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this starts out with David Bowie suffering cocaine psychosis in Los Angeles, burning black candles in his mansion, seeing dead bodies falling out windows - Stations to Stations has just come out and he's going on TV saying Hitler is a rockstar. Next he goes to the insane asylum and bails Iggy Pop out and they go to Germany, not because Hitler is a rockstar, but because of Kraftwerk. David Bowie keeps calling them on the telephone saying, Hey come be my new band, and Kraftwerk keeps saying in German, "This guy is weird." In walks Brian Eno with a magic deck of cards. The castle is haunted. The days odd. After the tracking of the album, the action moves to the Berlin wall, no reason, it just seems fun to mix the album with the Berlin wall right there and the guys with the machine guns looking in the studio windows, right? Right? Right?

This particular 33 1/3 is a well written consolidation of so much myth, and maybe some truth. One of the greatest albums of all time was created by cartoons in a cartoon. This book pairs well with the 33 1/3 on Lou Reed's Transformer and Brian Eno's Another Green World.