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Bowie: The Illustrated Story By the time you read this, it’ll have been almost two years since the world lost perhaps its most charmingly unpredictable, impossibly pioneering pop star. This newspaper did its best to immortalize David Bowie on last year’s “In Memoriam” cover, but former MOJO editor Par Gilbert does a much more thorough job inside of this gorgeous 224-page hardcover book with enough insight into every phase of the Thin White Duke’s career (plus loads of rich, behind-the-scenes photos) to send even the most devoted superfans into moonage daydreams of their own. (Voyageur Press)

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...