10 Rock Artists With Multiple Classics Under Their Belt

David Bowie is one of those rare artists where you practically have to put different titles next to each era that he had. Operating as a musical chameleon up until the day he died, nothing was off the table once he went into the studio, pulling from everything from soul on Young Americans to folk on his early records to even going down the rabbit hole of drum and bass on Earthling. He will always be remembered for his glam period though, and Ziggy Stardust was the moment we saw Bowie's first iconic creation.

Presented with a bit of a wink and a nod, Ziggy Stardust was when Bowie fully started to understand his powers as an artist, making songs that felt like odes to excess while also getting to the heart of what rock and roll means, making it easy to go from a song as off the rails as Suffragette City to calling out to all the misfits on Rock and Roll Suicide. That may have been the moment that the curtain closed on Ziggy, but the final curtain call for Bowie was his last true masterpiece.

Out of all the other characters in his repertoire like the Thin White Duke and Aladdin Sane, Blackstar was the one moment where it felt like we were seeing something as close to the real Bowie as we were going to get, taking stock of everything that he'd done in his life and giving us his final goodbye in song before departing from this Earth days after it came out. Aside from his antics, Bowie was always looking to entertain us in ways we haven't seen before, and here's hoping the Starman is searching for new lands and giving them half the performance he gave us.