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This sturdy board book version of the Little People Big Dreams biography of David Bowie tells the inspiring tale of the boy from south London who grew up to become one of the most influential and iconic musicians of all time, singing classics like Let's Dance, Ashes To Ashes and Heroes. These photographs have appeared on magazine covers and in galleries and museums worldwide, including Brooklyn Museum, Sydney Opera House, Pace Gallery, and other cities including New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Berlin, London, and Bologna. Cummins had a 20-year association with British Rock 'bible' NME, where he created many of the best-known images in modern music history. His songwriting, musical skills and talent for reinvention made him an enduring star. Offer 2: Grab any 2 prints and get the second one at half-price (discount applied automatically). Little People Big Dreams David Bowie book. In this original and illuminating book, Professor Brooker approaches Bowie from various angles, re-tracing his childhood on the streets of Bromley, taking us through his record collection and bookshelves, and deciphering the symbols and codes of his final work, Blackstar to piece together how an ordinary suburban teenager turned himself into a legend, and how perhaps we too could be a little more Bowie. Manchester-born Kevin Cummins has an international reputation as one of the world's leading photographers and is famed for his iconic portraits of musicians including Ian Curtis, Bowie, The Smiths, Iggy Pop, Bjork, Debbie Harry, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Patti Smith and Oasis.  

• Presented together in an elegant specially-printed Perspex slipcase.
• A numbered certificate of authenticity hand-signed by Kevin Cummins.
• One copy of an exclusive edition of David Bowie: Mixing Memory & Desire, with a foreword by Jeremy Deller, hand-signed by Kevin Cummins.
• A 7x9" colour print portrait of David Bowie hand-signed by Kevin Cummins.