Excerpts From David Bowie's Rarely Seen "Autobiography"

It’s obvious David Bowie has done his fair share of “ziggy stardusting” in his rock star life, but for the most part he has managed to keep his wild life out of the media.

Whether this is because he’s too smart to slip or secretive to a paranoid level is up for debate, but it’s safe to say an autobiography by Bowie would make big bucks.

It turns out Bowie was indeed working on an autobiography of sorts back in the 70s, and he even gave Cameron Crowe a copy of what he’d written, from which an excerpt was featured in Crowe’s 1976 feature in Rolling Stone magazine:

Martin Schneider of Dangerous Minds has done some digging into The Return Of The Thin White Duke: An Autobiography by David Bowie, and while he’s not allowed to publish much he has shared a few excerpts from the book.

He has also included Crowe’s Rolling Stone article so you can see why Bowie fans were frothing at the mouth when they discovered an autobiography of their favorite rock god might be on the horizon.

Read Excerpts From The Secret "Autobiography" David Bowie Gave Cameron Crowe here (contains NSFW language)


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Oh, I remember seeing this guy on a National Geographic Special about people who have extraordinary abilities like speed reading, instant math calculations, endurance and so on. I think it related to how the brain works in many ways. It was quite intriguing and awesome to see folks who you could possibly walk past on the street who have "super brains".
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I have also heard of monks in the Himalayas who through meditation are able to drastically raise their body temperature, and survive for several nights exposed to the elements at that altitude. They did a demonstration for scientists where they used their bodies to dry wet towels. You could see the steam coming off of them. It was pretty interesting.

This is probably a case of him subconsciously (or consciously if he has trained to do it) opening a metabolic pathway that is normally closed. It probably uses up a lot of energy, but it seems a much better way to survive extreme cold than sacrificing the extremities.
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# Wow Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am

The article says “…climbing the Everest in his shorts”. Is that Mount Everest or just a local hill known as The Everest? hmmmm….

well he's dutch, and in the Netherlands we don't have hills, our biggest one is 300 meter :P. but its the everst.

i've seen te guy in action, standing in a ice tank for wel over an hour, than climbing out under own power. (2 meter high tank.
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