Single: Starman
Seeing Bowie on TOTP performing this in 1972 was a revelation to me. In many ways, he became to my generation what John Lennon was to the previous one; iconic, contradictory, complex and always, always interesting.
Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Still the album that affected me most and to which I have referred over the years. Moonage Daydream kind of predicted media stars using the Net with the line 'Keep your 'lectric eye on me.' And the concept, wow. An alien achieves rock stardom on Earth, 5 years before the planet will collapse. Nobody else in music had thoughts like that until Bowie came along.