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The best songwriters of all time – 39th place: David Bowie
When most people heard from David Bowie for the first time, he just slipped into Major Tom’s skin. The godly astronauts, which, without any contact to civilization, drives helplessly through space.
The existential, in this case truly cosmic alienation – documented early on albums such as “Hunky Dory” (1971) and “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” (1972) – should become Bowie’s visite card. And make him one of the most exciting songwriters of the seventies. With “Heroes”, David Bowie, just 30 years old, found his completion. As a chronicler of European, political shifts. That was in 1977.
Bowie found his first musical homeland in the Glamrock and his dazzling subculture. While he was based on William Burroughs Cut-Up technology. “You write one or two paragraphs in which you comment on all conceivable topics. Something similar to a shopping list. You then cut the text into individual parts with four or five words and newly mixed up the snippet,” he described the process.
Classic songs like “Life on Mars”, “Changes” or “Heroes” document his incomparable talent
“The content -related combinations that you get in this way can trigger amazing thoughts.” But Bowie was not just the cerebral inventor. But also looked for new challenges when it comes to songs together with soul -related musicians. Above all, Brian Eno, Mick Ronson and Iggy Pop.
Either way. Classic songs such as “Life on Mars”, “Changes” or “Heroes” document his incomparable talent, art and pop into a new, transcending unit.