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Yes, it is, you're absolutely correct. A good friend of ours in the US switched us on to the TV series when we visited just before Christmas, but we were unaware the show was based on a book. There are two or three books in the set, so that's my next purchase I think.

I'm halfway though Fahrenheit 451.

It's quite different to the film... a very interesting read.

Great book; I havent read it in ages. Enjoy!

Yes, intriguing stuff .. every home with one of those big TV screens in the living rooms and no books...pah! science fiction!

White Noise: Don DeLillo

Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town by Thomas Jerome Seabrook . I must say this is a very entertaining book on David's most innovative period. From the year preceeding his move to Berlin, in Los Angeles where he recorded Station to Station, to a Chateaux outside Paris where he recorded The Idiot and Low. Finally, The Thin White Duke lands in Berlin, well in a Turkish Quarter known as Shoenberg with Iggy and Coco.

Low was mixed in Berlin and Heroes was wholly conceived in the German capital. David quickly transformed himself from a junkie to a genius...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RFPs9Uv7e8c

The synth on this video is a Steelphon S900. This sits on top of a Mellotron or could it be a Chamberlin? The grand piano is haunting. I wonder what make it is.

The book ends with Lodger which was not recorded in Berlin but in Switzerland and New York.

The legend lives on...

Chris

WOW! That's amazing footage! Cheers!

I just recently got a copy of The Idiot which I had not heard since my vinyl days. It rekindled my interest in the Iggy/David connection.

The book sounds fascinating, going to look for it.

I'm reading, for the third time, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Not as good as Slaughterhouse Five, The Sirens OF Titan or Breakfast Of Champions, but a fine read even third time round.

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I haven't read Vonnegut in years but now that you mentioned him, I believe it is time, yet again, for a re-read.