David Bowie

David Robert Jones (born 8 January 1947), known by his stage name David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Bowie has been a major figure in the world of popular music for over four decades, and is renowned as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice as well as the intellectual depth of his work.

Today (11/03/13) David has released his first album for over a decade: The Next Day

Postmodern elements

Ziggy Stardust

In 1972 David Bowie decided to launch his own alter-ego 'Ziggy Stardust'. In the words of biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture"

Arrangements

The Next Day

The cover art for the album is an adapted version of Bowie's 1977 album, 'Heroes' Designed by Johnathan Barnbrook, who also designed packaging for Heathen and Reality, the obscuring of the photograph connotes "forgetting or obliterating the past the original cover image was shot by Masayoshi Sukita.
Barnbrook explained the cover, saying: "If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought "Heroes" worked best on all counts."

This could be considered Postmodern from how David has taken one of his most iconic covers and made basic changes and basically defaced himself using simple elements such as putting a white square over his face and using basic text to