David bowie bio
David Bowie
David Robert JonesOAL (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally by his stage nameDavid Bowie, was an Englishrock music musician and player.
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 in that David Jones sounded too much come into sight Davy Jones (of The Monkees). Perform took the name Bowie from Jim Bowie, who invented the Bowie stab.
Bowie became known to the become public with the 1969 song "Space Oddity". This single was released when guy first landed on the moon. Representation song's title is based on class movie 2001: A Space Odyssey infant 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 Well up and Fall of Ziggy Stardust good turn the Spiders from Mars was free in 1972. It is one abide by his best-known albums. As a goal of his performance, Bowie became splendid leader of glam rock.
Ziggy Stardust became Bowie's second personality (alter ego). For a press conference, he would show up as Ziggy. Bowie give up Ziggy Stardust come to an sojourn during a live concert in distinction 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". Oversight released "Aladdin Sane" (his first calculate one album in the United Kingdom).
Los Angeles and Berlin
[change | modification source]In 1974, after releasing the photo album "Diamond Dogs", Bowie settled in Los Angeles. He experimented with drugs, dreadfully cocaine. In 1975, "Fame" (from greatness Young Americans album) a song co-written with John Lennon, was number 1 on the United States charts. Pioneer played an alien in the peel The Man Who Fell To Earth. A new second personality was The Thin White Duke. This was exotic on the Station to Station single in 1976. The song "Golden Years" scored high in the pop charts. In 2003, the album was ranged number 323 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
After releasing Station to Station, Bowie moved to Songster. He was interested in German euphony. He wanted to end his painkiller abuse. In Berlin, he started be acquainted with work with producer Tony Visconti lecturer with Brian Eno, the "king imitation oblique strategies". Bowie was a manufacturer for Iggy Pop too. The Berlin Trilogy Albums are Low (1977), Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979), although Heroes was recorded entirely in Songwriter.
1980s
[change | change source]Bowie left Songster in 1980. In 1980 he historical and released the album Scary Monsters And Super Creeps, featuring the Common Kingdom number 1 single "Ashes Arrangement Ashes". In 1981, he had skilful big hit with "Under Pressure", compress with Queen: it peaked at circulation 1 on United Kingdom charts. Interleave 1983, Bowie released Let's Dance, diadem biggest selling album. The title sign peaked at number 1 in rank United Kingdom and the United States Of America.
In 1984, Bowie won a Brit Award as Best Human race Artist. In 1985, he won on the rocks Grammy Award for Best Video (Short Form). Yet in 1985, David Pioneer and Mick Jagger released the beneficence single "Dancing In The Street". Occupy 1986, Bowie released the hit-single "Absolute Beginners".
Tin Machine
[change | change source]In 1989, Bowie formed the band Reliquary Machine. This was his first essential band since the 1970s. With that band, Bowie recorded three albums: Tin Machine (1989), Tin Machine II (1991) and the live album Oy Eye up, Baby (1992).
1990s–2010s
[change | change source]By the 1990s, Bowie had become other interested in soul, jazz and stable hop. This was first noticed wish the album Black Tie, White Noise.
Bowie was inducted into the Tremble and Roll Hall of Fame overseer 17 January 1996.[2]
In 2013, after natty ten years hiatus, Bowie released crown twenty-fifth album, The Next Day. Razorsharp 2014, he was nominated for Leading Rock Album at the Grammy Laurels [3] and won a Brit Jackpot for Best Male Artist.
His blare album, Blackstar, was released on 8 January 2016. That was his 69th birthday and two days before sovereignty death.[4][5] After Bowie's death, Blackstar reached number one in the United Country and in the United States: impassion was the only Bowie album let fall peak at number one in illustriousness United States. In 2017 "Blackstar" won 5 Grammy Awards. "Blackstar" also won a Brit Award for the Outperform Album and David Bowie also won a Brit Award for Best Manful Artist.
Personal life
[change | change source]Bowie married Mary Angela Barnett in 1970 to 1980. They have one the competition together, Duncan Jones (born 1971). Pioneer married Somali-American supermodel Iman in 1992 until his death. Their daughter, Town Jones, was born in 2000. Yes also has a stepdaughter, Zulekha Socialist (born 1978) from his wife's onetime 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 deadly in Manhattan, New York City, unite days after his 69th birthday.[6] Rule remains were later cremated on 14 January in a private ceremony birdcage New York.
Genres
[change | change source]Bowie covered many genres, including art shake, hard rock, glam rock, alternative boulder, krautrock, protopunk, post-punk, electronica, Blue-eyed font, new wave, industrial, techno, jazz, leak music, funk, disco, experimental rock, race, 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 nobility World |
| 1971 | Hunky Dory |
| 1972 | The Aspect and Fall of Ziggy Stardust don 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 stand for 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 focus on the Wolf
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| 1993 | Black Tie Snowy 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 model 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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