Research Paper- David Bowie
Every time I hear a David Bowie song, I feel like I'm roaming in space. His songs are dreamy, psychedelic and intoxicating. David Bowie charms me again and again, inspiring me to research him. He's a very cool musician and cultural icon, who was born in 1947 in Brixton, London. He began making music in the 1960s and became popular in the early 1970s through his album "Ziggy Stardust and the Rise and Fall of the Martian Spiders." Bowie was always changing his style, experimenting with different types of music, from glam rock to electronica. He was also well-known for his unique sense of fashion and androgynous stage persona. Unfortunately, Bowie passed away in 2016 after a struggle with liver cancer, but he left behind an amazing legacy.
I first heard David Bowie's “Starman” during a summer vacation when I was in high school. I was walking around my house alone and the music app automatically recommended this song to me. I can't remember exactly what I did that day,
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Bowie began to shift gradually from psychedelic rock to glam rock. Ziggy Stardust is perhaps Bowie's most iconic persona, which was closely related to his aesthetic during that period. The album tells the story of an androgynous rock star named Ziggy Stardust. Ziggy’s character performance is featured in gorgeous costumes and makeup, d shiny jumpsuits, platform boots and brightly colored hair. It helped solidify Bowie's status as a pop culture icon. During the Ziggy period, Bowie created a new persona for himself; he was not David Bowie anymore, he transformed himself into a spiderman from Mars, a genius icon from a magic nebula. He didn't know whether he was David Bowie or the alien named "Ziggy." At that time, each time he spoke, he expressed that he did not belong to this