[Buch] Jérôme Soligny "David Bowie Ouvre le Chien"

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Hot-on-the-heels of his Writing On The Edge tome released last year, Jérôme Soligny launches a new book today (details on yellow poster) in the shape of the considerably slimmer volume, Ouvre le Chien.



We asked Jérôme how this latest publication came about and what was its function. Here’s Jérôme...







The function of the Bowie Ouvre le Chien book couldn't be simpler. When la Cité de la Musique got in touch with me for translating the texts of the exhibition (they appear in both languages - French and English), they also asked me to present two conferences. So I thought about one revolving around this subject of "Bowie et la France", France being an important territory for David in many aspects, and another one about David's guitar players through the ages, the guitar being crucial in his music. This one is called "Ziggy Played Guitar!".







Then we realized only the people going to the conferences would know their content. So my publisher (Editions La Table Ronde), in quite a brave move (the same week they published Writing On The Edge - 1750 pages about my 25 years rock (fantastic) voyage) proposed we gather the text of the two conferences in one small book for the people who won't be able to attend.





So the book features readable versions of the two conferences. The "Bowie et la France" chapter, focusing on the recording of Pin Ups, The Idiot and Low, is more developed (hence the title of the book) with extensive interviews (Alain Lahana / David's French promoter, Nicolas Godin / Air) and a few quotes I gathered through the years by French people like Guy Peellaert (right, he's Belgian but lived in Paris) and Kuêlan Nguyen, original "china girl" who inspired the song.





Also the book features an Alphabet (B comme Bowie), with French Bowie related things or people for every letter. There's also a list of all the French concerts given by David in France. Last but not least there are 16 exclusive pix of David taken live in 1995 and 1999.

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WIN SIGNED JÉRÔME SOLIGNY BOWIE BOOK



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If you can’t make it to Jérôme Soligny’s David Bowie Ouvre le Chien book signing session in Le Havre this afternoon (http://smarturl.it/JSBookSigning

), then here’s your chance to win one of three copies signed by Jérôme that he has kindly donated.



For your chance to win a copy, simply tell us which long-standing, world-famous French music publication has Jérôme been a regular contributor to for many years?



Email your answer to dbcontests@davidbowie.com with a subject line of: Ouvre le Chien



The contest closes at midnight GMT on Friday, April 24th, 2015.