OUGD505- Investigating David Bowie, Kirkstall Rollerena 1973 (Research 1)

David Bowie is a man of many characters and personas. His talent for reinvention and pursuing identity is one of his biggest traits, with numerous characters under his belt.

Over the course of his glittering career, David Bowie sold over 140 million records; receiving nine UK platinum discs and five in the US. He was inducted into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, the same year attaining the Brit Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Rock’s images proved catnip for a seventies youth in search of new icons. Suitably, elder generations were baffled and even offended by Bowie’s gender bending personas. This pre-war generation might have finally come round to the Beatles & Rolling Stones, but Bowie was something altogether different.

His songs provided a public intellectual voice for many people who felt they didn’t otherwise fit in – most specifically within the LGBT community. His outrageous sartorial choices and sci-fi musical theatre placed him off the beaten track – as the essential outsider’s poster boy: An image of otherness that those communities felt they owned, and a brilliant artist whose story morphed and reinvented itself with each album.

Finding the Rollerena

Possibly opposite ASDA Headquarters?

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