It didn’t skyrocket to the top of the pops – thanks, in part, to Machiavellian intrigue by a certain artist manager – but David Bowie's 1970 epic, The Man Who Sold the World, nonetheless became one of ...

David Bowie’s 1970 album, The Man Who Sold the World was quite a shift from the relatively gentle folk-rock of Space Oddity. It’s the first album appearance of guitarist & arranger Mick Ronson as ...

David Bowie was already four years and four albums into his career when he issued Hunky Dory, the first record to help secure ...

It was a fragile psychological state. The result was that he had almost no recollection of having recorded the song or the ...

And Bowie kicked off that transformation by releasing what would be Kurt Cobain's favorite David Bowie album: The Man Who Sold The World. "We just threw caution to the wind. It had to be seen by our ...

In the late 1960s, Bowie was going through some tough setbacks as a new artist, with a low-selling debut album and several failed bands. He stretched his expertise into songwriting, composing new ...

I won’t belabor this point. If David Bowie isn’t the most influential artist in the history of post-war pop music, he is at least on Mount Rushmore, along with Chuck Berry, Elvis, Lennon/McCartney, ...

The entrance to David Bowie is during its run at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2014 (photo by Sean Benham/Flickr) David Bowie’s striped bodysuit for the Aladdin Sane Tour (1973), design ...

Hunky Dory is the combination of Bowie’s newfound confidence, his ability to pick and surround himself with a brilliant band ...

Forms his first band, David Jones and the King Bees. Other early bands include The Manish Boys, The Lower Third and The Buzz. 1965 – Changes his name to David Bowie to prevent being confused with Davy ...