David Bowie's Influence On Music

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One of the biggest influences outside of music that played a part in the refashioning of David Bowie’s music was the mysterious new space phenomenon. Astronauts became the heroes of the twentieth century with the public eye on every movement they made enhanced greatly by the media. The initial event that connected the world to space was the first orbit around the earth accomplished by John Glenn in 1962 (Jones, 2012). Seven years later on July 16 Apollo 11 headed to space with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and Edwin Aldrin on their first adventure to the moon (Canright, 2009). These never seen before events gave people post-war optimism, change and triumph accompanied with clothing lines bringing out silver jackets, Barbie was given