Biography tracks the rise and fame of David Bowie"Bowie: A Biography" (Crown, 448 pages, $26.99) by Marc Spitz: David Bowie knows what he's singing about when he performs "Changes." After making a big splash in the early 1970s as Ziggy Stardust, he went on to become the Thin White Duke, Desperate Housewives complete box set of 1-6, FlashForward seasons 1 dvd box set, an artsy Berlin angst rocker, Beverly Hills 90210 complete seasons, The Mentalist seasons 1-2 dvd box set, The Incredible Hulk dvd 1-5, the "straight" Bowie of "Let's Dance" and more recently the distinguished rock elder who goes to fashion events with his model wife, Miami Medical dvd set, The Office dvd set, Iman.
 
The career full of characters obscures the less fantastic, Miami Medical series 1, but very interesting, The Mentalist on dvd, Modern Family seasons 1 dvd box set, back story of David Jones, The Closer dvds, “V” dvd series, Family Guy dvds, Shaun The Sheep seasons 1-2, Mad Men 1-3 dvd, a British teen in the '60s who desperately wanted to make it big. He joins some R&B bands, Garfield dvd series, Treme 1, Family Guy on dvd, dabbles in acting and mime, changes his last name to Bowie and records a painful-to-listen-to-now single titled "The Laughing Gnome" that seems to channel Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Nothing in particular sticks until he records the 1969 single "Space Oddity." Bowie later goes all-in with his pioneering glam character Ziggy, the one with the screwed up eyes and snow-white tan. Bowie never looks back, Walt Disney's 100 Years Of Magic dvd, Fraggle Rock dvds, never stops changing.
Spitz, a music journalist, does a decent job of tracking Bowie's evolution through copious research and interviews with dozens of people who knew him.
Spitz clearly gets Bowie, One Tree Hill complete series, The Closer seasons 5 dvd, The Mentalist complete seasons, and this is an unapologetic fan-boy biography. He is good at analyzing what Bowie accomplished, Family Guy seasons 1-8, “24” seasons 1-8, why it matters and what was likely influencing him at the time. He has insightful things to say about landmark Bowie songs "Life on Mars?" and "Heroes."
But be warned: Unlike a lot of top-rate biographers, Big Love dvds, Spitz is not big on narrative and crafting scenes. Events are recounted, Big Love collection, The Closer seasons 5 dvd, at length, through gushy quotes from Bowie's old chums.
And sometimes Spitz doesn't know when to turn the spigot off on himself. The book is littered with superfluous pop culture references (example: Bowie was in a band called the King Bees, and Spitz informs readers not only that it was named after the blues classic "(I'm a) King Bee, Treme series 1, “V” collection," but that John Belushi sang it years later on "Saturday Night Live" dressed like a bee).
Worse, Spitz has the self-indulgent habit of interrupting Bowie's story with vignettes about HIS story of being a Bowie fan. Who cares?
The result is a book at turns interesting and irritating that reads like a very long music magazine article.

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