DAVID BOWIE BEHIND THE CURTAIN BY ANDREW KENT

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David Bowie : Behind The Curtain” is a rare, exclusive, intimate, and very candid look at David Bowie during the rise of the Thin White Duke, his Station to Station tour, and numerous larger-than-life stories along the way. In 1975, rock ‘n roll photographer Andrew Kent landed the gig of a lifetime. He had been entrusted by Bowie to document, with unfettered access, anything and everything Bowie and his entourage encountered for the next two years. Backstage, on stage, private parties, birthday parties, limos, quiet hotel moments, dressing rooms, Berlin, Paris, New York, London, Helsinki, Moscow. Also along during the Station to Station tour was an 18 year old Rolling Stone reporter researching a cover story on Bowie named Cameron Crowe. In 1976 Bowie took Iggy Pop, his manager Pat Gibbons, his personal secretary Coco, and Kent on an impromptu excursion by train to the Soviet Union. A mistake on the schedule at the train station caused the group to miss their return train to Helsinki leading the press to run frenzied headlines reading, “David Bowie Missing in Soviet Union!”. With his unprecedented access, Kent created a one-of-a-kind travelogue, capturing the unique and spectacular life of one of the most iconic musicians in rock ‘n roll history.

Images from the book…

Due for release in October, more info here:

http://www.bowiebehindthecurtain.com/index.php

Collectors edition box, only 100 made…

Each Collector’s Edition box is hand made by artisan craftsmen in
Chicago; the box itself is solid Birdseye maple with ebony splining and
lined with luxurious black leather. The box lid is numbered and engraved
with a precision laser. Once opened, the box lid and base convert into a
simple, but elegant, coffee table display for the book. But the trick is
opening the box…which is locked, but has no apparent keyhole. The only
way to open it is by using the “key” – a separate piece of wood (carved by
hand) with magnetic inlays that correspond to magnets hidden inside the
lid. Simple, but complex, with a secret or two…much like Bowie himself.

The Collector’s Edition is limited to 100 numbered pieces each including an 11 x 14 signed and numbered, handmade silver gelatin print by Andrew Kent, a signed and numbered book, and the numbered box. It sells for $1500 and can be pre-ordered via the website link above.