In honour of the terrible news today that we have lost music legend David Bowie, we took a look back at the career of the much loved creative chameleon and the marked differences in style he explored and embodied throughout his extensive career which began over 45 years ago.
Space Oddity – David Bowie, 1969
Rebel Rebel – Â Diamond Dogs, 1974
Suffragette City – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 1976
Heroes – Heroes, 1977
Sound and Vision – Low, 1977
Under Pressure – Hot Space (Queen Album), 1981
China Girl – Let’s Dance, 1983
Blue Jean – Tonight, 1984
Hallo Spaceboy – Outside, 1995
★ – Blackstar, 2016
Alas! Poor Yorick !. Hamlet. Shakespeare.
Alas, poor Yorick
First Clown:
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! ‘a pour’d a flagon
of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was, sir,
Yorick’s skull, the King’s jester.
Hamlet:
This? [Takes the skull]
First Clown:
E’en that.
Hamlet:
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a
thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.
Hamlet Act 5, scene 1, 179–188