# Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie Volume 8 - Hardcover

by **Sean Egan** (Editor)

**Over the Rainbow Selection 2016**

David Bowie has been one of pop music's greatest interviewees since January 1972, when he famously risked career death by asserting to _Melody Maker_ that he was gay. Although he wasn't yet a big star, it was a groundbreaking moment. And over the years, Bowie has failed to give an uninteresting interview. It might be said that he has habitually used the media for his own ends, but he has paradoxically also been searingly honest, declining to ever be coy about his ambitions, his private life, and even his occasional ennui.

_Bowie on Bowie_ presents some of the best interviews Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time as young novelty hit-maker, hairy hippie, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, plastic soul man, fragile Germanic exile, godfather of the New Romantics, eighties sellout, Tin Machinist, and, finally, permanently, artistically reborn beloved elder statesman of challenging popular music. In all of these iterations he is remarkably articulate. He is also preternaturally polite--almost every interviewer remarks upon his charm.

The features in this book come from outlets both prestigious (_Melody__Maker, Mojo, New Musical Express,_ _Q, Rolling Stone_) and less well-known (_The Drummer, Guitar,_ _Ikon,_ Mr. Showbiz). In all cases, Bowie enables the reader to approach the nerve center of his ferociously creative and prolific output.

### Author Biography

Sean Egan is an author and journalist who has interviewed members of the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, the Velvet Underground, the Who, and many others. He is the author or editor of several books, including _Keith Richards_ _on Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix_ _and the Making of_ Are You Experienced, _Defining Moments in Music,_ _The Mammoth Book of the Beatles_, _The Rough Guide to the Rolling_ _Stones_, and _David Bowie: Ever_ _Changing Hero_.  

**Number of Pages:** 432

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** May 01, 2015

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