Part of Series
The First Time I Heard David Bowie is Part III in an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band. In this third volume (following the opening installments, which covered Joy Division / New Order and Cocteau Twins), forty different musicians and writers remember their initial experiences hearing the influential rock chameleon David Bowie, whose musical legacy now spans nearly five decades. 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.
Author
Scott Heim was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1966. He grew up in a small farming community there, and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, earning a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in Writing at Columbia University, where he wrote his first novel, Mysterious Skin. HarperCollins published that book in 1995, and Scott followed it with another novel, In Awe, in 1997. Scott has won fellowships to the London Arts Board as their International Writer-in-Residence, and to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab for his adaptation of Mysterious Skin. He is also the author of a book of poems, Saved From Drowning (1993). After living eleven years in New York, he relocated to Boston in 2002. Mysterious Skin was adapted for the stage, premiering in San Francisco; it was subsequently adapted to film by director Gregg Araki and Antidote Films. Scott's third novel is We Disappear (HarperCollins), published in February 2008.
