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Following the death of cultural icon David Bowie, isolated tracks of some of the rock singer's most well-known songs have been making rounds on the Internet.

The tracks, unsurprisingly, demonstrate the musician's vocal prowess, which helped to define his career.

Released in 1972, "Starman" — from his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars — was only Bowie's second hit (the first being "Space Oddity") and the first song to catapult him to megastardom.

Listen to the full album track here:

If you don't notice much of a difference between the two tracks, that's the point. Ziggy producer Ken Scott previously said in an interview that Bowie wanted that pure vocal quality to live on.

"I would set the level, we would roll tape and that was it," Scott said. "That became the performance everyone heard. Whether or not you love his voice is a personal matter, but his ability to put those performances across is beyond admonition. And that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. There are places where the pitch is slightly off, or the timing is slightly off. But they’re human."

The Internet also resurrected the track of Bowie and Queen's Freddie Mercury singing "Under Pressure," which according to blog Open Culture was born out of a "marathon session of nearly 24-hours."