Competition, Win Copies of New Book ‘Bowie Odyssey 73’ (and more) by Simon Goddard

May 3rd, 2023 | by Nick

Competition

‘Bowie Odyssey 73’ by Simon Goddard Published 25th May (Sept. 7th US)

“My God it’s brilliant… A delicious romp.”MIKE SCOTT, THE WATERBOYS

“A full-on sensory immersion in Bowie’s universe.” SUNDAY TIMES

“The wonderful Bowie Odyssey series… Like an all-seeing eye, Goddard’s prose is both wide-angle lens and claustrophobic internal monologue.” RECORD COLLECTOR

“The best book written about its subject… stupendous.” CLASSIC ROCK

“As lusciously all-enveloping as its subject demands.” MOJO

Omnibus Press will publish the long awaited fourth instalment in the Bowie Odyssey series, ‘Bowie Odyssey 73′ by Simon Goddard, in paperback and strictly limited edition hardback on May 25^th.

Where the previous book on 1972 saw Bowie finally achieve his dreams of pop stardom by becoming Ziggy Stardust, in Bowie Odyssey 73 he begins to count the nightmarish cost. As Ziggy morphs into Aladdin Sane, David becomes the biggest-selling album artist in Britain, packing out concert halls worldwide from Tokyo to Romford. A hell of a moment to shock his millions of fans – not to mention his oblivious band – by suddenly announcing his ‘retirement’. Except that by doing so his fame only increases, as do his problems: more extramarital affairs than he can count on one hand, the beginnings of a chronic cocaine addiction and the return of a certain gnome from his past that he’d been desperately praying the cosmos had forgotten. It all adds up to the most dramatic and blackly comic book in Goddard’s novelistic series so far – a gripping, unsentimental portrait of inspiration, insanity and the thin line that divides.

Above, Bowie greeted by crowds of fans at Charing Cross Station, London. 5th May 1973.

Among the highlights of Bowie Odyssey 73 are Bowie’s life changing travels in Japan and Russia, a riotous chapter devoted to Bowie’s triumphant tour of Scotland and his major domestic upheaval from suburban Kent to seedy Maida Vale and swinging Chelsea. And, as with its three predecessors, Bowie’s story is interwoven with key dramatic events of the year including IRA bombings, Big Biba, the wedding of Princess Anne and the death of glam rock as the ecstasy of Marc Bolan succumbs to the agony of Alvin Stardust.

The ambitious Bowie Odyssey series is an intended ten book year-by-year chronicle of the life of the greatest pop star of his era against the cultural and social history of the 1970s – grounded in fact, written like fiction.

‘Bowie Odyssey 73’ will be followed in 2024 by the fifth book (no prizes for guessing the name 😏) ‘Bowie Odyssey 74′

~~Competition~~.. NOW CLOSED, the correct answer was 5, the 3 winners will be notified on Friday 12th.

Thanks to all who entered.

We have 3 copies to be won, the first prize is all four books, that’s Bowie Odyssey 70, 71, 72 and 73 (in paperback) plus a bookmark, Second & third prize is a copy of the book plus a bookmark!