The Songs – hundreds of individual entries reveal the facts and anecdotes behind not just the famous recordings, but also the most obscure of unreleased rarities – from ‘Absolute Beginners’ to ‘Ziggy Stardust’, from ‘Abdulmajid’ to ‘Zion’.

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David Bowie: Icon gathers the greatest photographs of one of the greatest stars in history, into a single, luxurious volume. The result is the most important anthology of David Bowie images that has ever been compiled. With work by many of the most eminent names in photography, this book showcases a stunning portfolio of imagery, featuring the iconic, the awe inspiring, the candid and the surprising. David Bowie è.. l'unica icona per cui abbia provato tutta la vita un'attrazione irragionevole: se mai ho avuto un ideale di bellezza supremo, questo coincide con le sue fattezze. My friend Billy summed up the huge crowds very succinctly, "The people. All the fat skinny people, all the tall short people. I never thought I'd hate so many people. I really disliked the cattle-market aspect of it but I suppose, with something that has proved to be so popular for which I expect they'll have a limited run time, this is unavoidable." O quantomeno David Bowie è... l'incarnazione umana in forma artistica di questa εἶδος, quale incessante ricerca della compiutezza sia come forma che come pensiero, ciò che io più o meno kantianamente percepisco con i miei sensi attraverso le miei categorie trascendentali, αἰσθάνομαι. Che, essendo stata realizzata abbastanza prima, non ha potuto sostenere anche che David Bowie è.... un processo di tesi e antitesi che ha trovato alfine una sintesi mirabile nella sua morte.La morte di David Bowie è... sconvolgente perché non so se ci siano precedenti simili e inevitabilmente pone domande e offre interpretazioni di natura più generale che forse non sono ancora state esplorate. David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming music, style and art for over five decades. David Bowie’s career as a pioneering artist spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He continues to be cited as a major influence on contemporary artists and designers working across the creative arts. Tant'è, l'immersione nel mondo-Bowie dell'esposizione (grazie a un efficacissimo equilibrio tra stimoli visivi e sonori durante tutto il percorso) è estremamente coinvolgente ed esteticamente gratificante, quasi patologica per i fan-atici, assurge addirittura a esperienza mistica in seguito alla sua morte

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Bowie discovered Buddhism in the mid-1960s, befriending exiled Tibetan lamas in London and devouring Heinrich Harrer’s 1952 memoir. Harrer had lived in Tibet at a time when few Westerners had ever ventured there, and documented its last days as an independent kingdom before the Chinese conquest. Harrer’s depictions of the Dalai Lama’s Potala palace would shape Bowie’s 1967 “Silly Boy Blue,” the song of a dreaming monk in Lhasa. And decades later, Bowie named a song on his Earthling album after Harrer’s book. In his own “Seven Years in Tibet,” Bowie returned in the mid-1990s to find a land still under the tyrant’s heel, still dreaming resistance.

I went to see "David Bowie Is" at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Saturday 11 May 2013. I was a massive Bowie fan in the 1970s and so was keen to see this exhibition.