David Bowie's Serious Moonlight: The World Tour

by Chet Flippo

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385192665
• ISBN13: 9780385192668
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Put On Your Red Shoes and Dance

This is a gorgeous documentation of Bowie's world tour in 1984. I recommend this book in hardback for the collector. This tour was in a sense, Bowie's "comeback" from the '70s. Healthy from boxing, off drugs, tanned, blonde, and back into Buddhism, Bowie chose the best musicians to travel with him to the farthest reaches of the globe. The most interesting photos being shot in Asia. (There is a companion documentary on film, Ricochet, which is also excellent.) Bowie was again setting the sound for bands like Duran Duran (who were his backup group), and I remember Hall and Oates doing "Maneater" to Bowie's "Fame and "Let's Dance". David Bowie had just taken his own power by learning every aspect of the music business, and managing himself. He was still under the confines of his old management, who owned the rights to his older music. So Bowie cleaned up his act, wrote new music, and toured the hell out it because he'd just lost everything. He was living with a new sense of responsibility, having legally won custody of his son, Joey. So it was his son who was Bowie's primary companion, and his personal assistant, Coco Schwab, who helped him regroup and staff this tour. An amazing and early study of a rock artist who knew the breadth of his talents and moved forward, in spite of everyone and everything that might have tried to hold him down.