One of the most authoritative Bowie books you're ever likely to read.

As a critique-cum-re-establishment of the David Bowie character, "definitive" is pretty much it.

A fascinating portrait of a fascinating artist ... if you like Bowie and you're into biographies, this is the one to read

Buckley manages the ultimate achievement of any rock biog and sends you scuttling back to the records.

A definitive re-establishment of the man and the myth of David Bowie.

Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North

A working class boy who now, on air, challenges Stephen Fry's spry wit, Maconie celebrates his younger self modestly and fluently, pausing only for regular rib-ticklers

Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny

Exuberantly anecdotal, witty and poignant