Bowie Style

Hanif Kureishi
Born near Beckenham, Kureishi (right) had another
reason to feel like an outsider in his suburban
environment: his parents came from Pakistan. But
the inspiration for his debut novel, The Buddha Of
Suburbia (1990), came from his own generation, the
so-called Bromley Contingent, a flamboyant crowd of
Bowie and Cabaret -inspired decadents who
followed The Sex Pistols. When the BBC
commissioned a four-part series based on the novel,
Bowie jumped at the chance to write the music,
eventually releasing an acclaimed album on the back
of the broadcasts, in late 1993.
Jack Kerouac
On The Road (1957) was the first stop on any young
radical’s road to freedom during the Sixties.
Women, dope, hipster talk, a life of constant change
and a search for who knows what that was eternal,
the themes engaged the teenage David Jones,
given the book by his half-brother Terry.