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David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947, in Brixton, London. He was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. Bowie was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was a prolific artist, but his work was always met with critical acclaim. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Bowie died on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday.
David Bowie was a man of many talents. He was a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. He was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was a prolific artist, but his work was always met with critical acclaim. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Bowie died on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday.
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Contents
1.The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
2.The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
3.The Coast of Utopia (trilogy) by Tom Stoppard
4.The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 by Jon Savage
5.Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
6.The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
7.Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
8.The Russian Revolution 1890-1924 by Orlando Figes
9.The Insult by Rupert Thomson
10.Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
11.The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
12.A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
13.The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C Danto
14. Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
15.David Bomberg by Richard Cork
16.Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
17.The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
18.Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
19.The Story of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
20.Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
21.Money by Martin Amis
22.White Noise by Don DeLillo
23.Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
24.The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White
25.A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
26.A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
27.Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
28.Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
29.Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
30.The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
31.Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
32.In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
33.The Paris Review Interviews by ed Malcolm Cowley
34.The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
35.Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
36.Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
37.Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
38.A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich
39.Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture by George Steiner
40.The Rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett
41.The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf
42.The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
43.The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
44.Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
45.Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
46.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
47.City of Night by John Rechy
48.Herzog by Saul Bellow
49.Puckoon by Spike Milligan
50.The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
51.The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
52.The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
53.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
54.Inside the Whale and Other Essays by George Orwell
55.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
56.Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas Harding
57.Lectures and Writing by John Cage
58.Strange People by Frank Edwards
59.The Divided Self by RD Laing
60.All the Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd
61.Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
62.The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
63.On the Road by Jack Kerouac
64.The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
65.Room at the Top by John Braine
66.A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
67.The Outsider by Colin Wilson
68.Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
69.Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
70.The Street by Ann Petry
71.Black Boy by Richard Wright
Conclusion:
David Bowie was a man of many talents. He was a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. He was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was a prolific artist, but his work was always met with critical acclaim. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Bowie died on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday.
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