In honour of his 65th birthday (but primarily of his incredible, consistent and invaluable contribution to music), today we happily bend Squealer’s “new band” ethos to feature David Bowie as our artist of the day.

Music would doubtlessly be a very different place without Bowie’s complex marrying of articulacy and pop music, of melody and sound-experimentation, of melancholia and eccentricity, and - though we are a day late on the birthday celebrations - we are very pleased to present a handful of our favourite Bowie covers for today’s update.

From TV On The Radio’s stunning take on Heroes to Seu Jorge’s Portuguese-language version of Changes, these covers represent not only the musical strengths of the adapting parties, but also how compositional quality and richness shines through any medium.