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David Bowie

DAVID BOWIE

YEAR

1996

INDUCTED BY

David Byrne (Talking Heads)

CATEGORY

Performers

Glamorous. Futuristic. Alien. Mortal. You can never fully encapsulate the many faces of David Bowie.

Bowie’s fifty-year career is one of constant evolution, brilliant innovation, and enduring artistry. His legacy endures as one of a talent that defied form and a man who defied definition.

David Bowie

David Bowie

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Robert Hillburn

David Bowie’s revolutionary career is that he has bent rock & roll convention in so many imaginative and contradictory ways during the last quarter century that he has left many pop observers asking themselves if he was ever really a rock & roller at all.

It’s one thing for an artist to move between musical genres – in Bowie’s case, from the radical art-rock edges of Ziggy Stardust to the anxious soul strains of Young Americans to the icy techno rock of Low. But this English singer/songwriter didn’t simply explore musical genres.

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