David Bowie

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Born: January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016
From: London, England, UK
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Biography

David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Born and raised in South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. “Space Oddity” became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single “Starman” and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted radically towards a sound he characterized as “plastic soul,” initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. The following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the Berlin Trilogy. Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received 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 his commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and jungle. Bowie also continued acting; his roles included Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos. He stopped concert touring after 2004 and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016).

Works

217 films

The Prestige

20068.2

Labyrinth

19867.3

Arthur and the Invisibles

20066.4

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

19927.4

Zoolander

20016.2

The Last Temptation of Christ

19887.2

The Hunger

19836.7

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

19837.3

The Magic Voices of Pop

20212.0

Christiane F.

19817.3

Into the Night

19856.5

The Man Who Fell to Earth

19766.5

Jim Henson Idea Man

20247.9

Can Creativity Save the World?

2024

David Bowie: Love You Till Tuesday

19696.2

Tina Turner: The Girl from Nutbush

1993

Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

20227.0

Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special

20037.0

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

20147.2

Bowie: The Final Act

20257.9

WHAM!

20237.3

Moonage Daydream

20227.5

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

20257.8

Bandslam

20095.8

Yellowbeard

19835.6

Live Aid

19857.9

Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

19775.3

Eno

20246.0

The Concert for New York City

20015.1

Basquiat

19966.6

Thriller 40

20238.7

LOLA

20236.4

The Velvet Underground

20216.8

Zappa

20207.3

TV Party

20058.0

Why Are We Creative?

20187.5

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story

20197.5

Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA

20177.4

I Am Divine

20147.3

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act

20226.7

Absolute Beginners

19865.5

David Bowie: The Last Five Years

20177.1

Tina Turner: Private Dancer Tour

19857.0

The World of Jim Henson

19947.4

Gimme Danger

20166.9

Just a Gigolo

19785.0

SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis

20076.3

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

19928.4

Enigma

20256.2

Mayor of the Sunset Strip

20036.9

August

20085.2

Gunslinger's Revenge

19984.5

David Bowie: Roseland Ballroom, NYC

2000

Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles

20035.8

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary

19867.2

David Bowie: On the Rock Trail

20158.0

David Bowie: The 1980 Floor Show

1973

Queen: Champions of the World

19958.3

David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean

19847.6

David Bowie - Music in Review

2007

David Bowie: Live at Montreux

2002

David Gilmour - Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine

2007

Dear Bowie

20234.0

Vanilla Ice Archive

2012

The Filth and the Fury

20006.9

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

20214.0

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

20147.0

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

19996.9

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

20157.7

David Bowie: VH1 Storytellers

20096.5

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

19757.6

Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under

20151.5

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

20236.8

Imagine: John Lennon

19887.0

David Bowie: Under Review 1976-79

20067.5

Night Flight: Born Again

2016

David Bowie: Rare and Unseen

2010

The Linguini Incident

19916.6

David Gilmour: Remember That Night

20077.7

Twiggy

20257.7

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

19837.4

David Bowie: Five Years

20137.5

David Bowie: Finding Fame

20196.9

Burden

20165.8

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today

2005

Freddie Mercury: The King of Queen

20187.2

David Bowie: Live by Request

20028.0

Inside the Labyrinth

19867.6

The Virgin Soldiers

19696.8

David Bowie - Sound and Vision

200310.0

David Bowie: Glass Spider

19888.4

The Image

19695.0

David Bowie - Live from the 10th spot

1997

Rockthology 2

2004

Eyes Behind the Lens

2026

David Bowie: Reality Live

20036.0

Luther: Never Too Much

20248.0

Wilde Jahre West-Berlin

2015

Blast 'Em

19927.0

Hr. Vinterberg & Mr. Bowie

20029.0

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

20237.0

Mr. Rice's Secret

20006.5

Everybody Loves Sunshine

19994.6

The Love We Make

20117.2

Night Lunch

19755.0

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

20043.5

David Bowie: Live at Beat Club Musikladen

19789.0

Soul Boys of the Western World

20145.8

Moby Doc

20216.1

The Work of Director Mark Romanek

20058.2

Live Aid Against All Odds

2005

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

19804.0

WBCN and the American Revolution

20195.0

David Bowie: Live Olympia Paris

20029.5

Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style

19838.3

My Music: A Classic Christmas

20197.5

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

19943.3

The Dada Principle

20167.0

Queen: Greatest Flix II

19917.9

Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto

19857.2

DEVO

20247.7

David Bowie: Out of this World

20215.8

David Bowie - Live at The Elysee Montmartre Paris

1999

The Genius of David Bowie

2012

Pixies: Gouge

20048.0

David bowie - Up Close and Personal

20074.0

David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside"

1995

Group Madness

19839.0

Live Aid

20049.2

Beside Bowie - The Mick Ronson Story

20178.2

David Bowie Is Happening Now

20136.0

Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials

2010

Bowie at the BBC

20177.0

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

19965.5

David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust

20066.0

The BRITs at 40

2020

Nine Inch Nails: Closure

19977.3

David Bowie On Stage: Live in Japan

1978

David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise

19938.0

Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock

20176.8

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

20077.1

David Bowie: Sound and Vision

20168.0

David Bowie at Live Aid

19858.0

David Bowie: Serious Moonlight

19848.6

Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2

20038.5

David Bowie - The Plastic Soul Review

2007

The Nomi Song

20046.4

David Bowie - In His Own Words

2016

David Bowie: Earthling On TV

1997

A Bing Crosby Christmas

199810.0

David Bowie - PNE Live Rehearsal 1976

2026

Françoise Hardy : Tant de belles choses...

20058.0

Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World

20165.7

TIME

2024

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

20008.3

Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp

2020

David Bowie: An Earthling at 50

19978.5

David Bowie: Serious Moonlight Montreal

19836.0

Clockwork Orange County

20126.0

Tin Machine - Live at Paradiso

1989

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

200210.0

David Bowie: Live At The Tokyo Dome

199010.0

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

20237.6

BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia

2018

Kings of Glam

2008

David Bowie - The Calm Before The Storm: Under Review 1969 - 1971

2012

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart

19987.7

Bowie, Iggy & Lou 1971-1973: The Sacred Triangle

20107.0

Are We Not Men?

2026

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions

202010.0

David Bowie - Total Rock Review

2006

David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust

20127.2

David Bowie: Starman

20167.8

Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies

20104.0

Placebo: This Search for Meaning

2024

Bowie: Glastonbury 2000

20188.5

Acoustic at the BBC

20114.8

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

20097.2

Inside the Music

2005

David Bowie: Serious Moonlight Sydney

1983

Baal

19824.7

The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

20137.4

Bowie: A Reality Tour

20048.4

David Bowie: Best of Bowie

20027.1

David Bowie: Live at Riverside Studios '03

2003

David Bowie On Stage

1978

The Oshima Gang

1983

David Bowie: Musikladen Extra

1978

Gaga for Dada: The Original Art Rebels

20165.0

Best of Bowie

2006

Classic Albums: Lou Reed - Transformer

20016.5

David Bowie: London Boy

20216.0

Diamond Dogs Demo Video

1974

The Dancing Man of L.A.

2021

NBC television special: The Pursuit of Pleasure

1967

Goldie: When Saturn Returns

19987.0

Glam Rock at the BBC

20176.5

The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Million Sellers

2006

Der Reichstag

20178.0

David Bowie: The Berlin Briefings

2016

Nine Inch Nails & David Bowie: Dissonance

19959.0

Video AID

1985

Queen - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert 10th Anniversary Documentary

20029.0

David Bowie: The Serious Moonlight Tour

19846.9

Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back

2003

The Looking Glass Murders

1970

David Bowie I Love You (Since I Was Six)

2016

David Bowie - Kremlin Palace Moscow

19967.0

David Bowie: Day-In Day-Out

2026

Bowie at the BBC

20009.0

David Bowie Birthday Celebration Live in NYC

1997

In Stillness and in Silence (Sacred)

1998

David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (2024 Dolby Atmos Mix)

202410.0

David Bowie: The Man Who Stole the World

20166.5

Supergroups

2002

Ricochet

19849.0

David Bowie & Friends: A Very Special Birthday Celebration

1997