‘Ziggy Stardust’: The Bowie songs that soundtracked lives

Story highlights Without David Bowie, rock music would have been very different, and much less fun Bowie danced between countless styles -- glam, pop, soul, funk, electronic, ambient, metal London CNN — “I’m not a prophet or a Stone Age man. Bowie embraced glam rock in the early 70s and the follow-up, “Aladdin Sane,” also featured a muscular sound that included the singles “The Jean Genie” and “Drive-In Saturday.” But his stage persona was threatening to get out of control, affecting his sanity – and in July 1973 he killed Ziggy Stardust, and as the song itself predicted, “broke up the band.” Moving to New York and Los Angeles in 1974, his sound changed to the more soulful and funky sound of “Diamond Dogs” and “Young Americans.” These were massively commercial successes, especially in the United States, but saw Bowie descend into cocaine addiction and paranoia. And there’s David Bowie.” By 1980, the newly clean Bowie was back with “Ashes to Ashes,” another No.1 hit in the UK and embraced the underground New Romantic movement in its video. Every young person feels like they are the Other, and David Bowie’s otherworldliness latched on to this more than anything.” Read: My 45 seconds with a music legend “Look up here, I’m in heaven,” sang David Bowie on Lazarus, one of the songs released on his final album, Black Star, which came out on his 69th birthday – just two days before his death on Sunday.