US EditionDavid Bowie: 10 Years After His Death, He’s Still Electrifying, Still Plugged Into the 21st Century
David Bowie’s final album Blackstar redefined artistic self-reinvention, influencing musicians like Tyler, the Creator while leaving few successors in rock’s evolving landscape.
- David Bowie continues to influence as Blackstar merges self-creation with death, proving large-scale pop can be both challenging and non-trashy.
- His career traced a path of reinvention, building personas like Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, and Dead David Bowie, appearing on 24 solo-album covers.
- On Blackstar, David Bowie is represented by a five-pointed black star rather than his portrait, while the Lazarus video was filmed as he learned his liver cancer was terminal.
- Younger artists like Tyler, the Creator echo Bowie’s character-driven process, but contemporary rock artists rarely become extravagant self-creators, leaving few true inheritors of the Bowian spirit.
- Across decades, David Bowie produced a dozen critically admired albums, using music to explore vast artistic possibilities beyond pop's usual ambitions.
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David Bowie was much more than a role model. Since his death on January 10, 2016, he has been a role model for generations of musicians—through his eclectic music, conceptual style, and ever-changing image.
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Conservative News DailyA decade without David Bowie
David Bowie personally appears on the cover of 24 of his solo albums, depicting himself as a bowl-cut heartthrob, an androgynous blond, a space alien in human disguise, a cigarette-smoking lounge creature, a sideways pair of legs, and an oddly undersized boxer. On the front of his 25th album, released two days before his death at the age of 69 a decade ago this week, the English musician appeared by negation, represented as a five-pointed black …
Day after day, you will find a look back at events, anecdotes, and birth or death anniversaries associated with this date. dpa-infographic/dpa January 10th marks the anniversaries of numerous historical events. From the medieval Golden Bull to the founding of the United Nations and the recent foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Germany, this day encompasses significant moments from seven centuries. The feast days of the saints Gregory, Paul, and …
This Saturday marks ten years after the death of David Bowie, "The Chameleon", one of the most multifaceted and risky artists of his generation, who did not hesitate to change his image and style on multiple occasions throughout his 69 years of life.Born as David Robert Jones in Brixton, a popular neighborhood in the south of London, he showed an incomparable artistic inclinations that did not go unnoticed by his teachers.At ten years old he was…
David Bowie was a master of transformation. On the 10th anniversary of the death, author Uwe Schütte sheds light on how his albums from "Ziggy Stardust" to "Blackstar" inspire generations. About the magic of the five most important works of the exceptional artist Over the course of almost 50 years, the exceptional musician David Robert Jones, operating under the artist's name David Bowie, has created an extremely influential oeuvre/work of album…
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