Karen HillgroveDavid Bowie: The Man Who Changed the (Music) World (1947-2016)verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Randy LewisDavid Bowie made his first big splash in the early 1970s with “Space Oddity,” an imagined conversation between an astronaut and his ground control team. Over the next 40-plus years the British rocker often wrote songs about or from the perspective of beings from out of this world. In many respects, …