David Bowie: a graphic novel dedicated to his Berlin period is released

Ten years after his passing, David Bowie continues to be remembered through new publications and reappraisals of his artistic history. Gallucci has now published, as part of the Sounds good! series conceived by Massimo Cotto, the graphic novel "David Bowie", devoted to one of the most fascinating and decisive periods of his career: the years spent in Berlin.
The book focuses on the second half of the Seventies, when Bowie moved to West Berlin in an attempt to escape the excesses of his Los Angeles years, regain his personal balance and set off in new creative directions. An experience that would leave a deep mark on his music, giving rise to the three albums usually grouped together as the "Berlin trilogy": "Low" and "Heroes", both released in 1977, and "Lodger", released in 1979.

During those years Bowie, also thanks to his collaboration with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti, experimented with a new synthesis of rock, electronics, ambient and avant-garde. A key part of that period was the Hansa Studios, located just a short distance from the Berlin Wall, where some of the era's most celebrated recordings were made.
The graphic novel is written by author and screenwriter Brian Freschi and illustrated by Simone Pace. Over 128 pages, the book reconstructs Bowie's everyday life in Berlin, following him through the city's streets and into the apartment at Hauptstrasse 155, in Schöneberg, which he shared for a time with Iggy Pop. More than a simple biography in comic form, the book thus attempts to capture the atmosphere of a Berlin still divided by the Wall, and the moment of personal and artistic transformation the musician was going through.

In the same Sounds good! series, Gallucci is also publishing "Taylor Swift", a graphic novel dedicated to the American popstar, written by Brian Freschi together with Ilaria Nassa and illustrated by Laura Angelucci.

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