David Bowie and the Berlin Trilogy

<p>In this vivid and finely tuned essay Christian Soleil retraces David Bowie's incandescent Berlin years-those suspended months when a fractured artist sought refuge in a fractured city. Within the echoing walls of Hansa Studios amid concrete smells and whispers drifting from the East Bowie reinvented himself and reshaped the future of music. <em>Low</em> <em>Heroes</em> <em>Lodger</em>: three albums three stages of a bold metamorphosis.</p><p>Soleil's writing captures the grey-silver days the neon-streaked nights the essential friendships doubts and bursts of genius. Berlin emerges as a character in its own right: a laboratory-city where everything wavers breaks and begins again.</p><p>This book is a passage-a journey through the self through sound through reinvention. A chance to return to the Berlin Trilogy where Bowie proved that an artist can shed his skin find a new one and in doing so shift the world on its axis.</p>