The cover photo was worth the price of the book! This book was a marvelous excursion into the life and times of my favorite artist. I deeply appreciated that it was about his music and how he made it and how he made decisions about his music, and not about his sex life or his lawsuits or all that other irrelevant junk. I was a bit disappointed that more than some of the material was lifted from interviews that we all have access to already on YouTube. But I came away with a much greater sense of who influenced Bowie and how he integrated those influences into his own expression, which is what I find truly fascinating. The only improvement would be a digital version with live links to every BBC appearance, interview, and recording. I found myself stopping mid-paragraph on almost every page to go to YouTube for a listen or look. I adore the way Buckley talks about music (even though Bowie said that writing about music was like dancing about architecture) and he turned me on to a great many pieces of music and nuances within the music that I had missed over the years. Whole albums' worth of Bowie that I hadn't really paid attention to before are now swelling my ipad storage, thanks to his insightful descriptions. This book was so thorough that I feel no need to ever read another bio of the man who changed the world, for me.
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