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On the other hand, while 'Gimme Danger' was most definitely gutter trash, Paul Trynka's superb 'Open Up And Bleed' (indeed the definitive Iggy bio), actually presents Bowie in a very favourable light. In fact, the blurb on the book's back cover actually stakes claim to "dispelling the myths" surrounding Daddy and Pop's "often misunderstood" relationship.

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I've been wondering about whether or not to get Trynka's book - I've been afraid of shelling out for something as risible as Ambrose's book. But it looks like it'd be worth the money. BTW, I was in Planet Books yesterday evening, and damn, there were several musical bios lined up together that looked damn-near identical from a distance, because they all have the black-and-white shot of the subject against a white background on the front - Trynka's Iggy Pop book, Anthony Kiedis' autobiography, some book on Axl Rose...