Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)  by David Bowie

The 1980s begin for David Bowie with Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). Bowie's fourteenth album is an attempt to return to more commercial paths, as it was preceded by "the Berlin trilogy" with ambient experiments and whatever else came to the mind of Bowie and Brian Eno.

The production is undertaken by Bowie himself along with Tony Visconti, and the work they achieve is exceptional. The musical style balances between art rock and new wave. The single Ashes To Ashes immediately becomes a hit and attracts the public because its theme deals with the redefinition of the hero Major Tom, created by Bowie in the song Space Oddity in 1969.

The album reached the top of the charts in Great Britain and No. 12 in the USA. Its sales are estimated at around 4,300,000 copies worldwide. In hindsight, with Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), this great artist seems to close a chapter in his career, as many changes would follow in the musical style he would pursue.