Full Coverage: David Bowie | 1947 - 2016

Over the course of his creative life, David Bowie wheeled nimbly between styles, tones and identities as if they were all just different parts of the same cosmic roller rink.

Setting aside for the moment the artistic merits of Lady Gaga’s performance on Monday’s 58th Grammy Awards telecast, it’s impressive to note that the posthumous salute to the rock innovator and provocateur touched on no fewer than 10 Bowie cornerstone songs, even if some of them were revisited for under 30 seconds.

Will David Bowie’s last album be his first to top the Billboard 200?

He arrived sometime between the Beatles and Led Zeppelin wearing a space-age metallic cape, singing about spiders from Mars, moon dust trailing out of his flaming orange hair.

The death of David Bowie is something filmmaker and journalist Cameron Crowe is still trying to process.

Superstar musician and actor David Bowie died at the age of 69 after battling cancer for a year and a half in secrecy.

He was just like us, David Bowie. Sounds wrong, doesn’t it?

Among the wonders of David Bowie’s life that are being rediscovered upon his death: this video -- from 1983 -- of the artist criticizing MTV for featuring so few black artists.

The last time I went to Berlin, I got on a wrong train at the Schonefeld Airport, and ended up alone in the distant suburbs.

David Bowie’s half-century career will be defined, as it well should be, by his music output.

Among the many appreciations and celebrations likely published about David Bowie in coming days, readers will learn about his standing as a style icon, a groundbreaking avatar of sexual fluidity and a shape-shifting artist who expanded the possibilities in rock ‘n’ roll performance.

David Bowie made his first big splash in the early 1970s with “Space Oddity,” an imagined conversation between an astronaut and his ground control team.

When David Bowie died Sunday, the new stage musical that he co-wrote, “Lazarus,” was nearing the end of its world-premiere run at the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop.

“Hallo Dean, it’s David,” came that unmistakable voice on the phone, the voice of Ziggy Stardust, the voice of the Thin White Duke.

David Bowie, who died this past weekend at the age of 69, didn’t always seem real.

David Bowie, the barrier-breaking British rock musician and actor, has died at the age of 69, just days after releasing a critically acclaimed album on his birthday.

David Bowie was an unapologetic, ferociously independent artist who inspired outsiders everywhere.

Although David Bowie was best known for his music, he also made countless contributions to the worlds of art, fashion and film.

David Bowie didn’t necessarily have fans. He had followers.

Investors craving their very own “David Bowie bonds” might have a little too much Ziggy Stardust in their eyes.

David Bowie has released the second video from his forthcoming new album, “Blackstar,” and it’s as surreally disconcerting as the first.

David Bowie performing in concert.

David Bowie died Sunday, Jan. 10, at the age of 69.

There’s something delightfully perverse about the fact that David Bowie waited until he was 69 to release what’s being described as his first jazz album.

David Bowie died Sunday, Jan. 10, at the age of 69.

Here are three ways into David Bowie’s catalog, with enough surprises to engage even the lifelong fan: UNO The most useful resource for all things Bowie is a WordPress blog called “Pushing Ahead of the Dame,” written by Chris O’Leary (@bowiesongs on Twitter).

One of our favorite David Bowie moments is in the film “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” where Bowie’s clandestine interstellar traveler drops his human facade, and shows Candy Clark’s Mary-Lou that he’s actually a yellow-eyed space creature.

When photographer Mick Rock met David Bowie in 1971, the world was not paying attention.

David Bowie died Sunday at the age of 69. The following is from a 1993 interview. Icy. Cynical.

David Bowie died Sunday, Jan. 10, at the age of 69.

As more-or-less promised, David Bowie released a new single early Tuesday, the second sampling from his upcoming album, “The Next Day,” which Columbia Records is to issue in the United States on March 12.

Los Angeles Times fashion writer Adam Tschorn wrote about David Bowie’s undeniable connection between music and fashion as the 55th Grammy Awards were held in 2013.

Space exploration and mass media always seem to travel in parallel orbits, like twin planets linked by an unseen tether.

Want to celebrate Halloween by watching a rock ‘n’ roll superstar wear a witch’s hat?

Those on the West Coast still adjusting to a new day might want to head straight to the headphones: David Bowie has just released an epic remix of his “Love Is Lost,” deconstructed by producer/LCD Soundsystem founder James Murphy.

Did you know David Bowie put out an album this year?

It’s nice to know even a 66-year-old David Bowie can still elicit some pearl-clutching.

The fact that David Bowie managed to secretly record his first full album in 10 years suggests that the glam-rock pioneer, who turned 66 on Tuesday, remains a mystery even in the age of Twitter.

The British glam rocker’s 1972 concert, being released on CD, captures his trailblazing spirit.