Bowie: Loving the Alien

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.

Author: Christopher Sandford
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08/22/1998
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.38w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780306808548

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/02/1998 pg. 64

About the Author
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 the Times of London and other publications, and his books have been published in more than a dozen countries.