The Man Who Sold The World (1970)

David Bowie's third album featured future members of the Spiders From Mars, with a hard rock style and lyrical themes including paranoia, schizophrenia, hallucination, fantasy, lust, God and the devil.

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David Bowie's favourite artists included Tintoretto, John Bellany, Erich Heckel, Picasso and Michael Ray Charles.

"The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead. You’re finished. It’s over. The last thing I want is to be established. I want to go to bed every night saying, 'If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.'" — David Bowie, 1976