BIGGIE Sean Combs and widow Faith Evans' No. 1 hit, the Police-sampling ''I'll Be Missing You''
BACH Electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' landmark 1968 album Switched-On Bach
Edge Bach. Suck it, Sting!

CAUSE OF DEATH
BIGGIE Multiple gunshot wounds
BACH Stroke
Edge Strokes are harsh — but it's Biggie's game all the way.

WINNER
It's a fat man by a narrow margin: Biggie Smalls!


The most popular album by the most popular artist in LTT's Twelve column, Bowie's Hunky Dory (Virgin, 1971), was the shape-shifting artist's first masterpiece — but it wasn't a hit in the U.S. Looking like a silent-film actress on the cover, Bowie kicks off with the glittery ''Changes,'' croons through the Broadway-ready ''Life on Mars,'' and pays tribute to Warhol, Dylan, and the Velvet Underground. In the end, however, he sounded only like himself.

Originally posted Mar 17, 2006 Published in issue #869 Mar 24, 2006 Order article reprints
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