"In 1976, David Bowie was at the height of ... his drug addiction. Shattered by paranoia and the hype of stardom, he fled from garish Los Angeles to (West) Berlin. In the city where every walk eventually ends at a wall, he was to feel
freer than ever.
With plenty of contemporary color, Reinhard Kleist describes how Bowie plunges headlong into yesterday, today and tomorrow in Berlin: with Romy Haag he explores the decadence of the roaring twenties, with Iggy Pop he immerses himself in the music of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.
And in the Hansa Studios in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, the spirit of the past gives rise to his most visionary music. In Berlin, Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack, the Thin White Duke become David Bowie ..." (Carlsen Verlag)