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14 Sep

From Space Oddity to Black Star

From Space Oddity to Black Star
Clockwise from bottom left: David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in London, 1973 (Photo: Express/Getty Images); Bowie performs in 2004 in Newport, UK (Photo: Jo Hale/Getty Images); A color-enhanced image exaggerating Bowie’s ‘Pin Ups’ album (Photo: Justin de Villeneuve/Getty Images); Bowie performs in Paris in 1991 (Photo: Pierre Verdy/AFP via Getty Images); On the thirty sixth Cannes Film Festival in 1983 (Photo: Ralph Gatti/AFP via Getty Images)Graphic: The A.V. ClubDavid Bowie plotted his departure from this world. He designed his final album, Blackstar, as a farewell, and he left his estate with blueprints for a reissue series that began with the discharge of Five Years (1969-1973), a box that appeared mere months prior to his death in January 2016.Moonage Daydream wasn’t...
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