![Turner And Bowie Tina Turner with David Bowie in 1985.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-tina-turner-lead1.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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![Lou Reed, "Transformer," 1972.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-lou-reed.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![The Concert for Life - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople, "All the Young Dudes," 1972.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-ian-hunter.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![The 17th Annual GRAMMY Awards John Lennon, "Fame," 1975.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-john-lennon.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Larry Busacca Archive Iggy Pop, The Idiot and Lust for Life, 1977.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-iggy-pop.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Photo of Bing CROSBY and David BOWIE Bing Crosby, "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy," 1977.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-bing-crosby.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
!["Artwork For Bosnia", Celebrity Art Show In London, Brian Eno And David Bowie Brian Eno, Low, 1977, Heroes, 1977, and Lodger, 1979.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-brian-eno.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Klaus Nomi;Laraine Newman;David Bowie;Bill Murray;Gilda Radner;Jane Curtin Klaus Nomi, "The Man Who Sold the World," "TVC15," and "Boys Keep Swinging" on Saturday Night Live, 1980.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-klaus-nomi-2.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Mercury And Bowie At Live Aid Queen, "Under Pressure," 1982.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-queen-2.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![David Bowie And Chic Nile Rodgers, Let's Dance, 1983.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-nile-rodgers.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Turner And Bowie Tina Turner, "Tonight," 1984.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-tina-turner.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![David Bowie and Mick Jagger performing at Wembley Arena on June 20 1986 Mick Jagger, "Dancing in the Street," 1985.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-mick-jagger.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![David Bowie Video shoot for "I'm Afraid of Americans" Trent Reznor, "I'm Afraid of Americans," 1997.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-trent-reznor.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![David Bowie's Worldwide "A RealityTour" - Los Angeles Backstage - Day 2 Scarlett Johansson, Anywhere I Lay My Head, 2008.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-scarlett-johansson.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![David Bowie Presents The H&M High Line Festival 2007 - TV on the Radio TV on the Radio, "Province," 2006.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-tv-on-the-radio.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![David Bowie on the Opening Night of the H&M High Line Festival with The Arcade Fire Who Performed at Radio City Music Hall Arcade Fire, "Reflektor," 2013.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/david-bowie-arcade-fire.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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