BACKSTAGE PASSES: Life on the wild side with David Bowie
By Angela Bowie with Patric Carr 1993.
Hardcover 262 pages. Contains b/w photos
 

 

.Backstage Passes
1993 hardcover
9,75" x 6,5" (24cm x 16cm)
ISBN 0-399-13764-5

Backstage Passes
1993 softcover edition
7" x 4 1/2" (17,5cm x 11,2cm)
ISBN 1 85797 108 6


David Bowie is an inspiration to millions of fans and budding musicians around the world. Throughout his career he's been consitently, outrageously ahead of the game. Without doubt, he's an absolute original, to many a musical genius, but what was he like behind the scenes? And what were the forces that drove his vision?

.....One person knows him better than anyone lese, perhaps at times better than himself - ex-wife Angela Bowie. Now for the first time she describes their life together with shocking candour - David's ruthless ambition to get to the top no matter how many people he had to sleep with or use in the process, his wild bisexual orgies with the stars of the day, and his near fatal degeneration at the hands of Satanist Cults and low-life drug dealers. Included here are many sensational home truths never before revealed, stories that will stain the reader and amaze Bowie's fans.

 

"Bowie's ex-wife tells the raunchy, rollercoaster story of their turbulent ten-year marriage. Bowie is one of rock's greatest stars - musical legend, hero to millions, always outrageously ahead of his time. But also a man battling monsters within; ruthlessly ambitious, paranoid and often vicious, teetering on the verge of self-destruction through an orgy of sex and drugs.

.....Now Angela Bowie reveals how they planned his rise from in-crowd cult hero to rock superstar; of bisexual orgies, backstabbing record executives, and the lives, loves and excesses of the icons of the age - Jagger, Richards, Elton, Rod, and of course, Bowie himself."