David Bowie Research Paper

David Bowie was born in South London's Brixton neighborhood on January 8, 1947. He was a pop/rock artist who was often referred to as a musical chameleon, because of his aptitude for so many different styles of music and ability to create iconic characters that he could so seamlessly play one could think they were real (David Bowie,2017). His Characters include Major Tom, The Thin White Duke, and, his most famous, Ziggy Stardust. Ziggy was designed by Bowie to be the “perfect” rock superstar. Bowie projected his own personal struggles onto Ziggy in the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars which was released in 1972. The album touched on topics such as: Bowie’s sexuality, his addiction to drugs, his fears of disappointing …show more content…
Many people even believe Bowie was a practicing magician that would attempt to cast spells and summon demons, while this sounds ridiculous many of his lyrics can be interpreted to have occult meanings and messages. He even said in an interview that took place in 1976 "My overriding interest was in cabbala and Crowleyism. That whole dark and rather fearsome nether–world of the wrong side of the brain”(Koenig, P. R.,2014). The reason that David Bowie is famous, however is, not because of any magic ritual, but because of his way of thinking. Bowie was far ahead of his time both musically and in the way he viewed the world. Bowie was a true artist that viewed the world differently from the rest of us. Most avant-garde artists lose what makes them unique with time as their ideas become more mainstream, but Bowie’s art somehow reached a level beyond this where it is popular and famous and also remains different from anything else that has ever been made. His art is this transcendent because he would analyze everything he saw as if he was a child and interpret it as if he knew nothing about