Celebrating David Bowie

On what would have been his 75th birthday

David Bowie by Roger Woolman is licensed under CC BY 3.0

It’s hard not to use well-worn clichés to describe David Bowie.

Terms like iconoclast, unparalleled, outrageous, unprecedented, or extraordinary could all be used in an attempt to characterize him, but I would offer a different word — anomalous.

Anomalous is defined as “deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal; not fitting into a common or familiar type, classification, or pattern; unusual.”

David Bowie was certainly anomalous.