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In a career full of twists and turns, none was as sharp as the one David Bowie experienced after his 1983 album Let''s Dance. The record gave Bowie the hit that he wanted but completely altered his artistic standing in the process. Instead of an innovator who pushed rock music forward, the singer found himself a global superstar with a mass audience whose tastes he didn''t understand and who reciprocated this feeling as the 1980s unfolded. After immersing himself in the band project Tin Machine, Bowie spent the 1990s embracing reinvention and experimentation with mixed but often fascinating results, leading to a full-fledged renaissance early in the 21st century. From there, his story only got stranger; 2013''s The Next Day was a triumphant comeback after years of self-imposed silence, while 2016''s Blackstar stood among his most challenging albums and became the final release of his lifetime. One constant is that the records