10 David Bowie Songs That Paved the Way for 'Blackstar'

David Bowie’s surreal opus ★ (pronounced Blackstar) finally arrives this week, and critics are hailing it as an absolute masterpiece. “[It’s] one of the most aggressively experimental records the singer has ever made,” Rolling Stone’s David Fricke wrote. The album certainly isn’t without precedent, though, since Bowie has been breaking musical ground ever…