Bowie was certainly influential at the time the punk movements in the UK and US were taking off. read more
Wayne County alleges in the book Please Kill Me that Bowie ripped of the whole glam/transvestite thang from him.If he did then good luck to him coz he had the genius to pull it off. read more
So even in metal/grunge/hard rock -- genres he hardly pioneered -- Bowie's influence is still essential. 10 Brilliantly Bizarre David Bowie Music Videos. Bowie's importance to electronic music, however, is far more direct. With Low, Heroes and, to a lesser extent, Lodger, the Berlin Trilogy gave electronic music its first major rock world crossover. read more