David Bowie

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Performer

Inducted: 1996

Inducted by: Madonna and David Byrne

Nominated: 1992   1996

First Eligible: 1992 Ceremony

Snubbed Members: Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder, Mick "Woody" Woodmansey


Songwriters Hall of Fame: 2005

Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1993 (ranked #18) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars402020
Station to Station522020
Hunky Dory882020
Low2062020
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)4432020
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars352012
Hunky Dory1082012
Low2512012
Aladdin Sane2792012
Station to Station3242012

R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Heroes (1977)232021
Life on Mars? (1971)1052021
Space Oddity (1969)1892021
Changes (1971)2002021
Young Americans (1975)2042021
Station to Station (1976)4002021

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Hunky Dory (1971)
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972)
Aladdin Sane (1973)
Diamond Dogs (1974)
Station To Station (1976)
Low (1977)
Heroes (1977)
Lodger (1979)
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)
Let's Dance (1983)
Heathen (2002)
The Next Day (2013)
Blackstar (2016)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Space Oddity (1969)
The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
Changes (1971)
Life on Mars? (1971)
Starman (1972)
Ziggy Stardust (1972)
Suffragette City (1972)
Moonage Daydream (1972)
The Jean Genie (1973)
Rebel Rebel (1974)
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (1974)
Fame (1975)
Young Americans (1975)
Golden Years (1975)
Heroes (1977)
Sound And Vision (1977)
Ashes to Ashes (1980)
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (1982)
Let's Dance (1983)
China Girl (1983)
Modern Love (1983)
Blue Jean (1984)
Lazarus (2015)
Blackstar (2015)

David Bowie @ Wikipedia



Comments

14 comments so far (post your own)

RIP Spiders from Mars bassist Trevor Bolder.

Posted by DarinRG on Tuesday, 05/21/2013 @ 18:41pm


Going to miss your songs Sir. One of the most influential singers & musicians. China Girl,Let's Dance, Heroes, Suffragette City, Changes etc. A KING salute! RIP David Bowie. KING

Posted by KING on Monday, 01/11/2016 @ 02:09am


Holy crap. That's a large loss for music, and it's going to hurt.

Rest in Peace, David Bowie.

Posted by SotN on Monday, 01/11/2016 @ 03:53am


Wow, this was completely unexpected. I had no idea whatsoever that David was even ill. My most sincere condolences to his family and friends. His passing will definitely send a shockwave throughout the prog community. First Chris, then Lemmy, now David. :-(

Posted by Enigmaticus on Monday, 01/11/2016 @ 08:21am


Rest In Peace. David

Posted by brian on Monday, 01/11/2016 @ 10:50am


Rest in peace, David. I don't need to say how much you've positively contributed to music and influenced everyone. It is said (don't know by who) that you owned some music genres. I'll accept that.

My regret was that I never saw Bowie live. In fact, I don't think he got around very much the last 20 years. Seems the last real tour he did was the one with Trent Reznor. As recently as two years ago I thought he would be touring and performing at festivals. Turns out things were bad unlike what anyone was thinking. We're glad you are no longer suffering.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Monday, 01/11/2016 @ 14:26pm


I forgot David Bowie played the saxophone.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 01/12/2016 @ 20:03pm


I read that it was his first instrument.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Thursday, 01/14/2016 @ 22:27pm


Bowie's 25 favorite albums (article from 2013). Some good Album Project contenders here:

http://scallemang.ca/bowie25albums/#

Posted by DarinRG on Wednesday, 01/20/2016 @ 17:47pm


Tin Machine

David Bowie
Reeves Gabrels
Tony Sales
Hunt Sales

Posted by Roy on Friday, 01/22/2016 @ 05:05am


Has anyone purchased Blackstar yet? What do you think of David Bowie's final work? I am still amazed that David Bowie still had that great voice.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Saturday, 01/23/2016 @ 09:31am


Enig - Yeah, I really think Blackstar is some of his best work ever. I first listened to it the day it was released and was rally blown away, then two days later we discovered that he knew it was essentially his self obituary, which made it even more poignant and cast a completely different light on a lot of the songs. His post-70s work could be hit and miss, but between The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar I really think he departed in the wake of two very strong albums.

Posted by DarinRG on Saturday, 01/23/2016 @ 17:27pm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqLqQxmMV7M

Rolling Stones Charlie Watts: David Bowie wasn’t a “musical genius”

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 03/4/2018 @ 09:45am


Lodger is my favorite from the Berlin trilogy. I would highly recommend it if you have overlooked it.

Posted by David W Richman on Sunday, 08/11/2019 @ 14:38pm


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