These sentences are from an extremely well written newspaper article in the Financial Times from September 4, 2010 written by Paul Morley entitled “The Importance of David Bowie”:

David Bowie’s impact as a musician, as a brand, as a sign of the times, has been as great as Dylan and the Beatles, his influence as an otherworldly pop star actually greater, and if you just want one example of what he got up to as this erudite pop combination of shaman, singer, thinker and shameless self-promoter, then his album Station to Station is as good a place to start as any. Inside six years, since 1970, David Bowie has been a psychedelic music hall singer channelling Syd Barrett and Anthony Newley, a whimsical novelty specialist, surreal folkie, risqué glam rock starman, cosmic wizard, apocalyptic androgynous Diamond Dog and a blanked-out white soul man flirting with superstardom.

RIP David Bowie