David Bowie- Diamond Dogs

David Bowie
David Bowie is known as one of Britain's most successful musicians worldwide, this is maybe due to his music achievements through five decades of Pop Music, and his ability to reinvent his music and image for his extensive target audience. The most common genres associated with Bowie are Rock, Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock and ProtoPunk, these genres are usually related to his out of the ordinary appearances and image throughout his music career.

When beginning to think about drafting my album cover, a number of ideas that were influenced by other artists emerged. Although, I researched a variety of artists, such as Pink, Avril Lavigne and Lilly Allen, I was most intrigued by my latest research on David Bowie's Diamond Dog album cover.

This cover art for 'Diamond Dogs' features David Bowie as half man, half dog, painted by a German artist 'Guy Peellaert. This particular cover art was Bowie's most controversial cover, as the painting clearly revealed the creature's genitalia. Due to this negative media very few copies of the original art was sold on the album's release. However, soon the cover was edited and the genitalia was airbrushed, which increased the album's sales (Shown in the above image).

In conclusion, I have become very fond of using the idea of half human, half dog as it feeds into some band name ideas that I have been thinking of recently. However, if incorporating this idea I must consider my target audience, since to some people this image may appear very threatening or offensive. Therefore, I will have to think about the different ways of using this idea, whether I use it as a subtle influence, or whether it plays a central role in the design of my album cover.