New david bowie biography book

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Today marks four years since David Bowie died—two days after his 69th birthday, when he also released his final, monumental album, Blackstar. And while there was no shortage of books about him during his lifetime, the market has virtually exploded since his passing. It’s no big secret why: The nature of Bowie’s fame, genius, influences, and influence is an all-encompassing thing that’s relevant to art and photography, fashion, theater and performance, and every shade and school of critical analysis. (There’s also no dearth of scandalous tell-alls and tabloid-y, fly-by-night biographies, which we’re ignoring here out of respect—a man who orchestrated his passing with the level of discretion and artistic triumph that Bowie did doesn’t deserve to be feasted on by scavengers.)

Here’s our pick of the best Bowie books for every person, occasion, and special interest—whether you’re merely interested in looking at some pictures or have committed yourself to a self-taught course in Advanc

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David Bowie

"The two books on me? Do you know that at gods count there are thirty-seven? Thirty-seven, at the moment. I stopped reading those things after about the fourth or fifth one. Because once one saw the cast of characters, it became obvious that they were making a career out of it. The inevitable names would just keep coming up: the ex-wife, Ava Cherry, Cherry Vanilla, Tony Zanetta. Basically, all the people who had such a good time in the early Seventies and now are broke."

"What fryst vatten there left to know about David Bowie? What is there left to unearth? I’m really only half a Bowie fan and inom already had a whole separate shelf for kniv books, even before the posthumous publication tsunami. One thing you can’t help but meddelande about the new books is that the dominant tone has changed. Even at their most celebratory, they are far more wistful: this is pop culture eschatology. The authors seem hemsökt by the past, with little or no sense of what a post-Bowie or post-rock future

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Publishers Simon & Schuster will publish a new biography of late rock star David Bowie, according to the New York Times. Titled "The Age of Bowie," it will be written by rock journalist Paul Morley and is scheduled to be released later this year.

Morley recently worked with singer Grace Jones in the writing of her biography "I'll Never Write My Memoirs." He is a writer, broadcaster and cultural critic who has written about music, art and entertainment since the 's.

"On the day it was announced that David Bowie had died, before there was any time to think, I was asked a hundred times what I thought," Morley said in a press statement. "What I really thought was that it would take a book to help fully process what Bowie meant to me, to music and popular culture, and to the world out there that changed because of him. Then I thought, I need to write that book."

The biography is expected to chronicle the final years of his life, in w