Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era talking heads producers and friends who knew

producers and friends who knew Bowie best

flaunting a new mascara'd glamrock incarnation

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sporting a white wig and elegantly dressed in red velvet

Gary Marx and Ben Gunn – later replaced by Wayne Hussey – on guitars

Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era talking heads producers and friends who knewAuthor: Ken Emerson During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit further uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned