Based on interviews with family members, colleagues, lovers, and the previously silent William Burroughs, this unsparing yet evenhanded biography guides the reader through the many personas, crises, and musical metamorphoses of David Bowiealso known as Davy Jones, the Laughing Gnome, Major Tom, Zig[...]

In the early twentieth century, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were two of the most feted and famous men alive. Their relationship was extraordinary: Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the ultra-rational detective Sherlock Holmes, was a believer in Spiritualism. He came to his belief that one [...]

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing blues g[...]

Keith Richards tunnetaan paitsi ylittämättömänä kitaristina ja "Satisfactionin" kaltaisten rock'n'rollklassikkojen tekijänä, myös kyltymättömänä narkomaanina, nahkansa alati luovana selviytyjänä ja kolmen rocksukupolven kulttuuri-ikonina. Siinä missä Mick Jagger nykyään liehakoi hi[...]