The David Bowie Myth
Marc Spitz has been writing on rock and roll and pop since 1997, when he wrote his first piece for Spin. Since then he’s written three books, including We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day, and a novel, How Soon Is Never?, about a man trying to reunite The Smiths. His experience with Green Day – who authorized his biography and then recanted – made Spitz decide not to seek his subject’s …