David Bowie – Diamond Dogs (CD)

Recorded in 1973 and released the following year, Diamond Dogs finds Bowie at his most theatrically dystopian, building a crumbling future-city soundscape out of hard rock, soul, and his own restless reinvention. The album grew from an abandoned attempt to adapt George Orwell's 1984 for the stage, and that narrative ambition runs through every track. The subsequent Diamond Dogs tour became one of rock's most elaborate and expensive productions, a testament to how seriously Bowie took the world he'd constructed here.