#5. David Bowie

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Sadly, the great David Bowie passed away in January 2016 at the age of 69. He left behind an impressive body of work that influenced countless artists who came after him. Bowie burst onto the scene in the late 1960s and symbolized the glam era of rock n’ roll with his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. His album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is regarded as a classic and one of the defining records of the 1970s. Bowie’s sound continued to evolve through the decades and he made music right up until his death.

So what was the job that set Bowie on his meandering path of creating music that people around the world loved? Bowie worked as a delivery boy for a butcher. I feel as if this had to be a smelly job? Either way, he spent that cash on his first saxophone, so I think most people would agree that it was worth it.

Can you picture a young Bowie walking through the streets of London in full glam regalia and a painted face delivering meat to stores? Kind of hard to imagine, but, hey, I think that would actually make a pretty good idea for a movie, don’t you?