David Bowie's label wanted a hit single from him, so he responded to that demand with "Starman" and hit the Top 10.

Bowie never looked back. “[Starman] is four minutes and ten seconds of major achievement,” John Peel wrote in Disc. “Jesus, it feels good.” Ken Scott, producer: I’d worked with David on ...

David Bowie famously sang about “Changes” in 1971, and true to his word, he turned and faced the strange on his 1975 LP ...