The Doggett book contains little any Bowie fan doesn't know already, and the prose is workmanlike.

Two years old, and already in the possession of most Bowie fans through Ziggy Stardust, its release has been labelled simply a "dosh-catching exercise".

No self respecting Bowie fan would have paid to see X-Factor rejects do their worst Thin White Duke impression.

Im pretty sure real Bowie fans would have avoided this like the plague, even when I read the article i was thinking i really cant see Bowie going for this.

If there is nothing here that really justifies the price, there is more than enough for both the casual Bowie fan and the obsessive.

Having been a Bowie fan since Hunky Dory this was the first (and only) time I got to see him, a Serious Disappointment to be honest.

He's not a big Bowie fan.

When excited Bowie fans let him know the rarity of his tape, he loaned it to a British Film Institute event and made it available to the BBC.

There's an extent to which you already have to be a pop music fan in order to be a Bowie fan, and his appeal in the 1970s did not extend across the generations.

I was selling mohair jumpers, plastic sandals and peg trousers to the soul boys and Bowie fans such as Siouxsie Sioux and Billy Idol.