The astonishing array of characters invented an H Mutby David Bowie between his 19 breakthrough album Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars, & his Thin Whitcira Hw^around the time of David Livmn A Station To Station, 3 or 4 years later, was both impressive & unsurpassed. But just perhaps the use of these masks & personas trapped some of Bowies most creative urges & most unique sounds which, after dropping the use of his alter-egos & coming out as quite simply David Bowie around the time of 1977s awe-inspiring Low & its classic follow-up Heroes later the same year, then emerged not just as a new phase in the former chameleons career, but in a completely new way of approaching the music he composed & the records he released.