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The Man Who Sold the World

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by Peter Doggett


  Super Fly (Curtis Mayfield LP), 230

  “Supermen, The” [19], 90–92, 110

  “Superstar” (Carpenters), 165

  Supremes, the, 169, 327

  “Susie Cincinnati” (Beach Boys), 123

  Sweet, 179, 186, 187

  “Sweet Head” [55], 158, 159–60

  “Sweet Jane” (Velvet Underground), 116, 134n

  “Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing” [100], 205, 232, 235–37, 238, 333

  “Sweets for My Sweet” (Drifters), 446

  Sylvain, Sylvain, 191

  Takada, Kenzo, 197

  “Take It with Soul,” 431

  “Take My Tip” [A5], 403, 412

  Talking Heads, 357, 359, 360, 376

  Talmy, Shel, 213, 402, 403, 405, 406, 408

  Tangerine Dream, 315, 319

  Taupin, Bernie, 426n

  Taxi Driver (film), 272

  Taylor, James, 107

  Taylor, Mick, 133

  Taylor, Vince, 166n

  Teardrop Explodes, the, 336

  “Teenage Wildlife” [186], 377–80

  Television, 381

  “Tell Me Why” (Neil Young), 107

  Tempest, The (play), 285

  Temptations, the, 253, 295

  10cc, 218

  Teorema (film), 155

  Tevis, Walter, 280

  “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again” (Sly & the Family Stone), 277

  “That’s Where My Heart Is” [A8], 405–6

  Thatcher, Margaret, 9, 15, 360, 366, 380n

  Them, 210

  “Theme from Shaft” (Isaac Hayes), 230, 295

  “There Is a Happy Land” [A25], 71, 421

  These Foolish Things (Bryan Ferry LP), 218

  “Things to Do” [95], 227

  “This Boy,” 154, 200

  “This Pullover” (Jess Conrad), 436

  This Year’s Model (Elvis Costello LP), 383

  Thomas, Dylan, 81

  Thomas, Leslie, 35

  Thomson, Malcolm, 60

  Thorn in Mrs Rose’s Side, The (Biff Rose LP), 136

  Three Degrees, the, 258

  Three Dog Night 131

  Threepenny Opera, The (stage musical), 110

  “Threepenny Joe,” 443

  “Threepenny Pierrot” [14], 84

  Thunders, Johnny, 187

  Ticket That Exploded, The (book), 233

  “Tiger Rag, The” (Benny Goodman), 188

  “Till the Morning Comes” (Neil Young), 129

  “Time” [69], 192–93, 308

  Time Out (magazine), 62n

  “Times They Are a-Changin’, The” (Bob Dylan), 133

  Tin Machine, 393

  “Tiny Girls” (Iggy Pop), 305

  Tiny Tim, 133, 136

  “Tiny Tim,” 445, 446

  “Tired of My Life” [27], 107–8, 132n, 368

  “Tired of Waiting for You” (Kinks), 411, 412

  Toffler, Alvin 245

  Tokens, the, 406

  Tommy (Who LP), 447

  “ ‘Tonas’ y Lavinias” (poem), 172n

  Tonight (LP), 225, 392

  Tonight (TV series), 35

  Tonight Show, The (TV series), 387

  Top of the Pops (TV series), 11, 156, 168, 174, 177–79, 374

  Tornados, the, 367

  Toroni, Niele, 315

  Towering Inferno, The (film), 7

  Townshend, Pete, 38, 142, 213, 215, 247, 327, 383, 390, 433n, 447

  Toy (proposed LP), 395, 419, 428

  “Tragic Moments.” See “Zion”

  “Trans-Europe Express” (Kraftwerk), 336

  Trans-Fixed (artwork), 330

  Transformer (Lou Reed LP), 182–84

  Treatise on White Magic, A (book), 298n

  Tremeloes, the, 440

  T. Rex, 108, 124, 170, 178, 185, 191, 345, 394n

  Triumph of the Will (film), 452

  Truth (Jeff Beck LP), 98

  Tumbleweed Connection (Elton John LP), 120

  Turquoise, 53, 62n, 451

  TV Eye (Iggy Pop LP), 304n

  “TVC15” [129], 124, 291, 293–94, 340, 386

  “25-Cent Dude, The” (Lead Belly), 175

  Twiggy, 191

  2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 59, 111n, 212n

  Two Virgins (John Lennon & Yoko Ono LP), 158

  Tyrannosaurus Rex, 64, 118

  Tzara, Tristan, 234

  “Uncle Arthur” [A23], 420

  “Under Pressure,” 390

  Underwood, George, 22, 34, 64, 82n, 128–30, 192, 400

  Unification Church, 292

  “Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed” [11], 79–80

  “Up the Hill Backwards” [182], 369–70, 371

  Uriah Heep, 107

  Ustinov, Peter, 346

  Valentine, Penny, 105, 135

  Valentino, Rudi, 126, 164

  Van Der Graaf Generator, 287

  Van Dyke, Dick, 339

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 305

  Vandross, Luther, 256, 261, 270, 271

  Vasarely, Victor, 81

  “Velvet Couch” [176], 364

  “Velvet Goldmine” [54], 158–59, 193

  Velvet Underground, the, 5, 116, 134, 137, 158, 167, 182, 183, 219, 246, 266, 336, 364, 423n, 437, 439, 447, 450

  Velvet Underground & Nico, The (Velvet Underground LP), 437, 439

  “Venus in Furs” (Velvet Underground), 437

  Verlaine, Tom, 381

  Vile Bodies (book), 188, 193

  Vincent, Gene, 158

  Vintage Violence (John Cale LP), 364

  Virgin Fugs (Fugs LP), 437

  Virgin Soldiers, The (book/film), 35, 54

  Visconti, Tony, 49, 52, 72, 83, 87–89, 91, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 104–6, 124, 128, 135, 186n, 200n, 246n, 250, 251, 255, 264n, 272, 273, 307, 308, 310n, 311, 317, 329, 332, 334, 355, 358, 359, 366, 370, 371, 376, 391, 441, 442

  Visitor, The (fictional LP), 280n

  Vogue (magazine), 126, 198

  Von Däniken, Erich, 166

  “V-2 Schneider” [154], 336–37

  Wagner, Richard, 72, 212, 288

  “Wagon Wheel” (Lou Reed), 183

  Wainwright, Rufus, 158n

  “Waiting for the Man” [A44], 154, 246, 437, 439

  Wakeman, Rick, 61, 143, 147, 150

  “Walk on By” (Dionne Warwick), 427

  “Walk on the Wild Side” (Lou Reed), 183

  Walkabout (film), 280

  Walker, Scott, 85, 184, 214, 354n, 379

  Walker, General Sir Walter, 300

  Walker Brothers, the, 354n, 362

  “Walking the Dog” (Rolling Stones), 400

  Wally (proposed film), 347

  Ward, Brian, 152

  Warhol, Andy, 5, 50, 129, 136–39, 152, 182, 183, 185, 188, 217, 302, 437

  “Warszawa” [140], 317–18, 322

  Warwick, Dionne, 427, 450

  Waste Land, The (book), 64n

  “Watch That Man” [66], 187–88, 218

  “Watching the Detectives” (Elvis Costello), 383

  Waterhouse, Keith, 142, 421

  Waters, Muddy, 34, 186, 401

  Watts, Michael, 114, 154, 173, 349

  Waugh, Evelyn, 188, 193, 194, 438

  Wayne, John, 106

  Wayne, Mick, 61, 65, 443

  “We Are Hungry Men” [A26], 422–23

  “We Are the Dead” [102], 229, 239–40, 247n

  “We Love You” (Rolling Stones), 386

  “We Should Be on by Now,” 192

  Webb, Jimmy, 61

  Weberman, A. J., 130

  Weedon, Burt, 327

  “Weeping Wall” [142], 319

  Weill, Kurt, 110, 350, 351, 390

  Weller, Mike, 106

  Wells, H. G., 114, 416

  West Side Story (stage musical), 223, 272

  “Western Movies” (Olympics), 273

  “Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am” (Charles Mingus), 167n

  “What in the World” [135], 309–10
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  “What Kind of Fool Am I” 39, 427

  “Whatcha Gonna Do About It” (Small Faces), 404

  Wheatley, Dennis, 93

  “When I Live My Dream” [A40], 435–36, 443

  “When I’m Five” [A53], 70, 71, 449, 450

  “When I’m Sixty-Four” (Beatles), 450

  “When Your Parents Go to Sleep” (Kevin Ayers), 242

  “Where Have All the Good Times Gone” [87], 216–17

  White, Timothy, 27, 349

  “White Light/White Heat” (Velvet Underground), 154, 167, 219, 222, 266, 331, 336

  White Light/White Heat (artwork), 331

  “White Room” (Cream), 363

  Whitman, Slim, 327

  Who, the, 38, 97, 123, 127, 142, 154, 205, 208, 213, 216, 218, 247, 251, 327, 328, 383, 390, 404, 420, 433n, 438, 440, 447, 448

  “Who Can I Be Now?” [115], 262–63, 279

  “Who Can I Turn To” (Anthony Newley), 42

  “Why Don’t You Write Me” (Jacks), 273

  Widmark, Richard, 36n

  “Width of a Circle, The” [18], 86–90, 91, 92

  Wild Angels, the, 153

  Wild Boys, The (book), 244

  “Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud” [7], 71–73, 102

  “Wild Is the Wind” [131], 66, 74n, 290, 295–96, 405

  Wilde, Oscar, 43, 51, 81

  Williams, Andy, 52

  Williams, Hank, 144

  Williams, Larry, 359

  Williamson, Sonny Boy, 180

  Willis, Ellen, 185

  Wilson, Brian, 318

  Wilson, Colin, 24, 94, 118, 141, 145, 331

  Wilson, Harold, 15, 415

  “Win” [120], 270

  Winwood, Stevie, 34

  “Witch Doctor” (David Seville), 431

  “With a Little Help from My Friends” (Beatles), 416n

  Wizard a True Star, A (Todd Rundgren LP), 223

  Wolfe, Tom, 13–15, 31, 252

  Wonder, Stevie, 34, 250, 268, 275, 292

  Wood, Ron, 220

  Wood, Roy’s Wizzard, 192

  Woodmansey, Woody, 96, 97, 103, 104, 106, 128, 147, 181, 207, 209

  Woolf, Virginia, 42, 120

  “Word on a Wing” [128], 289–93

  Wordsworth, William, 95, 429

  World Jones Made, The (book), 169n

  World of David Bowie, The (LP), 84, 441–43, 448

  Wright, Arthur G., 136

  Wyman, Bill, 406

  X Factor, The (TV series), 398

  Yamamoto, Kansai, 197, 204

  Yardbirds, the, 180, 186, 211, 215, 310, 400, 414n

  “Yassassin” [167], 355–56

  “Yeah Yeah” (Georgie Fame), 403

  Yeats, W. B., 360n

  “Yellow Submarine” (Beatles), 450

  York, Peter, 196

  “You Belong to Me” (Elvis Costello), 383

  “You Didn’t Hear It from Me.” See “Dodo”

  “You Gotta Have a Job,” 154

  “You Haven’t Done Nothin’ ” (Stevie Wonder), 268

  “You Keep Me Hanging On” (Supremes), 169

  “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” 39, 427

  “You Really Got Me” (Kinks), 404

  “You Shook Me” (Jeff Beck), 98

  “You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving” [A6], 403–4, 408

  “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” (Beatles), 100n

  “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ ” (Righteous Brothers), 435

  Young, Neil, 107, 124, 129, 132, 144, 357

  “Young Americans” [113], 237, 258, 259–61, 273

  Young Americans (LP), 12, 141, 152, 198, 225, 249, 259, 262–64, 267, 269, 270, 273, 275, 278–79, 297, 313, 351

  “Your Funny Smile” [A35], 430

  Yule, Doug, 182

  Zager & Evans, 80

  Zanetta, Tony, 138

  Zappa, Frank, 44, 127, 225, 244, 423, 424, 440, 447, 450

  “Zen Archer” (Todd Rundgren), 223

  Zen Buddhism (book), 45

  “Ziggy Stardust” [35], 121–23, 124, 130

  Ziggy Stardust (LP), 11, 81, 92, 106, 109, 116, 118, 119, 121, 127, 132, 133, 151–53, 158–62, 167–70, 172–75, 204, 230, 244, 297, 350, 441, 447

  Ziggy Stardust (proposed musical), 242, 246

  Zimmerman, Tucker, 186n

  “Zion” [75], 205

  “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans), 433

  Zoo, 211

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Peter Doggett has been writing about popular music, the entertainment industry, and social and cultural history since 1980. A regular contributor to Mojo, Q, and GQ, Doggett is the author of many books, including There’s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ’60s; and, most recently, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup.

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  ALSO BY PETER DOGGETT

  You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

  There’s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ’60s

  The Art and Music of John Lennon

  Christie’s Rock and Pop Memorabilia (co-author)

  Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock

  Abbey Road/Let It Be: The Beatles (Classic Rock Albums Series)

  Lou Reed: Growing Up in Public

  CREDITS

  Cover photograph © R. BAMBER /Rex Features /Courtesy Everett Collection

  Cover design by Archie Ferguson

  COPYRIGHT

  THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD. Copyright © 2012 Peter Doggett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.

  Originally published in different form in Great Britain in 2011 by The Bodley Head, The Random House Group Limited.

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  * This was exactly the quality that the German rock band Kraftwerk exploited during the seventies, exerting a huge influence over Bowie’s work in the second half of the decade.

  * The same argument had been propounded by surrealists such as the poet Paul Éluard in the 1920s.

  * Though not for long: his company went into voluntary liquidation in July 1964.

  *
The name was inspired by the legendary Wild West character Jim Bowie, creator of the Bowie knife. David would later claim that he had chosen it for its incisive, knifelike qualities, but this was retrospective exaggeration; the simple fact was that he had enjoyed Richard Widmark’s portrayal of Bowie in the 1960 Western epic The Alamo. In a bid for individuality, he chose to ignore the US pronunciation of the name [Boo-ie]; he rhymed the first syllable of his adopted surname with “mow,” and not “wow.”

  * Van Morrison would later acknowledge the same influence, in his song “Cleaning Windows.”

  * The British Board of Film Censors effectively sabotaged the project by informing Armstrong that the screenplay’s homoerotic ambience made it impossible to film within the existing censorship laws.

  * Typically, Bowie was able to create mythology out of this depressing interlude. In 1975, he recalled: “I used to work for two guys [presumably in the copy shop] who put out a UFO magazine in England. And I made sightings six, seven times a night for about a year, when I was in the observatory. We never used to tell anybody.” A few seconds later, he talked about “media control . . . It’s just so easy to do.” Indeed, he could have lectured on the subject.

  * All Our Yesterdays was a TV series that ran in the United Kingdom from 1960 to 1973, comprising nostalgic excerpts of twenty-five-year-old newsreel footage.

  * The American rock band the Byrds preempted Kubrick by several months with their own “Space Odyssey”; they later recorded a tribute to the Apollo 11 astronauts.

  * Compare also the construction of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Save the Life of My Child” on the Bookends album, which Bowie studied closely in 1968.

  * This chord recurred on other songs Bowie wrote during their collaboration, then vanished from his repertoire.

  * The C chord that established the key was played higher up the guitar neck than its companions.

  * All Bowie biographers agree that this artifact was taped in the Mercury Records office and was aimed at the record company’s executives. But internal evidence leads me to believe that it was recorded at Bowie’s home, for the ears of Bob Harris, the future BBC disc jockey then working for the London listings magazine Time Out. Harris had secured prestigious London gigs for Turquoise the previous year and continued to promote Bowie’s cause throughout 1969.

 

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