David Bowie (1972) Starman

Hardly a lost gem but this is the first Bowie song I remember. The sound has a funky groove with a disco guitar break before the chorus a couple years before disco first began. It wasn't necessarily his vocals or guitar playing that made him a superstar but the whole enchanting package that his songs were and his unique artistic voice. He had some impressive contemporaries but I always felt his radical shifts in genre were more incredible did the guy who sung Young Americans also do Heroes and start with Space Oddity?. He took more chances than Marc Bolan and was more exciting than Elton John. He defined a generation and yet had a long, successful career: we lost a legend today.