After a pretty terrible end to the 80s, David Bowie set about getting his creative mojo back in the following decade. Alongside the fact he started making really interesting – and challenging – records again, his revitalised approach also seemed to manifest in Bowie befriending and mentoring artists he saw as continuing his lineage.
Take one look at the bands he invited to play his 50th birthday party at Madison Square Garden in 1997 and you get a sense that Bowie, who’d already toured with Nine Inch Nails earlier in the decade, was in a big rock vibe – Billy Corgan, Foo Fighters, Black Francis and Sonic Youth were amongst the artists performing alongside Bowie that night.
