DIGIPAK #7: David Bowie - Outside

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE:

• A shorts story to set out the mood
• The very artistic lyrics 

ACT: David Bowie
FULL TITLE: 1. Outside
YEAR: 1995
TYPE OF ALBUM: 19th studio album (Concept album)
DESIGN: Denovo, David Bowie
PHOTOGRAPHY: John Scarisbrick (Pinterest with early drafts)
GENRE: Industrial rock, Art rock
LABELS: BMG/Arista/RCA (Europe)
                    Virgin (US)

SINGLES:

This Discogs entry provided the most images.


BACKGROUND:

• This album is similar in its dystopian theme to his 1974 Diamond Dogs
• Bowie by now had come back to a more creative renaissance, after going for a more mainstream phase in the 1980s, which disappointed the critics and eventually
• So with this debate of high art vs popular culture in his mind, he created the concept for a concept album which deals with the narrative of the degradation of art 
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The whole arty design fits well for the philosophical debate of the degradation of art.

FRONT COVER

BACK COVER





INSIDE
Bowie created a whole world.

BOOKLET

Really creative lyrics: