- Published: 6 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781409041399
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
The Man Who Sold The World
David Bowie And The 1970s
- Published: 6 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781409041399
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
A forensic analysis of the songs that helped forge his many myths...an impressive, exhaustive account
Times Literary Supplement
A meticulous and engaging insight into the golden years of one of pop's true innovators. For those who love Bowie - a must
Mark Radcliffe
An astonishing and absorbing work that expertly unpicks this explosively creative time in Bowie's life... Ultimately, Doggett's insight and enthusiasm should send you back to the music. If you do so the book will ensure you experience something entirely new
Sunday Times
An exemplary introduction to a star in the making...excellent at placing the sexuality-stretching Bowie within the context of a decade struggling to find its identity
Metro
Compels you to listen to Bowie's best-known songs afresh and his less obvious songs anew
Time Out
Doggett exhaustively chases Bowie's inspirations and intentions as he morphs from the gender-bending glam rock Ziggy Stardust to the plastic soul-spinning Thin White Duke
Daily Telegraph
Doggett is no uncritical fan – his intimate knowledge of the industry lends him a cool eye when assessing the extent of Bowie’s originality… Overall it will leave readers of a certain age yearning for the days when they could throw their homework on the fire and take the car downtown
Sally Morris, Daily Mail
Part historical commentary, part fanboy's breakdown of every Bowie song from the era
The Times
Superb
The Word
This book tracks Bowie's ever changing masks and alter egos... [and] helps answer the question that most Bowie fans have asked at one time or another: what the hell is he on about?
Irish Times
This is a book, which can be dipped into as a fine song-by-song guide, but even more so, as an excellent cultural history
Mojo
Thrilling...takes its place next to Revolution in the Head on the short shelf of necessary reading about pop. Praise doesn't come any higher
Observer