AKA: Ziggy Stardust, David Robert Jones, Thin White Duke
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 01/08/1947
Birthplace: Brixton, South London, England, United Kingdom
biography
A postmodern Renaissance man and Dadaist, the mercurial David Bowie has never limited himself to just making music. An early interest in theater led him to train as a mime and to start the Beckenham Arts Lab to experiment with theater and music. To finance the project, he signed with Mercury Records, putting out the album "Man of Words, Man of Music" (1969), which included his first hit "Space Oddity", a sensation at the time of the US moon landing. Renowned for exploring the fringes of pop music, Bowie has made a career out of change, managing to retain his reputation as a creative,
To avoid confusion with child actor and The Monkees member Davy Jones, changed name from David Jones to David Bowie; adopted Bowie after the Bowie knife
1967
Apprenticed in Lindsay Kemp's mime troupe, exchanging musical scores for pantomime lessons
Acted in a 15-minute short ("The Image"), a commercial for ice cream and a BBC-TV play, "The Pistol Shot"
1968
With co-star from "The Pistol Shot", started Feathers, a mime troupe
1969
First hit record, "Space Oddity"; an international smash at the time of the US moon landing, it peaked at Number 5 in the UK
