A Deep Dive into David Bowie’s Mid-80s Work
The fourth in a series of mammoth box sets covers David Bowie’s output from 1983 to 1988. It’s a mixed bag but there are gems interspersed throughout.
Author: Jeff Burger
Jeff Burger edited Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters, Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, and Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, all published in North America by Chicago Review Press. The books have been republished or set for republication in nearly a dozen other countries.
Burger has been a writer and editor for more than four decades and has covered popular music throughout his journalism career. His reviews, essays and reportage on that and many other subjects have appeared in more than 75 magazines, newspapers and books, including Barron’s, the Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, Melody Maker, High Fidelity, Creem, Circus, Reader’s Digest, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, All Music Guide, the Morton Report, and No Depression. He has published interviews with many leading musicians, including Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Billy Joel, the Righteous Brothers and the members of Steely Dan; and with such public figures as Suze Orman, James Carville, Sir Richard Branson, F. Lee Bailey, Wolfman Jack, Daymond John, Donald Trump, Sydney Pollack, and Cliff Robertson.
Burger has been editor of several periodicals, including Phoenix magazine in Arizona, and he spent 14 years in senior positions at Medical Economics magazine, the country’s largest business magazine for doctors. A former consulting editor at Time Inc., he currently serves as editor of Business Jet Traveler, which the American Society of Business Publication Editors named one of the country’s best business magazines in 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2018.
Burger lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with his wife, Madeleine Beresford, a writer, puppeteer, and preschool director and teacher. The couple have a son, Andre, and a daughter, Myriam.
Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet Still Shines
The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet resurfaces in a 50th anniversary edition. Plus more new CDs and a book called Dreaming about Dylan.
The Beatles’ White Album: a 5.1 Mix, Session Gems, and More
A big new box set offers a surround-sound mix of one of the Beatles’ best albums and includes dozens of engrossing demo and session recordings.
A Welcome Return to Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix’s classic Electric Ladyland gets the reissue it deserves. Plus, albums from the Brother Brothers, Glen Campbell, and Procol Harum, and a Rolling Stones-curated blues anthology
A Massive Box from Lefty Frizzell, Plus CDs from the Velvet Underground, Roy Orbison, and Others
A massive box set collects every last recording from country singer Lefty Frizzell, plus releases from Roy Orbison, the Velvet Underground, Martha Spencer, Louise Goffin, Taylor Martin, and L.E.S. Douze.
A Box Set Unveils the Complete Sessions for Dylan’s Classic Blood on the Tracks
A six-CD box set presents all the sessions for Dylan’s brilliant Blood on the Tracks. Many of the versions here differ dramatically from the familiar ones.
