The First Time I Heard David Bowie

Contributors to the David Bowie edition include musicians such as David Balfe (The Teardrop Explodes, manager/producer for bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and Blur); Danny Benair (The Three O’Clock, The Quick); Annette Peacock; Craig Gannon (live guitarist for The Smiths, Aztec Camera, and other bands); Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon); Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance); Robert Holmes (’til tuesday); Nathan Larson (film composer and guitarist for Shudder To Think); Carl Marsh (Shriekback); Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman; the Antony & the Johnsons band); Emil Amos (Holy Sons, Grails); Jem Tayle (Shelleyan Orphan); Pal Shazar (Slow Children); Mark Albrow (Hula); Michelle Leon (Babes In Toyland); Rob Preuss (Spoons); Julian Tardo (Insides); Robin Saville (Isan); Erik Jeffries (A Shoreline Dream); Steven Burrows (And Also the Trees); Nyles Lannon (Film School); Anomie Belle; David Woodward (Clearlake); Philip King (Lush, The Jesus & Mary Chain); Carlo Van Putten (The Convent, White Rose Transmission); Ben Mullins (Midwest Product); Kenneth Bernard (Ra Ra Riot); Mark Van Hoen (Seefeel, Scala); Anna Fox Rochinski (Quilt); Adam Forkner (Yume Bitsu, White Rainbow); Frank Navin (The Aluminum Group); Jon Attwood (Yellow6); and writers like Dave King; Ben Neihart; Deborah Pintonelli; Mitch Cullin; Dena Rash Guzman; Laurie Foos; Matt Dean; and Connie Deanovich.

The “First Time I Heard” book series is edited by Scott Heim, a novelist (Mysterious Skin, In Awe, We Disappear) who is also a longtime music fan. Other installments in the series (or those forthcoming soon) include books on Joy Division / New Order, Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, Kate Bush, R.E.M., Kraftwerk, My Bloody Valentine, Abba, Roxy Music, The Pixies, and others.