Starman

Singer and songwriter David Bowie moved through many personas across his career, and this biography traces that path from his childhood in postwar Brixton, through a restless adolescence in Bromley. It follows him to the flamboyant stage identity of Ziggy Stardust and into the controversial Berlin years, when his life and work were marked by upheaval.

To reconstruct this story, author Paul Trynka drew on more than two hundred conversations with people who knew Bowie well, including friends, former partners and fellow musicians. Their accounts give the book its close, personal view of an artist widely regarded as a figure of constant reinvention.