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 · David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones. At a hefty pages this book covers David Bowie’s story from childhood to teenage years, from pre-stardom struggles to superstar success and eventually, of course, to death, while covering everything else in between including sex and drugs, marriages and family, songwriting and musicianship.  · Crown, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 2 Reviews. Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over /5(2).  · Bowie was having “a blast, smiling all the day”, guitarist Earl Slick recalled in Dylan Jones’ biography, Bowie: A Life. “I’d never seen him happier.” It was a great mood in which to revisit songs Bowie had written in less assured days. He was ill at ease in the swinging Sixties. “Treading water,” he said of that time.

Jones, Dylan (). Elvis has left the building: the day the King died. London: Duckworth Overlook. David Bowie: A Life, published by Crown Archetype, The Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song, published by Faber Faber, July DAVID BOWIE A Life By Dylan Jones pp. Crown Archetype. $ An oral history of David Bowie is almost an act of redundancy. His whole career was an exercise in fragmentation and disconnection. You can easily get lost inside DAVID BOWIE. Dylan Jones has accomplished the wondrous achievement of piecing together all the many recollections from friends, family and fellow musicians. To hear Bowie described by his peers like John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Iggy Pop is a treat for any music fan. As far as readers go, you have a friend in David.

'The definitive book on Bowie' The Times Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three decades, together with over interviews with friends, rivals. Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 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. David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones. 1, ratings, average rating, reviews. David Bowie Quotes Showing of 1. “The filming was interrupted at one point by an old man walking his dog, looking for driftwood. Mallet asked him if he wouldn’t mind moving, and pointed out Bowie sitting outside the catering van.