pickProbably not the best book written about David Bowie's life, but it's still an amazing story. Bowie met just about everyone who was anyone, and had a major influence on not just music but also fashion, art and theater. Bowie come off as an amazing talent, but also a warm, funny, generous man, the ultimate chameleon who picked up different styles and ideas from others, and blended them all together to create his many musical personalities. 4 🌟
pickWell, here I am 24 hours later, and I've devoted a full day to this book and Bowie's music, coming out the other side with zero regrets. I can't objectively rate it as it was more of a personal life experience than sitting with a book: David's been such an integral part of my life that reading this was a cross between nostalgic reminiscence and therapeutic catharsis. I can only rate it 5✴, but that's really not a very reliable indicator for you.
I try to know little about John Lennon's murderer, so found it chilling to learn his Plan B if he got free from the one assassination was to murder David. David was on Broadway in The Elephant Man, & the day after the murder there were three empty seats in the auditorium: those for John & Yoko, and that for the arrested murderer.
It was touching to read Yoko and Sean Lennon's accounts of the support David gave them in the aftermath of the tragedy.
I bought this intending to keep it for Christmas - Oops! 😏
The author has pulled together 300 anecdotes about Bowie's meetings with celebrities from before he was one himself through his own stellar rise to fame. I couldn't resist the temptation to read it now!
And, that cover photo! 🤩😍
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