DAVID BOWIE
BEST OF ’87/’88: Never Let Me Down, Bowie’s first record in over three years, which was accompanied by the gargantuan “Glass Spider Tour” in 1987. PROFILE: Bowie is rock music’s chameleon, changing his image over the years from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke to his current, fashionable ’80s persona.
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DAVID BOWIE
THE RETURN OF THE '70s
BEST OF ’87/’88: Never Let Me Down, Bowie’s first record in over three years, which was accompanied by the gargantuan “Glass Spider Tour” in 1987.
PROFILE: Bowie is rock music’s chameleon, changing his image over the years from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke to his current, fashionable ’80s persona. But through it all, he’s managed to maintain an unpredictable quality in his music that is second to none.
FIRST ACCOMPLISHMENT: In the early stages of his career, Bowie began to sport make-up and outrageous costumes, unwittingly (or perhaps intentionally) becoming the progenitor of the theatrical rock style that would spawn artists like T. Rex, Kiss and Poison.
WHAT’S IN A NAME: The Londoner was born in 1947 as David Jones. He renamed himselfafter the Bowie knife... a double blade that cuts both ways.
RUBBING ELBOWS: Bowie enlisted the help of John Lennon on his 1975 Young Americans album, U2 producer Brian £no on Low, Heroes and Lodger, and even dueted with old-time crooner Bing Crosby on a remake of .the Christmas classic “Little Drummer Boy.”
QUOTE: “I don’t change, but the stage performance does. I’ve never painted the same painting twice.”
