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Biography David Bowie CV David Robert Jones, who became internationally known as David Bowie , who was born on January 8, 1947 London working - quarter Brixton , betimes developed a loner . Through his brother he came up with jazz music and literature of the Beatniks in touch . Other early passions were painting and philosophy, especially Buddhism . After a short period in the advertising industry , he played in 1963 in the Ronnie Scott band saxophone before he opted for rock music . Because of the similarity in name with the Monkees singer Davy Jones , he took the name of a well-known hunting knife . When David Bowie , he later became one of the most versatile and influential pop musician of the twentieth century .


The age of twenty he studied with the mime Lindsey Kemp and so laid the foundation for his later stage performance. On Kemp's suggestion he took to the aesthetics of homosexuality, not only in his movements, but also through clothes and makeup.
His folk-heavy debut album was largely ignored.

In 1969 Bowie an appropriate framework for its occurrence. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick films he turned to science fiction themes. He embodied for his album "Space Oddity" the astronaut Major Tom, and three years later he joined revised outfit as Ziggy Stardust finally its run. The same plate is one of the great moments of glam rock. In all subsequent image and style change succeeded henceforth always to keep a high artistic level.
Meanwhile put Bowie his experience to other rock greats such as Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are available by supported them as a producer.
After he "slew" Ziggy Stardust, which however nothing with his subsequent film role in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" had to do, Bowie went through a long Identity crisis helped against neither recordings nor cocaine . In 1976 he moved to Berlin in a Schöneberg building. Here was created in collaboration with Brian Eno , the Berlin trilogy consisting of " Low" , " Heroes " and " Lodger " , whose influence must have been enormous on the pop of the Eighties . The same goes for " Scary Monsters " of 1982nd

After a short theater engagement , during which he John Merricks elephant people played , and a common song with Queen , he took some movie roles .
With simple structured , accessible rock music he achieved quickly the audience's favor . He also composed film scores and embodied the villain in the fantasy film " Labyrinth " .
After a long creative crisis that could not overcome the hard rock music of Tin Machine project , he turned in 1997 temporarily the drum'n'bass to .

After a heart attack in the summer of 2004 , in which it should occur on the South Side Festival , he put his career on hold until further notice . At the age of 69 years David Bowie died on January 10, 2016 of cancer . Two days earlier , on his birthday , his album " Black Star " was published .

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Felix von Altersheim