David Bowie was known for gender and genre bending throughout his career. The music he produced throughout his career was revolutionary at the time. His first rock album, The Man Who Sold the World released in 1970, was Bowie’s first time experimenting with costumes and gender bending. He was pictured wearing a floral dress and long hair while laying on a sofa. This would set the mood for his entire career. Two years later, in 1972, Ziggy Stardust, an alien  rock superstar, reached fame just as the Earth entered the last five years of its existence.

     During his Thin White Duke Era, he was heavily addicted to cocaine and admitted he does not remember recording his album Station to Station (1976). He then moved to Berlin and produced a trio of albums, known as the Berlin Trilogy, the albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger were released. Through the rest of his career he never settled into one music genre and continued to have experimental ideas up until his last album Blackstar (2016) which served as a eulogy for his own death that he knew was impending.

     The Starman passed on January 10th, 2016, two days after the release of Blackstar. And years later, Blackstar is seen as another great musical masterpiece that fans all over adore. David Bowie left a mark on the music industry and had a part in so many artists careers then and now.