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Among the periodicals consulted (with abbreviations used in the Notes) were:
After Dark
,
Beat Instrumental
,
The Big Issue
,
Billboard
,
Boston Globe
,
Boston Herald
,
Cash Box
,
Cavalier
,
Chicago Tribune
,
Circus
,
Crawdaddy
,
Creem
,
Daily Express
,
Daily Mirror
,
Dirt
,
Disc and Music Echo
,
Evening News and Star
,
Evening Standard
,
The Face
,
Fan Magazine
,
Frendz
,
Friends
,
Gay News
,
The Guardian
,
Hello!
,
i-D
,
Ikon
,
Ink
,
International Musician
,
International Times (IT)
,
Jackie
,
Jeremy
,
Let It Rock
,
Man
,
Myth and Magic
,
Melody Maker (MM)
,
Miami Herald
,
Milwaukee Journal
,
Mirabelle
,
Mojo
,
Montreal Star
,
Music Business Review
,
Music Now!
,
Music Scene
,
Music Week
,
Musician
,
New Musical Express (NME)
,
New Orleans Figaro
,
New York Rocker
,
New York Times
,
New Yorker
,
Newsweek
,
The Observer
,
Ottawa Citizen
,
Ottawa Journal
,
Oz
,
People
,
Philadelphia Bulletin
,
Phonograph Record
,
Playboy
,
Plays and Players
,
Q
,
Radio Times
,
RCD
,
Record Collector (RC)
,
Record Mirror (RM)
,
Record Retailer
,
Record World
,
Rock Magazine
,
Rock Scene
,
Rolling Stone (RS)
,
Sounds
,
Suburban Press
,
Sunday Times
,
The Times
,
Toronto Globe Mail
,
Toronto Star
,
Uncut
,
Village Voice
,
Vogue
,
Washington Post
,
Windsor Star
,
The Word, ZigZag
.

INDEX

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Numbers in square brackets, [ ], refer to individual song entries. Page numbers in
bold
refer to main entry for song or album.

 

Abba, 327

Abbey Road
(Beatles LP), 270

“Abdulmajid” [145],
325–26

Abel, Lionel, 378n

Abraxas
(Santana LP), 227

“Across the Universe” [124], 243,
273–74

Action, the, 38, 405

“African Night Flight” [165],
353–54

“After All” [20],
95–96
, 100n, 184n, 212, 429, 432

“After Eight” (NEU!), 372

After the Gold Rush
(Neil Young LP), 108

“After Today” [114], 258,
262

Aftermath
(Rolling Stones), 428

“Ain't She Sweet,” 266

“Air on the G String” (Bach), 176

“Alabama Song” [163],
351–52
, 390

Aladdin Sane
(LP), 11, 176, 181, 185, 187, 189, 190–93, 199–202,
203–4
, 248, 265n, 268, 279, 308

“Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?),” [70], 83,
193–95
, 212, 226, 288, 438

“Aladdin Vein.”
See
“Zion”

Alamo, The
(film), 36n, 407

Ali, Muhammad, 236

Alice Cooper, 120, 122, 126, 156, 173, 175–77

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(book), 89

“All Along the Watchtower” (Bob Dylan), 189, 190

“All Day and All of the Night” (Kinks), 168

All Our Yesterdays
(TV series), 57

“All Saints” [146],
325–26

“All the Madmen” [23], 95,
99–101
, 366

“All the Young Dudes” [62], 101,
153–54
, 432

“All You Need Is Love” (Beatles), 450

“Alley Oop” (Hollywood Argyles), 119n, 150, 175

Allman, Gregg, 322n

Almond, Marc, 11

“Almost Grown,” 129

Alomar, Carlos, 249, 272, 275, 276, 288n, 294–96, 302, 339, 349, 355, 357, 359, 360, 381

Also Sprach Zarathustra
(book), 111

“Also Sprach Zarathustra” (tone poem), 212, 231, 317

“(Alternative), Candidate” [99],
232–33

“Always Crashing in the Same Car” [137],
311–13
, 370

America, 360

American Graffiti
(film), 190

“Amsterdam” [17],
85–86
, 184

“Anarchy in the UK” (Sex Pistols), 199

“And I Say to Myself” [A15],
410–11

Anderson, Jim, 134

Andrews, Julie, 408

“Andy Warhol” [47], 129,
139–40
, 152

“Angel Angel Grubby Face,” 443

“Angel Fingers” (Wizzard), 192

Anger, Kenneth, 284

Animals, the, 402

Anka, Paul, 149, 200, 444

“Another Day” (Paul McCartney), 428

“Another Girl” (Beatles), 450

Another Green World
(Eno LP), 307

“Anyway Anyhow Anywhere” [86], 215,
216
, 404

Apathy for the Devil
(book), 305n

Apollo space missions, 1, 57, 58, 77, 80, 118, 372

“Apres Moi” (Eartha Kitt), 434n

“April's Tooth Of Gold,” 431

Arabian Nights, The
(book), 204n

Arbus, Diane, 245n

Arendt, Hannah, 378n

Arias, Joey, 387

Armed Forces
(Elvis Costello LP), 383

Armstrong, Michael, 48

Arnold, Billy Boy, 211

Arnold Corns, 116–18, 124–28, 133, 159n, 163, 164

“Around and Around” (Chuck Berry), 153

“Art Decade” [141],
318–19

Ascending and Descending
(artwork), 101n

“Ashes to Ashes” [184], vii, 1, 2, 341,
372–74
, 376, 387

Astral Weeks
(Van Morrison LP), 88

Astronettes, the, 175, 191, 224–27, 258, 376n, 380

“At the Zoo” (Simon & Garfunkel), 355

At Town Hall
(Nina Simone LP), 296

“Autobahn” (Kraftwerk), 336

Average White Band, 276

Ayers, Kevin, 74n, 129n, 242, 246

 

Baader, Andreas, 321

Baal
(TV drama), 390, 392

Babitz, Eve 387

“Baby” (Iggy Pop), 305

“Baby I Love You” (Ronettes), 378

“Baby It's You” (Beatles), 127

“Baby Loves That Way” [A7],
404–5
, 410

“Baby That's a Promise” [A13],
408–9

“Baby's in Black” (Beatles), 426

Bacall, Lauren, 119

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 176n, 421n

Bacharach, Burt, 54, 405

“Back to Where You've Never Been,” 452

Bagdasarian, Ross, 431

Bailey, Alice, 298n

Ball, Hugo, 387

Ball, Kenny, 24

“Ball Park Incident” (Wizzard), 218

“Ballad of a Thin Man” (Bob Dylan), 89

Ballard, J. G., 104n, 198, 312, 375n

Band, the, 164

Band on the Run
(Paul McCartney LP), 353

Barbarella
(film), 191

Barber, Anthony, 228

Barber, Chris, 24

Barberella
(film), 347

Barnett, Angie.
See
Bowie, Mary Angela

Barrett, Syd, 98, 211, 438, 440, 446, 447

“Bars of the County Jail” [A10],
407
, 411, 440

Bart, Lionel, 36

Basil Brush Show,
The
(TV series), 432

Bat Out of Hell
(Meat Loaf LP), 379

Bates, Alan, 185

Battisti, Lucio, 222

“Battle of New Orleans” (Johnny Horton), 407

Baudelaire, Charles, 24, 172n

Baumann, Peter, 319

“Be My Baby” (Ronettes), 427

“Be My Wife” [138],
313
, 388

Beach Boys, the, 123, 219, 225, 266, 292, 294, 318, 327, 357, 364, 427, 446

Beach Head
(TV show), 59

Beardsley, Aubrey, 43

Beatles, the, vii, viii, 2, 5, 11, 25, 34, 42, 45–47, 61, 65, 66n, 70, 74, 76, 77, 93, 96n, 100n, 117, 123, 127, 132n, 135, 140, 147n, 151, 154, 175, 177, 183, 205, 212, 214, 223, 234, 237, 248, 250, 251, 270, 273, 274, 292, 295n, 312, 323, 334, 336, 358, 369, 371, 376n, 383, 386, 391, 392, 397, 399, 400, 406, 414n, 416n, 421n, 426, 431, 442, 447, 448, 450

Beatles for Sale
(LP), 426

Beatstalkers, the, 438, 439

“Beauty and the Beast” [147],
329–30
, 332n, 335

“Because They're Young” (Duane Eddy), 383

“Because You're Young” [189],
382–83

Beck, Jeff, 98, 211, 215, 216, 221

Beckenham Arts Lab, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 81, 90, 107, 186n

Beckett, Andy, 9, 112

Beck-Ola
(Jeff Beck LP), 98

Bee Gees, the, 60, 262

Belew, Adrian, 356, 359, 362

Bellamy Brothers, the, 327

Bennett, Tony, 450

Bergman, Ingmar 347

Berlin
(Lou Reed LP), 184

Berns, Bert, 210

Berry, Chuck, 116, 117, 129, 153, 192, 200, 219, 312

Bertolucci, Bernardo, 202

Besant, Annie, 93

Beuselinck, Oscar, 430

“Beware My Love” (Paul McCartney), 336

“Bewitched,” 243, 244

“Bewlay Brothers, The” [51],
147–48
, 212, 241, 285, 407, 432

“Big Black Smoke” (Kinks), 418

“Big Brother” [103], 229,
240–41

Big Brother
(TV series), 398

Bilk, Acker, 24

“Birds” (Neil Young), 144

Birkett, Jack, 51, 54

“Black Country Rock” [25],
101–2

“Black Hole Kids, The,” 160

Black Sabbath, 94, 107

Black Tie White Noise
(LP), 354n, 394

Black Widow, 94

“Blackout” [153],
335–36

Blade Runner
(film), 392

Blake, William, 95, 429, 438

Bland, Bobby “Blue,” 402

Blavatsky, Madame, 93

“Blockbuster” (Sweet), 186

Blonde on Blonde
(Bob Dylan LP), 80n

Blondie, 371

Bloom, John, 34

Blow-Up
(film), 347

Blue Mink, 108

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, 433

“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Queen), 386

“Boil Crisis” (Paul McCartney), 328

Bolan, Marc, 37, 60, 64, 80, 83, 102, 106, 108, 118, 120, 122, 124, 128, 134, 135, 153, 158, 166, 167, 169, 173, 175, 177–79, 185, 187, 198, 199, 200, 299, 344, 345, 370, 394n

Bolder, Trevor, 128, 129, 181, 202, 207

“Bombers” [42],
132–33
, 139

“Bony Maronie” (Larry Williams), 359

Bookends
(Simon & Garfunkel LP), 60n

“Boom-Bang-a-Bang” (Lulu), 426n

“Boris the Spider” (Who), 123

Boulez, Pierre, 234

Bowie, David (born David Robert Jones)

LIFE
: born, 17, 19; family background, 19–21; favored son, 21; forms first band, 25; leaves school, 26; finds professional manager, 34; issues first record, 34; victimized for long hair, 35; becomes David Bowie, 36; sexually “mixed up,” 37; distanced from Swinging London, 45ff; demolishes image, 414; potential as children's entertainer, 432; first film role, 48; writes first song cycle, 445–47; in love with Hermione, 53, 66–70; meets Angie, 53, 70; forms Arts Lab, 71; death of father, 73–75; meets Mick Ronson, 77; marries Angie, 83; meets Tony Defries, 90; son born, 129; becomes Ziggy Stardust, 166; glam-rock involvement, 177–80; first American tour, 185ff; Ziggy's last stand, 205ff; splits from Ronson, 221; plans rock musicals, 228–31, 242, 247; moves to America, 10, 248, 249; discovers he doesn't own MainMan, 255; unwilling to eat, 256; suicidal behavior, 257; splits from Defries, 276–78; first major film role, 279ff; collaborates with Iggy Pop, 302ff; moves to Berlin, 306–7; estranged from Angie, 306, 313; as family entertainer, 345–46; “emptied out,” 349; splits from Angie, 350–51; cultural tourist, 355, 357; confronts creative emptiness, 369; dispels characters, 384; video pioneer, 385–86; acts on Broadway, 387–89; retires to Switzerland, 389; becomes slick pop star, 391–92; forms Tin Machine, 393; emerges from torpor, 394; endures heart surgery and retires, 396

INFLUENCES
: advertising, 3, 30–33, 168, 267; America, 116, 145, 219, 259–61; art, 136–38, 217, 326, 330, 331, 341–43, 363; beat writers, 23, 29, 30, 413; Berlin, 318–22, 332; Buddhism, 5, 6, 45, 49, 50, 427; drugs, 201, 282–85, 294, 372, 373, 418; fascism, 111, 112, 299–301, 347; fashion, 195–99, 375; jazz, 23, 24, 403, 412; “Krautrock,” 314–16, 324, 338, 356; mime, 50–52; minimalism, 242, 307, 314–16, 359; Mod, 37–39, 404, 409; punk, 326–29; R&B/soul, 34, 225, 227, 250–53, 401; religion, 284, 289–93, 393; rock‘n'roll, 22, 24, 25; silent film, 254, 255, 334; space, 57ff, 80, 149

THEMES
: fragmentation, 4, 5, 233–35, 297, 382; madness, 5, 26–29, 46, 47, 99–101, 171, 284, 335–36; occult, 6, 89–95, 114, 144–47, 271, 284–89, 299, 309; sexuality, 11, 37, 118–21, 134, 154–58, 201, 220; stardom/fame, 3, 122, 124–27, 149–51, 164–66, 172–75, 276–78