Musical reinventions - A discussion (U2, The Beatles, Radiohead)

[krisholio14]

No mention of the thin white duke?

Went from hippy popster to glam rocker to synth rocker to quasi new-romantic

Among other things.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Another brilliant nomination and probably a lot more worthy than 90% of artists we have up here to date.

Listen to Low just to understand how far Bowie was prepared to go to ply his craft.

Low/Heroes are my favourite Bowie albums. Way ahead of the vast majority of music in 1977 and light years away from his early glam period.

 

[des101]

Remembering back to the early 1990s, the fact that U2 had 'reinvented' themselves as big news. Bono dressing up as the devil in makeup, it was all pretty out there for them. And it was successful too, it really worked.

Its hard to imagine that now I guess, everything they have done since has been a pailer version of either their Joshua Tree or Achthung Baby era. But back then, it was everywhere. Dad tells me it was like that for the Beatles' Pepper too.