Born Davy Jones in Brixton to Peggy and John,
1953 move to Bromley
1962 schoolyard punch-up, the pupil in David’s left eye remained permanently dilated,
As a youngster he formed a band called the Kon-Rads before quitting to set up a new outfit, a blues-influenced band named the King Bees, a name he hit upon after a particularly insect-infested picnic. After this was another band, the Manish Boys who aren't remembered for much, despite releasing a single with Mr T, I Pity The Fool.
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It was about this time that Bowie started studying mime, which doesn't suggest much faith in his singing.
In 1969, whilst working as an astronaut, Bowie released a recording of his messages back to earth, which became the basis for his breakout hit, Space Oddity. Then in 1970, The Man Who Sold The World was released in the US, prompting many to suspect that, whilst in space, Bowie had encountered aliens... after all, who else would you sell the world to?
The answer came with his next band, when Bowie recruited his new extra-terrestrial friends along with Alvin Stardust's brother into the band Ziggie Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
He went on to score his first UK number one album with Aladdin Sane, the soundtrack to that year's least entertaining panto.
In 1976 Bowie came back to this planet as described in the documentary The Man Who Fell to Earth. It was at this time that he found notoriety by expressing a certain sympathy with the fascism, prompting outrage in the UK so that he ended up seeking to quell people's concerns by relocating to Berlin.
Further success came with the music accompanying seventies throwback cop drama Ashes to Ashes.
Possibly the peak of Bowie's career, though, came in 1986, when he played Jareth, the Goblin King in the film Labyrinthe, alongside Jennifer Connelly and a number of other muppets.
It was downhill from here, with the formation of Bowie's new band, Tin Ear Machine, and his dabbling in islam resulting in a marriage to a Somalian Imam.
After this, it was basically releasing a load of old rubbish, but in 1997 he put himself back in the headline by releasing Bowie Bonds, a financial instrument that promised investors a big payout if Bowie were to ever construct a substantial piece of national infrastructure.
In latter years, Bowie got his groove back, releasing the single Where Are We Now, giving him his first UK top 10 hit since 1993 and, in 2014 he won the Brit award for Best British Male, which is either an impressive achievement, or speaks pretty badly of all the other British males in the world.
It was to be Bowie's swansong as 2016 was to be the year liver cancer finally got the better of David Bowie.
Thanks for all the tunes, David, you truly were a star, man.
In 1969, whilst working as an astronaut, Bowie released a recording of his messages back to earth, which became the basis for his breakout hit, Space Oddity. Then in 1970, The Man Who Sold The World was released in the US, prompting many to suspect that, whilst in space, Bowie had encountered aliens... after all, who else would you sell the world to?
The answer came with his next band, when Bowie recruited his new extra-terrestrial friends along with Alvin Stardust's brother into the band Ziggie Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
He went on to score his first UK number one album with Aladdin Sane, the soundtrack to that year's least entertaining panto.
In 1976 Bowie came back to this planet as described in the documentary The Man Who Fell to Earth. It was at this time that he found notoriety by expressing a certain sympathy with the fascism, prompting outrage in the UK so that he ended up seeking to quell people's concerns by relocating to Berlin.
Further success came with the music accompanying seventies throwback cop drama Ashes to Ashes.
Possibly the peak of Bowie's career, though, came in 1986, when he played Jareth, the Goblin King in the film Labyrinthe, alongside Jennifer Connelly and a number of other muppets.
It was downhill from here, with the formation of Bowie's new band, Tin Ear Machine, and his dabbling in islam resulting in a marriage to a Somalian Imam.
After this, it was basically releasing a load of old rubbish, but in 1997 he put himself back in the headline by releasing Bowie Bonds, a financial instrument that promised investors a big payout if Bowie were to ever construct a substantial piece of national infrastructure.
In latter years, Bowie got his groove back, releasing the single Where Are We Now, giving him his first UK top 10 hit since 1993 and, in 2014 he won the Brit award for Best British Male, which is either an impressive achievement, or speaks pretty badly of all the other British males in the world.
It was to be Bowie's swansong as 2016 was to be the year liver cancer finally got the better of David Bowie.
Thanks for all the tunes, David, you truly were a star, man.
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