David Bowie

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David Bowie was born David Jones in 1947, in England. In 1966 David Bowie change his last name when a another Englishman with the same name, Davy Jones, made it big with the Monkees.

In April of 1967, David Bowie's first solo debut album was released, a folksy, pop sounding LP titled David Bowie, and things would continue to change, if ever so slowly, in the world of David Bowie.

In 1969 David Bowie released the album Man Of Words / Man of Music. The album's first single, "Space Oddity", became a top ten hit. David Bowie's next album The Man Who Sold The Word, was released in 1970. In 1971, David Bowie recorded and released the pop/glam album Hunky Dory, which featured Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. With this release he also had his first Top 10 success in the US, with the song "Changes".

1971 marked the arrival of new life on the planet. A bi-sexual, flame-haired androgynous alien landed on Earth when David Bowie morphed into Ziggy Stardust.

In 1972, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, was released and went straight to the top of the charts. The single, "John, I'm Only Dancing" was the first to take off, reach the top of the British charts. Bowie was also making it big behind the scenes, producing Lou Reed's seminal album Transformer and Mott the Hoople's All the Young Dudes. Any radio listener knows the title track.

David Bowie released the LP Aladdin Sane, and then toured again as Ziggy Stardust. Amazingly, during a live performance in 1973 Bowie shocked his fans with the stunning announcement that Ziggy was going away. With that, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars were no more. David Bowie then released Pin-Ups, a collection of covers of mid-'60s British hits, and then mixed an album for Iggy Pop, Raw Power.

In 1974, with a new band in place, David Bowie released Diamond Dogs, another top ten hit, in part thanks to the hard rock, radio hit, "Rebel Rebel". David Bowie's love for soul music would also show up in his next studio album, 1975's Young Americans, and he finally had his first U.S. number one single with "Fame," a song he co-wrote with John Lennon, who also sang backing vocals on the record.

In 1976 David Bowie released the album Station to Station, with the Top 10 single "Golden Years", and went back out on tour. Following the tour, he moved to Berlin, and began collaborating with producer Brian Eno, which resulted in the new wave sounding, synthesizer-driven music of Low, released in 1977. Following that he helped produce Iggy Pop's album The Idiot.

David Bowie then returned to Berlin and recorded 1978's Heroes, and then toured to support it. The '78 live album Stage would come from this tour. Bowie also appeared in his next film, Just a Gigolo, and also narrated a new version of Peter and the Wolf. Bowie then relocated to Switzerland and in 1979, he released Lodger.

Following the release of the album Scary Monsters in 1980, were the videos "DJ," "Fashion" and "Ashes to Ashes" - which was a sequel to his '69 hit "Space Oddity".

In 1983, David Bowie returned to music with the hit album, Let's Dance, which featured the then unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan on lead guitar. He also went back on tour. His next LP, 1984's Tonight, had a hit single with "Loving the Alien", and the strong title track, a duet with Tina Turner . In 1985 he recorded another duet, covering of Martha & the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street", with his old friend Mick Jagger.

Bowie then released a greatest hits boxed set called Sound and Vision and followed it up with yet another world tour, telling his fans that this would be the last time he would be playing his old material live. Again, the tour sold out.

It was now time for Bowie to change once more. He formed the band, Tin Machine, with American guitarist Reeves Gabrels, bassist Hunt Sales and brother Tony Sales on drums. They would release three alternative rock albums and then break up in 1993 without any real hits.

In '93, Bowie went solo again, with Black Tie White Noise. He then released the largely instrumental 1994 soundtrack The Buddha of Suburbia. In 1995, he reunited with producer Eno to record the industrial album Outside.

In 1998 he released the electronica-themed album, The Earthing and In late 1999, Hours, was released on Virgin Records.

In 2002 of David Bowie released Heathen, on his new label, ISO. The re-release soundtrack to the Ziggy Stardust concert film, issued on DVD, followed in 2003, as did yet another new studio album, the arty Reality, with producer Tony Visconti.