BERLIN/LONDON ¨C David Bowie was that rare kind of rock star: You didn¡¯t have to like his music to admire him. Bowie was a business visionary like the ones who shaped Silicon Valley who just didn¡¯t see the point of building companies: He was his own greatest product.
Bowie, born David Jones, died on Jan. 10 at age 69, a bohemian who had amassed a vast fortune thanks in part to his many instinctive firsts. Cataloging them would probably be a futile exercise, but some are worth recalling in the same spirit as his fans now play his songs to remember him.
Bowie¡¯s decision to get into rock music was the result of a conscious search for a way to blend business and creativity. Here¡¯s how he described it in a BBC interview:
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