Turn and Face the Strange: Songs About transformation (opens in new tab)

To dabble in pop is to create a character, despite pretensions concerning “realness.” All David Bowie did in 1971 was make explicit what everyone from Eddie Cochran and Roy Orbison to Diana Ross and Sinatra knew. “Larger than life” isn’t the point; often a metamorphosis requires shrinking oneself smaller than life. 1. David Bowie – […]