Collecting football stickers, falling in love for the first time, feeling a stirring in your groin when you see your favourite popstar on the telly: the nostalgia is strong in Jack Docherty’s David Bowie And Me: Parallel Lives. Here, the Scot Squad comic discusses his relationship with the androgynous rock superstar from early childhood to rebellious teenage years and beyond.

There’s a lot more going on here than a simple fan letter, though, as Bowie’s Aladdin Sane persona comes to symbolise a break from the unchecked anger of male repression in the post-war era. What could easily be a deep dive in self-indulgence becomes fascinating in the hands of Docherty, a man who can turn the simple anecdote of digging a hole in his granddad’s garden into a mini drama, and whose light comic touch can inject even the most quotidian of stories with humour.

Within the heady whirl of hero worship lies larger questions: how do we separate the art from the artist, particularly when their work has come to soundtrack our lives? How do we start to unpick the reality of musical heroes? And should important music from previous generations be relevant to the young? Docherty doesn’t quite get to the bottom of these questions, but he provides plenty of thoughtful laughs while he ponders them.

Jack Docherty In David Bowie And Me: Parallel Lives, Gilded Balloon Teviot, until 27 August, 8.30pm.