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Bowie: Loving the Alien

Name: Bowie: Loving the Alien
Author: Christopher Sandford
ISBN: 9780306808548

by Christopher Sandford

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Overview

Based on interviews with family members, colleagues, lovers, and the previously silent William Burroughs, this unsparing yet evenhanded biography guides the reader through the many personas, crises, and musical metamorphoses of David Bowie—also known as Davy Jones, the Laughing Gnome, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, a drug-addled grandfather of punk, actor, art aficionado, political activist, one of rock's most resonant icons, and a totem of modern pop culture. Nowhere else is the man and musician so convincingly deconstructed and so compellingly humanized.

Synopsis

"Based on interviews with family members, colleagues, lovers, and the previously silent William Burroughs, this unsparing yet evenhanded biography guides the reader through the many personas, crises, a"

Sunday Times of London

the best [Bowie biography] so far.

About the Author, Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford, the biographer of Mick Jagger, Kurt Cobain, and Sting, is also the author of Bowie: Loving the Alien and Clapton: Edge of Darkness. He has reviewed and written about rock music for more than twenty years, for theTimes of London and other publications, and his books have been published in more than a dozen countries.

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It can't be an easy task to write an account of David Bowie's life; after all, his stock-in-trade has been his chameleonlike transformations from one identity to another. Imagine tackling a biography that includes Davy Jones, the Laughing Gnome, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and the Thin White Duke. Christopher Sandford, who has previously authored biographies of Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Kurt Cobain, knows the rock-'n'-roll terrain, and in researching Bowie's life and career, he turned to family members, colleagues, lovers, and even the previously taciturn (on the subject of Bowie, anyway) William Burroughs.