Bowie Odyssey 75 - Collectors Edition

Simon Goddard takes readers on a journey book by book, year by year, through Bowie's greatest decade with this special edition limited to just 500 copies. This edition is the fifth in a series of Bowie Odyssey collector's editions and the only way to acquire the book in hardback. It features a special alternative cover.

In 1975, David Bowie should have had a golden year with his first starring role in a feature film and his first number 1s on both sides of the Atlantic. However, behind the spotlight, the suave soul boy of Young Americans is spiraling into a self-made hell of cocaine, witchcraft, and the dark fantasies of his new fascist alter-ego, the Thin White Duke.

While David goes wild in the Hollywood hills, in Britain there is a Nazi-crazed murderer on the loose, a masked rapist at large, and a power-hungry grocer’s daughter on the rise. Amidst the chaos, there are restless scamps at a certain King’s Road clothes shop, and David's own drug-fueled genius is pushing him to create the album of his life.

The Seventies are on the verge of reigniting with a bang. The sixth volume in Simon Goddard’s epic adventure through Bowie's greatest decade, Bowie Odyssey 75 is a meticulously plotted tour de force of rock’n’roll, crime, punishment, politics, punk – and a cautionary tale of tragicomic addiction.