Rebel Rebel

“The best writing on David Bowie bar none.”
– Bob Stanley

“Must-have must-read must-devour for any Bowie fan. Or fan of music writing or creative criticism. Or being alive on earth. Really for everyone. Ever.”
– Matt Fraction

“The level of scholarship, reporting and critique is both extraordinary and depressing. If paid culture journalists took as much care with their work as O’Leary does — insert your stock Death of Journalism oath here.”
– Sasha Frere Jones, Los Angeles Times

“O’Leary’s weightless writing inflames rather than kills your interest in the music.”
– Ryan Gibley, The New Statesman

“Rebel Rebel is the Lipstick Traces of Bowie studies, and Chris O’Leary its unchallenged dean.”
– Mark Dery

“For any self-respecting Bowie fan, it’s essential.”
– Mayer Nassim, Digital Spy

“The detail is, at times, breathtaking, the cultural contextualizing mostly secure, and the analysis quirky and honest.”
– David Buckley, Mojo

“A fantastic voyage through Bowie’s career song by song.”
– Unherd

Chris O’Leary is a writer and editor based in western Massachusetts. He has written for Pitchfork, Slate, New York, Mojo, Billboard, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is the author of a previous book on the music of David Bowie- Ashes to Ashes. Both Rebel Rebel and Ashes to Ashes are based on the blog that he created in 2009.

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