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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We all know that we are going to die, bad that we weigh, but only geniuses can turn the unappealable farewell of this world into a work of art. David Bowie was very aware during Blackstar’s elaboration, in the first half of 2015, that his time in the kingdom of the living was running out, so he conjured himself so that that last show of his talent would become a quintessential work.
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 …
He was perhaps the most versatile artist in pop history. His work remains influential for subsequent generations.
A decade after David Bowie’s death, his legacy goes far beyond music. The British transformed rock by creating characters that defied rules, played with identity, and broke molds at a time when few dared to do so. Bowie not only released albums: he reinvented himself. Each stage of his career was marked by an alter ego that reflected social, aesthetic and cultural changes. He died on January 10, 2016, at the age of 69, after a fight against canc…
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