Your pretty face is going to hell : the dangerous glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed /
"When Lou Reed and Iggy Pop first met David Bowie in the fall of 1971, Bowie was just another English musician passing through New York City. Lou was still recovering from the collapse of the Velvet Underground, and Iggy had already been branded a loser. Yet within two years they completely cha...
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New York :
Backbeat Books,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Performance. A ghost blooded country all covered with sleep
- They wore the clothes, they said the things
- Soul radiation in the dead of night
- A dentured ocelot on a leash
- I love you in your fuck-me pumps
- Smokestacks belching, breasts turn brown
- Beat narrow heart, the song lots of people know
- Strangers were all that were left alive
- Part II. Inserts. If I have to die here, first I'm gonna make some noise
- You're still doing things I gave up years ago
- Things seem good, someone cares about you
- My voodoo master, my machine
- For screeching and yelling and various offenses
- A nation hides its organic minds in the cellar
- Caged like a wild rat by fools
- You can hit me all you want to
- Part III. Cabaret. Down below with the rest of her toys
- A dirty sky full of youths and liquors
- The plays have gone down and the crowds have scattered.