Jake Arnott, Paul Morley

Respected arts commentator and rock journalist Paul Morley, one of the team who curated the David Bowie Is exhibition, tells the definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, structured his ideas, invented the future and entered history as someone who could never be forgotten. In a startling critique of Bowie’s legacy, he shows how he never stayed still even when he withdrew from the spotlight, how he always knew his own worth, and released a dazzling plethora of mobile Bowies into the world with a bloody-minded determination and a voluptuous imagination to create something amazing that was not there before.

Novelist Jake Arnott is a ‘fantastically huge fan’ of Bowie. And the feeling was mutual. Bowie said of Arnott: ‘’Whenever he's got a new book out, I drop everything…’’ Arnott’s knowledge of Bowie’s work is deeper than most superfans fans as he’s been studying his literary references, from Shakespeare to JG Ballard since the age of 11. Here he asks what can be made of his literary legacy, of his influences and output as a writer?