BOWIE'S BOOKS: Read just like a rock star

12 January 2016 - 11:16
By Tymon Smith

With the death of one of pop culture's most iconic and ever-transforming personalities here's a selection from the Thin White Duke's list of 100 titles that have formed his thinking, released in 2013 as part of a massive exhibition about the artist. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse (1959)Waterhouse's seminal novel about a working class teenager living with his parents in Yorkshire who spends his time fantasising of life in the big city must have had a strong influence on the young David Jones grow...

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