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"[The] cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop. Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late Sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In [this...
5) Legacy
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A collection of David Bowie's most popular tracks and singles, from 1969's Space Oddity through to 2016's Lazarus.
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Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry. “Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision” reveals the true story of how glam carved out a place as a diverse musical style and how it related to the artistic, political, economic, emotional, sexual, and commercial scenes of the late twentieth century. Committed to spectacle but also to musical ingenuity, glam...
15) Becoming Bowie
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This documentary takes a look at the career of music icon David Bowie, beginning with his more conventional forays into music and following his ascent to stardom in the realm of glam rock.
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David Bowie the final changes volume DVD 2
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"By the mid 1970s David Bowie was the biggest pop star in the UK, but his personal life was in turmoil. In a bid to escape the chaos of his drug problems and to flee from the media spotlight, the performer and musician eventually found his was to West Berlin, where he started to work on what would become some of the most memorable and critically lauded recordings of his career. Bowie stopped moving from persona to persona, as he had previously done,...