The great biography of David Bowie

Writer and rock 'n' roll journalist Mark Spitz brings us a major biography of David Bowie that rivals any other ever written.

Tracing Bowie's life from his beginnings as poor mod kid David Jones from the London suburb of Bromley to his rise to global rock and roll aristocracy under the name David Bowie, this book tells the story of his career, but also reveals how much his music influenced other artists and changed the world forever. popular culture.

Along the way, Spitz shows how writing such a well-rounded book about Bowie affected him in unexpected ways, adding a personal dimension that Bowie fans will find easy to relate to that no other biography of an artist has..

From initial struggles with record companies and misguided management while still trying to find his own "voice," to a larger-than-life personality image, alleged bisexuality, years of cocaine addiction, to the relatively quiet life he leads today, not a single important person or events are not left out of this fascinating story of one of rock and roll's most influential artists.

"A fresh, well-lit portrait of the eternally enigmatic rocker... Spitz's encyclopedic knowledge and obvious fondness for Bowie's work set his book apart from the sea of ​​clichéd rock biographies," they point out on the NME website.

Mark Spitz has written about rock and roll and popular culture for magazines "spin", "New York Times", "Maxim", "Nylon", "Blender" i "Uncut". He is the author of novels "How Soon Is Never?" i "Too Much Too Late", as well as books about the American band Green Day"Nobody Likes You". He wrote a book with Brendon Malen "We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story Of LA Punk."

The translated edition of this biography was published by the publishing house Laguna.