David Bowie Lyrics

David Bowie Info:

Birth Name:
David Robert Jones

Born:
January 8th, 1947

Died:
January 10th, 2016
(at the age of 69, from liver cancer)

From:
Brixton, London, England

Occupation:
Singer, songwriter, record producer, actor

Years active:
1962–present

Height:
5' 10''

Father:
Hayward Stenton Jones

Mother:
Margaret Mary Burns

Spouses:
Iman (model, actress; married on June 6th, 1992)
Angela Bowie (née Barnett; actress; married on March 20th, 1970; divorced in 1980)

Children:
Duncan Jones (born 1971)
Alexandria "Lexi" Zahra Jones (born 2000)
Step daughter Zulekha Haywood (July 5th, 1978)

Brother:
Terry Jones (institutionalized)

Education:
Bromley Technical High School, London, U.K.

Genres:
Rock, art rock, glam rock, pop, experimental rock

Instruments:
Vocals, guitar, keyboards, saxophone

Name Origin:
Wanting to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees, he renamed himself after the 19th-century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularized.

Associated acts:
Tin Machine
Iggy Pop
Brian Eno
Lou Reed

Did You Know:
• According to his first wife Angie, Bowie had a relationship with Mick Jagger

• He was also a painter and collector of fine art.

David Bowie Quotes:
About his music throughout the 1990s: "I really felt, in all honesty, fairly intimidated by my catalog at the time. I really had to work out a new way of approaching what was going to be the '90s, and I needed elbow room. I didn't want those things staring me in the face every time I went to do a show."

"Any list of advice I have to offer to a muscian always ends with, 'If it itches, go and see a doctor.'"

"It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me"

Asked whether he still believed his public declaration he was bi was mistake, he replied: "Interesting. I don't think it was a mistake in Europe, but it was a lot tougher in America. I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to hold any banners nor be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that bisexuality became my headline over here for so long. America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do"

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