Glamorous. Futuristic. Alien. Mortal. You can never fully encapsulate the many faces of David Bowie.

Bowie’s fifty-year career is one of constant evolution, brilliant innovation, and enduring artistry. His legacy endures as one of a talent that defied form and a man who defied definition.

David Bowie’s revolutionary career is that he has bent rock & roll convention in so many imaginative and contradictory ways during the last quarter century that he has left many pop observers asking themselves if he was ever really a rock & roller at all.

It’s one thing for an artist to move between musical genres – in Bowie’s case, from the radical art-rock edges ofZiggy Stardust to the anxious soul strains ofYoung Americans to the icy techno rock ofLow. But this English singer/songwriter didn’t simply explore musical genres.