A TIMES BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2023 \'For Bowie nuts this is research-heavy heaven.\' -THE TIMES\' Quite simply the best book there is on David Bowie.\'-MAIL ON SUNDAY\'If you love David Bowie, you will really love Rainbowman. Part oral history, part essay... It\'s an absolutely biblical text.\' - STUART MACONIE, BBC Radio 6 Music\'This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David\'s music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people around him.\' - HERMIONE FARTHINGALE\'Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world on David Bowie\'s career and life in general.\' - TONY VISCONTIIn David Bowie Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the musician with the help of those intimately involved with the creation of his music.This uniquely exhaustive work on Bowie\'s 1967-1980 albums draws on over 150 interviews with the musicians, producers and friends who knew Bowie best, including Robert Fripp, Hermione Farthingale, Lou Reed, George Underwood, Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Trevor Bolder, Mike Garson, Woody Woodmansey and many, many others. With an essay by Soligny on each album followed by oral histories from the most trusted and influential figures in Bowie\'s musical life, David Bowie Rainbowman is the definitive guide to a singular and mercurial genius - the Rainbowman himself. · With a foreword by Tony Visconti, an introduction by Mike Garson and cover photo by Mick Rock· A beautiful and stylish gift for Bowie fans, over 700 pages long and with striking cover design by Barnbrook