David Bowie has an album.
David Bowie . The character was spearheaded by the success of his single `` Starman '' and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars , which won him widespread popularity . In 1975 , Bowie 's style shifted radically towards a sound he characterised as `` plastic soul '' , initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single `` Fame '' and the album Young Americans . The following year , he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low ( 1977 ) , the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the `` Berlin Trilogy '' . He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer two days after the release of his final album , Blackstar ( 2016 ) . Scary Monsters ( And Super Creeps ) , also known simply as Scary Monsters , is the fourteenth studio album by David Bowie , released on 12 September 1980 by RCA Records .