David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God Kids / Indigenous This is an unusual sort

This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas

award-winning journalist Dom Phillips was working on this book

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David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God Kids / Indigenous This is an unusual sortIn this wide ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for spirituality that powered David Bowie's creativity from his earliest recordings to his death defying final album. Bowie's genre expanding, era crossing genius had an extraordinary impact on popular culture but his life long search for spiritual truth and enlightenment has been overlooked. From Bowie's first musical encounters as a choirboy, this book traces his spiritual obsessions