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Posthumous music release posted on Instagram

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Posthumous music release posted on Instagram

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posthumous social media presence, possibly run by his estate. Also shows comments from fans, a year after his death, still very committed.

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DAVID BOWIE - NO PLAN VIDEO DIRECTED BY TOM HINGSTON: http://smarturl.it/noplanvideo FOUR-SONG EP OUT NOW: http://smarturl.it/noplanep PRESS RELEASE: http://smarturl.it/NoPlanPR #BowieNoPlan

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24.8k Likes, 126 Comments - David Bowie (@davidbowie) on Instagram: "DAVID BOWIE - NO PLAN VIDEO DIRECTED BY TOM HINGSTON: http://smarturl.it/noplanvideo FOUR-SONG EP..."

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song lyrics and theme of song  continuing otherworldly persona created by Sane and Stardust

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song lyrics and theme of song continuing otherworldly persona created by Sane and Stardust

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Advocating diversity on a different level  

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Advocating diversity on a different level  

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Graham Norton Show appearance by Ricky Gervais, posthumously parsing his artistry and material.

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When Ricky Gervais met David Bowie! - BBC The Graham Norton Show

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With over 60 reviews, Bowie's memorial in Brixton (a mural) is considered a 'trip' showing his deep rooted legacy and the affect that his work had on man people

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David Bowie Memorial, London - Tripadvisor

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Start of interview with Iggy Pop detailing his and Bowie's relationships and affects on each other personas, as well as their cohabitation at the start of the Thin White Duke era and the 'Berlin Period"

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Iggy Pop On The Berlin Period with David Bowie | The Jonathan Ross Show

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This interview shows Bowie's fearlessness to discuss issues he feels are wrong, and his beliefs and advocating for equal and fair exposure for musical artists whilst himself not in character.

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David Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News

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Aimed at helping one understand Bowie's looks/personas, this fan made video demonstrates the meaning and gravitas that each look holds.

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1979 interview in which Bowie discusses his connection to his musical personas the the characters that he plays as otherworldly, outsiders and queer.

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David Bowie | Interview | Afternoon plus | 1979

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CHAPTER FIVE; Science Fiction in Classic Rock: Musical Explorations of Space, Technology and the Imagination, 1967-1982

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CHAPTER FIVE; Science Fiction in Classic Rock: Musical Explorations of Space, Technology and the Imagination, 1967-1982

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Chapter in book exploring Bowie's inextricably association with SciFi through both his work in music and film.

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As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots--a tendency evident in rock music and its enduring relationship with myth and science fiction. This study explores the mythical and fantastic themes of artists from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, including David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

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published a year before his untimely death, showing that even before his death he would undoubtably leave a legacy, to such an extent that he was critically analysed.

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David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies.

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Another article detailing Bowie 'through the years', suggesting a key element of Bowie' star persona was his ever changing image and style,

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"My memory loves you," the supermodel Iman wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, on the birthday of her late husband, David Bowie. As does our collective consciousness: Really, has any icon lived on so vividly after death as Bowie? That's likely because he burned through more than a few lives-from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke to his late resurgence in his final years-before he passed away in 2016. And of course his image lives on in the work of others he influenced; in fact, we have an entire archive of fashion photography in W that pays homage to his vision. Here, 30 images icon over the years that attempt to capture the chameleon in Bowie. Some are already iconic, and the rest probably should be.

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David Bowie Through the Years: 30 Different Versions of the Icon in Photos

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30 images that try to capture the many versions of David Bowie, on his birthday.

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Children's Book: Little  People Big Dreams

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Children's Book: Little  People Big Dreams

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Subject of children's book, suggesting that he is someone to look up to, teaching children that being different and individual is admirable. Published posthumously.

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PAGE 51; The Fandom of David Bowie: Everyone Says "Hi"

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PAGE 51; The Fandom of David Bowie: Everyone Says "Hi"

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Passage detailing how 'Jareth the Goblin King' in Labyrinth is effected with 'Bowie's star image impressing upon the text'

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Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society. SeanRedmond and Toija Cinque draw on personal interviews, memorabilia, diaries,letters, communal gatherings and shared conversation to find out why Bowiemattered so much to the fans that idolized him.

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Article in prominent newspaper detailing Bowie's heterochromia, showing how iconic this aspect of his image had become.

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"At the centre of it all, your eyes, your eyes ..."

Many aspects of the life and incredible achievements of David Bowie will be considered in the weeks and months ahead following the news of his death. Yet the cryptic lyric above from the lead single on David Bowie's new album is a reminder that the unusual appearance of his eyes was a key part of the singer's star persona.

Indeed their iconic presence features in the advertising campaign for ★[Blackstar]. For many people it is that look - that the eyes formed a core part of - that will be an abiding memory of Bowie.

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So, why were they apparently two different colours?

Complete heterochromia is a fairly rare condition (in humans) whereby each iris is a distinctly different colour, such as having one blue iris and the other brown.

But this isn't why Bowie's eyes looked different.

Instead, the unusual appearance of Bowie's eyes were due to a condition called anisocoria. Anisocoria is a condition characterised by an unequal size in a person's pupils. In Bowie's case, his left pupil was permanently dilated.

This can create the illusion of having different coloured eyes because the fixed pupil does not respond to changes in light, while the right pupil does. So Bowie's left eye often appeared to be quite dark, due to the blackness of his dilated pupil, when compared to the blue of his right iris.

The dilated pupil of his left eye was also potentially more prone to the effect of "red eye". This sometimes adds to the appearance of a different colour when contrasted to his right eye.

Red eye occurs when light reflects off of the fundus (the back of the eye), through an open pupil, and captures a red coloration by picking up tonality from the blood in the choroid lining of the eyeball.

This can clearly be seen in the Aladdin Sane - Eyes Open photograph by Brian Duffy (shot in 1973 but unpublished until 2011) that was used as the lead image on the posters for the V&A David Bowie is (2013) exhibition.

So what happened?

Anecdotally, the cause of Bowie's anisocoria was attributed to the fallout from a lusty scrap in the spring of 1962. Bowie had come to blows with a friend, George Underwood, over a girl they were both hoping to date.

Both were just 15 at the time and their friendship seemingly remained intact.

The two performed together in various bands before Underwood turned from music to painting and graphics.

But Bowie's left eye remained seriously damaged.

An impulsive punch had accidentally scratched the eyeball, resulting in paralysis of the muscles that contract the iris. From that day, Bowie's left pupil remained in a fixed open position.

Over time, Bowie apparently thanked his friend for his notorious eye injury, telling Underwood that it gave him " a kind of mystique". This mystique helped fuel some of Bowie's greatest creations and enhance iconic images, such as the album cover for Heroes (1977).

His eyes could appear eerie and mismatched, producing a captivating or mesmeric gaze from on stage or through the lens of a camera. And the uncanny appearance of Bowie's eyes was ideal for a performer who embraced ideas of the alien, the outsider, the otherworldly and the occult.

In an increasingly visual world seemingly preoccupied by perfection, Bowie's damaged left pupil became an intrinsic and arresting part of his enigmatic identity.

Kevin Hunt, Senior Lecturer in Design and Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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Why David Bowie appeared to have different coloured eyes

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"At the centre of it all, your eyes, your eyes ..." Many aspects of the life and incredible achievements of David Bowie will be considered in the weeks and months ahead following the news of his death.

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Article detailing on perspective on the 'eras' of Bowie

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As we noted earlier this week, David Bowie's ever-evolving image has been the subject of more interest than pretty much any musician we can think of. Part of the reason for this, of course, is that it's just so damn interesting - over the course of his career, Bowie's moved from persona to persona like he's trying on new coats at the thrift store, creating an image that's always changing and always fascinating. As such, as part of Flavorwire's David Bowie Week™, we thought we'd start at the beginning and go on a journey through the life of his most memorable incarnations. You're more than welcome!
The Whimsical Singer/Songwriter
Laughing gnomes, a Herman's Hermits haircut, acoustic guitars, psychedelia. Who'd have guessed at what was to come? But then came "Space Oddity," and everything changed forever.
The Man Who Sold the World
And spent the proceeds on rather fetching thrift store dresses, clearly.
Ziggy Stardust
Three decades on, and still the definitive Bowie persona as far as a lot of people are concerned. It was also Bowie's most extensive exercise in creating a background and actual character to go with his image, so much so that for a while, at least, Ziggy and his creator were largely indistinguishable. This, of course, made it all the more shocking when Bowie consigned the character to rock 'n' roll suicide.

Aladdin Sane A favorite of Halloween parties everywhere, and a sort of life after death for Ziggy, although Aladdin Sane lacked his predecessor's defined personality and back story, representing Bowie's ambiguity about the entire Ziggy experience, as well as the state of his career and his rising fame. The conflict found its representation in the lightning bolt down the middle of his face, an image that also referred to the mental conflict implied by the character's name (we're not sure about you, but it took us years to realize that "Aladdin Sane" was a pun on "A lad insane.")
The Thin White Duke
AKA the "lots of cocaine" years. Drugs are bad, m'kay? Bowie grew into the Thin White Duke persona - "a nasty character indeed" - throughout his years in LA, making first the white-boy soul of Young Americans, and then Station to Station, an album that represented both the apogee of this period and its logical conclusion. The story goes that he can't remember the recording process - he describes listening to it now as "a piece of work by an entirely different person."
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Quite literally, in the sense that Bowie relocated to Berlin to get away from LA and a cocaine habit so colossal it led him to do things like trying to exorcise his swimming pool. Pretty much nothing Bowie does as far as his image is concerned can be considered irrelevant, and thus the choice to adorn the cover of Low with a still from Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth - in which he starred as an alienated alien - feels like a significant one.
Pierrot
The theatricality of Ziggy inspired a whole new generation of glam-influenced musicians, and the flamboyance of Bowie's creation found perhaps its most extreme expression in the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s. Bowie never entirely embraced this group, but the most enduring image of him from the period is definitely New Romantic-inspired: the lonely, lost Pierrot of the "Ashes to Ashes" video, wandering on a beach, menaced by a chorus of priests and, um, a JCB.
Jareth the Goblin King
If you grew up in the 1980s, this may well have been your first introduction to Bowie: the alarmingly well-endowed, child-snatching Goblin King from Labyrinth, the man who'd make off with your baby brother and the contents of your sock drawer. (Also, it is one of the great tragedies of the internet that the images on this site got pulled by Photbucket and were never replaced.)
The Regular Dude with a Regular Dude Band
It's perversely reassuring in its own way that even someone as prodigiously talented can find himself lost both creatively and personally, and so it was with Bowie in the late '80s and early '90s. Never Let Me Down and Tonight fell well below the creative peaks of his pre- Scary Monsters work, and our hero responded by reinventing himself as Just The Singer in Tin Machine, a determinedly egalitarian project wherein he refused to do interviews alone and split the band's proceeds on a strict four-way basis.
The Outsider
The mid to late '90s found Bowie embracing his outsider status and undergoing a remarkable, if largely overlooked, creative renaissance. Outside was a weirdly conceptual, industrial-inspired work that still makes for rather discomfiting listening, while Earthling, made two years later, involved an unexpected and surprisingly successful expedition into drum 'n' bass. Both were accompanied by an evolving image that found its fullest expression on the cover of Earthling - goatee, spiky hair, crazy Union Jack jacket.
The Elder Statesman
The suave, long-haired Soho resident, author of quietly reflective albums like ...Hours and Heathen. This seemed to be Bowie ushering his career into graceful decline, especially after the heart attack that resulted in the cancellation of his tour in 2004. But then...
Meta-Bowie
And finally, the latest and arguably most fascinating, of them all: meta-Bowie, which we discussed at length on Monday. And what comes next, if anything? Who knows? That's all part of the fun.
In celebration of David Bowie's first album in a decade, The Next Day - and, you know, because we really love him and will seize any excuse to write about him - we have officially declared David Bowie Week at Flavorwire. Click here to follow our week-long coverage of rock legend, from his new release to a legacy that now spans nearly half a century.

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A Journey Through the 12 Ages of David Bowie

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As we noted earlier this week, David Bowie's ever-evolving image has been the subject of more interest than pretty much any musician we can think of. Part of the reason for this, of course, is that it's just so damn interesting - over the course of...

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Somewhat insipid by his character Thomas Jerome in 'The Man who Fell to Earth'

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Film that narrative once again reinforces Bowie's persona as an outsider, with elements of the mystical, magical and occult.

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Bowie's role as Jared the Goblin King once again reinforces his musical persona of the outsider, with aspects of the occult.

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Nicholas Roeg's 1976 film highlights and reinforces Bowie's public persona of the 'alien', first seen during the "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" era in 1972.

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Bowie's heterochromia became a recognisable and permanent part of his image. Regardless of how his style changes throughout his 'eras', his eyes were always instantly recognisable.