A short history of how Low, David Bowie's least accessible album, came to be. It's intertwined with the story of Brian Eno's involvement, with how IggA short history of how Low, David Bowie's least accessible album, came to be. It's intertwined with the story of Brian Eno's involvement, with how Iggy Pop's The Idiot came to be, and a bit on Bowie's Berlin years (I find it enormously fitting that Bowie had a portrait of Yukio Mishima hanging in his Berlin flat - Wilcken doesn't go much into that, but like Bowie Mishima saw his life as art-work itself, I don't believe that Mishima ever really wanted a coup, he wanted to stage his death using his aesthetics).
Aaaaaanyway Wilcken overuses autism and schizophrenia a bit too much (I take the cocaine-induced psychosis - I reject the autistic album), it's still a very interesting story and interpretation of the album (if you're into that!)
P.S.: How weird that David Bowie who at the time didn't sleep for days and did nothing but cocaine while spouting Crowley tidbits was able to get custody for his child after a divorce, what lawyer made that miracle happen?
P.P.S.: It's also the only book I ever read that ends with 'if you need more details on quotes and citations, drop me a mail at '...more
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