David Bowie is the greatest musician, and singer to ever exist.

unironically i can't, all round (singing/songwriting/lyrics) he is the goat - although certainly not the best singer ever

geddy lee can hit higher and lower notes,.and sound better doing it

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David Bowie turned marketing into the essence of his art. All great phenomena of popular music, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, had been, first and foremost, marketing phenomena (just like Coca Cola and Barbie before them); however, Bowie turned that into an art of its own. With Bowie the science of marketing becomes art; art and marketing become one. Bowie was, in many ways, the heir, no matter how perverted, of Andy Warhol's pop art and of the underground culture of the 1960s. He adopted some of the most blaspheme issues and turned them upside down to make them precisely what they had been designed to fight: a commodity.

Bowie was a protagonist of his times, although a poor musician: to say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading). Bowie embodies the quintessence of artificial art, raises futulity to paradigm, focuses on the phenomenon rather than the content, makes irrelevant the relevant, and, thus, is the epitome of everything that went wrong with rock music.

Each element of his art is the emblem of a true artistic movement; however, the ensemble of those emblems constitutes no more than a puzzle, no matter how intriguing, of symbols, a roll of incoherent images projected against the wall at twice the speed, a dictionary of terms rather than a poem, and, in the best of hypotheses, a documentary of the cultural fads of his era.

Reading the chronicles of his times, it is clear that what caused sensation was the show, not the music. The show that Bowie set up was undoubtedly in sync with the avantgarde, as it fused theater, mime, cinema, visual art, literature and music. However, Bowie merely recycled what had been going on for years in the British underground, in particular what had been popularized by the psychedelic bands of 1967. And he turned it into a commodity: whichever way you look at his oeuvre, this is the real merit of it.

John Lydon is a better musician

>>74504353
People here can dispute your claims but they can't deny he's was a Legend even before he died, now he's eternal.

>>74504353
People here can dispute your claims but they can't deny he was a Legend even before he died, now he's eternal.

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>>74506109
Scaruffi is such an inconsistent, petty, pretentious cunt. Sometimes he's a good barometer, sometimes he's just trying to be a cunt.

>>74506733
better musician=/=better songwriter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqqOVqjxs6Y

>singer

He was never that great.

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*blocks your path*

HELL GOD BABY DAMN NO

>>74509187
lol fuck off

he's not even better than lennon

>>74504353
he's good, but he's no curtis mayfield