Bowie Born: Rock's Ultimate Shape-Shifter
His left eye didn't work properly. A school fight at fifteen left him with a paralyzed iris — that mismatched-pupils look he carried forever. David Bowie invented at least six musical personalities between 1969 and 1983: Space Oddity's astronaut, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, the Berlin electronic period, the Let's Dance pop star. He co-wrote Heroes in one afternoon in a West Berlin studio. Blackstar, his final album, came out two days before he died of liver cancer on January 10, 2016.
January 8, 1947
79 years ago
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