The angle, and the timing, have paid off. "Rob always writes with his heart on his sleeve." " wanted to do a rumination on Bowie's importance from an American perspective.a fan perspective," Thornton said. They decided, instead, for Sheffield to focus on the relationship Bowie had with his fans.
At a lunch a week after Bowie's death, the duo agreed that they wanted to produce something different from the obituaries and tribute pieces that stressed the artist's chameleon-like nature. When Bowie died, Sheffield was in the process of writing another book, about the Beatles, which was going to be his fourth that book was sidetracked off in favor of this one. That and the pair's shared love for the subject matter. But according to Thornton, her long-standing relationship with Sheffield emendously.
She then made a call to Sheffield's agent, Daniel Greenberg, with a singular idea: "I've got to get Rob to do a book."Ĭooking up a book, even one under 200 pages like On Bowie, in less than six months is a tall order. “When I got to work, the first conversation I had was with my publisher ,” Thornton said.
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