David Bowie was a consummate showman, but “Moonage Daydream,” a new documentary, rarely shows him at play, Hilton Als writes.
, stars who used their tremendous appeal to promote less visible performers—generally women or people of color—Bowie often sought out artists who, for one reason or another, were outsiders like him, but who lacked his genius for reading the room to see what was happening and how to capitalize on it. And he rarely shied away from criticizing an industry that didn’t always give every musical artist a chance.
From the first, Bowie was an artist who preëmpted industry A.D.H.D. both by addressing his own disposability, in songs like “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide” and “Fame,” and by aligning himself with others who, like him, had broken down the walls between “real” art and the pop world. His mastery of stagecraft and personae also helped keep him alive in his fans’ imaginations.
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