This morning, while the sky in New York was still dark, news broke that David Bowie, born David Robert Jones, had died shortly after his 69th birthday. His most recent album, Blackstar, released just days ago, revealed itself as a parting gift. The critically acclaimed seven-song work is the latest chapter of the artist’s extraordinary legacy—a final missive from the boy from Brixton who managed to put his fingerprint on everything from the way we dance down to the hair on our heads.
During Bowie’s intellectually promiscuous career, which spanned half a century and comprised 27 studio albums, 14 tours, and 22 films (to name a few of his creative contributions), his visual range was diverse and reverberating. “He crossed so many creative boundaries,” Celia Philo, the graphic designer who worked with Bowie to conceptualize his influential Aladdin Sane album cover, told Vogue.com in 2014. “He understood that the way you looked was as important as the music.”
This morning, while the sky in New York was still dark, news broke that David Bowie, born David Robert Jones, had died shortly after his 69th birthday. His most recent album, Blackstar, released just days ago, revealed itself as a parting gift. The critically acclaimed seven-song work is the latest chapter of the artist’s extraordinary legacy—a final missive from the boy from Brixton who managed to put his fingerprint on everything from the way we dance down to the hair on our heads.During Bowie’s intellectually promiscuous career, which spanned half a century and comprised 27 studio albums, 14 tours, and 22 films (to name a few of his creative contributions), his visual range was diverse and reverberating. “He crossed so many creative boundaries,” Celia Philo, the graphic designer who worked with Bowie to conceptualize his influential Aladdin Sane album cover, told Vogue.com in 2014. “He understood that the way you looked was as important as the music.”
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