David Bowie

Born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947, he adopted the Bowie surname to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees and became one of the most influential and constantly reinventing figures in popular music history. His run of personae—from the glam rock of Ziggy Stardust (1972) through the ambient experimentalism of the Berlin trilogy Low, Heroes, and Lodger (1977–79), made in collaboration with Brian Eno—reshaped how rock could engage with art, identity, and electronic sound. He continued to release albums until Blackstar, issued two days before his death on 10 January 2016.