David Bowie

Über David Bowie

Bowie spent five decades inventing personas and discarding them, from Ziggy Stardust's glam-rock messiah through the Thin White Duke, the Berlin trilogy, Let's Dance pop, and the late masterpiece Blackstar (2016) released two days before his death. Heroes, Life on Mars, Space Oddity, and Changes are all canonical pop songs. He treated identity as artistic material in a way no major pop figure had done before.