In some point, Bowie's performance of Ziggy's bisexuality was a good deal for his success. The bisexuality it self great whole bunch of different topics that allow people to talk about, both positive and negative. just as the book says that a teenaged female fan reported on the first time she saw Bowie on television:
"My parents were reading newspapers and I was sitting directly in front of the television as I always did then, watching. Suddenly this colorful man or perhaps it was a woman, i really couldn't tell, was in the centre of the TV. I was amazed. I turned to my parents and demanded to know more about this thing. 'Oh... that's David Bowie," replied mother, "He's gay.'"(Qtd. in Vermorel and Vermorel 73)
Even today its still kind of a topic about he really is a homosexual or not, but today we see lots of performer straggling on how to create a topic that let people talk about them. apparently Bowie is the most famous one in his time to let people just simply talk about him.
As Bowie got success and more recognize from the main stream, more and more artists, especially female rocker realize that they do not need to always fill themselves in to a man character, them could also just be themselves, or just whoever they wish to be, and I think this is a fundamental change in the music industry, which in the same time strengthen the women's importance in the industry.
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