David Bowie

From the slow build of "Five Years" to the final blast of "Rock & Roll Suicide," Bowie's first hit album has only improved with age. FM radio has never stopped playing "Ziggy Stardust" and "Suffragette City" because even if you cut the platform shoes off and wipe the makeup away -- you're still left with incredible rock'n'roll.

Upon the release of David Bowie's most thematically ambitious, musically coherent album to
date, the record in which he unites the major strengths of his previous work and
comfortably reconciles himself to some apparently inevitable problems, we should all say a
brief prayer that his fortunes are not made to rise and fall with the fate of the "drag-rock"
syndrome--that thing that's manifesting itself in the self-conscious quest for deca... More >