In the manner of George Plimpton's ground-breaking oral biographies of Truman Capote and Edie Sedgwick, this is the definitive oral biography of David Bowie told through over 180 carefully edited and curated original, exclusive interviews with those who knew Bowie best from school friends to global megastars.
Dylan Jones is the multi-award winning editor of GQ magazine.He has been an editor at i-D magazine, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times. He is a Trustee of the Hay Festival, a board member of the Norman Mailer Foundation and was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to publishing. He has written twenty books including the critically aclaimed When Ziggy Played Guitar and From the Ground Up, U2's celebration of their record-breaking 360 tour.
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
*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
*Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
The best book on David Bowie you’ll ever need or read.
*Irish Independent, BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
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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