Since the death of David Bowie in January 2016, posthumous albums have followed one another at a very sustained pace. The new one, Liveandwell.com, has been available for streaming since Friday 15 May.
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During his long career that spanned fifty years, David Bowie wore many masks, corresponding to different facets of his personality. Here are a few.
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1. The beginner
David Bowie’s first single was released in June 1964 as Davie Jones with the King-Bees. The title, Liza Jane, tries to sound like the big bands of the moment – Stones, Kinks, Yardbirds – but is not going anywhere.
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2. The dandy
Then barely 20 years old, David Bowie tries to break through by composing hopping and eccentric songs. Without success.
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3. The hippie
With Space Oddity in 1969, David Bowie obtains the first success of his career, and is in line with the folk / hippie movement, while criticizing it from the inside.
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4. The queer pop-star
With Hunky dory and his splendid cover in which he resembles Greta Garbo, David Bowie explores and transcends the question of gender.
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5. The glam rock star
In 1972, with the album The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars, David Bowie becomes the rock star he always dreamed of being.
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6. The decadent
Emaciated, grimacing, David Bowie transforms into Halloween Jack for an album with poisonous charm, Diamond dogs.
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7. The Alien
In 1976, undermined by his abuses, David Bowie takes a dangerous path in direct connection with the occult forces on the fascinating Station to station. He barely comes out alive.
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8. The Berlin avant-garde
Refugee in anonymity in Berlin, David Bowie composes a trilogy of chilling albums which herald the new-wave and electro revolutions. He has finally cast off.
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9. The sad clown
With Ashes to ashes, David Bowie sports the decade of the 80s in the best way. It is also an artistic swan song.
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10. The charming singer
With Let’s dance, David Bowie reaped an unimaginable success for the general public. But he loses his soul.
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11. The precursor of grunge
In distress, David Bowie tries a return by forming the group Tin Machine. The big songs are not there.
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12. The grandpa of techno
In the mid-90s, at 50, David Bowie reinvented himself once again by playing with the powerful sounds of techno. This is what we hear on the new album Liveandwell.com.
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13. The old sage
After years of experimentation, David Bowie enters his “classic” period with albums that are a little too quiet, like Hours or Heathen.
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14. The ghost
With The Next Day, David Bowie is making a surprising comeback after ten years of absence. His career seems revived …
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15. The ghost
David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, left two days before his death. It is his most beautiful album in thirty years. He could have announced a new start. Fate has decided otherwise…
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Rémi Bonnet
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