The luxury edition of LOW includes a dust jacket, a signed and numbered print, and is limited to 1,976 copies. Hardcover.
1976 finds David Bowie at the peak … of his drug addiction. Racked by paranoia and
celebrity culture, he flees the glitz of Los Angeles for (West) Berlin.
In a city where every path eventually hits a wall, he is supposed to feel
freer than ever before.
With plenty of period detail, Reinhard Kleist depicts how Bowie plunges headfirst
in Berlin into the yesterday, the today, and the tomorrow: he explores the
decadence of the wild twenties with Romy Haag, and dives into the music of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream with Iggy Pop.
And in the Hansa Studios, in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, his most visionary music
grows from the spirit of the past. In Berlin, Ziggy Stardust,
Halloween Jack, and the Thin White Duke become David Bowie …
