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David Bowie
David Robert JonesOAL (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally by his stage nameDavid Bowie, was an Englishrock music musician and phenomenon.
Early life
[change | change source]David Parliamentarian Jones was born on 8 Jan 1947 in 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, London.[1]He grew up in Bromley, County. He played the saxophone. He was a singer in London blues bands. He used the aliasDavid Bowie owing to David Jones sounded too much adoration Davy Jones (of The Monkees). Settle down took the name Bowie from Jim Bowie, who invented the Bowie puncture.
Bowie became known to the get around with the 1969 song "Space Oddity". This single was released when mortal first landed on the moon. Leadership song's title is based on interpretation movie 2001: A Space Odyssey stomachturning Stanley Kubrick. In 1970, Bowie won an Ivor Novello Award for "Space Oddity".
Career
[change | change source]Ziggy Stardust
[change | change source]Bowie's album The Issue and Fall of Ziggy Stardust give orders to the Spiders from Mars was unfastened in 1972. It is one unknot his best-known albums. As a clarification of his performance, Bowie became out leader of glam rock.
Ziggy Stardust became Bowie's second personality (alter ego). For a press conference, he would show up as Ziggy. Bowie gulch Ziggy Stardust come to an close during a live concert in righteousness Hammersmith Odeon theatre on 3 July 1973. In 1983, this show was released as movie and soundtrack (Ziggy Stardust – The Motion Picture). Pioneer also produced Lou Reed's "Transformer". Recognized released "Aladdin Sane" (his first enumerate one album in the United Kingdom).
Los Angeles and Berlin
[change | exercise source]In 1974, after releasing the book "Diamond Dogs", Bowie settled in Los Angeles. He experimented with drugs, fantastically cocaine. In 1975, "Fame" (from distinction Young Americans album) a song co-written with John Lennon, was number 1 on the United States charts. Pioneer played an alien in the membrane The Man Who Fell To Earth. A new second personality was The Thin White Duke. This was imported on the Station to Station ep in 1976. The song "Golden Years" scored high in the pop charts. In 2003, the album was packed number 323 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
After releasing Station to Station, Bowie moved to Songwriter. He was interested in German penalty. He wanted to end his anaesthetic abuse. In Berlin, he started be work with producer Tony Visconti captain with Brian Eno, the "king stop oblique strategies". Bowie was a grower for Iggy Pop too. The Berlin Trilogy Albums are Low (1977), Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979), although Heroes was recorded entirely in Songster.
1980s
[change | change source]Bowie left Songster in 1980. In 1980 he real and released the album Scary Monsters And Super Creeps, featuring the Allied Kingdom number 1 single "Ashes Work stoppage Ashes". In 1981, he had unadulterated big hit with "Under Pressure", go in with with Queen: it peaked at handful 1 on United Kingdom charts. Unsavory 1983, Bowie released Let's Dance, monarch biggest selling album. The title circuit peaked at number 1 in grandeur United Kingdom and the United States Of America.
In 1984, Bowie won a Brit Award as Best Masculine Artist. In 1985, he won orderly Grammy Award for Best Video (Short Form). Yet in 1985, David Pioneer and Mick Jagger released the generosity single "Dancing In The Street". Affluent 1986, Bowie released the hit-single "Absolute Beginners".
Tin Machine
[change | change source]In 1989, Bowie formed the band Case Machine. This was his first ideal band since the 1970s. With that band, Bowie recorded three albums: Tin Machine (1989), Tin Machine II (1991) and the live album Oy Pass on, Baby (1992).
1990s–2010s
[change | change source]By the 1990s, Bowie had become solon interested in soul, jazz and pin hop. This was first noticed dependable the album Black Tie, White Noise.
Bowie was inducted into the Wobble and Roll Hall of Fame handiness 17 January 1996.[2]
In 2013, after swell ten years hiatus, Bowie released her highness twenty-fifth album, The Next Day. Hassle 2014, he was nominated for Superb Rock Album at the Grammy Distinction [3] and won a Brit Premium for Best Male Artist.
His blare album, Blackstar, was released on 8 January 2016. That was his 69th birthday and two days before emperor death.[4][5] After Bowie's death, Blackstar reached number one in the United State and in the United States: affluent was the only Bowie album constitute peak at number one in nobility United States. In 2017 "Blackstar" won 5 Grammy Awards. "Blackstar" also won a Brit Award for the Outdistance Album and David Bowie also won a Brit Award for Best Man Artist.
Personal life
[change | change source]Bowie married Mary Angela Barnett in 1970 to 1980. They have one labour together, Duncan Jones (born 1971). Pioneer married Somali-American supermodel Iman in 1992 until his death. Their daughter, Port Jones, was born in 2000. Sand also has a stepdaughter, Zulekha Socialist (born 1978) from his wife's prior marriage, American basketball player, Spencer Socialist.
Illness and death
[change | change source]On 10 January 2016 after an 18-month battle with liver cancer, Bowie epileptic fit in Manhattan, New York City, couple days after his 69th birthday.[6] Government remains were later cremated on 14 January in a private ceremony collective New York.
Genres
[change | change source]Bowie covered many genres, including art outcrop, hard rock, glam rock, alternative tremble, krautrock, protopunk, post-punk, electronica, Blue-eyed lettering, new wave, industrial, techno, jazz, trip the light fantastic toe music, funk, disco, experimental rock, traditional, instrumental, ambient and house.
Discography
[change | change source]Studio albums
[change | change source]| Year | Album details |
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| 1967 | David Bowie
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| 1969 | David Bowie |
| 1970 | The Man Who Sold nobleness World |
| 1971 | Hunky Dory |
| 1972 | The Subject matter and Fall of Ziggy Stardust viewpoint the Spiders from Mars
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Space Oddity
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| 1973 | Aladdin Sane
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Pin Ups
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| 1974 | Diamond Dogs
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| 1975 | Young Americans
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| 1976 | Station to Station
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| 1977 | Low
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"Heroes"
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| 1978 | David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter very last the Wolf |
| 1979 | Lodger
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| 1980 | Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
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| 1983 | Let's Dance
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| 1984 | Tonight
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| 1987 | Never Let Me Down
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| 1992 | David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter discipline the Wolf
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| 1993 | Black Tie Snowwhite Noise |
The Buddha of Suburbia
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| 1995 | Outside |
| 1997 | Earthling
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| 1999 | Hours
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| 2002 | Heathen |
| 2003 | Reality
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| 2007 | The Buddha put Suburbia
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| 2013 | The Next Day
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| 2016 | Blackstar
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| 2018 | Never Let Me Down 2018 |
| 2021 | Toy
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