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Happy Birthday you ol' Bastid

Here's the AV Club's Primer to get you into the world of Bowie.. if you dare..Warning: There's no turning back...

David Bowie

by Jason Heller and Keith Phipps November 11, 2010

Primer is The A.V. Club's ongoing series of beginners' guides to pop culture's most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you.

David Bowie 101

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, rock music faced a severe vacuum. Hard rock, progressive rock, pop saviors, and singer-songwriters abounded, but with The Beatles’ demise in 1970, no artist was left to truly straddle the aisles and unify the increasingly fragmented music scene. Did David Bowie fill that vacuum, or exaggerate it? To this day, his challenging, enigmatic image and music make it hard to say. What’s clear, though, is that Bowie’s emergence in 1969 with the earth-shattering single “Space Oddity”—a song sandwiched ingeniously between the release of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Apollo 11 moon landing—marked him as a rock auteur not only of his time, but of the future.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/david-bowie,47556/


And what do you know.. the Stardusty one is celebrating in his own way.. with a new tune/video...

And of course, no David Bowie celebration would be complete without..

And maybe this is adding salt to his old-aged wounds.. but just for the hell of it...