The 1984 album David Bowie was forced to makeIt’s impossible to know how David Bowie actually felt in the height of the 1980s. Even someone who was only aware of Bowie on casual terms could probably tell you that this didn’t sound like him in the slightest. Claim that the money he was raking in off the back of his 1983 smash hits was not somehow enjoyable? In this sense, while Bowie might have wanted a period of downtime to consider his next move, that was never going to be an option. But the critics saw straight through Bowie, with his lacklustre pop and blue-eyed soul, which had very much lost its shine.