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,
“... Which would make Ziggy Stardust the beautiful butterfly that emerged from the chrysalis. Paul Trynka begins his biography with a description of Bowie’s performance of ‘Starman’ on Top of the Pops on 5 July 1972. It was three years since ‘Space Oddity’ had made it into the top ten after being used by the BBC in its broadcast of the ... ”
