19 Nov 2017

Dylan Jones on David Bowie

From Sunday Morning, 10:10 am on 19 November 2017
David Bowie says a prayer for Freddie Mercury after singing a song in front of the 72,000 people gathered, 20 April 1992 at Wembley Stadium, in London to attend the Aids benefit concert.

David Bowie says a prayer for Freddie Mercury after singing a song in front of the 72,000 people gathered, 20 April 1992 at Wembley Stadium, in London to attend the Aids benefit concert. Photo: AFP/THIERRY SALIOU

Dylan Jones, writer of David Bowie: A Life

Dylan Jones, writer of David Bowie: A Life Photo: Supplied

 

 

David Bowie  - A Life is an exhaustive oral history of the rock legend  by British journalist Dylan Jones, editor of GQ Magazine.

Jones talked to Bowie’s childhood friends, groupies, stars such as Lou Reed, Rick Wakeman, Nile Rodgers, Roger Daltrey, Nina Simone, Debbie Harry and Martin Scorsese. As a journalist, Jones interviewed David Bowie seven times during his life and uses quotes from those interviews.

His book has been described as the definitive oral history of one of the most fascinating musical lives of our time.