The Age of Bowie

this is on my to read list.

There have been some pretty bad books written about Bowie over the years. Fortunately, this is not one of them. It made me want to keep reading even though I needed to go to sleep and just told the truth about his life. I've corroborated that with people who are related to him or had dealings with him from the early 70s up through his untimely transition. Highly recommended!

Just started it. But I know it's going to be really well written and interesting. Love David Bowie❤

Less a review, more a response to the low gradings of some of these postings.Morley's book is not a standard biography. As good as they are do we really need another Trynka or Buckley tome on the shelves?In my view this is a very welcome edition to the cannon of literature on the Dame. To suggest that Morley cannot write, as some others have done here, is laughably ridiculous. His style may not be to everyone's taste but he is a master of the eerily accurate descriptive and his prose at times is nothing less than beautiful.Anyone doubting his ability to nail Bowie or to bring anything new to the table should read the passage in 'Age' for 1974. Superb! Morley's description of Bowie on the Cavett show is the best I have ever read. His observation that Bowie ".....looked like he had been raised by insects" spot on.This book is a very rewarding read. Yes it's unusual, yes it's odd at times, and yes it can be bafflingly literate. It requires the reader to think. But these are surely traits which made us love the subject to begin with.Well done Paul. I for one am very grateful for this work.

I'v read a good many books on Bowie and this year has seen a flood of publications trying to give their own perspective of Bowie. Paul Morley tries to emulate Bowie by making the writing style 'challenging' but instead comes over as unreadable with an irritating stream of consciousness style and sneering one-upmanship, along the Lines of 'I saw him first' Try as I might, I couldn't finish it.I suppose I was onto a loser in the first place as I never liked Morley's writing style in the NME.There are better books on Bowie such Strange Fascination by David Buckley and Paul Trynka's excellent Starman