The Church of David Bowie

The Church of David Bowie

David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and Godby peter ormerodbloomsbury, 256 pages, $28 Thirty-four years ago today, David Bowie knelt on the stage at Wembley Stadium in front of 72,000 people attending the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, bowed his head, and recited the “Our Father.” Moments before, he had been performing a barnstorming set with Mercury’s old band Queen. Then, quite suddenly, after some brief words of in…