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It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. The
streets are alive with mods and rockers, playboys and good-time
girls, all revelling in the blossoming artistic, creative and
cultural energies of the decade. Amid the colour and chaos is a boy
sporting drainpipe jeans, an immaculately tailored sports coat and
a half-inch wide tie. A devoted fan of The Who, he looks the part
in his pristine mod gear. As the lead singer of the Lower Third,
his talent is shaping itself into something truly special. His name
is Davie Jones. In ten years, he will be unrecognisable as
fresh-faced boy of 1965, and in just over fifty years, his death
will be mourned by millions, his legacy the story of the greatest
rock star of all time. And through Bowie's transition from pop
group member to solo performer, Phil Lancaster was by his side. As
the drummer in Bowie's band, the Lower Third, Phil was there as the
singer's musical stripes began to show, and was witness to his
early recording techniques, his first experimental forays into
drug-taking, and the band's discovery of his bisexuality in
shocking circumstances. In this riveting - and often very funny -
memoir, Phil tells the story of life alongside the insecure yet
blazingly talented boy who became Bowie, at a critical crossroad of
time and place in music history. What follows is an intimate,
personal and important perspective on the genesis of one of the
most iconic musicians of the twentieth century - one that gets
under the skin of the man himself, before the personas and
alter-egos masked the fascinating figure beneath them. At the Birth
of Bowie is essential reading for anyone who knows what happened on
Bowie's journey, but wants to understand how, and why, it ever
began.
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