{"id":128900,"date":"2026-07-14T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128900\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:44:11","slug":"simon-goddards-bowie-odyssey-76-explores-bowies-berlin-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128900\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Goddard&#8217;s &#8216;Bowie Odyssey 76&#8217; Explores Bowie&#8217;s Berlin Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatericalper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/download-2026-07-13T210220.878.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"1043\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/download-2026-07-13T210220.878-696x1043.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"download - 2026-07-13T210220.878\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon Goddard is back with the 7th volume of his acclaimed Bowie Odyssey series, and this one lands in one of the darkest years of David Bowie\u2019s life. \u2018Bowie Odyssey 76\u2019, out July 17, takes readers through 1976, the year Bowie returned to the UK as the Thin White Duke, delivering controversial comments to the press about Britain benefiting from a fascist leader.<\/p>\n<p>The book unfolds against a backdrop of real turmoil. England in 1976 saw rising immigration protests, racist violence and the growing influence of the National Front, and Bowie\u2019s persona that year landed squarely in the middle of that divided moment. With Iggy Pop by his side, Bowie eventually gravitates toward Berlin, setting the stage for the bold musical reinvention that would come to define the rest of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Goddard\u2019s series has built a serious following for its immersive, year-by-year approach. Marc Riley calls the books \u201cmy favorite Bowie books of all and the only ones that make me regularly laugh out loud,\u201d while Classic Rock has praised the series as \u201cabsolutely unputdownable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bowie Odyssey 76\u2019 has already picked up strong early reviews too. Classic Pop gave it 5 stars, calling it \u201cfiercely original, with vivid prose and a fast-paced narrative more akin to a thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goddard has spent nearly 30 years writing about music as both a journalist and author, with over a dozen books published across 3 continents. The Bowie Odyssey series has twice landed on the Sunday Times Books of the Year list, in 2020 and 2024, alongside recognition from Mojo, Q, Uncut and Pitchfork\u2019s list of the Top 60 Music Books of All Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Goddard is back with the 7th volume of his acclaimed Bowie Odyssey series, and this one lands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,3931,19989,190,62689,62690,62691,62692],"class_list":["post-128900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-books","tag-david-bowie","tag-germany","tag-iggy-pop","tag-marc-riley","tag-omnibus-press","tag-simon-goddard"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116915802379126504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}