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DAVID BOWIE The Music Influences Behind the Legend
One of Bowie’s most enduring influences
was The Velvet Underground. This New York-based ensemble
had no
hits and little success during their 1967–70 recording career but, in
writing gritty songs
about street life, drug addiction and
violence, helped popular music to grow up. This growing
process
applied to their sonics as much as their lyrics: they experimented with
atonality,
dissonance and extemporization, even while insisting on their right to
purvey pretty melody.
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