When David Bowie issued his penultimate Blackstar single in November 2015 I posted something online — alas, long lost to cyberspace — that commended the Dame as the “greatest songwriter after Bryan Ferry and the most stylish man in music since Frank Sinatra.”
Onlookers assumed I was joking, but I meant every word. And here we are almost an entire decade later, where Bowie was denied becoming the septuagenarian and now octogenarian afforded to his main rival in the British art rock stakes. So to celebrate BF at 80, a word for every year…
Art
Artifice
Avalon
Avonmore
Baroque
Bowie
Broad
Camp
Celluloid
Chic
Cinematic
Cocaine
Croon
Dance
Debonair
Dense
Design
Drug
Expensive
Existential
Foppish
Geordie
Hallowed
Hip
Influential
Jerry
Kerchief
Kempt
Kitsch
Lear
Lethargic
Lothario
Luxuriant
Minimalism
Moody
Melancholy
Nada
Nieve
Olympia
Panache
Playboy
Poetic
Price
Quadric
Refine
Remake
Remodel
Reserve
Retro
Romantic
Revision
Roxy
Scene
Shy
Smoke
Sophisticated
Splendour
Squire
Star
Stylish
Suave
Suit
Tall
Trend
Tuxedo
Uliginous
Urinal
Vanity
Virginia
Withdrawn
Xanthic
Yacht
Zamba
Steve Pafford
