MixedThe Washington PostWith his capacity for excess, Bowie might have appreciated this overstuffed oral history by Dylan Jones. In David Bowie: A Life, so many people have so much to say about Bowie that, as a biography, it never settles on an overarching interpretation of the man ... Jones’s biography takes a while to generate momentum, mirroring Bowie’s early career, but it offers the discerning reader clues as to how all the pieces fit together ... The book’s unsung musical hero is guitarist Mick Ronson, a genuinely nice man who had the sound to match Ziggy’s vision.
