David Bowie was a man of innumerable talents, but one of his greatest abilities was to cherry-pick brilliant, often unknown musicians who would help realise his musical vision at any given time.
The Thin White Duke had an especially great track record with guitarists. Bowie’s early partnership with Mick Ronson helped propel the singer to stardom after several false starts, and he went on to fruitful creative relationships with a stellar array of six-stringers from Carlos Alomar, Earl Slick and Stevie Ray Vaughan to King Crimson’s Robert Fripp, Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Reeves Gabrels.
