Far Above The World: 'Magical and inspired, like Bowie himself' Jonny Marr
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In the ten years since the death of David Bowie in 2016 there has been no loss of interest in and fascination with his life, music and driven, complex personality. Quite the opposite - he is definitely one musician, one performer, destined not to be forgotten. The significant grief and sadness that greeted his death has evolved into a deeper, enduring love for his music, style, wit, artistic curiosity, sexual energy, flamboyant outsider spirit and insatiable, provocative appetite for life.
Far Above the World will document one of the UK's greatest creative artists, capturing his formative years before he became a household name, and then taking the reader through a spectacularly colourful and vibrant journey of a man who constantly reinvented himself and his music.
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At the centre of a contradiction was where David Bowie was at his happiest, squeezing the pop out of the avant garde and the other way round. Electrically charged by opposing forces; the fusion of the instant and the eternal, showbusiness and shamanism, male/female.The garish rosy cheeks of celebrity and the pale pallor of his interior jazz-man Duke Elegant. The same fascinations as Paul Morley and Far Above the World, a zoetrope of the life of David Robert Jones. - -I love Paul Morley's writing about David Bowie ... magical and inspired, like Bowie himself. - -A compelling chronicle of David Bowie's search for new ideas and where they led him. Bowie: the keen-bean enthusiast and cunning strategist, the original and the imitator, the star and the bloke, the pale intellectual and the sexy rock-and-roller. Paul Morley brings them all together in this intriguingly philosophical study of a unique artist. - -The hardened Bowie fanatic, of which there are many, will learn little of David Bowie the pop star, but instead will have their mind opened to a side of Bowie rarely explored in such depth. Morley has produced a wondrous collection of writings to provoke the Bowie fan into deepening their understanding of the man, not just the myth. - God Is In the TVInsightful and vibrant, Far Above the World is a compelling reminder that Bowie's influence didn't end in 2016. Instead, it continues to illuminate the present and chart the path ahead. - The Voice
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