Jones, L: Hero - David Bowie

The world knew David Bowie as the most innovative musician of his generation. Lesley-Ann Jones knew him as a boy from Bromley, desperate to make it, frustrated by an industry that wouldn't give him a break, and hell-bent on achieving fame and fortune at any cost.
Through interviews with an impressive number of friends and associates who have not appeared in earlier Bowie books, she unravels as never before the troubled background that ignited his extraordinary creativity; the intense and twice life-threatening rivalry with best boyhood chum George Underwood, which paradoxically never affected their lifelong friendship; she tells for the first time the reason behind David's mismatched eye condition, which led to the most distinctive look in rock. And she revisits and overturns a number of myths which have long persisted, allowing truth to enhance an already incredible tale.
Telling all this against a background of the evolution of pop and rock over fifty years, interwoven with her own life as both a Bowie aficionado and as a journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones has created a unique portrait of both the globally revered artist and the private individual. It stands alone as an affectionate tribute to perhaps the greatest rock superstar who ever lived.