Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Montrealer's Bowie rock-bio mystery

Here's a Montreal rock mystery.
   One of the better rock biographies was written by a Montrealer named Jamie Soule. It took the form of a highly-detailed account of David Bowie's career, with a lot of detail about his early struggles to get paid after getting famous.
   And what's strange about the book is that it was never published in any traditional form, as far as I know. A few years ago, someone put the text online but that too has since been removed.
   I read much, if not all 57 chapters, which end around 1983, and was impressed with its grasp on day-to-day detail and his financial relationships, which isn't stuff that even a committed fan could research without inside sources.
   Little is known about the author David Soule, who would likely be in his 60s now, other than that he is from Montreal where he worked for a printer ink factory in his youth before moving to Vancouver.
      About a decade ago, Soule would sometimes share his expertise on Bowie within various discussion forums and his review of Bowie's Station to Station show in Montreal in 1976, which he attended with his girlfriend, was supposedly read countless times. A cursory search suggests Soule was also possibly a Freemason who tended to stay up all night.

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