432
Crash (book), 312
Crazy Horse, 124
Crazy Horse (Crazy Horse LP), 124
Cream, 46, 101, 148, 154, 363, 381n
“Crocodile Rock” (Elton John), 218
Cronenberg, David, 363
Crosby, Bing, 345
Crosby, David, 69
Crosby, Stills & Nash, 107, 132n
Cross, Jimmy, 406
Crowe, Cameron, 282, 285
Crowley, Aleister, 93–95, 146, 283, 284, 286, 289, 316
“Crystal Japan” [179], 325, 326, 367
Cruising with Ruben & The Jets (Frank Zappa LP), 127
Culture of Narcissism, The (book), 13
Cure, the, 391
Curious (magazine), 126
Curved Air, 139
“Cygnet Committee” [8], 69, 73–75, 76n, 79, 286
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