With new album and tour, David Bowie is hoping to attract a new audience.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: September 20, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

``Look out, you rock 'n' rollers,'' prophesied David Bowie back in 1972's ``Changes,'' a song title that summed up a career strategy in a word. ``Pretty soon now, you're gonna get older.''

Sure enough, it happened. The trailblazing changeling kept his audience guessing in the '70s: He was a rock star from outer space, an ambient noise pioneer, a Philly soul man (on ``Young Americans'' and ``David Live'').

For the former David Jones, there was a new alter ego every year: Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane. Bowie invented the concept of image reinvention in ...

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