James Briggs had never known what David Bowie’s Life on Mars? meant.
And twenty-five years later with a career stealing his soul, a relationship in stasis and a hairline in furious retreat, life had him cornered.
So when a lightning bolt of inspiration strikes, he leaves everything behind to cycle ‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads' to discover what life, love and Life on Mars? really mean.
Travelling 2700 miles to Spanish Olympic stadiums Bowie played, famous French chateaus he recorded, former communist states where his music was banned and the Berlin Wall he helped topple - all whilst navigating angry Soviet ballerinas, suspicious French mayors and the otters of middle Germany - he learns what happens when you don't follow the crowd, but the words of the greatest musician of the 21st century.
As the world reconsiders its priorities, it’s an urgent reminder not to conform but follow your own path and live a little more like the Starman himself.
