David Bowie

The definitive book on Bowie

The Times

Dylan Jones made absolutely the right decision to frame his superb life of David Bowie as a multi-voiced oral biography. David Bowie: A Life suits the shape-shifting, beguiling, enigmatic complexities of its subject perfectly. It’s hard to imagine anything that will do Bowie better justice

William Boyd, Guardian

Studded with shiny nuggets

Daily Telegraph

The perfect present for music mums and dads

Daily Mirror

The best book on David Bowie you’ll ever need or read.

Irish Independent, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Funny, enlightening, gossipy’

The Herald

Engrossing

Mail on Sunday

Dylan Jones has excavated the cacophony of voices that make up a life and curated a phenomenal portrait of the artist from childhood to the final days. The witnesses who comprise this oral biography animate the pages like characters in a non-fiction novel. Damn nigh peerless.

David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

Jones constructs an oral-history mosaic that will engage even those whose lives were not changed by the appearance of Ziggy Stardust on Top of the Pops in 1972

Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

There have been many books about David Bowie ... but Dylan Jones's is among the best

Observer

The definitive account of the great man’s life, in the words of those who knew him best … lively, funny and warm – and the story, even the well-known bits, still staggers and amazes. It’s a brilliant story, and it is tremendously well-told here

Esquire

One of the most colourful and intimate portraits yet painted of Bowie

Vogue

Sparks with admiration and grievances, lust and envy

Sunday Telegraph

Worthy of the Starman … Of all the volumes to appear since Bowie’s death, this is the most useful: an oral history that brings together the most incisive reminiscences and memorials

Evening Standard

A vivid catalogue of anecdote, opinion, gossip and memoir

Telegraph Magazine

There is literally no better way to spend your time than by reading about the late, great, beautiful and brilliant David Bowie, brought to you by fellow superfan and GQ editor Dylan Jones

Tatler

A magisterial compilation of startling insights

The Oldie

This oral history is by far the best … It’s gossipy, fascinating stuff

The Sun

The perfect accompaniment to roaring fires and languid winter evenings, this book guarantees to see any man through the festive period

Independent

A must-have for Bowie fans

Daily Mirror

Revelatory and surprising – perfect for the Ziggy completist

New York Magazine

Beguiling … the fabulosity of Bowie’s life and times lends itself extraordinarily well to the oral history form

San Francisco Chronicle

An affectionate, sometimes surprising, always fascinating picture of a Star Man in the real world

STELLA magazine

Of all the volumes to appear since Bowie’s death last year, this is perhaps the most useful

i paper

A treat for enthusiasts […] it bulges with essential and telling Spinal Tappish gossip

Guardian

An intimate, detailed and gossip-spangled survey of the life of the great enigma

Strong Words magazine

There are sixty-two and a half million books written about David Bowie; this is the one that has been unanimously praised. Indeed, David Bowie: A life might be the only one that you really need.

Loud and Quiet Magazine

You can go to any page and read something really interesting. It’s the only book about another artist that I’ve really enjoyed.

Chris Difford, Daily Express