Shortlisted for the NME Best Music Book Award 2018
'Worthy of the Starman...Of all the volumes to appear since Bowie's death,this is the most useful: an oral history that brings together the most incisive reminiscences and memorials'- Evening Standard
Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three decades,together with over 180 interviews with friends,rivals,lovers,and collaborators - some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie - this oral history is an intimate portrait of a remarkable rise to stardom and one of the most fascinating lives of our time.
Profoundly shaped by his relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry,Bowie was a man of intense relationships that often came to abrupt ends. He was a social creature,equally comfortable partying with John Lennon and dining with Frank Sinatra,and in Dylan Jones's telling - by turns insightful and salacious - we see as intimate a portrait as could possibly be drawn.
Including illuminating,never-before-seen material from Bowie himself,drawn from a series of Jones's interviews with him across three decades,David Bowie is an epic,unforgettable cocktail-party conversation about a man whose enigmatic shapeshifting and irrepressible creativity produced one of the most sprawling,fascinating lives of our time.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9781786090430Number of pages: 592Weight: 390 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
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'The definitive book on Bowie'- The Times
'Dylan Jones made absolutely the right decision to frame his superb life of David Bowie as a multi-voiced oral biography. David Bowie: A Life suits the shape-shifting,beguiling,enigmatic complexities of its subject perfectly. It's hard to imagine anything that will do Bowie better justice'- William Boyd,The Guardian
'Jones constructs an oral-history mosaic that will engage even those whose lives were not changed by the appearance of Ziggy Stardust on Top of the Pops in 1972'- The Guardian
'The best book on David Bowie you'll ever need or read.'- Irish Independent
'Worthy of the Starman...Of all the volumes to appear since Bowie's death,this is the most useful: an oral history that brings together the most incisive reminiscences and memorials'- Evening Standard
'Dylan Jones has excavated the cacophony of voices that make up a life and curated a phenomenal portrait of the artist from childhood to the final days. The witnesses who comprise this oral biography animate the pages like characters in a non-fiction novel. Damn nigh peerless.'- David Mitchell,author of Cloud Atlas
'Studded with shiny nuggets'- Daily Telegraph
'The perfect present for music mums and dads'- Daily Mirror
'Funny,enlightening,gossipy'- The Herald
'Sparks with admiration and grievances,lust and envy'- Sunday Telegraph
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