The Man Who Sold The World

Thrilling…takes its place next to Revolution in the Head on the short shelf of necessary reading about pop. Praise doesn’t come any higher * Observer *
A meticulous and engaging insight into the golden years of one of pop’s true innovators. For those who love Bowie - a must – Mark Radcliffe
An astonishing and absorbing work that expertly unpicks this explosively creative time in Bowie’s life… Ultimately, Doggett’s insight and enthusiasm should send you back to the music. If you do so the book will ensure you experience something entirely new * Sunday Times *
Compels you to listen to Bowie’s best-known songs afresh and his less obvious songs anew * Time Out *
This is a book, which can be dipped into as a fine song-by-song guide, but even more so, as an excellent cultural history * Mojo *
A forensic analysis of the songs that helped forge his many myths…an impressive, exhaustive account * Times Literary Supplement *
An exemplary introduction to a star in the making…excellent at placing the sexuality-stretching Bowie within the context of a decade struggling to find its identity * Metro *
Part historical commentary, part fanboy’s breakdown of every Bowie song from the era * The Times *
Doggett exhaustively chases Bowie’s inspirations and intentions as he morphs from the gender-bending glam rock Ziggy Stardust to the plastic soul-spinning Thin White Duke * Daily Telegraph *
This book tracks Bowie’s ever changing masks and alter egos… [and] helps answer the question that most Bowie fans have asked at one time or another: what the hell is he on about? * Irish Times *

Peter Doggett first wrote about feminism and gay liberation in There’s a Riot Going On, his 2005 history of the collision between rock music and revolutionary politics. Since then, he has published a series of books about the death of 1960s idealism, and its aftermath, as viewed through the life and work of the Beatles in You Never Give Me Your Money, David Bowie in The Man Who Sold the World and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in his 2019 biography of the same name. His other books include a panoramic cultural history of popular music, Electric Shock. He lives in Sussex with the feminist artist and film-maker Rachel Baylis.

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