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Biography of David Bowie
David Bowie (David Bowie), real name David Robert Jones (David Robert Jones) is an English musician, actor, producer and arranger.
Born on January 8, 1947.
Bowie is an innovator, one of the most influential musicians of the last four decades.
He is known for his unique voice, the intellectual depth of his works, as well as an eclectic approach to creativity.
Bowie was first noticed by a wide audience in 1969, with the song "Space Oddity", which hit the top 5 of the UK singles chart.
After three years of experimenting with sound, he reappeared in 1972, in the guise of a character named Ziggy Stardust.
In the era of glem rock, his image in general, and the single "Starman" in particular, stirred the music world to its very foundation.
Bowie attended Stockwell Junior School until the age of six, where he was described as a gifted boy, but rebellious and pugnacious.
In 1953, the family moved to the suburb of Bromley, where two years later Bowie entered high school.
During his studies, he showed his musical talents in the school choir.
At the age of nine, he amazed the teachers with his artistry, dancing and performing songs with an expression that was amazing for a child.
The boy's interest in music expanded when Bowie in the same year acquired a collection of recordings by American artists of those years, such as The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard (Little Richard).
After listening to the famous song "Tutti Frutti", Bowie said: "I heard the voice of God."
Soon Bowie "took up" the ukulele and bass guitar, and began to participate in jams with friends.
He also started playing the piano.
He failed his school exams and entered the Bromley Technical College.
At the age of 15, Bowie put together his first band, playing guitar rock and roll at local gatherings and weddings.
The band was called the Konrads and had at various times from four to eight members.
When David dropped out of technical college a year later, he told his parents about his intention to become a pop star.
Despite the fact that the stage image of Ziggy did not last long, he remained a prominent example of striking novelty and non standard approach.
Bowie achieved his first major success in 1975, with the single "Fame" and the album Young Americans, which became a hit.
A few years later, the so called "Berlin Trilogy" of albums hit the top five of the British charts.
After the fickle commercial success of the seventies, the single "Ashes to Ashes" and the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), in the early eighties brought, in addition to large profits, also fame and recognition.
Let's Dance, which was released in 1983, became a new peak of success.
In the nineties, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles such as soul, jungle, and many others.
Bowie's last album was Reality (2003), with which he went on tour in 2003-04.
There have been no performances since 2006.
His albums have sold a total circulation of 140 million copies.
Nine of his albums became platinum, 11 - gold, 8 - silver.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Bowie at number 23 in the list of "The 100 Best singers of all time".
Bowie met his future wife, Angela Barnett, in April 1969.
A year later, they got married.
There were also changes in his creative life: Bowie began to feel the need to assemble a band for touring and recording.
At the same time, he began to have problems with drugs.
In 1970, he appeared in a cameo in the German film Christiane F., which tells the story of a Berlin teenage drug addict.
One of the most discussed topics during this period was Bowie's sexual orientation.
In an interview with Michael Watts in January 1972, Bowie stated that he was gay.
In another interview for Playboy, four years later, Bowie said that he was bisexual, adding that he "was able to take full advantage of it."
Bowie's innovative approach to stage performances influenced the genre as a whole.
Many music experts call Bowie a pioneer of glam rock, the creator of this genre, who determined the direction of its development in the seventies.
In 1976, Bowie moved to Switzerland and bought an estate in the mountains there.
In the new environment, his cocaine addiction worsened.
Bowie also became interested in art and became the author of several post modernist canvases.
By 1978, Bowie had managed to overcome his drug addiction.
In 1981, he worked with Queen on the release of "Under Pressure", which became a hit and hit the top of the British charts.
After a wide commercial success and thanks to the active "promotion" on the MTV channel, Bowie by 1983 became one of the most famous video artists at that time.
A year later, he won a Grammy for Best Short Music Video.
This was followed by collaborations with Iggy Pop, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guns And Roses, Mick Jagger and other famous artists.
By 1989, Bowie began to move from a solo career to participating in a group.
For the first time since the early seventies, such a trend was noticed in his career.
A hard rock quartet called Tin Machine was born as a result of Bowie's collaboration with guitarist Reeves Gabrels.
The line – up was then joined by Tony and Hunt Sales (Tony, Hunt Sales) - respectively the drummer and bassist.
The band's creativity did not receive critical praise, and after some friction with the EMI label, Bowie stopped working with the company.
Tin Machine resumed work with a new label, released a new release, and even went on a tour, which, however, showed the failure of the band.
Bowie left the band after the tour to pursue a solo career.
During the nineties, Bowie actively collaborated with many artists, experimenting in genres himself.
In October 1990, ten years after his divorce from Angela, Bowie met a model of Somali origin Iman Abdulmajid (Iman Abdulmajid).
Two years later, they got married in Switzerland.
Bowie recalled his first meeting with Iman, saying: "I chose the names of the children on the very first night!".
Soon the couple moved to New York.
The releases of Black Tie White Noise (1993), Outside (1995) and Earthling (1997) were marked by multiple influences of electronic music, industrial, hip hop and drum and bass.
In 1999, Bowie became the author of the soundtrack to the computer game Omikron, in which Iman acted as a prototype of the heroine.
In October 2001, Bowie opened a concert in New York with a charity event aimed at helping victims after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11.
In 2002, the daughter of Bowie and Iman, Alexandria Zahra Jones, was born.
In the same year, the album Heathen was released, and a year later – Reality.
Both albums were supported by tours.
At one of the concerts in Germany in 2004, Bowie felt pain in his chest, which, as doctors later found out, was caused by a pinched nerve.
To provide surgical assistance to the singer, the remaining 14 concerts of the tour were canceled.
After the operation, Bowie "slowed down" the pace of public appearances, appearing only on the radio.
In 2006, Bowie again won the Grammy for Outstanding Achievement, and in the same year he said that he was " taking a year off – no albums and concerts."
In honor of the fortieth anniversary of the landing of a man on the moon and the commercial success of Bowie's release "Space Oddity", the EMI label released some tracks from the original album as a separate release.
In the same year, Bowie played the role of Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film "Prestige".
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