The Age of Bowie

The definitive story of David Bowie's life and career, told by an artistic advisor to the curators of the highly successful retrospective exhibition "David Bowie is" at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Paul Morley explores how Bowie worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, influenced others, invented the future, and entered history as someone who could and would never be forgotten.

From his early days in South London to his iconic live, film, theatre, and television performances, Morley captures the greatest moments of Bowie's life and career.

He also discusses in detail his much-heralded and critically acclaimed finale with the release of "Blackstar" just days before his shocking death in New York.

This book offers a startling biographical critique of David Bowie's legacy, showing how he never stayed still even when he withdrew from the spotlight, how he always knew his own worth, and released a dazzling plethora of personalities, concepts, and works into the world with a single-minded determination and a voluptuous imagination to create something the likes of which the world had never seen before—and likely will never see again.