David Bowie: A Life – Hardcover Book

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David Bowie: A Life – Hardcover Book

David Bowie: A Life is a biography of the iconic British musician David Bowie, written by British journalist Dylan Jones. Published in 2017, the book offers an intimate and comprehensive look at Bowie’s life and career, spanning from his early years in London to his final days.

Dylan Jones delves into Bowie’s personal and professional life, exploring his upbringing, artistic influences, creative process, and the evolution of his music and persona over the decades. The biography covers key moments in Bowie’s career, including his breakthrough in the 1970s with albums like “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” his experimentation with various musical styles and personas, and his influence on popular culture.

David Bowie: A Life draws on extensive research, including interviews with Bowie’s friends, family, and collaborators, as well as archival material and previously unpublished interviews. The book provides readers with a deeper understanding of Bowie’s impact on music, fashion, and art, as well as his enduring legacy as one of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century.

Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path.

Tracing Bowie’s life from the English suburbs to London to New York to Los Angeles, Berlin, and beyond, its collective voices describe a man profoundly shaped by his relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry; an intuitive artist who could absorb influences through intense relationships and yet drop people cold when they were no longer of use; and a social creature equally comfortable partying with John Lennon and dining with Frank Sinatra.

By turns insightful and deliciously gossipy, David Bowie is as intimate a portrait as may ever be drawn. It sparks with admiration and grievances, lust and envy, as the speakers bring you into studios and bedrooms they shared with Bowie, and onto stages and film sets, opening corners of his mind and experience that transform our understanding of both artist and art. Including illuminating, never-before-seen material from Bowie himself, drawn from a series of Jones’s interviews with him across two 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.

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