Chapter 17: Epitaph, Self-Actualization, Prince & David Bowie

"Maybe he's found the answer to all the April snow" - Prince, Sometimes it Snows in April The following portrait was inspired by album covers from two of my favorite artists, Prince's 1986 album Parade and David Bowie's 1977 album Heroes . They were two prolific genre defying singer-songwriters who constantly reinvented themselves and pushed the boundaries of gender image and sexuality. As a music nerd, I like to create debate topics like: if you measure the body of work in both quantity and quality, which artist had the greatest decade of music? Some of my qualifications: do they have 3 or 4 widely considered classic albums and several songs from that era that have stood the test of time? While Michael Jackson is synonymous with the 1980's like no other pop star, he technically only released 2 solo albums ( Thriller in 1982 and Bad in 1987). Is that enough quantity to stack that up against every other artist and decade? For me, David Bowie in the 1970'...