As I understand it ... he marketed himself very well for a few youthful years and parlayed his earnings into a self sufficient wealth
I read somewhere he was a staunch conservative
An interesting study from the 1970's pop era
He and Bryan Ferry and Clapton have all been the target of the ultralib media in Britain for them being Tory sympathetic and too English
A great talent....will live on in music and iconic image for all times.
Not to mention Bowie Bonds
An asset-backed security;which uses the current and future revenue from albums recorded by musician David Bowie as collateral. The 25 albums a Bowie bond uses as their underlying assets were recorded prior to 1990.
David Bowie used the proceeds from the bond sale to purchase old recordings of his music. In creating the bonds, he ultimately forfeited royalties for the life of the bond (10 years).
Bowie bonds, issued in 1997, had an interest rate of 7.9% and a life of 10 years. The Bowie bonds were purchased by Prudential Insurance for $55 million. Bowie bonds represented one of the first instances of a bond that used intellectual property as the underlying collateral.
The value of the bonds began to decline as online music and file sharing grew in popularity, decreasing album sales. This resulted in a downgrade by Moody's in 2004.
However, the advent of legal online music retailers renewed interest in these securities in the latter part of the decade.
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Bowie been creating music for about 50 years. 25 studio albums, plus movie soundtracks, parts in many movies, an off-broadway play that’s running right now, etc.
He flirted with homosexuality, or at least the image of being homosexual. That's hardly conservative.
I really dislike the Rolling Stones intensely, but The LORD has put Mick Jagger on my prayer list. So I pray for him. Being rich, famous and seemingly rebellious he doesn’t seem like the most likely candidate for salvation, as The LORD often chooses the poor and rejected of society. May The LORD save him, in Jesus Holy Name.