Dylan Jones (1) (1960–)
Autor de David Bowie: A Life
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Sobre El Autor
Dylan Jones, is the award-winning editor of British GQ. He collaborated with David Cameron on the critically acclaimed Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones. In 2013, he was awarded an OBE for services to publishing and the fashion industry.
Series
Obras de Dylan Jones
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1960
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Educación
- Chelsea School of Art
Saint Martin's School of Art - Ocupaciones
- journalist
editor - Organizaciones
- GQ Magazine
- Premios y honores
- Order of the British Empire (2014)
- Agente
- Jonny Geller (Curtis Brown)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Music (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 23
- Miembros
- 724
- Popularidad
- #35,065
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 112
- Idiomas
- 10
The subtitle, ‘David Bowie and Four Minutes that Shook the World’, refers to Bowie’s appearance on the BBC TV programme Top of the Pops on 6 July 1972 to promote his new single ‘Starman’. Top of the Pops was watched by a family audience of up to fifteen million people each week. His androgynous and homoerotic performance had a profoundly liberating effect on many of the millions of young people who saw it, and it made Bowie a star. Jones rightly regards it as one of those era-defining and transformative pop moments, like Elvis on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show or the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan show. Bowie was a startling flash of colour and strangeness in a monochrome and straight-laced Britain; even if many of us were watching in black and white. As Jones observes, it was one of those extraordinary shared national TV moments which no longer really happen with the decline of appointment television.
There are times when this book feels like a magazine article that has been teased out, not entirely successfully, to book length. There is a lot of rather perfunctory historical context setting and perhaps rather too many autobiographical reminiscences of the author’s adolescence. Still, I don’t want to sound overly negative. Jones writes highly readable prose, and although he doesn’t say anything startlingly original, he makes all the important points about Bowie’s breakthrough moment.… (más)