A biography of one of music s most iconic figures David Bowie is one of the most protean figures in rock music, one of the ten highest-selling acts in British pop history, and a subject of perennial fascination even when artistically lying low. It is a decade since the last major biography, and now Marc Spitz considers afresh Bowie s remarkable life and music. Bowie embarked on a life of endless self re-invention. This succession of alter egos has always been symptomatic of a restless musical creativity and endless quest for innovation. Marc Spitz has talked to those who know or have worked with Bowie to produce an even-handed, thoroughly researched and quirkily readable portrait of an enigmatic and elusive individual, for whose recent musical silence we are all the poorer.