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Beckenham
Beckenham is a town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. It is located 8.4 miles (13.5 km) south east of Charing Cross and 1.75 miles (2.8 km) west of Bromley town. Until the coming of the railway in 1857, Beckenham was a small village in almost completely rural surroundings: once a family of entrepreneurs began the building of villas here, its population soared from 2000 to 26,000 during 1850-1900 and throughout the rest of the century. The current population is nearly 82,000
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Brixton
Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is miles south south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
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Bromley
:"Widmore" redirects here. For the Lost character, see Charles Widmore
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a small section on the mainland adjacent to the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, and expanded in 1898 to include surrounding counties. It is the smallest, yet most urbanized of the five boroughs.
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Stockwell
Stockwell is a district in south London, England, located in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated south south-east of Charing Cross. Brixton, Clapham, Vauxhall and Kennington all border Stockwell. Once one of London's poorest neighbourhoods, it is now an up-and-coming area, owing to its close proximity to central London, excellent transport links, and diverse ethnic and cultural mix.
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Tolworth
Tolworth is a mostly residential area of outer South London in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, located south west of Charing Cross. Neighbouring places include: New Malden, Kingston, Surbiton, Berrylands, Chessington, Ewell and Worcester Park.
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100 Greatest Britons
100 Greatest Britons was broadcast in 2002 by the BBC. The programme was the result of a vote conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considers the greatest British people in history. The series, Great Britons, included individual programmes on the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate. All of the top 10 were deceased by the year of broadcast.
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Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob (born 11 March 1947) is a British television executive, given the nickname Botney (Yentob spelled backwards) by the magazine Private Eye. He was born into a Jewish family of Iraqi descent in London, and was educated at the independent The King's School, Ely and Leeds University. After initially joining the BBC as a trainee in the BBC World Service in 1968, he has spent his entire professional career with the Corporation. Yentob has two children, Isabella and Jacob.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
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Andy Warhol
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Angela Bowie
Angela Bowie (born Mary Angela Barnett on September 25, 1949 in Cyprus) is an American cover girl, model, actress, and musician. She is the former wife of English musician David Bowie.
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Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish recording artist, better known as being one member of the duo Eurythmics, which she formed in 1980. Lennox penned some of the band's best-known tracks to date, including "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Love Is a Stranger".
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Austin Chick
Austin Chick (born July 29, 1971, New Hampshire, USA) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, who made the films XX/XY, released in 2002, and August, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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Bertolt Brecht
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Billy Fury
Billy Fury, born Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 - 28 January 1983), was an internationally successful English pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled The Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK charts, without a chart-topping single or album. Allmusic journalist, Bruce Eder, stated, "His mix of rough-hewn good looks and unassuming masculinity, coupled with an underlying vulnerability, all presented with a good voice and some serious musical talent, helped turn Fury into a major rock and roll star in short order". Others have suggested that it was Fury's "Elvis Presley-influenced, hip-swivelling, and at times highly suggestive stage act."
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Bing Crosby
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Brixton
Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is miles south south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
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Butterfly Boucher
Butterfly Boucher () is an Australian singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Boucher, born June 2, 1979, is the middle child of seven daughters. The name "Butterfly" was a suggestion from a friend of the family. In later years, Butterfly's sister Becca Boucher had a band, The Mercy Bell, in which Butterfly played bass guitar. Her debut album, Flutterby, was released in 2003. Boucher toured the United States and Europe, opening for Barenaked Ladies, and later for Sarah McLachlan on her Afterglow arena tour.
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Carlos Alomar
Carlos Alomar (born 1951 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger best known for his work with David Bowie, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician.
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Catherine Deneuve
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
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Chris Welch
Chris Welch is a music journalist, reviewer and critic with Melody Maker, famous during the 1960s and 1970s for reporting on the rise of such bands as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, If, Cream and Jeff Beck. During that time he also reported on the UK jazz scene.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Chuck Hammer
Chuck Hammer is an American guitarist and Emmy nominated digital film composer, known for seminal guitar-synth with Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Guitarchitecture.
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Colin MacInnes
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( ; born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English rock musician, who has also worked as an actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for five decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s, and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
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David Hemmings
David Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English film actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Blowup. In his later acting career, he was known for his distinctive eyebrows and gravelly voice.
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Davy Jones (actor)
David Thomas "Davy" Jones (born 30 December 1945) is an English pop singer-songwriter and actor best known as a member of The Monkees.
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Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is an American drummer and session musician best known for his work with David Bowie.
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Duncan Jones
Duncan Zowie Hayward Jones (born 30 May 1971), also known as Zowie Bowie or Joey Bowie, is an English film director, best known for directing the 2009 film Moon. He is the son of rock star David Bowie.
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Earl Slick
Earl Slick (born Frank Madeloni in Staten Island, New York,1 October 1952) is a guitarist best known for his collaborations with David Bowie, Jim Diamond and Robert Smith, although he has also worked with other artists (John Lennon: Double Fantasy, Milk and Honey, Yoko Ono), John Waite, and even released some solo recordings.
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Elvis Presley
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B; and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Gail Ann Dorsey
Gail Ann Dorsey (born November 20, 1962) is an American musician considered one of the premier bass guitarists and vocalists within the alternative rock scene. With a distinguished career as a session musician, it has been most notably her long association performing in David Bowie's band, from 1995 to the present day, that has brought her fans and accolades. Aside from playing bass, she occasionally has sung lead vocals according to Bowie's introduction on A Reality Tour, on "Under Pressure", and duetted with him on others, including "The London Boys", and "I Dig Everything", accompanying Bowie on clarinet.
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General Franco
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George Orwell
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Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi (born 1962) is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi.
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Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor. He is considered an influential innovator of punk rock, hard rock, and other styles of rock music. Pop began calling himself Iggy after his first band in high school (for which he was drummer), The Iguanas. Iggy Pop is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of all time.
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Iman (model)
Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid (, ) (born July 25, 1955), professionally known as Iman (which means "faith" in Arabic), is a Somali-American model, actress and entrepreneur. A pioneer in the field of ethnic cosmetics, she is also noted for her charitable work. She is married to David Bowie.
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James Bond
James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English-language film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr. No.
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Jareth
Jareth, The Goblin King is a fictional character in the 1986 dark fantasy movie Labyrinth. Jareth is a powerful, mysterious creature who has an antagonistic yet strangely flirtatious relationship with Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), the film's teenage heroine. He was portrayed by David Bowie. He also appears in the film's adaptations, including the Marvel comic books, story book, graphic novel, novelization, coloring books, and photo album.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist and the first artist of African descent to become an international art star. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died due to a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27.
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Jim Henson
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John Coltrane
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John Lennon
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John Peel
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Josh Hartnett
Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and producer. He first came to audiences' attention in 1997 as "Michael Fitzgerald" in the television series Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in for Miramax. That same year, he received an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Male Performance. Hartnett gained fame for his role as Cpt Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor, and has starred since then for a variety of well-known directors such as Ridley Scott, Brian de Palma, Robert Rodriguez, Tran Anh Hung and Michael Bay.
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Julian Schnabel
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Ken Scott
Ken Scott (born 20 April 1947 in London) is an English record producer and recording engineer.
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
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Laurens van der Post
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) (December 13, 1906 – December 16, 1996) was a 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist.
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Leslie Thomas
:For the British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Canterbury from 1953 until 1966, see Sir Leslie Montagu Thomas
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Lindsay Kemp
Lindsay Kemp is a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist and choreographer.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, bandleader and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that:
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Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which spans several decades and crosses multiple genres. The Velvet Underground gained little mainstream attention during their career, but became one of the most influential bands of their era. As the Velvet Underground's main songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including a variety of sexual topics and drug culture. He is responsible for the popularization of ostrich tuning.
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Marc Bolan
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Marc Spitz
Marc Spitz (b. Queens, New York, 1969) is a former senior writer at Spin magazine. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Maxim, Blender, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Nylon and the New York Post. Spitz is the co-author (with Brendan Mullen) of the 2001 LA punk oral history We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. He has authored two novels, How Soon is Never (2003) and Too Much, Too Late (2006), as well as Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day. Spitz's new book 'BOWIE: A Biography' will be released on October 27th by Crown/Random House.
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Marlene Dietrich
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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Max Zorin
Max Zorin is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. He was portrayed by Academy Award winner Christopher Walken. The role was initially offered to David Bowie, who turned it down, saying, "I didn't want to spend five months watching my stunt double fall off cliffs."
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
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Mick Ronson
Michael "Mick" Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993) was an English guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. He is best known for his work with David Bowie, as one of The Spiders from Mars. Ronson was a busy session musician who recorded with artists as diverse as Bowie and Morrissey, as well as engagements as a sideman in touring bands with performers such as Van Morrison.
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Mick Woodmansey
'''Mick 'Woody' Woodmansey''' (born c. 1951) is an English rock drummer from Driffield, Yorkshire, best known for his work with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars. He played on Bowie's albums The Man Who Sold the World (1970), Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) and Aladdin Sane (1973).
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Monty Python
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music.
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Nagisa Oshima
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Neu!
Neu! (trademarked NEU! in block capitals, , ) was a German band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from Kraftwerk in the early 1970s. Though the band had minimal commercial success during its existence, Neu! are retrospectively considered one of the founding fathers of Krautrock and a significant influence on artists including David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, PiL, Joy Division, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Simple Minds, Negativland, Stereolab, Radiohead, The Horrors, and much of the current electronic music scene.
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Nic Roeg
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Nicholas Pegg
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Nikola Tesla
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Paul Nicholas
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Paul Schrader
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 60s and 70s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever."
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Philip Glass
Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein).
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Pontius Pilate
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Reeves Gabrels
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Rip Torn
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Robert Fripp
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Rosanna Arquette
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Roy Carr
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Russell Harty
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Simon & Garfunkel
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Snoop Dogg
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Somali people
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Sterling Campbell
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Steve Strange
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Susan Sarandon
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Tina Turner
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Tom Verlaine
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Tom Waits
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Toni Basil
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Tony Defries
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Tony Sales
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Tony Visconti
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Trent Reznor
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Trevor Bolder
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Visage
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William Wilberforce
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Willie Dixon
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Bowie, David Filmography
- Vanilla Ice Archive (2012)
- David Bowie & the Story of Ziggy Stardust (2012)
- Are We Not Men? (2012)
- David Bowie & the Story of Ziggy Stardust (2012)
- The Love We Make (2011)
- Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)
- Top of the Pops: The Story of 1976 (2011)
- Clockwork Orange County (2010)
- Isle of Wight Festival 2010: Live (2010)
- The Man Who Shot the 60s (2010)
- Arias with a Twist (2010)
- The Legendary Bing Crosby (2009)
- Bandslam (2009)
- August (2008)
- MusicalMENT (2008)
- Catalunya.cat (2008)
- Falco lebt! (2007)
- David Gilmour Remember That Night (2007)
- Remember That Night (2007)
- Arthur et les Minimoys (2006)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
- Legends Ball (2006)
- Glastonbury (2006)
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
- Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)
- Françoise Hardy - Tant de belles choses (2005)
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
- Live Aid Remembered (2005)
- TV Party (2005)
- Comic Relief: Red Nose Night Live 05 (2005)
- The Work of Director Mark Romanek (2005)
- Whatever Happened to the Gender Benders? (2005)
- The Oshima Gang: The Making of 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' (2005)
- Bob Geldof: Saint or Singer? (2004)
- David Bowie: A Reality Tour (2004)
- Les 40 ans de la 2 (2004)
- Ray Davies: The World from My Window (2004)
- The Ultimate Pop Star (2004)
- Superstar in a Housedress (2004)
- The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2004)
- The Nomi Song (2004)
- The Music of Shrek 2 (2004)
- Reality (2003)
- David Smiling Bowie (2003)
- Cher: The Farewell Tour (2003)
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special (2003)
- Get Up, Stand Up (2003)
- TV 2 003 - Året i ord og billeder (2003)
- Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
- MTV Europe Awards: 10 of the Best Performances (2003)
- Best of Bowie (2002)
- Hr. Vinterberg & Mr. Bowie (2002)
- Live by Request: David Bowie (2002)
- Best of Bowie (2002)
- Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (2002)
- Whistle (2002)
- I Love Christmas (2001)
- 100 Most Shocking Moments in Rock and Roll History (2001)
- The Concert for New York City (2001)
- Zoolander (2001)
- Top of the Pops: The True Story (2001)
- Breaking the Silence: The Making of 'Hannibal' (2001)
- The Old Grey Whistle Test at 30 (2001)
- Bad Hair Days (2001)
- Die zehn Gebote der Kreativität (2001)
- Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (2000)
- Mr. Rice's Secret (2000)
- The Filth and the Fury (2000)
- Bowie at the BBC (2000)
- Empty (2000)
- The Beatles Revolution (2000)
- The Man Who Bought Mustique (2000)
- 100 Greatest Dance Songs of Rock & Roll (2000)
- VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards (2000)
- Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999)
- Cher: Live in Concert from Las Vegas (1999)
- Brit Awards 1999 (1999)
- Tina Turner: Celebrate Live 1999 (1999)
- Saturday Night Live 25 (1999)
- A Bing Crosby Christmas (1998)
- The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (1998)
- Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business (1998)
- Il mio West (1998)
- Passaggio per il paradiso (1998)
- David Bowie: An Earthling at 50 (1997)
- BBC Perfect Day (1997)
- Rock n' Roll Weddings (1997)
- Inspirations (1997)
- Closure (1997)
- Bowie og Bornedal (1996)
- Brit Awards 1996 (1996)
- Brit Awards 1996 (1996)
- Basquiat (1996)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 8 (1995)
- Champions of the World (1995)
- Rock & Roll (1995)
- The Greatest Music Party in the World (1995)
- The Best of the Don Lane Show (1994)
- Television's Christmas Classics (1994)
- Büvös vadász (1994)
- Bowie: The Video Collection (1993)
- The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
- Bowie: The Video Collection (1993)
- David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise (1993)
- Tina Turner: Girl from Nutbush (1993)
- The Freddie Mercury Tribute: Concert for AIDS Awareness (1992)
- The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992)
- Travelling Light (1992)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
- The Linguini Incident (1991)
- Tina Turner: Simply the Best - The Video Collection (1991)
- Glass Spider (1988)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
- Cissy Houston: Sweet Inspiration (1988)
- Glass Spider (1988)
- Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
- Glass Spider (1988)
- The Magic Years, Vol. 3 (1987)
- The Magic Years, Vol. 2 (1987)
- The Magic Years, Vol. 1 (1987)
- Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (1987)
- Labyrinth (1986)
- Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (1986)
- Inside the Labyrinth (1986)
- Absolute Beginners (1986)
- Into the Night (1985)
- Live Aid (1985)
- Tina Turner: Private Dancer (1985)
- Jazzin' for Blue Jean (1984)
- Jazzin' for Blue Jean (1984)
- MTV 1st Annual Video Music Awards (1984)
- Jazzin' for Blue Jean (1984)
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Yellowbeard (1983)
- YMO Special (1983)
- Group Madness (1983)
- David Bowie: Serious Moonlight (1983)
- Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (1983)
- The Hunger (1983)
- Baal (1982)
- The Snowman (1982)
- Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981)
- Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (1978)
- Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas (1977)
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
- The 17th Annual Grammy Awards (1975)
- Night Lunch (1975)
- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)
- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)
- Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders (1970)
- Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders (1970)
- The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
- Love You Till Tuesday (1969)
- The Image (1967)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Uncle Floyd
- Afraid
- Baby Loves That Way
- I Dig Everything
- Conversation Piece
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- Toy (Your Turn to Drive)
- Hole in the Ground
- Shadow Man
- In the Heat of the Morning
- You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving
- Silly Boy Blue
- Liza Jane
- The London Boys
- Uncle Arthur
- Sell Me a Coat
- Rubber Band
- Love You Til Tuesday
- There Is a Happy Land
- We Are Hungry Men
- When I Live My Dream
- Little Bombardier
- Silly Boy Blue
- Come and Buy My Toys
- Join the Gang
- She’s Got Medals
- Maid of Bond Street
- Please Mr. Gravedigger
- Uncle Arthur (mono)
- Sell Me a Coat (mono)
- Rubber Band (mono)
- Love You Til Tuesday (mono)
- There Is a Happy Land (mono)
- We Are Hungry Men (mono)
- When I Live My Dream (mono)
- Little Bombardier (mono)
- Silly Boy Blue (mono)
- Come and Buy My Toys (mono)
- Join the Gang (mono)
- She’s Got Medals (mono)
- Maid of Bond Street (mono)
- Please Mr. Gravedigger (mono)
- Rosalyn
- Here Comes the Night
- I Wish You Would
- See Emily Play
- Everything's Alright
- I Can't Explain
- Friday on My Mind
- Sorrow
- Don't Bring Me Down
- Shapes of Things
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- Where Have All the Good Times Gone
- Space Oddity
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
- (Don’t Sit Down)
- Letter to Hermione
- Cygnet Committee
- Janine
- An Occasional Dream
- Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
- God Knows I’m Good
- Memory of a Free Festival
- Modern Love
- China Girl
- Let’s Dance
- Without You
- Ricochet
- Criminal World
- Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
- Shake It
- Life on Mars?
- Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (reprise)
- The Bewlay Brothers
- Lady Grinning Soul
- Win
- Some Are
- Teenage Wildlife
- Repetition
- Fantastic Voyage
- Loving the Alien
- Time Will Crawl (MM remix)
- Hang On to Yourself (live)
- Mother
- Life on Mars?
- Five Years
- Wake Up
- Trying to Get to Heaven
- The Cynic
- Isn't It Evening
- Waterloo Sunset
- Space Oddity
- My Death
- Drive in Saturday
- Can't Help Thinking About Me
- Social Girl
- Everything Is You
- Always Crashing in the Same Car
- Day-In Day-Out
- Time Will Crawl
- Beat of Your Drum
- Never Let Me Down
- Zeroes
- Glass Spider
- Shining Star (Makin' My Love)
- New York's in Love
- '87 and Cry
- Bang Bang
- Ashes to Ashes (single version)
- Under Pressure
- Fashion (single version)
- China Girl (single version)
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (single version)
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Alabama Song
- Drowned Girl (vom Ertrunkenen Mädchen)
- Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (film version) (single edit)
- This Is Not America
- Loving the Alien (album version)
- Absolute Beginners (single version)
- When the Wind Blows
- Blue Jean
- Day-In Day-Out (single version)
- Time Will Crawl
- Underground (single version)
- Modern Love (single version)
- Let's Dance (single version)
- Leon Takes Us Outside
- Outside
- The Hearts Filthy Lesson
- A Small Plot of Land
- Segue: Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)
- Hallo Spaceboy
- The Motel
- I Have Not Been to Oxford Town
- No Control
- Segue: Algeria Touchshriek
- The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
- Segue: Ramona A. Stone / I Am With Name
- Wishful Beginnings
- We Prick You
- Segue: Nathan Adler (I)
- I'm Deranged
- Thru' These Architects Eyes
- Segue: Nathan Adler (II)
- Strangers When We Meet
- Little Wonder (censored video edit)
- Little Wonder (Junior Vasquez club mix)
- Little Wonder (Danny Sabre dance mix)
- Seven Years in Tibet (Mandarin version)
- Dead Man Walking (Moby mix 1)
- Dead Man Walking (Moby mix 2)
- Telling Lies (Feelgood mix)
- Telling Lies (Paradox mix)
- I'm Afraid of Americans (Show Girls OST version)
- I'm Afraid of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 mix)
- I'm Afraid of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 clean edit)
- V-2 Schneider (live in Amsterdam, 1997)
- Pallas Athena (live in Amsterdam, 1997)
- Waterloo Sunset
- Fly
- Queen of All the Tarts (overture)
- Rebel Rebel
- Love Missile F1 Eleven
- Rebel Never Gets Old (radio mix)
- Rebel Never Gets Old (7th Heaven edit)
- Rebel Never Gets Old (7th Heaven mix)
- It’s No Game, Part 1
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
- Ashes to Ashes
- Fashion
- Teenage Wildlife
- Scream Like a Baby
- Kingdom Come
- Because You’re Young
- It’s No Game, Part 2
- Watch That Man
- Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?)
- Drive‐In Saturday
- Panic in Detroit
- Cracked Actor
- Time
- The Prettiest Star
- Let’s Spend the Night Together
- The Jean Genie
- Lady Grinning Soul
- Fantastic Voyage
- African Night Flight
- Move On
- Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)
- Red Sails
- D.J.
- Look Back in Anger
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Repetition
- Red Money
- Thursday's Child
- Something in the Air
- Survive
- If I'm Dreaming My Life
- Seven
- What's Really Happening?
- The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
- New Angels of Promise
- Brilliant Adventure
- The Dreamers
- Let's Dance
- Ashes to Ashes
- Under Pressure
- Fashion
- Modern Love
- China Girl
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Alabama Song
- Drowned Girl
- Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
- This Is Not America
- Loving the Alien
- Absolute Beginners
- When the Wind Blows
- Blue Jean
- Day-In Day-Out
- Time Will Crawl
- Underground
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
- The Width of a Circle
- Andy Warhol
- Soul Love
- Cracked Actor
- Sweet Thing
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Word on a Wing
- Always Crashing in the Same Car
- Beauty and the Beast
- Repetition
- Teenage Wildlife
- Sound and Vision
- Golden Years (single edit)
- Fame
- Young Americans (single version)
- John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
- Can You Hear Me
- Wild Is the Wind
- Knock on Wood (live)
- TVC 15 (single version)
- 1984
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Look Back in Anger
- The Secret Life of Arabia
- D.J.
- Beauty and the Beast
- Breaking Glass
- Boys Keep Swinging
- "Heroes" (single version)
- The Jean Genie
- Space Oddity
- Starman
- Ziggy Stardust
- John, I'm Only Dancing (sax version)
- Rebel Rebel
- Let's Spend the Night Together
- Suffragette City
- Oh! You Pretty Things
- Velvet Goldmine
- Drive-In Saturday
- Diamond Dogs
- Changes
- Sorrow
- The Prettiest Star (Bolan stereo version)
- Life on Mars?
- Aladdin Sane
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
- All the Young Dudes
- Rubber Band (single version)
- The London Boys
- The Laughing Gnome
- The Gospel According to Tony Day
- Uncle Arthur
- Sell Me a Coat
- Rubber Band
- Love You Till Tuesday
- There Is a Happy Land
- We Are Hungry Men
- When I Live My Dream
- Little Bombardier
- Silly Boy Blue
- Come and Buy My Toys
- Join the Gang
- She's Got Medals
- Maid of Bond Street
- Please Mr. Gravedigger
- Love You Till Tuesday (single version)
- Did You Ever Have a Dream
- Karma Man
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- In the Heat of the Morning
- Ching-a-Ling
- Sell Me a Coat
- When I Live My Dream
- Space Oddity
- Space Oddity (original demo)
- The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud (rare B-Side version)
- The Prettiest Star (single version)
- London Bye Ta-Ta (stereo version)
- Black Country Rock
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Bewlay Brothers
- Changes
- Round and Round (alternate vocal mix)
- Moonage Daydream
- John, I'm Only Dancing (sax version)
- Drive-In Saturday
- Panic in Detroit
- Ziggy Stardust (live, 1973)
- White Light/White Heat (live, 1973)
- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (live, 1973)
- Sorrow
- Don't Bring Me Down
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- Space Oddity
- Changes
- Suffragette City
- Ziggy Stardust
- The Jean Genie
- Rebel Rebel
- Young Americans
- Fame
- Golden Years
- "Heroes"
- Ashes to Ashes
- Fashion
- Under Pressure
- Let's Dance
- China Girl
- Modern Love
- Blue Jean
- Dancing in the Street
- This Is Not America
- I'm Afraid of Americans (V1)
- Real Cool World
- Lucy Can't Dance
- Jump They Say (Rock mix)
- Black Tie White Noise (3rd Floor US radio mix)
- Miracle Goodnight (Make Believe mix)
- Don't Let Me Down & Down (Indonesian vocal version)
- You've Been Around (Dangers 12" remix)
- Jump They Say (Brothers in Rhythm 12" remix)
- Black Tie White Noise (Here Come da Jazz)
- Pallas Athena (Don't Stop Praying remix No. 2)
- Nite Flights (Moodswings Back to Basics remix)
- Jump They Say (Dub Oddity)
- Scary Monsters (acoustic)
- Seven Years in Tibet (acoustic)
- The Supermen (acoustic)
- Dead Man Walking (acoustic)
- The Jean Genie (acoustic)
- I Can't Read (acoustic)
- Quicksand (acoustic)
- Aladdin Sane (acoustic)
- The Man Who Sold the World (acoustic)
- Supermen (acoustic)
- Andy Warhol (acoustic)
- Repetition (acoustic)
- Lady Stardust (acoustic)
- White Light/White Heat (acoustic)
- Shopping for Girls (acoustic)
- “Heroes” (acoustic)
- Dead Man Walking (acoustic)
- I Can't Read (acoustic)
- Repetition (acoustic)
- Rosie Girl (acoustic)
- Fuck You All Night Long (acoustic)
- V-2 Schneider
- TVC15 (single edit)
- "Heroes" / "Helden"
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Sense of Doubt
- Station to Station (live)
- Look Back in Anger
- Stay (single edit)
- Warszawa
- A New Career in a New Town
- V-2 Schneider
- Abdulmajid
- Weeping Wall
- All Saints
- Art Decade
- Crystal Japan
- Brilliant Adventure
- Sense of Doubt
- Moss Garden
- Neuköln
- The Mysteries
- Ian Fish UK Heir
- Subterraneans
- Warszawa
- Some Are (The Low Symphony)
- Space Oddity
- Changes
- Starman
- Ziggy Stardust
- Suffragette City
- John, I'm Only Dancing
- The Jean Genie
- Drive-In Saturday
- Life on Mars?
- Sorrow
- Rebel Rebel
- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
- Diamond Dogs
- Knock on Wood
- Young Americans
- Fame
- Golden Years
- TVC15
- Sound and Vision
- Letter to Hermione
- Black Country Rock
- Kooks
- Suffragette City
- Watch That
- Rosalyn
- Rebel Rebel
- Right
- Word on a Wing
- Art Decade
- Sons of the Silent Age
- Fantastic Voyage
- Because You're Young
- Criminal World
- Don't Look Down
- Time Will Crawl
- Amazing
- Life on Mars?
- Story #1
- Rebel Rebel
- Story #2
- Thursday's Child
- Story #3
- Can't Help Thinking About Me
- Story #4
- China Girl
- Story #5
- Seven
- Story #6
- Drive-In Saturday
- Story #7
- Word on a Wing
- The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
- Drive-In Saturday
- Rebel Rebel
- The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
- Interview
- Thursday's Child
- Rebel Rebel
- Rebel Rebel
- Fame
- Let's Dance
- This Is Not America
- Miracle Goodnight
- Dancing in the Street
- Absolute Beginners
- Day in Day Out
- Jump They Say
- Under Pressure
- Fashion
- Space Oddity
- Changes
- Ziggy Stardust
- Sorrow
- Knock on Wood
- Modern Love
- Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys remix)
- Space Oddity (original version)
- Did You Ever Have a Dream
- There Is a Happy Land
- Rubber Band
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- Maid of Bond Street
- We Are Hungry Men
- When I Live My Dream
- Karma Man
- The Laughing Gnome
- She's Got Medals
- Little Bombardier
- Please Mr. Gravedigger
- The Gospel According to Tony Day
- Sell Me a Coat
- Join the Gang
- Love You Till Tuesday
- The London Boys
- All the Young Dudes (original studio master)
- Queen Bitch (live)
- Sound and Vision (live)
- Time (live)
- Be My Wife (live)
- Footstompin' (live)
- Ziggy Stardust (live)
- My Death (live)
- I Feel Free (live)
- Hang On to Yourself (live)
- Changes (live)
- Waiting for the Man (live)
- The Jean Genie (live)
- Suffragette City (live)
- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (live)
- The Laughing Gnome
- Love You Till Tuesday
- Did You Ever Have a Dream
- Rubber Band
- Little Bombardier
- Sell Me a Coat
- When I Live My Dream
- The London Boys
- Karma Man
- Maid of Bond Street
- There Is a Happy Land
- She's Got Medals
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- The Gospel According to Tony Day
- That's a Promise
- Silly Boy Blue
- Love You Til Tuesday
- Over the Wall We Go
- When I Live My Dream
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- Karma Man
- Threepenny Pierrot
- Columbine
- The Mirror
- When I Live My Dream (2)
- In the Heat of the Morning
- London Bye Ta Ta
- Life Is a Circus
- Lover to the Dawn
- Love Song
- Little Toy Soldier
- I'm Waiting for the Man
- Rupert the Riley
- Buzz the Fuzz
- Right on Mother
- He Was Alright (A Song for Marc)
- 1984/Dodo
- Rebel Rebel
- Footstompin'
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Panic in Detroit
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
- All the Young Dudes
- Space Oddity
- The Prettiest Star
- Sound and Vision
- Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)
- Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola
- My Death
- Can You Hear Me
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Imagine
- "Heroes"
- Under Pressure
- Hang On to Yourself
- Ziggy Stardust
- Space Oddity
- Andy Warhol
- Waiting for the Man
- Interview With Brian Mathew
- Let Me Sleep Beside You (edited version)
- The Supermen
- Lightning, Frightning
- Tired of My Life
- All the Madmen
- Holy, Holy
- How Lucky You Are
- Andy Warhol
- Looking for a Friend
- Man in the Middle
- The Shadow Man
- Looking for a Friend
- Waiting for the Man
- Oh! You Pretty Things
- Queen Bitch
- Five Years
- White Light/White Heat
- Zion
- All the Young Dudes
- The Jean Genie / Love Me Do
- Ziggy's Farewell Speech
- V-2 Schneider
- TVC 15
- “Heroes”/“Helden”
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Sense of Doubt
- Station to Station
- Look Back In Anger
- Stay
- Warszawa
- Beauty and the Beast (1977 promo 12" disco version)
- “Heroes”/“Héros” (English/French 12" version)
- Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (12" version)
- Baal's Hymn (Der Choral vom großen Baal)
- Remembering Marie A. (Erinnerung an die Marie A.)
- The Ballad of the Adventurers (Die Ballade von den Abenteurern)
- The Drowned Girl (Vom ertrunkenen Mädchen)
- Dirty Song
- Dialogue / Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy
- Lieb mich bis Dienstag / Love Me Till Tuesday (original German/English version)
- Revolutionary Song
- Queen Bitch
- Bombers
- The Supermen
- Looking for a Friend
- Almost Grown
- Kooks
- Song for Bob Dylan
- Andy Warhol
- It Ain't Easy
- Changes
- Andy Warhol
- The Supermen
- Ziggy Stardust
- Five Years
- Waiting for the Man
- White Light/White Heat
- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
- Starman
- Drive-In Saturday
- Janine
- Scream Like a Baby
- Because You're Young
- Kingdom Come
- Up the Hill Backwards
- It's No Game
- Is There Life After Marriage?
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Kingdom Come
- Teenage Wildlife
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
- Buddha of Suburbia
- Sex and the Church
- South Horizon
- The Mysteries
- Bleed Like a Craze, Dad
- Strangers When We Meet
- Dead Against It
- Untitled No. 1
- Ian Fish, U.K. Heir
- Buddha of Suburbia
- Space Oddity
- Changes
- Oh, You Pretty Things
- Life on Mars?
- Ziggy Stardust
- Starman
- John, I'm Only Dancing
- Suffragette City
- The Jean Genie
- Sorrow
- Drive-In Saturday
- Diamond Dogs
- Rebel Rebel
- Young Americans
- Fame
- Golden Years
- TVC15
- Be My Wife
- Sound and Vision
- Beauty and the Beast
- Space Oddity
- Love You Till Tuesday
- When I'm Five
- Ching-A-Ling
- The Laughing Gnome
- Rubber Band
- Sell Me a Coat
- Liza Jane
- When I Live My Dream
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- The London Boys
- Space Oddity
- Rupert the Riley
- Changes
- Kooks
- Amsterdam
- Starman
- The Jean Genie
- A Lad in Vain
- All the Young Dudes
- Tired of My Life
- Who Can I Be Now?
- London Bye Ta Ta
- The Ching-A-Ling Song
- Lover to the Dawn
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Ashes to Ashes
- TVC 15
- Liza Jane
- Louie Louie Go Home
- I Pity the Fool
- Take My Tip
- That's Where My Heart Is
- I Want My Baby Back
- Bars of the County Jail
- You've Got a Habit of Leaving
- Baby Loves That Way
- I'll Follow You
- Glad I've Got Nobody
- Can't Help Thinking About Me
- And I Say to Myself
- Do Anything You Say
- Good Morning Girl
- I Dig Everything
- I'm Not Losing Sleep
- Rubber Band
- Maid of Bond Street
- Sell Me a Coat
- Love You Till Tuesday
- There Is a Happy Land
- The Laughing Gnome
- The Gospel According to Tony Day
- Did You Ever Have a Dream
- Uncle Arthur
- We Are Hungry Men
- When I Live My Dream
- Join the Gang
- Little Bombadier
- Come and Buy My Toys
- Silly Boy Blue
- She’s Got Medals
- Please Mr. Gravedigger
- London Boys
- Karma Man
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- In the Heat of the Morning
- I'm Not Losing Sleep
- I Dig Everything
- Cant Help Thinking About Me
- Do Anything You Say
- Good Morning Girl
- And I Say to Myself
- David Bowie Interview
- Space Oddity
- John, I’m Only Dancing
- Changes
- Ziggy Stardust
- Suffragette City
- The Jean Genie
- Diamond Dogs
- Rebel Rebel
- Young Americans
- Fame ’90 (remix)
- Golden Years
- “Heroes”
- Ashes to Ashes
- Fashion
- Let’s Dance
- China Girl
- Modern Love
- Blue Jean
- Let Me Sleep Beside You (BBC)
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (BBC)
- Janine (BBC)
- Width of a Circle (BBC)
- Wild Eyed Box From Freecloud (BBC)
- Amsterdam (BBC)
- God Knows I'm Good (BBC)
- Bowie Credits Bootleggers on BBC (BBC)
- Waiting for the Man (BBC, 1970)
- Waiting for the Man (BBC, 1972)
- Space Oddity (Beckenham Arts Lab)
- Love Song (Beckenham Arts Lab)
- When I'm Five (Beckenham Arts Lab)
- Life Is a Circus (Beckenham Arts Lab)
- Penny Lane (BBC)
- A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (BBC)
- The Mask (BBC)
- Laughinh Gnome (BBC)
- In the Heat of the Morning (BBC)
- Karma Man (BBC)
- Ragazza Solo Ragazza Sola (Italian version)
- I'm Just Looking for a Friend
- How Lucky You Are
- Shadow Man
- I've Got Lightning
- Rupert the Riley
- Tired of My Life
- Bowie on Boots
- Waiting for the Man
- Gospel According to Tony Day
- Liza Jane
- I Pity the Fool
- Take My Tip
- Louie Louie Go Home
- The Superman
- You're Holding Me Down
- Love You Till Tuesday
- Don't Sit Down
- Lieb' Dich Bis Dienstag
- Mit Mir In Deinen Traum
- All the Madmen (live demo)
- Opening Titles Including Underground
- Into the Labyrinth
- Magic Dance
- Sarah
- Chilly Down
- Hallucination
- As the World Falls Down
- The Goblin Battle
- Within You
- Thirteen O'Clock
- Home at Last
- Underground
- Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
- Oh! You Pretty Things
- Starman
- 1984
- Ashes to Ashes
- Sound and Vision
- Fashion
- Wild Is the Wind
- John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) 1975
- D.J.
- Space Oddity
- Changes
- Starman
- 1984
- Young Americans
- Fame
- Golden Years
- TVC15
- "Heroes"
- D.J.
- Fashion
- Ashes to Ashes
- Fashion
- Red Sails
- Look Back in Anger
- Ashes to Ashes
- Golden Years
- Joe the Lion
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
- Wild Is the Wind
- I Can't Explain
- Ragazzo Solo Ragazza Sola
- Round and Round
- Amsterdam
- Holy Holy
- Panic in Detroit (live)
- Young Americans (single edit)
- Velvet Goldmine
- Helden
- John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) (single edit)
- Moon of Alabama
- Crystal Japan
- Rubber Band
- The London Boys
- The Gospel According to Tony Day
- There Is a Happy Land
- Maid of Bond Street
- When I Live My Dream
- Liza Jane
- The Laughing Gnome
- In the Heat of the Morning
- Did You Ever Have a Dream
- Please Mr Gravedigger
- Join the Gang
- Love You Till Tuesday
- Louie, Louie Go Home
- Uncle Arthur
- Love You Till Tuesday
- There Is a Happy Land
- Little Bombardier
- Sell Me a Coat
- Silly Boy Blue
- The London Boys
- Karma Man
- Rubber Band
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- Come On and Buy Me Toys
- She's Got Medals
- In the Heart of the Morning
- When I Live My Dream
- Love You Till Tuesday
- When I Live My Dream
- Little Bombardier
- Silly Boy Blue
- In the Heat of the Morning
- When I'm Five
- Amsterdam
- God Knows I'm Good
- Buzz the Fuzz
- Karma Man
- London Bye Ta-Ta
- An Occasional Dream
- The Width of a Circle
- Janine
- The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
- Fill Your Heart
- The Prettiest Star
- Cygnet Committee
- Five Years
- Soul Love
- Moonage Daydream
- Starman
- It Ain’t Easy
- Lady Stardust
- Star
- Hang On to Yourself
- Ziggy Stardust
- Suffragette City
- Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
- Lady Stardust (1971-10-03, Radio Luxemburg Studio)
- Right on Mother (1971-10-03, Radio Luxemburg Studio)
- Moonage Daydream (1971-10-03, Radio Luxemburg Studio)
- Looking for a Friend (rough mono mix) (1971-04-06, Trident Studios)
- Man in the Middle (mono mix) (1971-04-06, Trident Studios)
- Looking for a Friend (mono mix) (1971-04-06, Trident Studios)
- Moonage Daydream (Arnold Corns single version)
- Hang on to Yourself (Arnold Corns single version)
- Looking for a Friend (Arnold Corns single version)
- Man in the Middle (Arnold Corns single version)
- Looking for a Friend (alternate version)
- Looking for a Friend (1971-06-03 John Peel Show, BBC Paris Studio, London, UK)
- Hang on to Yourself (alternate version)
- Looking for a Friend (rough mix)
- How Lucky You Are (outtake)
- Shadow Man (outtake)
- Lightning Frightening (outtake)
- Rupert the Riley (outtake)
- Scream Like a Baby
- Because You're Young
- Kingdom Come
- Up the Hill Backwards
- It's No Game
- Is There Life After Marriage?
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Kingdom Come
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
- Ashes to Ashes
- Tired of My Life (demo)
- Ashes to Ashes (live)
- Life on Mars (live)
- Cool Cat
- I Am Laser
- Changes
- Young Americans
- TVC15
- John, I'm Only Dancing (Aladdin Sane outtake)
- Ashes to Ashes
- Suffragette City (live)
- Rebel Rebel (single version)
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Space Oddity
- John, I'm Only Dancing
- Changes
- Ziggy Stardust
- Suffragette City
- Jean Genie
- Diamond Dogs
- Rebel Rebel
- Young Americans
- Fame
- Golden Years
- Space Oddity
- Interview
- Penny Lane
- A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
- Love You ’Till Tuesday
- When I Live My Dream
- Little Bombardier
- Silly Boy Blue
- In the Heat of the Morning
- Interview
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
- Janine
- Port of Amsterdam
- London Bye Ta-Ta
- God Knows I’m Good
- An Occasional Dream
- The Prettiest Star
- Karma Man
- Waiting for the Man
- Width of a Circle
- Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud
- Andy Warhol
- The Supermen
- All the Young Dudes (long version)
- It's Alright
- Henry & the H-Bomb (demo)
- Sweet Jane
- Shakin' All Over
- Please Don't Touch
- So Sad
- Hang On to Yourself
- Ziggy Stardust
- Changes
- Supermen
- Five Years
- Life on Mars?
- John, I'm Only Dancing
- Moonage Daydream
- Suffragette City
- Width of a Circle
- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
- Future Legend
- Diamond Dogs
- Sweet Thing
- Candidate
- Sweet Thing (reprise)
- Rebel Rebel
- Rock 'n' Roll With Me
- We Are the Dead
- 1984
- Big Brother
- Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family
- The Laughing Gnome
- Rubber Band
- Love You Till Tuesday
- Maid of Bond Street
- Sell Me a Coat
- In the Heat of the Morning
- Karma Man
- Please Mr Gravedigger
- London Boys
- She's Got Medals
- Silly Boy Blue
- Join the Gang
- Did You Ever Have a Dream
- The Gospel According to Tony Day
- I'm Not Losing Sleep
- I Dig Everything
- Can't Help Thinking About Me
- Do Anything You Say
- Good Morning Girl
- And I Say to Myself
- Sunday
- Cactus
- Slip Away
- Slow Burn
- Afraid
- I've Been Waiting for You
- I Would Be Your Slave
- I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship
- 5:15 the Angels Have Gone
- Everyone Says 'Hi'
- A Better Future
- Heathen (The Rays)
- This Is Not America (12" version)
- Lovin' the Alien (extended 12" dance-mix)
- Tonight (12" vocal-dance-mix)
- Absolute Beginners (12" version)
- Tumble and Twirl (extended 12" version)
- Dancing in the Street (12" version)
- Blue Jean (extended 12" version)
- Time Will Crawl (12" version)
- You Belong in Rock & Roll (12" dance-mix)
- Pretty Pink Rose (original version with Adrian Belew)
- The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Tim's Filthy mix)
- Telling Lies (Fenton-dance-mix)
- Helden (1989 re-mix)
- The Jean Genie (Midnight Special TV-show 1973)
- Maggie's Farm (live Paris 1989)
- Standing Next to You (impromptu jam with Marc Bolan 1977)
- My Death
- Sorrow
- Time
- Everything's Alright
- Space Oddity
- I Can't Explain
- The Jean Genie
- 1984/dodo
- I Got You Babe
- Rebel Rebel
- Dodo (feat. Lulu)
- Can You Hear Me
- Right
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Golden Years
- Space Oddity
- Changes
- Rebel Rebel
- Ziggy Stardust
- 1984
- Golden Years
- Young Americans
- Suffragette City
- Diamond Dogs
- Lady Stardust
- TVC15
- Sound and Vision
- The Jean Genie
- "Heroes"
- Fame
- Starman
- Young Americans
- Win
- Fascination
- Right
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Across the Universe
- Can You Hear Me
- Fame
- John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
- Who Can I Be Now?
- It's Gonna Be Me (With Strings)
- Starman
- Changes
- John, I'm Only Dancing
- The Jean Genie
- TVC15
- Fame
- Space Oddity
- Ziggy Stardust
- Rebel Rebel
- Sound and Visions
- "Heroes"
- I Can't Explain
- Beauty and the Beast
- Joe the Lion
- “Heroes”
- Sons of the Silent Age
- Blackout
- V-2 Schneider
- Sense of Doubt
- Moss Garden
- Neuköln
- The Secret Life of Arabia
- The Width of a Circle
- All the Madmen
- Black Country Rock
- After All
- Running Gun Blues
- Saviour Machine
- She Shook Me Cold
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Supermen
- Changes
- Oh! You Pretty Things
- Eight Line Poem
- Life On Mars
- Kooks
- Quicksand
- Fill Your Heart
- Andy Warhol
- Song For Bob Dylan
- Queen Bitch
- The Bewlay Brothers
- Bombers (Bonus Track)
- The Supermen (Bonus Track)
- Quicksand (Bonus Track)
- The Bewlay Brothers (Bonus Track)
- The Shadowman (Bonus Track)
- How Lucky You Are (Bonus Track)
- Loving the Alien
- Don't Look Down
- God Only Knows
- Tonight (feat. Tina Turner)
- Neighborhood Threat
- Blue Jean
- Tumble and Twirl
- I Keep Forgetting
- Dancing With the Big Boys (feat. Iggy Pop)
- I'm Not Losing Sleep
- I Dig Everything
- Can't Help Thinking About Me
- Do Anything You Say
- Good Morning Girl
- And I Say to Myself
- Space Oddity
- Did You Ever Have a Dream
- There Is a Happy Land
- Rubber Band
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- Maid of Bond Street
- We Are Hungry Men
- When I Live My Dream
- Karma Man
- The Laughing Gnome
- She's Got Medals
- Little Bombadier
- Please Mr Gravedigger
- The Gospel According to Tony Day
- Sell Me a Coat
- Join the Gang
- Love You Till Tuesday
- The London Boys
- Speed of Life
- Breaking Glass
- What in the World
- Sound and Vision
- Always Crashing in the Same Car
- Be My Wife
- A New Career in a New Town
- Warszawa
- Art Decade
- Weeping Wall
- Subterraneans
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David Bowie - Life On Mars?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:02
- Published: 28 Feb 2009
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing Life On Mars?.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Life_On_Mars?
David Bowie - Heroes (live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:45
- Published: 20 Nov 2006
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
David Bowie - Heroes (live)
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Heroes_live
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 06 Mar 2009
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing Ashes To Ashes.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Ashes_To_Ashes
David Bowie - Five Years Live on Old Grey Whistle Test 1972
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:41
- Published: 04 Jan 2007
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Bowie performing Five Years live on The Old Grey Whistle Test - Broadcast in 1972. His vocals are live. Some of the instruments are playing to a track.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Five_Years_Live_on_Old_Grey_Whistle_Test_1972
David Bowie- Starman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 11 Jan 2007
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Starman by the incredible David Bowie Visit this link for Captions and Subtitles!! www.willt.net
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Starman
David Bowie - China Girl
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:03
- Published: 25 Feb 2009
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing China Girl.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_China_Girl
Extras David Bowie
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:34
- Published: 19 Nov 2007
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Segment from "Extras" where a random encounter with a music legend in an exclusive pub ends up as an embarrassment.
http://wn.com/Extras_David_Bowie
David Bowie's lost 1973 Top of the Pops performance of The Jean Genie
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:36
- Published: 21 Dec 2011
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Recorded on 3rd January 1973, broadcast on 4th January 1973. Lost and never seen again until broadcast by the BBC on 21st December 2011. God bless the BBC ! See the story of the discovery of the lost footage: www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/David_Bowie's_lost_1973_Top_of_the_Pops_performance_of_The_Jean_Genie
David Bowie - Let's Dance
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Published: 06 Mar 2009
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing Let's Dance.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Let's_Dance
David Bowie in Labyrinth - Magic Dance
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 02 Sep 2007
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
This is the great magic dance from the movie Labyrinth featuring super dancing from David and a coke snorting spell suggestion.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_in_Labyrinth_Magic_Dance
David Bowie - Changes (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 09 Jul 2009
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing Changes (Edit).
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Changes_Live
DAVID BOWIE_____THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:03
- Published: 16 Oct 2007
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
CLIP OF DAVID BOWIE SONG
http://wn.com/DAVID_BOWIE_THE_MAN_WHO_SOLD_THE_WORLD
David Bowie - Let's Dance
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:28
- Published: 19 Oct 2006
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
From "Serious Moonlight."
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Let's_Dance
David Bowie - Space Oddity (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:17
- Published: 25 Feb 2009
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing Space Oddity (2006 Digital Remaster).
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Space_Oddity_Live
David Bowie - The Alabama song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:21
- Published: 27 Feb 2006
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
AMAZING! Bowie performs "The Alabama Song" by Bertold Brecht live in Berlin 2002. Watch out for the part where he sticks out his tongue at Gail Ann Dorsey...so sexy ;-)
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_The_Alabama_song
David Bowie In The Port of Amsterdam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 01 Jul 2007
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
This is one of Bowie's songs that I really love. It has got a true meaning.He sings it with his own, special and unique way. I think he has the most beautiful blue eyes, he is very talented and a legendary glam rock singer. Really glad to had the chance to hear to his work and feel all the feelings that he want to pass to his fans. I love his persona Ziggy Stardust. Some people like him, some others not. The reason is one: If you decide to listen Bowie's songs you have to be able to find the hidden, true meaning of the lyrics and then take a trip to his world. It is a strange world but that's the thing that makes David being special and unique. David I am a true fan, thanks for giving me a chance to dream... Original Song: Jacques Brel
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_In_The_Port_of_Amsterdam
David Bowie - Blue Jean
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:22
- Published: 27 Feb 2009
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing Blue Jean.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Blue_Jean
David Bowie-Ashes To Ashes-1980
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:38
- Published: 13 Dec 2008
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
1980 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) March 27 - The Silver Thursday market crash occurs. April 26 - Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia May 9 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter named the Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1400-foot section of the bridge collapses.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie-Ashes_To_Ashes-1980
David Bowie - Space Oddity
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:04
- Published: 28 Feb 2009
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Music video by David Bowie performing Space Oddity.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Space_Oddity
Jimmy Fallon becomes "Tebowie"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:18
- Published: 14 Jan 2012
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
What happens when you mash up Tim Tebow and David Bowie? You get Jimmy Fallon as "Tebowie."
http://wn.com/Jimmy_Fallon_becomes_Tebowie
David Bowie- Space Oddity Original Video (1969)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:48
- Published: 26 May 2006
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Behold... the Originale music video for the David Bowie song Space Oddity from Bowie's promotional film, 'Love You Till Tuesday', originally released in 1969 and re-released on dvd. I'm very proud to be able to share this rare, unique and 'odd' version of the video and song itself, as I think it's the only one on the whole internet. So, enjoy this piece of film space gold and vintage anti-special effects.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Space_Oddity_Original_Video_1969
David Bowie - Space Oddity - (1972)
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- Duration: 5:09
- Published: 03 Feb 2011
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
David Bowie in 1972 singing his hit song, Space Oddity. -- LYRICS: Ground control to major Tom Ground control to major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on (Ten) Ground control (Nine) to major Tom (Eight) (Seven, six) Commencing countdown (Five), engines on (Four) (Three, two) Check ignition (One) and may Gods (Blastoff) love be with you. This is ground control to major Tom, you've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare. This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today For here am I sitting in a tin can far from the world Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do. Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows Ground control to major Tom, your circuits dead, There's something wrong Can you hear me, major Tom? Can you hear me, major Tom? Can you hear me, major Tom? Can you... Here am I floatin' 'round my tin can far above the world Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do.
http://wn.com/David_Bowie_Space_Oddity_1972
David Bowie - Fashion
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![Artic Monkeys performing on Orange stage at Roskilde Festival in 2007. During the 1970s David Bowie, himself of a father from Tadcaster in North Yorkshire,[158] hired three musicians from Hull in the form of Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey; together they recorded Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, an album that went on to become widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential of all time.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120718000928/http://cdn0.wn.com/pd/d3/52/e079d428d64682f70431c7883725_medium.jpg "Artic Monkeys performing on Orange stage at Roskilde Festival in 2007. During the 1970s David Bowie, himself of a father from Tadcaster in North Yorkshire,[158] hired three musicians from Hull in the form of Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey; together they recorded Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, an album that went on to become widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential of all time.")
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| David Bowie | |
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 Bowie during the Heathen Tour in 2002. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Robert Jones |
| Born | (1947-01-08) 8 January 1947 (age 65) Brixton, London, England |
| Genres | Rock, glam rock, art rock, pop |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, saxophone, viola, cello, koto, percussion |
| Years active | 1964–2008 |
| Labels | Deram, RCA, Virgin, EMI, ISO, Columbia, BMG, Pye |
| Associated acts | The Riot Squad, Arnold Corns, Tin Machine, The Hype, The Lower Third, The Konrads |
| Website | davidbowie.com |
David Bowie (
/ˈboʊ.i/ BOH-ee;[1] born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture."[2] The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.
In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as "plastic soul". The sound constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees. He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low (1977)—the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years. The so-called "Berlin Trilogy" albums all reached the UK top five and garnered lasting critical praise.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), and "Under Pressure", a 1981 collaboration with Queen. He then reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, which yielded several hit singles. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including blue-eyed soul, industrial, adult contemporary, and jungle. His last recorded album was Reality (2003), which was supported by the 2003–04 Reality Tour.
Buckley says of Bowie: "His influence has been unique in popular culture—he has permeated and altered more lives than any comparable figure."[2] In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29. Throughout his career, he has sold an estimated 140 million albums. In the UK, he has been awarded nine Platinum album certifications, 11 Gold and eight Silver, and in the US, five Platinum and seven Gold certifications. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 39th on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and 23rd on their list of the best singers of all-time.
Biography[link]
1947–62: early years[link]
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947. His mother, Margaret Mary "Peggy" (née Burns), of Irish descent,[3] worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton "John" Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's. The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, located near the border of the south London areas of Brixton and Stockwell. A neighbour recalled that "London in the forties was the worst possible place, and the worst possible time for a child to grow up in." Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old, acquiring a reputation as a gifted and single-minded child—and a defiant brawler.[4][5]
In 1953 the family moved to the suburb of Bromley, where, two years later, Bowie progressed to Burnt Ash Junior School. His voice was considered "adequate" by the school choir, and his recorder playing judged to demonstrate above-average musical ability.[6] At the age of nine, his dancing during the newly introduced music and movement classes was strikingly imaginative: teachers called his interpretations "vividly artistic" and his poise "astonishing" for a child.[6] The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.[7][8] Upon listening to "Tutti Frutti", Bowie would later say, "I had heard God".[9] Presley's impact on him was likewise emphatic: "I saw a cousin of mine dance to ... 'Hound Dog' and I had never seen her get up and be moved so much by anything. It really impressed me, the power of the music. I started getting records immediately after that."[8] By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry—complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists—to his local Wolf Cub group was described as "mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet."[8] Failing his eleven plus exam at the conclusion of his Burnt Ash Junior education, Bowie joined Bromley Technical High School.[10]
It was an unusual technical school, as biographer Christopher Sandford writes:
Despite its status it was, by the time David arrived in 1958, as rich in arcane ritual as any [English] public school. There were houses, named after eighteenth-century statesmen like Pitt and Wilberforce. There was a uniform, and an elaborate system of rewards and punishments. There was also an accent on languages, science and particularly design, where a collegiate atmosphere flourished under the tutorship of Owen Frampton. In David's account, Frampton led through force of personality, not intellect; his colleagues at Bromley Tech were famous for neither, and yielded the school's most gifted pupils to the arts, a regime so liberal that Frampton actively encouraged his own son, Peter, to pursue a musical career with David, a partnership briefly intact thirty years later.[10]
Bowie studied art, music, and design, including layout and typesetting. After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.[11]
In 1962, George Underwood injured Bowie's eye in a fight over a girl. Bowie owes his unusual eyes to the fact that not all the damage could be surgically repaired. Despite their fisticuffs, Underwood and Bowie remained good friends, and Underwood went on to create the artwork for Bowie's early albums.[12]
Eyes[link]
Bowie received a serious injury at school in 1962 when his friend George Underwood, while wearing a ring on his finger, punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl. Doctors feared he would become blind in that eye. After a series of operations during a four-month hospitalisation,[13] his doctors determined that the damage could not be fully repaired and Bowie was left with faulty depth perception and a permanently dilated pupil. The latter condition has misled some to believe that Bowie has different coloured eyes, when in reality both irises are the same blue colour. [14]
1962–68: the Konrads to the Riot Squad[link]
Graduating from his plastic saxophone to a real instrument in 1962, Bowie formed his first band at the age of 15. Playing guitar-based rock and roll at local youth gatherings and weddings, the Konrads had a varying line-up of between four and eight members, Underwood among them.[15] When Bowie left the technical school the following year, he informed his parents of his intention to become a pop star. His mother promptly arranged his employment as an electrician's mate. Frustrated by his band-mates' limited aspirations, Bowie left the Konrads and joined another band, the King Bees. He wrote to the newly successful washing-machine entrepreneur John Bloom inviting him to "do for us what Brian Epstein has done for the Beatles—and make another million." Bloom did not respond to the offer, but his referral to Dick James's partner Leslie Conn led to Bowie's first personal management contract.[16]
Conn quickly began to promote Bowie. The singer's debut single, "Liza Jane", credited to Davie Jones and the King Bees, had no commercial success. Dissatisfied with the King Bees and their repertoire of Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon blues numbers, Bowie quit the band less than a month later to join the Manish Boys, another blues outfit, who incorporated folk and soul — "I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger", Bowie was to recall.[16] "I Pity the Fool" was no more successful than "Liza Jane", and Bowie soon moved on again to join the Lower Third, a blues trio strongly influenced by The Who. "You've Got a Habit of Leaving" fared no better, signalling the end of Conn's contract. Declaring that he would exit the pop world "to study mime at Sadler's Wells", Bowie nevertheless remained with the Lower Third. His new manager, Ralph Horton, later instrumental in his transition to solo artist, soon witnessed Bowie's move to yet another group, the Buzz, yielding the singer's fifth unsuccessful single release, "Do Anything You Say". While with the Buzz, Bowie also joined the Riot Squad; their recordings, which included a Bowie number and Velvet Underground material, went unreleased. Ken Pitt, introduced by Horton, took over as Bowie's manager.[17]
Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy (and Davie) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie renamed himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.[18] His April 1967 solo single, "The Laughing Gnome", utilising sped-up Chipmunk-style vocals, failed to chart. Released six weeks later, his album debut, David Bowie, an amalgam of pop, psychedelia, and music hall, met the same fate. It would be his last release for two years.[19]
Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: "He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence. His day-to-day life was the most theatrical thing I had ever seen, ever. It was everything I thought Bohemia probably was. I joined the circus."[20] Kemp, for his part, recalled, "I didn't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself on the outside, ... I enabled him to free the angel and demon that he is on the inside."[20] Studying the dramatic arts under Kemp, from avant-garde theatre and mime to commedia dell'arte, Bowie became immersed in the creation of personae to present to the world. Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned "Over the Wall We Go" became a 1967 single for Oscar; another Bowie composition, "Silly Boy Blue", was released by Billy Fury the following year.[21] After Kemp cast Bowie with Hermione Farthingale for a poetic minuet, the pair began dating; they soon moved into a London flat together. Playing acoustic guitar, she formed a group with Bowie and bassist John Hutchinson; between September 1968 and early 1969, when Bowie and Farthingale broke up, the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime.[22]
1969–73: psychedelic folk to glam rock[link]
[edit] Space Oddity to Hunky Dory
Because of his lack of commercial success, Bowie was forced to try to earn a living in different ways. He featured in a Lyons Maid ice cream commercial, but was rejected for another by Kit Kat.[23] Intended as a vehicle to promote the singer, a 30-minute film featuring performances from his repertoire, Love You till Tuesday, was made. Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, "That film of yours—I've got a new song for it." He then demoed the song that would provide his commercial breakthrough. "Space Oddity" was released later in the year to coincide with the first moon landing.[23] Breaking up with Farthingale shortly after completion of the film, Bowie moved in with Mary Finnigan as her lodger.[24] Continuing the divergence from rock and roll and blues begun by his work with Farthingale, Bowie joined forces with Finnigan, Christina Ostrom and Barrie Jackson to run a folk club on Sunday nights at the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street.[24] This soon morphed into the Beckenham Arts Lab, and became extremely popular. The Arts Lab hosted a free festival in a local park, later immortalised by Bowie in his song "Memory of a Free Festival".[25] "Space Oddity" was released on 11 July, five days ahead of the Apollo 11 launch, to become a UK top five hit. Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words/Man of Music. Featuring philosophical post-hippie lyrics on peace, love and morality, its acoustic folk rock occasionally fortified by harder rock, the album was not a commercial success at the time of its release.[26]
Bowie met Angela Barnett in April 1969. They would marry within a year. Her impact on him was immediate, and her involvement in his career far-reaching, leaving Pitt with limited influence.[27] Having established himself as a solo artist with "Space Oddity", Bowie now began to sense a lack: "a full-time band for gigs and recording—people he could relate to personally".[28] The shortcoming was underlined by his artistic rivalry with Marc Bolan, who was at the time acting as his session guitarist.[28] A band was duly assembled. John Cambridge, a drummer Bowie met at the Arts Lab, was joined by Tony Visconti on bass and Mick Ronson on electric guitar. Known as The Hype, the band members created characters for themselves and wore elaborate costumes that prefigured the glam style of The Spiders From Mars. After a disastrous opening gig at the London Roundhouse, they reverted to a configuration presenting Bowie as a solo artist.[28][29] Their initial studio work was marred by a heated disagreement between Bowie and Cambridge over the latter's drumming style; matters came to a head when Bowie, enraged, accused, "You're fucking up my album." Cambridge summarily quit and was replaced by Mick Woodmansey.[30] Not long after, in a move that would result in years of litigation, at the conclusion of which Bowie would be forced to pay Pitt compensation, the singer fired his manager, replacing him with Tony Defries.[30]
The studio sessions continued and resulted in Bowie's third album, The Man Who Sold the World (1970). Characterised by the heavy rock sound of his new backing band, it was a marked departure from the acoustic guitar and folk rock style established by Space Oddity. To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media. Exploiting his androgynous appearance, the original cover of the UK version unveiled two months later would depict the singer wearing a dress: taking the garment with him, he wore it during interviews—to the approval of critics, including Rolling Stone's John Mendelsohn who described him as "ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall"—and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to "kiss my ass".[31][32] During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto-punk artists led him to develop a concept that would eventually find form in the Ziggy Stardust character: a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing "the ultimate pop idol".[31] A girlfriend recalled his "scrawling notes on a cocktail napkin about a crazy rock star named Iggy or Ziggy", and on his return to England he declared his intention to create a character "who looks like he's landed from Mars".[31]
Hunky Dory (1971) found Visconti, Bowie's producer and bassist, supplanted in both roles, by Ken Scott and Trevor Bolder respectively. The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of "Space Oddity", with light fare such as "Kooks", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May.[33] (His parents chose "his kooky name"—he would be known as Zowie for the next 12 years—after the Greek word zoe, life.)[34] Elsewhere, the album explored more serious themes, and found Bowie paying unusually direct homage to his influences with "Song for Bob Dylan", "Andy Warhol", and "Queen Bitch", a Velvet Underground pastiche. It was not a significant commercial success at the time[35] but was ranked No.16 by voters in the All Time Top 1000 Albums.
[edit] Ziggy Stardust
With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture".[2] Dressed in a striking costume, his hair dyed red, Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars—Ronson, Bolder and Woodmansey—at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth on 10 February 1972.[36] The show was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom as he toured the UK over the course of the next six months and creating, as described by Buckley, a "cult of Bowie" that was "unique—its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom."[36] The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), combining the hard rock elements of The Man Who Sold the World with the lighter experimental rock and pop of Hunky Dory, was released in June. "Starman", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song. The album, which would remain in the chart for two years, was soon joined there by the six-month-old Hunky Dory. At the same time the non-album single "John, I’m Only Dancing", and "All the Young Dudes", a song he wrote and produced for Mott the Hoople, became UK hits. The Ziggy Stardust Tour continued to the United States.[37]
Bowie contributed backing vocals to Lou Reed's 1972 solo breakthrough Transformer, co-producing the album with Mick Ronson.[38] His own Aladdin Sane (1973) topped the UK chart, his first number one album. Described by Bowie as "Ziggy goes to America", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album. Aladdin Sane spawned the UK top five singles "The Jean Genie" and "Drive-In Saturday".[39][40]
Bowie's love of acting led his total immersion in the characters he created for his music. "Offstage I'm a robot. Onstage I achieve emotion. It's probably why I prefer dressing up as Ziggy to being David." With satisfaction came severe personal difficulties: acting the same role over an extended period, it became impossible for him to separate Ziggy Stardust—and, later, the Thin White Duke—from his own character offstage. Ziggy, Bowie said, "wouldn't leave me alone for years. That was when it all started to go sour ... My whole personality was affected. It became very dangerous. I really did have doubts about my sanity."[41] His later Ziggy shows, which included songs from both Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, were ultra-theatrical affairs filled with shocking stage moments, such as Bowie stripping down to a sumo wrestling loincloth or simulating oral sex with Ronson's guitar.[42] Bowie toured and gave press conferences as Ziggy before a dramatic and abrupt on-stage "retirement" at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973. Footage from the final show was released in 1983 for the film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.[43]
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After breaking up the Spiders from Mars, Bowie attempted to move on from his Ziggy persona. His back catalogue was now highly sought: The Man Who Sold the World had been re-released in 1972 along with Space Oddity. "Life on Mars?", from Hunky Dory, was released in June 1973 and made number three in the UK singles chart. Entering the same chart in September, Bowie's novelty record from 1967, "The Laughing Gnome", would reach number four.[44] Pin Ups, a collection of covers of his 1960s favourites, followed in October, producing a UK number three hit in "Sorrow" and itself peaking at number one, making David Bowie the best-selling act of 1973 in the UK. It brought the total number of Bowie albums currently in the UK chart to six.[45]
1974–76: soul, funk and the Thin White Duke[link]
Bowie moved to the United States in 1974, initially staying in New York City before settling in Los Angeles.[46] Diamond Dogs (1974), parts of which found him heading towards soul and funk, was the product of two distinct ideas: a musical based on a wild future in a post-apocalyptic city, and setting George Orwell's 1984 to music.[47] The album went to number one in the UK, spawning the hits "Rebel Rebel" and "Diamond Dogs", and number five in the US. To promote it, Bowie launched the Diamond Dogs Tour, visiting cities in North America between June and December 1974. Choreographed by Toni Basil, and lavishly produced with theatrical special effects, the high-budget stage production was filmed by Alan Yentob. The resulting documentary, Cracked Actor, featured a pasty and emaciated Bowie: the tour coincided with the singer's slide from heavy cocaine use into addiction, producing severe physical debilitation, paranoia and emotional problems.[48] He later commented that the accompanying live album, David Live, ought to have been titled "David Bowie Is Alive and Well and Living Only In Theory". David Live nevertheless solidified Bowie's status as a superstar, charting at number two in the UK and number eight in the US. It also spawned a UK number ten hit in Bowie's cover of "Knock on Wood". After a break in Philadelphia, where Bowie recorded new material, the tour resumed with a new emphasis on soul.[49]
The fruit of the Philadelphia recording sessions was Young Americans (1975). Biographer Christopher Sandford writes, "Over the years, most British rockers had tried, one way or another, to become black-by-extension. Few had succeeded as Bowie did now."[50] The album's sound, which the singer identified as "plastic soul", constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees.[51] Young Americans yielded Bowie's first US number one, "Fame", co-written with John Lennon, who contributed backing vocals, and Carlos Alomar. Lennon would call Bowie's work as "great, but just rock and roll with lipstick on".[52] Earning the distinction of being one of the first white artists to appear on the US variety show Soul Train, Bowie mimed "Fame", as well as "Golden Years", his November single,[53] that it was offered to Elvis Presley to perform, but Presley declined it.[53] Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single "Space Oddity" became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after "Fame" achieved the same in the US.[54] Despite his by now well established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, "for all his record sales (over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone), existed essentially on loose change."[55] In 1975, in a move echoing Ken Pitt's acrimonious dismissal five years earlier, Bowie fired his manager. At the culmination of the ensuing months-long legal dispute, he watched, as described by Sandford, "millions of dollars of his future earnings being surrendered" in what were "uniquely generous terms for Defries", then "shut himself up in West 20th Street, where for a week his howls could be heard through the locked attic door."[55] Michael Lippman, Bowie's lawyer during the negotiations, became his new manager; Lippman in turn would be awarded substantial compensation when Bowie fired him the following year.[56]
Station to Station (1976) introduced a new Bowie persona, the "Thin White Duke" of its title track. Visually, the character was an extension of Thomas Jerome Newton, the extraterrestrial being he portrayed in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth the same year.[57] Developing the funk and soul of Young Americans, Station to Station also prefigured the Krautrock and synthesiser music of his next releases. The extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour. Shortly before the satellite-linked interview was scheduled to commence, the death of the Spanish dictator General Franco was announced. Bowie was asked to relinquish the satellite booking, to allow the Spanish Government to put out a live newsfeed. This he refused to do, and his interview went ahead. In the ensuing conversation with Harty, as described by biographer David Buckley, "the singer made hardly any sense at all throughout what was quite an extensive interview. [...] Bowie looked completely disconnected and was hardly able to utter a coherent sentence."[58] His sanity—by his own later admission—had become twisted from cocaine; he overdosed several times during the year, and was withering physically to an alarming degree.[48][59]
Station to Station's January 1976 release was followed in February by a three-and-a-half-month concert tour of Europe and North America. Featuring a starkly lit set, the Isolar – 1976 Tour highlighted songs from the album, including the dramatic and lengthy title track, the ballads "Wild Is the Wind" and "Word on a Wing", and the funkier "TVC 15" and "Stay". The core band that coalesced around this album and tour—rhythm guitarist Alomar, bassist George Murray, and drummer Dennis Davis—would continue as a stable unit for the remainder of the 1970s. The tour was highly successful but mired in political controversy. Bowie was quoted in Stockholm as saying that "Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader", and was detained by customs on the Russian/Polish border for possessing Nazi paraphernalia.[60] Matters came to a head in London in May in what became known as the "Victoria Station incident". Arriving in an open-top Mercedes convertible, the singer waved to the crowd in a gesture that some alleged was a Nazi salute, which was captured on camera and published in NME. Bowie said the photographer simply caught him in mid-wave.[61] He later blamed his pro-Fascism comments and his behaviour during the period on his addictions and the character of the Thin White Duke.[62] "I was out of my mind, totally crazed. The main thing I was functioning on was mythology ... that whole thing about Hitler and Rightism ... I'd discovered King Arthur ...".[59] According to playwright Alan Franks, writing later in The Times, "he was indeed 'deranged'. He had some very bad experiences with hard drugs."[63]
1976–79: the Berlin era[link]
Bowie moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva. In the new environment, his cocaine use increased; so too did his interest in pursuits outside his musical career. He took up painting, and produced a number of post-modernist pieces. When on tour, he took to sketching in a notebook, and photographing scenes for later reference. Visiting galleries in Geneva and the Brücke Museum in Berlin, Bowie became, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, "a prolific producer and collector of contemporary art. [...] Not only did he become a well-known patron of expressionist art: locked in Clos des Mésanges he began an intensive self-improvement course in classical music and literature, and started work on an autobiography".[64]
Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career. Working with Brian Eno while sharing an apartment in Schöneberg with Iggy Pop, he began to focus on minimalist, ambient music for the first of three albums, co-produced with Tony Visconti, that would become known as his Berlin Trilogy.[65] During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut, The Idiot, and its follow-up, Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977.[66] Low (1977), partly influenced by the Krautrock sound of Kraftwerk and Neu!, evidenced a move away from narration in Bowie's songwriting to a more abstract musical form in which lyrics were sporadic and optional. It received considerable negative criticism upon its release—a release which RCA, anxious to maintain the established commercial momentum, did not welcome, and which Bowie's ex-manager, Tony Defries, who still maintained a significant financial interest in the singer's affairs, tried to prevent. Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK number three single "Sound and Vision", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached number two. Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as "a work of genius" in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 "Low"; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 "Heroes".[67][68] Glass has praised Bowie's gift for creating "fairly complex pieces of music, masquerading as simple pieces".[69]
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Echoing Low's minimalist, instrumental approach, the second of the trilogy, "Heroes" (1977), incorporated pop and rock to a greater extent, seeing Bowie joined by guitarist Robert Fripp. Like Low, "Heroes" evinced the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city of Berlin.[70] Incorporating ambient sounds from a variety of sources including white noise generators, synthesizers and koto, the album was another hit, reaching number three in the UK. Its title track, though only reaching number 24 in the UK singles chart, gained lasting popularity, and within months had been released in both German and French.[71] Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy", a version of "The Little Drummer Boy" with a new, contrapuntal verse. Five years later, the duet would prove a worldwide seasonal hit, charting in the UK at number three on Christmas Day, 1982.[72]
After completing Low and "Heroes", Bowie spent much of 1978 on the Isolar II world tour, bringing the music of the first two Berlin Trilogy albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries. By now he had broken his drug addiction; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was "Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage. [...] Without the oblivion that drugs had brought, he was now in a healthy enough mental condition to want to make friends."[73] Recordings from the tour made up the live album Stage, released the same year.[74]
The final piece in what Bowie called his "triptych", Lodger (1979), eschewed the minimalist, ambient nature of the other two, making a partial return to the drum- and guitar-based rock and pop of his pre-Berlin era. The result was a complex mixture of New Wave and World Music, in places incorporating Hejaz non-Western scales. Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: "Boys Keep Swinging" entailed band members swapping instruments, "Move On" used the chords from Bowie's early composition "All the Young Dudes" played backwards, and "Red Money" took backing tracks from "Sister Midnight", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.[75] The album was recorded in Switzerland. Ahead of its release, RCA's Mel Ilberman stated, "It would be fair to call it Bowie's Sergeant Pepper [...] a concept album that portrays the Lodger as a homeless wanderer, shunned and victimized by life's pressures and technology." As described by biographer Christopher Sandford, "The record dashed such high hopes with dubious choices, and production that spelt the end—for fifteen years—of Bowie's partnership with Eno." Lodger reached number 4 in the UK and number 20 in the US, and yielded the UK hit singles "Boys Keep Swinging" and "DJ".[76][77] Towards the end of the year, Bowie and Angela initiated divorce proceedings, and after months of court battles the marriage was ended in early 1980.[78]
1980–89: from superstar to megastar[link]
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) produced the number one hit "Ashes to Ashes", featuring the textural work of guitar-synthesist Chuck Hammer and revisiting the character of Major Tom from "Space Oddity". The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club "Blitz"—the main New Romantic hangout—to recruit several of the regulars (including Steve Strange of the band Visage) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.[79] While Scary Monsters utilised principles established by the Berlin albums, it was considered by critics to be far more direct musically and lyrically. The album's hard rock edge included conspicuous guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, Pete Townshend, Chuck Hammer and Tom Verlaine.[80] As "Ashes to Ashes" hit number one on the UK charts, Bowie opened a three-month run on Broadway on 24 September, starring in The Elephant Man.[81] The same year, he made a cameo appearance in the German film Christiane F., a real-life story of teenage drug addiction in 1970s Berlin. The soundtrack, in which Bowie's music featured prominently, was released as Christiane F. a few months later.
Bowie paired with Queen in 1981 for a one-off single release, "Under Pressure". The duet was a hit, becoming Bowie's third UK number one single. Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1981 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal. Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier in Berlin, was released as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal. In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.[82]
Bowie reached a new peak of popularity and commercial success in 1983 with Let's Dance. Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album went platinum in both the UK and the US. Its three singles became top twenty hits in both countries, where its title track reached number one. "Modern Love" and "China Girl" made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, "were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world. 'Let's Dance', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted 'youth', and 'China Girl', with its bare-bummed (and later partially censored) beach lovemaking scene (a homage to the film From Here to Eternity), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV. By 1983, Bowie had emerged as one of the most important video artists of the day. Let's Dance was followed by the Serious Moonlight Tour, during which Bowie was accompanied by guitarist Earl Slick and backing vocalists Frank and George Simms. The world tour lasted six months and was extremely popular.[83] Stevie Ray Vaughan was guest guitarist playing solo on "Let's Dance".
Tonight (1984), another dance-oriented album, found Bowie collaborating with Tina Turner and, once again, Iggy Pop. It included a number of cover songs, among them the 1966 Beach Boys hit "God Only Knows". The album bore the transatlantic top ten hit "Blue Jean", itself the inspiration for a short film that won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, "Jazzin' for Blue Jean". Bowie performed at Wembley in 1985 for Live Aid, a multi-venue benefit concert for Ethiopian famine relief. During the event, the video for a fundraising single was premièred, Bowie's duet with Mick Jagger. "Dancing in the Street" quickly went to number one on release. The same year, Bowie worked with the Pat Metheny Group to record "This Is Not America" for the soundtrack of The Falcon and the Snowman. Released as a single, the song became a top 40 hit in the UK and US.[84]
Bowie was given a role in the 1986 film Absolute Beginners. It was poorly received by critics, but Bowie's theme song rose to number two in the UK charts. He also appeared as Jareth, the Goblin King, in the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth, for which he wrote five songs. His final solo album of the decade was 1987's Never Let Me Down, where he ditched the light sound of his previous two albums, instead offering harder rock with an industrial/techno dance edge. Peaking at number six in the UK, the album yielded the hits "Day-In, Day-Out" (his 60th single), "Time Will Crawl", and "Never Let Me Down". Bowie later described it as his "nadir", calling it "an awful album".[85] Supporting Never Let Me Down, and preceded by nine promotional press shows, the 86-concert Glass Spider Tour commenced on 30 May. Bowie's backing band included Peter Frampton on lead guitar. Critics maligned the tour as overproduced, saying it pandered to the current stadium rock trends in its special effects and dancing.[86]
1989–91: Tin Machine[link]
Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s. A hard-rocking quartet, Tin Machine came into being after Bowie began to work experimentally with guitarist Reeves Gabrels. The line-up was completed by Tony and Hunt Sales, whom Bowie had known since the late 1970s for their contribution, on drums and bass respectively, to Iggy Pop's 1977 album Lust For Life.[87]
Though he intended Tin Machine to operate as a democracy, Bowie dominated, both in songwriting and in decision-making.[88] The band's album debut, Tin Machine (1989), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as "a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis"; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, "It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book."[89] EMI complained of "lyrics that preach" as well as "repetitive tunes" and "minimalist or no production".[90] The album nevertheless reached number three in the UK.[89] Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance—among fans and critics alike—to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.[91] A series of Tin Machine singles failed to chart, and Bowie, after a disagreement with EMI, left the label.[92] Like his audience and his critics, Bowie himself became increasingly disaffected with his role as just one member of a band.[93] Tin Machine began work on a second album, but Bowie put the venture on hold and made a return to solo work. Performing his early hits during the seven-month Sound+Vision Tour, he found commercial success and acclaim once again.[94]
In October 1990, a decade after his divorce from Angela, Bowie and Somali-born supermodel Iman were introduced by a mutual friend. Bowie recalled, "I was naming the children the night we met ... it was absolutely immediate." They would marry in 1992.[95] Tin Machine resumed work the same month, but their audience and critics, ultimately left disappointed by the first album, showed little interest in a second. Tin Machine II's arrival was marked by a widely publicised and ill-timed conflict over the cover art: after production had begun, the new record label, Victory, deemed the depiction of four ancient nude Kouroi statues, judged by Bowie to be "in exquisite taste", "a show of wrong, obscene images", requiring air-brushing and patching to render the figures sexless.[96] Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career.[97]
1992–99: electronica[link]
In April 1992 Bowie appeared at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, following the Queen frontman's death the previous year. As well as performing "Heroes" and "All the Young Dudes", he was joined on "Under Pressure" by Annie Lennox, who took Mercury's vocal part.[98] Four days later, Bowie and Iman were married in Switzerland. Intending to move to Los Angeles, they flew in to search for a suitable property, but found themselves confined to their hotel, under curfew: the 1992 Los Angeles riots began the day they arrived. They settled in New York instead.[99]
1993 saw the release of Bowie's first solo offering since his Tin Machine departure, the soul, jazz and hip-hop influenced Black Tie White Noise. Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song "Jump They Say".[100] Bowie explored new directions on The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), a soundtrack album of incidental music composed for the TV series adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's novel. It contained some of the new elements introduced in Black Tie White Noise, and also signalled a move towards alternative rock. The album was a critical success but received a low-key release and only made number 87 in the UK charts.[101]
Reuniting Bowie with Eno, the quasi-industrial Outside (1995) was originally conceived as the first volume in a non-linear narrative of art and murder. Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.[102] In a move that provoked mixed reaction from both fans and critics, Bowie chose Nine Inch Nails as his tour partner for the Outside Tour. Visiting cities in Europe and North America between September 1995 and February the following year, the tour saw the return of Gabrels as Bowie's guitarist.[103]
Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996.[104] Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum 'n' bass, Earthling (1997) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits. Bowie's song "I'm Afraid of Americans" from the Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls was re-recorded for the album, and remixed by Trent Reznor for a single release. The heavy rotation of the accompanying video, also featuring Reznor, contributed to the song's 16-week stay in the US Billboard Hot 100. The Earthling Tour took in Europe and North America between June and November 1997.[105] Bowie reunited with Visconti in 1998 to record "(Safe in This) Sky Life" for The Rugrats Movie. Although the track was edited out of the final cut, it would later be re-recorded and released as "Safe" on the B-side of Bowie's 2002 single "Everyone Says 'Hi'".[106] The reunion led to other collaborations including a limited-edition single release version of Placebo's track "Without You I'm Nothing", co-produced by Visconti, with Bowie's harmonised vocal added to the original recording.[107]
1999–present: neoclassicist Bowie[link]
Bowie created the soundtrack for Omikron, a 1999 computer game in which he and Iman also appeared as characters. Released the same year and containing re-recorded tracks from Omikron, his album 'Hours...' featured a song with lyrics by the winner of his "Cyber Song Contest" Internet competition, Alex Grant.[108] Making extensive use of live instruments, the album was Bowie's exit from heavy electronica.[109] Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released. Bowie and Visconti continued their collaboration, producing a new album of completely original songs instead: the result of the sessions was the 2002 album Heathen.[110] Alexandria Zahra Jones, Bowie and Iman's daughter, was born on 15 August.[111]
In October 2001, Bowie opened The Concert for New York City, a charity event to benefit the victims of the September 11 attacks, with a minimalist performance of Simon & Garfunkel's "America", followed by a full band performance of "Heroes".[112] 2002 saw the release of Heathen, and, during the second half of the year, the Heathen Tour. Taking in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director. Among the acts he selected for the festival were Philip Glass, Television and The Polyphonic Spree. As well as songs from the new album, the tour featured material from Bowie's Low era.[113] Reality (2003) followed, and its accompanying world tour, the A Reality Tour, with an estimated attendance of 722,000, grossed more than any other in 2004. Onstage in Oslo, Norway, on 18 June, Bowie was hit in the eye with a lollipop thrown by a fan; a week later he suffered chest pain while performing at the Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel, Germany. Originally thought to be a pinched nerve in his shoulder, the pain was later diagnosed as an acutely blocked artery, requiring an emergency angioplasty in Hamburg. The remaining 14 dates of the tour were cancelled.[114]
Since recuperating from the heart surgery, Bowie has reduced his musical output, making only one-off appearances on stage and in the studio. He sang in a duet of his 1972 song "Changes" with Butterfly Boucher for the 2004 animated film Shrek 2.[115] During a relatively quiet 2005, he recorded the vocals for the song "(She Can) Do That", co-written with Brian Transeau, for the film Stealth.[116] He returned to the stage on 8 September 2005, appearing with Arcade Fire for the US nationally televised event Fashion Rocks, and performed with the Canadian band for the second time a week later during the CMJ Music Marathon.[117] He contributed back-up vocals on TV on the Radio's song "Province" for their album Return to Cookie Mountain,[118] made a commercial with Snoop Dogg for XM Satellite Radio,[119] and joined with Lou Reed on Danish alt-rockers Kashmir's 2005 album No Balance Palace.[120]
Bowie was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on 8 February 2006.[121] In April, he announced, "I’m taking a year off—no touring, no albums."[122] He made a surprise guest appearance at David Gilmour's 29 May concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The event was recorded, and a selection of songs on which he had contributed joint vocals were subsequently released.[123] He performed again in November, alongside Alicia Keys, at the Black Ball, a New York benefit event for Keep a Child Alive,[124] a performance that marks the last time Bowie performed his music on stage.[125]
Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event,[126] and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.[127] On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing—and Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with "Space Oddity"—EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix.[128] A Reality Tour, a double album of live material from the 2003 concert tour, was released in January 2010.[129]
In late March 2011, Toy, Bowie's previously unreleased album from 2001, was leaked onto the internet, containing material used for Heathen and most of its single B-sides, as well as unheard new versions of his early back catalogue.[130][131]
Acting career[link]
Main article: David Bowie filmography
Biographer David Buckley writes, "The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream—from art, literature, theatre and film—and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed."[132] Buckley says, "Just one person took glam rock to new rarefied heights and invented character-playing in pop, marrying theatre and popular music in one seamless, powerful whole."[133] Bowie's career has also been punctuated by various roles in film and theatre productions, earning him some acclaim as an actor in his own right.
The beginnings of his acting career predate his commercial breakthrough as a musician. Studying avant-garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, he was given the role of Cloud in Kemp's 1967 theatrical production Pierrot in Turquoise (later made into the 1970 television film The Looking Glass Murders).[134] In the black-and-white short The Image (1969), he played a ghostly boy who emerges from a troubled artist's painting to haunt him.[135] The same year, the film of Leslie Thomas's 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers saw Bowie make a brief appearance as an extra.[135] In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg. Just a Gigolo (1979), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness (Marlene Dietrich) and put into her Gigolo Stable.
Bowie took the title role in the Broadway theatre production The Elephant Man, earning high praise for an expressive performance. He played the part 157 times between 1980 and 1981.[81] Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, a 1981 biographical film focusing on a young girl's drug addiction in West Berlin, featured Bowie in a cameo appearance as himself at a concert in Germany. Its soundtrack album, Christiane F. (1981), featured much material from his Berlin Trilogy albums.[136] Bowie starred in The Hunger (1983), a revisionist vampire film, with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp. Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night. He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985).[137]
Absolute Beginners (1986), a rock musical based on Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel about London life, featured Bowie's music and presented him with a minor acting role. The same year, Jim Henson's dark fantasy Labyrinth found him with the part of Jareth, the king of the goblins.[138] Two years later he played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. Bowie portrayed a disgruntled restaurant employee opposite Rosanna Arquette in The Linguini Incident (1991), and the mysterious FBI agent Phillip Jeffries in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist/director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West (1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.[139] He played the ageing gangster Bernie in Andrew Goth's Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999), and appeared in the TV horror serial of The Hunger. In Mr. Rice's Secret (2000), he played the title role as the neighbour of a terminally ill twelve-year-old, and the following year appeared as himself in Zoolander.
Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige (2006), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century. He voice-acted in the animated film Arthur and the Invisibles as the powerful villain Maltazard, and lent his voice to the character Lord Royal Highness in the SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis television film. In the 2008 film August, directed by Austin Chick, he played a supporting role as Ogilvie, alongside Josh Hartnett and Rip Torn, with whom he had worked in 1976 for The Man Who Fell to Earth.[140][141]
Sexual orientation[link]
Buckley writes, "If Ziggy confused both his creator and his audience, a big part of that confusion centred on the topic of sexuality."[142] Bowie declared himself bisexual in an interview with Michael Watts of Melody Maker in January 1972, a move coinciding with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.[42] In a September 1976 interview with Playboy, Bowie said: "It's true—I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me."[143]
In a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, Bowie said his public declaration of bisexuality was "the biggest mistake I ever made" and "I was always a closet heterosexual".[144] On other occasions, he said his interest in homosexual and bisexual culture had been more a product of the times and the situation in which he found himself than his own feelings; as described by Buckley, he said he had been driven more by "a compulsion to flout moral codes than a real biological and psychological state of being".[145][146]
Asked in 2002 by Blender whether he still believed his public declaration was the biggest mistake he ever made, he replied:
Interesting. [Long pause] I don’t think it was a mistake in Europe, but it was a lot tougher in America. I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to hold any banners nor be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that bisexuality became my headline over here for so long. America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do.[147]
Buckley's view of the period is that Bowie, "a taboo-breaker and a dabbler ... mined sexual intrigue for its ability to shock",[148] and that "it is probably true that Bowie was never gay, nor even consistently actively bisexual ... he did, from time to time, experiment, even if only out of a sense of curiosity and a genuine allegiance with the 'transgressional'."[149] Biographer Christopher Sandford says that according to Mary Finnigan, with whom Bowie had an affair in 1969, the singer and his first wife Angie "lived in a fantasy world [...] and they created their bisexual fantasy."[150] Sandford tells how, during the marriage, Bowie "made a positive fetish of repeating the quip that he and his wife had met while 'fucking the same bloke' [...] Gay sex was always an anecdotal and laughing matter. That Bowie's actual tastes swung the other way is clear from even a partial tally of his affairs with women."[150]
Musicianship[link]
From the time of his earliest recordings in the 1960s, Bowie has employed a wide variety of musical styles. His early compositions and performances were strongly influenced by not only rock and rollers like Little Richard and Elvis Presley but also the wider world of show business. He particularly strove to emulate the British musical theatre singer-songwriter and actor Anthony Newley, whose vocal style he frequently adopted, and made prominent use of for his 1967 debut release, David Bowie (to the disgust of Newley himself, who destroyed the copy he received from Bowie's publisher).[19][151] Bowie's music hall fascination continued to surface sporadically alongside such diverse styles as hard rock and heavy metal, soul, psychedelic folk and pop.[152]
Musicologist James Perone observes Bowie's use of octave switches for different repetitions of the same melody, exemplified in his commercial breakthrough single, "Space Oddity", and later in the song "Heroes", to dramatic effect; Perone notes that "in the lowest part of his vocal register [...] his voice has an almost crooner-like richness."[153]
Voice instructor Jo Thompson describes Bowie's vocal vibrato technique as "particularly deliberate and distinctive".[154] Schinder and Schwartz call him "a vocalist of extraordinary technical ability, able to pitch his singing to particular effect."[155] Here, too, as in his stagecraft and songwriting, the singer's chamaeleon-like nature is evident: historiographer Michael Campbell says that Bowie's lyrics "arrest our ear, without question. But Bowie continually shifts from person to person as he delivers them [...] His voice changes dramatically from section to section."[156]
Bowie plays many instruments, among them electric, acoustic, and twelve-string guitar; alto, tenor and baritone saxophone; keyboards including piano, synthesizers and Mellotron; harmonica, Stylophone, xylophone, vibraphone, koto, drums and percussion, and string instruments including viola and cello.[157][158][159][160]
Legacy[link]
Bowie's innovative songs and stagecraft brought a new dimension to popular music in the early 1970s, strongly influencing both its immediate forms and its subsequent development. A pioneer of glam rock, Bowie, according to music historians Schinder and Schwartz, has joint responsibility with Marc Bolan for creating the genre.[161] At the same time, he inspired the innovators of the punk rock music movement—historian Michael Campbell calls him "one of punk's seminal influences". While punk musicians trashed the conventions of pop stardom, Bowie moved on again—into a more abstract style of music making that would in turn become a transforming influence. Biographer David Buckley writes, "At a time when punk rock was noisily reclaiming the three-minute pop song in a show of public defiance, Bowie almost completely abandoned traditional rock instrumentation."[162][163] Bowie's record company sought to convey his unique status in popular music with the slogan, "There is old wave, there is new wave, and there is Bowie..."[164] Musicologist James Perone credits him with having "brought sophistication to rock music", and critical reviews frequently acknowledge the intellectual depth of his work and influence.[161][165][166]
Buckley writes that, in an early 1970s pop world that was "Bloated, self-important, leather-clad, self-satisfied, ... Bowie challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day." As described by John Peel, "The one distinguishing feature about early-70s progressive rock was that it didn't progress. Before Bowie came along, people didn't want too much change." Buckley says that Bowie "subverted the whole notion of what it was to be a rock star", with the result that "After Bowie there has been no other pop icon of his stature, because the pop world that produces these rock gods doesn't exist any more. ... The fierce partisanship of the cult of Bowie was also unique—its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom." Buckley concludes that "Bowie is both star and icon. The vast body of work he has produced ... has created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture. ... His influence has been unique in popular culture—he has permeated and altered more lives than any comparable figure."[2]
Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.[104] Through perpetual reinvention, he has seen his influence continue to broaden and extend: music reviewer Brad Filicky writes that over the decades, "Bowie has become known as a musical chameleon, changing and dictating trends as much as he has altered his style to fit, influencing fashion and pop culture."[167] Biographer Thomas Forget adds, "Because he has succeeded in so many different styles of music, it is almost impossible to find a popular artist today that has not been influenced by David Bowie."[168]
Personal life[link]
Bowie married Mary Angela Barnett (also known as Angie Bowie) on 19 March 1970 at Bromley Register Office in Beckenham Lane, Kent. They had a son together, Zowie Bowie (also known as Duncan Jones, film director), and divorced on 8 February 1980 in Switzerland.
The 1971 song "Kooks" on the album Hunky Dory was written for his newborn son.
In 1992 Bowie married Somali-American model Iman. They have one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born 15 August 2000.[169] The couple resides primarily in Manhattan and London.[170]
Regarding his compositions, in 2005 he said "Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always." because he is "not quite an atheist and it bothers me."[171]
Awards and recognition[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by David Bowie
Bowie's 1969 commercial breakthrough, the song "Space Oddity", won him an Ivor Novello Special Award For Originality.[172] For his performance in the 1976 science fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth, he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor.[173] In the ensuing decades he has been honoured with numerous awards for his music and its accompanying videos, receiving, among others, two Grammy Awards[174][175] and two BRIT Awards.[176]
In 1999, Bowie was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.[177] He received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music the same year.[178] He declined the royal honour of Commander of the British Empire in 2000, and turned down a knighthood in 2003,[179] stating: "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for."[180]
Throughout his career he has sold an estimated 250 million albums.[181] In the United Kingdom, he has been awarded 9 Platinum, 11 Gold and 8 Silver albums, and in the United States, 5 Platinum and 7 Gold.[182][183] In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, he was ranked 29.[181] In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 39th on their list of the 100 Greatest Rock Artists of All Time[184] and the 23rd best singer of all time.[185] Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996.[104]
Discography[link]
Main article: David Bowie discography
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Filmography[link]
As Actor[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The Image | The Boy | short film |
| 1969 | The Virgin Soldiers | Soldier | (extra) |
| 1970 | Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders | Cloud | television film |
| 1976 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton | Saturn Award for Best Actor |
| 1978 | Just a Gigolo | Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski | |
| 1981 | Christiane F. (Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo) | Himself | cameo |
| 1982 | The Snowman | Narrator | re-released version |
| Baal | Baal | television film | |
| 1983 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Maj. Jack 'Strafer' Celliers | |
| The Hunger | John | ||
| Yellowbeard | The Shark | cameo (uncredited) | |
| 1985 | Into the Night | Colin Morris | cameo |
| 1986 | Labyrinth | Jareth the Goblin King | |
| Absolute Beginners | Vendice Partners | ||
| 1988 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Pontius Pilate | cameo |
| 1991 | The Linguini Incident | Monte | |
| 1991 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Phillip Jeffries | cameo |
| 1996 | Basquiat | Andy Warhol | |
| 1998 | Gunslinger's Revenge (Il mio West) | Jack Sikora | |
| 1999 | Everybody Loves Sunshine | Bernie | |
| 2000 | Mr. Rice's Secret | William Rice | |
| 2001 | Zoolander | Himself | cameo (nominated for MTV Movie Award) |
| 2006 | The Prestige | Nikola Tesla | |
| 2007 | Arthur and the Invisibles | Emperor Maltazard | voice: English version |
| 2008 | August | Cyrus Ogilvie | cameo |
| 2008 | Spongebob Squarepants | L.R.H | guest voice |
| 2009 | Bandslam | Himself | cameo |
As Musician[link]
- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture (1983) (VHS, DVD in 2003)
- Love You Till Tuesday (1984) (VHS, DVD in 2005)
- Serious Moonlight (1984) (VHS, unofficial DVD in 1999, official DVD in 2006)
- Glass Spider (1988) (VHS, unofficial DVD as Glass Spider Tour in 2001, official DVD in 2007)
- Bowie – The Video Collection (1993) (VHS)
- Black Tie White Noise (1993) (VHS, DVD in 2005)
- Best of Bowie (2002) (DVD)
- A Reality Tour (2004) (DVD)
As Producer[link]
- Büvös vadász (1994) (... aka Magic Hunter)
- Passaggio per il paradiso (1998) (... aka Gentle Into the Night, ... aka Passage to Paradise)
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
Documentaries[link]
- Love You Till Tuesday (1969) (as the subject, short)
- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) (as the subject, documentary/concert film)
- Cracked Actor (1974) (as the subject, BBC)
- Group Madness (1983)
- Cool Cats: Twenty-Five Years of Rock 'N' Roll Style (1983)
- Queen: The Magic Years (1987)
- Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
- Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
- Travelling Light (1992)
- Inspirations (1997)
- Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (1998)
- Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
See also[link]
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Book: David Bowie |
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- Best selling music artists
- Bowie Bonds
- Bowie (Flight of the Conchords)
- List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (US)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
- List of David Bowie tours
- List of number-one hits (United States)
- List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States)
- List of people who have declined a British honour
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- ^ a b c d Buckley (2005): pp. 516–17, 524, 529
- ^ "From Morrissey to Tony Blair: How Irelands children are at the heart of English culture". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/from-morrissey-to-tony-blair-how-irelands-children-are-at-the-heart-of-english-culture-445584.html. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ Hume, John et al (2008). Britain & Ireland: Lives Entwined III. British Council. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-86355-612-8.
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 9–16
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): pp. 18–19
- ^ Buckley (2000): p. 21.
- ^ a b c Sandford (1997): pp. 19–20
- ^ Doggett, Peter (January 2007). "Teenage Wildlife". Mojo Classic (Mojo) (60 Years of Bowie): 8–9.
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): pp. 21–22
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 25
- ^ Buckley (2005): p.19
- ^ Evans, Mike (2006). Rock 'n' Roll's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary Tales from Over Fifty Years. Anova Books. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-86105-923-9.
- ^ Heterochromia Central - What Is Central Heterochromia?
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 28
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): pp. 29–30
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 35–39
- ^ Buckley (2000): p. 33
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): pp. 41–42
- ^ a b Buckley (2005): pp. 41–42
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 46
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 49–52
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): pp. 49–50
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): p. 53
- ^ McKay, George (1996). Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance. Verso. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-85984-908-8.
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 60
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 54–60
- ^ a b c Sandford (1997): pp. 62–63
- ^ Buckley (2000): pp. 89–90
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): p. 67
- ^ a b c Sandford (1997): pp. 73–74
- ^ Pegg (2000): pp. 260–65
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 95–99
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 80
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 85–86
- ^ a b Buckley (2005): pp. 135–36
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 93–95
- ^ Buckley (2000): p. 156
- ^ Pegg (2004): pp. 281–83
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 108
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 106–7
- ^ a b Carr & Murray (1981): p. 7
- ^ Carr & Murray (1981): p. 116
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 163
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 115
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 3
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 180–83
- ^ a b Buckley (2005): pp. 204–5
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 128
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 138
- ^ Carr & Murray (1981): pp. 68–74
- ^ Buckley, 2003, p.130.
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): p. 146
- ^ Roberts, David (ed.) (2001). Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles. Guinness World Records Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0-85156-156-X.
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): pp. 135–36
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 137, 153
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 238
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 244
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): p. 158
- ^ Buckley (2000): pp. 289–91.
- ^ Paytress, Mark (January 2007). "The Controversial Homecoming". Mojo Classic (Mojo) (60 Years of Bowie): 64.
- ^ Carr & Murray (1981): p. 11.
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 252
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 154–55
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 149
- ^ Needs, Kris (January 2007). "The Passenger". Mojo Classic (Mojo) (60 Years of Bowie): 65.
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 166–68
- ^ Perone (2007): p. 175
- ^ Thomson (1993): p. xiii
- ^ Pegg (2000): pp. 90–92
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 181–82
- ^ Bronson, Fred (1990). The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits. Billboard Books. p. 572. ISBN 0-8230-7677-6.
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 293
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 189
- ^ Carr & Murray (1981): pp. 102–7
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 281
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 191–92
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 197
- ^ Pegg (2000): p. 29
- ^ Carr & Murray (1981): pp. 108–14
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): pp. 205–7
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 208, 211–12
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 335–55
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 165–66
- ^ McNair, James (January 2007). "Tumble & Twirl". Mojo Classic (Mojo) (60 Years of Bowie): 101.
- ^ Fyfe, Andy (January 2007). "Too Dizzy". Mojo Classic (Mojo) (60 Years of Bowie): 88–91.
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 387
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 274
- ^ a b Sandford (1997): p. 275
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 273
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 394
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 278–79
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 278
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 280–86
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 289
- ^ Sandford (1997): p. 292
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 294–95
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 298–99
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 413–14
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 301–8
- ^ Buckley (2000): pp. 494–95, 623
- ^ Buckley (2000): pp. 623–24
- ^ Buckley (2000): pp. 512–13
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- ^ Thompson (2006): p. 203
- ^ Thompson (2006): pp. 203, 212
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 466
- ^ Perone (2007): p. 125
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 488–89
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 485
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 491
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 493–95
- ^ Buckley (2005): pp. 504–5
- ^ Buckley (2004): p. 16
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- ^ Thompson (2006): pp. 291–92
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- ^ Lamb, Charles W.; Hair, Joseph F.; McDaniel, Carl (2007). Marketing. South-Western College Pub. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-324-36208-4.
- ^ Stone, Andrew (2008). Denmark. Lonely Planet. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-74104-669-4.
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- ^ "David Bowie to release "Space Oddity" multi-tracks to celebrate moon landing". NME News. 6 July 2009. http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/45872. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
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- ^ Perpetua, Matthew (22 March 2011). "Unreleased David Bowie LP 'Toy' Leaks Online". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/unreleased-david-bowie-lp-toy-leaks-online-20110322. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
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- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 526
- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 2
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- ^ Sandford (1997); p. 208
- ^ Pegg (2004) p. 561.
- ^ Sandford (1997): pp. 252–53
- ^ Thompson (2006): p. 195
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- ^ Buckley (2005): p. 140
- ^ "Interview: David Bowie". Playboy. September 1976. Archived from the original on 1 August 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20100801045250/http://www.playboy.com/articles/david-bowie-interview/index.html?page=2. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
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References[link]
- Buckley, David (2000) [First published 1999]. Strange Fascination — David Bowie: The Definitive Story. London: Virgin. ISBN 0-7535-0457-X.
- Buckley, David (2004). David Bowie: The Complete Guide To His Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84449-423-1.
- Buckley, David (2005) [First published 1999]. Strange Fascination — David Bowie: The Definitive Story. London: Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-1002-5.
- Buckley, Peter (2003). The rough guide to rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 1-84353-105-4.
- Campbell, Michael (2008). Popular Music in America: And The Beat Goes On. Schirmer. ISBN 978-0-495-50530-3.
- Carr, Roy; Murray, Charles Shaar (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record. New York: Avon. ISBN 0-380-77966-8.
- Cole, Shaun (2000). 'Don we now our gay apparel': gay men's dress in the twentieth century. London: Berg. ISBN 1-85973-415-4.
- Ditmore, Melissa Hope (2006). Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work, Volume 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32970-2.
- Pegg, Nicholas (2004) [First published 2000]. The Complete David Bowie. London: Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 1-903111-73-0.
- Perone, James E. (2007). The Words and Music of David Bowie. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-99245-3.
- Sandford, Christopher (1997) [First published 1996]. Bowie: Loving the Alien. Time Warner. ISBN 0-306-80854-4.
- Schinder, Scott; Schwartz, Andy (2007). Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33845-8.
- Thomson, Elizabeth (1993). The Bowie Companion. Macmillan. ISBN 0-283-06262-2.
- Thompson, Dave (2006). Hallo Spaceboy: The Rebirth of David Bowie. Ecw Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-733-8.
Further reading[link]
- Trynka Paul, Starman: David Bowie – The Definitive Biography, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2011
- Cann, David, Any Day Now: David Bowie the London Years 1947–1974, Kenneth Pitt in Books, 2011
- Jacke, Andreas, David Bowie – Station To Station, Psychosozial- Verlag, 2011
- Seabrook, Thomas Jerome, Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town, Jawbone Press, 2008.
- Spitz, Marc, Bowie: A Biography, Crown Publishers, 2009.
- Tremlett, George, David Bowie: Living on the Brink, Carroll and Graf, 1997.
- Waldrep, Shelton, "Phenomenology of Performance", The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
- Welch, Chris, David Bowie: We Could Be Heroes: The Stories Behind Every David Bowie Song, Da Capo Press, 1999.
- Wilcken, Hugo, 33⅓: David Bowie's Low, Continuum, 2005.
External links[link]
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- Official website
- Official Myspace page
- Official YouTube channel
- Documentary Film - David Bowie: Sound and Vision
- Bowieart – paintings, printmakings, etc.
- Works by or about David Bowie in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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| Name | Bowie, David |
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| Short description | English singer, songwriter, musician |
| Date of birth | 8 January 1947 |
| Place of birth | London, England, UK |
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David Bowie In The Port of Amsterdam
captainevita
David Bowie In The Port of Amsterdam
This is one of Bowie's songs that I really love. It has got a true meaning.He sings it with his own, special and unique way. I think he has the most beautiful blue eyes, he is very talented and a legendary glam rock singer. Really glad to had the chance to hear to his work and feel all the feelings that he want to pass to his fans. I love his persona Ziggy Stardust. Some people like him, some others not. The reason is one: If you decide to listen Bowie's songs you have to be able to find the hidden, true meaning of the lyrics and then take a trip to his world. It is a strange world but that's the thing that makes David being special and unique. David I am a true fan, thanks for giving me a chance to dream... Original Song: Jacques Brel
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David Bowie-Ashes To Ashes-1980
TheVideoMagican
David Bowie-Ashes To Ashes-1980
1980 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) March 27 - The Silver Thursday market crash occurs. April 26 - Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia May 9 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter named the Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1400-foot section of the bridge collapses.
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