Simon Goddard has been writing about music for nearly 30 years, both as a journalist and as the author of over a dozen books published across three continents. His Bowie Odyssey series has twice made the Sunday Times Books Of The Year (2020, 2024) while his other titles have made best-of-year lists in Mojo, Q, Uncut and Pitchfork's Top 60 Music Books Of All-Time. Simon is based in North London.

'Fiercely original, with vivid prose and  a fast-paced narrative more akin to a thriller, this is a step above the standard music biog fare'.Classic Pop, 5*****PRAISE FOR THE BOWIE ODYSSEY SERIES:'They are probably my favourite Bowie books of all and the only ones that make me regularly laugh out loud'. Marc Riley'Bowie's lucid madness and wild ambition is in full effect . . . Absolutely unputdownable.' Classic Rock'Fantastic year-by-year epic . . . So devotional and healthily delirious you can smell the greasepaint and the hormones.' Record Collector'A full-on sensory immersion in Bowie's universe' Sunday Times

Simon Goddard has been writing about music for nearly 30 years, both as a journalist and as the author of over a dozen books published across three continents. His Bowie Odyssey series has twice made the Sunday Times Books Of The Year (2020, 2024) while his other titles have made best-of-year lists in Mojo, Q, Uncut and Pitchfork's Top 60 Music Books Of All-Time. Simon is based in North London.

'Fiercely original, with vivid prose and  a fast-paced narrative more akin to a thriller, this is a step above the standard music biog fare'.Classic Pop, 5*****PRAISE FOR THE BOWIE ODYSSEY SERIES:'They are probably my favourite Bowie books of all and the only ones that make me regularly laugh out loud'. Marc Riley'Bowie's lucid madness and wild ambition is in full effect . . . Absolutely unputdownable.' Classic Rock'Fantastic year-by-year epic . . . So devotional and healthily delirious you can smell the greasepaint and the hormones.' Record Collector'A full-on sensory immersion in Bowie's universe' Sunday Times

Simon Goddard has been writing about music for nearly 30 years, both as a journalist and as the author of over a dozen books published across three continents. His Bowie Odyssey series has twice made the Sunday Times Books Of The Year (2020, 2024) while his other titles have made best-of-year lists in Mojo, Q, Uncut and Pitchfork's Top 60 Music Books Of All-Time. Simon is based in North London.

'Fiercely original, with vivid prose and  a fast-paced narrative more akin to a thriller, this is a step above the standard music biog fare'.Classic Pop, 5*****PRAISE FOR THE BOWIE ODYSSEY SERIES:'They are probably my favourite Bowie books of all and the only ones that make me regularly laugh out loud'. Marc Riley'Bowie's lucid madness and wild ambition is in full effect . . . Absolutely unputdownable.' Classic Rock'Fantastic year-by-year epic . . . So devotional and healthily delirious you can smell the greasepaint and the hormones.' Record Collector'A full-on sensory immersion in Bowie's universe' Sunday Times