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David Bowie Rainbowman
1967-1980
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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......
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The most authoritative work on the creation of Bowie's music ever published
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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
'Jerome Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world on David Bowie's career and life in general.' - TONY VISCONTI
In 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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781800962040
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Monoray
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 52.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 900g
Pages: 704
About the Author
Jerome Soligny is a musician, writer and journalist based in France. Over the course of 25 years, Jerome exchanged many emails with Bowie, and interviewed him on numerous occasions for Rock & Folk magazine. He was honoured with the Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in 2019 and is described by Bryan Ferry as 'one of the great French authorities on contemporary music'.
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