David Bowie (Ford)

David Bowie

• Born: 8th Jan 1947
• His actual name was David Robert Jones and David Bowie was just a stage/character name.
• He had a short lived Ziggy Stardust persona which was just on facet of his career.
• Renowned as an innovator for his work in the 1970's.
• Space oddity caught the public eye first and came in the top 5 UK singles chart.
• He then re-emerged in the glam rock era of 1972 with his hit single 'Starman'.
• David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day".
• David Bowie made his first major American success in the single 'fame' where he characterised as a plastic soul.

New album -The Next Day

This album is David Bowies first studio album in a decade and the album include 14 tracks with 3 bonus tracks and is the 24th album made by Bowie. The Next Day is a dense, angry, complex rock album with songs such as the song 'Where are we now'. Bowie is obsessed with timing and it's a major theme in his work, from the five years he imagined Ziggy Stardust having on Earth to the signal line from his Berlin Trilogy 'we can be heroes'. The next day is not an easy album to absorb but it easy to listen too. Postmodern features of the album is that some songs on the album are like reading the middle of a chapter in a book you just found. Other songs are more personal and it is more a like a biography of David Bowie. The album is a mixture as it also has a dance song and a love song that do not really connect to the rest of the album and this is another postmodern feature. The album acts as a narrative to the brain. David Bowie created a whole persona for his album that wasn't him and based it around a character. Although now a lot of people have copied this idea and have done it since. Bowie was the first creator of a character within an album. His new album is placed on postmodern and modern culture.