So Ordinary, So Glamorous
Thomas Jones: Eternal Bowie, 5 April 2012
Starman: David Bowie, the Definitive Biography
by Paul Trynka.
Sphere, 440 pp., £9.99, March 2012,978 0 7515 4293 6 Show More
by Paul Trynka.
Sphere, 440 pp., £9.99, March 2012,
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s
by Peter Doggett.
Bodley Head, 424 pp., £20, September 2011,978 1 84792 144 4 Show More
by Peter Doggett.
Bodley Head, 424 pp., £20, September 2011,
“... stripped-down funk – no lush horn section or chorus of backing singers – so tight that James Brown lifted Alomar’s riff. Bowie was moving on from Young Americans even before he’d finished making it. One reason for his restlessness, extreme even by his standards, had come in New York at the end of July, when he learned the real nature of his financial ... ”