A New Career in a New Town
David Bowie in Berlin (1976–1978)

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I tried to analyze the most important artistic and personal motivations, which led David Bowie to restart his career in Berlin in Autumn 1976. In semi-seclusion Bowie and his colleagues invented an experimental recording technique and produced a couple of superb songs (“Heroes”, Warszawa). Nevertheless, we should not forget that the whole Berlin Trilogy is rather alienating for many of the listeners. But the oeuvre appears more and more inspiring from a philological point of view. I tried to reconstruct David Bowie’s one and a half years in Berlin relying on the original sources.

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