Even after David Bowie turned a star within the ’70s with a string of albums that helped seal his legend, he nonetheless made data that have been meant just for single launch.

Some of his best-known songs from the period – the unique model of “Rebel, Rebel,” “John, I’m Only Dancing” – by no means made it onto studio albums. Well into the ’80s following his Let’s Dance business comeback, he was nonetheless recording one-shot songs for films.

So, Bowie’s singles catalog is huge. There have been 119 of them launched throughout his lifetime, courting again to when he was nonetheless often called David Jones and going via to only days earlier than his demise in 2016. Some of his biggest songs have been launched as singles throughout a 50-year profession. Some weren’t. (“Ziggy Stardust,” for instance, appeared solely on a single as a 1972 stay model from 1994.)

Like many international stars, Bowie noticed his work launched at totally different instances, and in numerous varieties, in numerous elements of the world. U.Okay. singles differed from U.S. singles, which weren’t the identical as those launched in France. And sometimes, locations just like the Netherlands and Turkey would get 45 data that no person else bothered to difficulty like that.

Our checklist of Every David Bowie Single Ranked contains many classics – from Ziggy Stardust to the Berlin Trilogy to his late-career renaissance – in addition to many tracks from that interval the place it appeared like the one songs he was recording have been for forgettable films. They all add as much as one in all rock’s biggest legacies.

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