Absolute Beginners

One of David Bowie's finest post-Scary Monsters works, 'Absolute Beginners' was a standalone single released in 1986. It was the title theme of Julien Temple's adaptation of Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel.

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"I think we are due for a revival of God awareness. Not a wishy-washy kind of fey, flower-child thing, but a very medieval, firm-handed masculine God awareness where we will go out and make the world right again. I'm feeling more and more that way." — David Bowie, 1975

In September 1998, David Bowie launched a dial-up internet service provider, BowieNet. It closed in 2006.

Low (1977)

The first part of David Bowie's 'Berlin Trilogy', Low was recorded mostly in France in 1976, and contained a number of experimental, impressionist and instrumental pieces, as well as the hit singles 'Sound And Vision' and 'Be My Wife'.

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