Aside from Bowie, did any other musician perform or create music as a character?
Fictional characters
ur mom
Alice Cooper
KISS
GWAR
Lordi
ICP
Eminem
Aquabats
Marilyn Manson
Eminem
Prince
almost every rapper
bowie's only character was ziggy who could briefly be considered aladdin sane when he toured in america
thin white duke was barely a character, it was just psychosis from all the cocaine
David Bowie was the character, The Thin White Duke was the real person.
Kool Keith created multiple characters over multiple albums, with some albums featuring multiple characters.
gynecologyst from outer space
youtube.com
schizophrenic pornostar
youtube.com
serial killer
youtube.com
black elvis
youtube.com
Parliament-Funkadelic
damn...
Based and funk-pilled
Kanye
Beyoncé
All pop musicians
peter gabriel
tom waits
Andrew W.K.
MF DOOM/Viktor Vaughn/King Geedorah/Madvillain
>Three Papa Emeritus
>Papa Nihil
>Cardinal Copia
Who's next?
billie eilish
tyler, the creator
diiv
Ryan Kattner (Honus Honus)
John Paul Lawler (Jon Fratelli)
Dave Portner (Avey Tare)
Noah Lennox (Panda Bear)
Brian Weitz (Geologist)
Joshua Dibb (Deakin)
Charles Thompson (Black Francis, Frank Black)
Christopher Comstock (Marshmello)
Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5)
Brian Burton (Danger Mouse)
He obviously created the Thin White Duke "character" to get away with saying positive things about Hitler in interviews. There would have been a much bigger backlash if he couldn't fall back on "I was only playing a character."
Dude used to display the Mosley "flash and circle" at concerts and on the Aladdin Sane cover for fucks sake.
Alex Cameron. Though it seems less affected with time.