DAVID BOWIE: The legend who forged his own path to success

With a sprinkling of Stardust, David Bowie became one of the best-selling and widely loved singers of all time. Eleanor Bley Griffiths recalls a man who followed his own path to success.  

One of the world’s most successful and pioneering musicians, David Bowie enjoyed a glittering career, spanning six decades, that saw him become one of the biggest recording artists of all time, and a Hollywood actor.

The chameleonic figure, who first changed his name, and then transformed into Ziggy Stardust, continued to reinvent himself and his music and maintained a reputation as an innovative and uncompromising artist.