Portfolio of artists

David Bowie

David Robert Jones professionally known as David Bowie was from London, Brixton and 
had a long and prosperous career, making music commercially since 1963 releasing albums 
consistently even going to the length of releasing an album 2 days before he unfortunately 
passed away from liver cancer. Known for constantly changing his musical sound and 
image together, often being extremely fluid with his sexuality causing controversy and 
those in the younger generation during the 70s to flock to his obscureness as he was an
 outlier and pioneer in his craft and fashion at the time. This was all unfortunately cut 
short when he died at age 69 on the 10th of January 2016.

Bowie was mainly a rock artist but he was always experimenting with other genres such as soul, funk and a lot of experimental stuff. Bowie was considered an eccentric performer singing and writing his own songs and in the early days of his career you could see him playing guitar live. He worked on stage and in the studio mainly but he was known for his work in acting as well with films his most iconic being Labyrinth in which he played the Goblin King. Bowie's last project to be released was the jazzy and experimental Blackstar being his only album to ever top the billboard 200 and being the No.1 album in the uk for 3 weeks consecutively.

Bowie had an interest in music as a child and started making music in 1963 but he didn't reach any level of fame until he released his single Space Oddity in 1969 which has gone down as one of his classics. He released a couple albums before this single and then came out with Hunky Dory which was definitely one of the stepping stones that led him to becoming a rock album. But it was the album that followed this that propelled him into becoming a British rock icon, this album was called Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The album was released and Bowie had a 6 month tour of the uk which involved him dressed in striking jumpsuits and costumes along with dyed red hair. This tour caused his popularity in England to snowball and he became the androgynous Man Who Fell to Earth.

One of Bowie's most famous tracks was Heroes. The song was produced by Tony Visconti when him and Bowie were in Berlin back when the wall was still dividing the city. This was a driving force and theme for the same titled album Heroes which the song was featured on. One of my favourite concerts of his is one where he was performing in Berlin in 2002 and he performed a great version of Heroes, which holds significance to him and the audience it being the city he recorded the song in and spent years of his life in during a divided time. He seemed much more energetic and normal than in his younger years becoming less of a character as he got older. When he'd perform in the 70s he was always shielded by a character whether it be Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane or The Thin White Duke but later on in his career after breaking America and settling down he had just become David Bowie.

I believe Bowie's ability to change his persona in the media so frequently and release albums working with very different people in the music industry so consistently pushed him to becoming a success. He wore make up and often chose to favour a more feminine look during his performances making him different and something the people of the 70s found interesting and could look too for some sort of insight to another world in music and life in general. 


The main thing I have taken from Bowie is too never limit yourself in music style and look as well as being able to work with many different people from all different areas 0f life.

George Harrison

George Harrison most well known for being a member of The Beatles.