Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Chapter 1 New People (The Idiot, Low) 18
Chapter 2 Berliners (Lust for Life, "Heroes") 64
Chapter 3 Somebody Else's Horizon (Lodger) 102
Chapter 4 A Society of One (Scary Monsters, Baal) 136
Chapter 5 The Strike Price (Let's Dance, Tonight, Labyrinth) 180
Chapter 6 The Man on the Spider (Blah-Blah-Blah, Never Let Me Down) 236
Chapter 7 The Battle of the Wilderness (Tin Machine, Tin Machine II) 274
Chapter 8 Family Albums (Black Tie White Noise, The Buddha of Suburbia) 332
Chapter 9 In the Realms of the Unreal (I. Outside) 368
Chapter 10 The Bottle Imp (Earthling) 408
Chapter 11 Tomorrow Isn't Promised ('hours…', Toy) 440
Chapter 12 Forward Into Remove (Heathen) 490
Chapter 13 Inauthentic Reality (Reality) 524
Chapter 14 Agent Jeffries Reports In (The Next Day) 568
Chapter 15 Noewhomoe (Blackstar) 612
Appendix: The Unheard Music 666
List of Songs 669
Partial Discography 679
Bibliography 690
Acknowledgements 704