David Bowie was an English musician, actor, and cultural innovator who repeatedly reinvented pop music and performance, from glam rock to soul, electronic, and art rock. Albums like The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Heroes, and
Blackstar show his range and influence. Bowie’s gender-bending aesthetics challenged mainstream norms and expanded what stardom could look like. In early interviews during the 1970s he publicly identified as bisexual, later offering more complicated or shifting remarks about labels. Regardless, bisexuality became part of his public mythology and cultural impact.
Quote: “Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.”
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