Bowie

Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early seventies, when the singer appeared on Britain s most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of Starman mesmerized Critchley: it was so sexual, so knowing, so strange. Two days later Critchley s mum bought a copy of the single; [...]
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Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early seventies, when the singer appeared on Britain s most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of Starman mesmerized Critchley: it was so sexual, so knowing, so strange. Two days later Critchley s mum bought a copy of the single; she liked both the song and the performer s bright orange hair (she had previously been a hairdresser). The seed of a lifelong love affair was thus planted in the mind of her son, aged 12.
In this concise and engaging excursion through the songs of one of the world s greatest pop stars, Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie s work. The result is nearly as provocative and mind-expanding as the artist it portrays.
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