Bowie a biography by marc spitz review

Folks, I've been on a big Bowie kick for the last month or so. It was revived thanks to Hugo Wilcken's entry on Low for the 33 1/3 series, which got me listening to the "Berlin Trilogy"and then Iggy Pop's The Idiot and Lust for Life albums, which Bowie had a hand in around the same timeand then Aladdin Sane just 'cause I like that album.

The next book I picked up, to my delight, was Marc Spitz's Bowie, a biography/love letter to one David Robert Jones. Turns out he's been on a Bowie kick too, only his has lasted since or so, when he heard "Space Oddity" for the first time at age nine.

He writes:

"I would look up at the sky and wonder what it would be like to be Major Tom, trapped way up there in outer space, floating in a tin can forever.

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Was it technically living? Bowie made me consider existentialism before I even knew what it meant to be alive (and before I ever really thought about my death). It was much easier to reckon with the "Grease" soundtrack and put off