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David Bowie: Starman – a Colouring Book

David Bowie Starman
by Sheryl Garratt

Just after David Bowie died, The Guardian asked me to write a piece celebrating his style. As always with obituary pieces, it had to be written quickly, in a couple of hours, but I’d already done some interviews with designers who had worked with him, at the time of the V&A Museum’s big Bowie retrospective.

Later, a publisher asked if they could reprint it as a preface to a Bowie colouring book, which has to be one of the strangest – and most entertaining – reuse of something I’ve written.

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