David Robert Jones was born in 1947 between the precursors and leading experts in the English glam rock (see the article on the Classic Rock Year 70).
His musical career began in the late sixties, covers a span of nearly forty years and has embraced various genres of art and business, quoted from glam rock to disco to electro-pop, and all with great success.
After several experiences in 1966 with Buzz affect Do Anything You Say and I Dig Everything and gets a contract with Dram Records, but the group dissolved the same day of publication of Rubber Band.
In 1967, change formations, with the Riot Squad affect Little Toy Soldier, the same year released their debut album, simply called David Bowie.
in September began a collaboration of key Bowie, one with producer Tony Visconti. In this
period, moreover, is fascinated by the performance of 'actor and mime artist Lindsay Kemp, who both started attending its courses in dance and movement.
At the end of the year approaches to Buddhism and spent a few weeks of monastic isolation in Scotland. Come back
Kemp gives him a part in the show Pierrot in Turquoise.
In 1969 affects Space Oddity, the album will not be a success even if the individual of the same name will become an essential point of his career, the space flight by Major Tom entered nell'immagginario collective.
began to play a hard rock and superamplificato.
Exit The Man Who Sold the World, the harder among his album, a very beautiful and unusual work.
Great success came with 1971's Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars in 1972, which contain most of his classics, repeated at any concert even thirty years later, by Changes in Starman, Life on Mars by Moonage Daydream, Ziggy Stardust by Andy Warhol.
Between 72 and 73 in the role of Ziggy Stardust carries around a show with a thousand wonders where the real Bowie and theatrical figures are mixed as to make the very thin line between reality and fiction.
To the beat of a hard year, has never been limited to create a brand equal to Bowie himself, but it is always pushed in the trial addressing the many different genres: from nostalgia to beat Pin Ups, Diamond Dogs of the Orwellian nightmare, the white R & B Young Americans and Station to Station intellectual electro pop collaboration with Brian Eno and the trilogy Berlin's Low, Heroes and Lodger. This is achieved through a consolidated success that allowed him to follow his desire to experiment with new solutions without worrying about their commercial success.
Over the years changes the character: the androgynous Ziggy Stardust White Duke becomes a restless, charming, change its style, but is still a great artist and great professional.
In the 80 dedicated especially to his acting career, will return to testing in the four very different albums of the nineties with the result leading to Outside in 1995.
In 2004, following a heart operation was retired, only to reappear briefly in 2006.
In early 2009 there was talk of a new album, but the news was quickly denied by his official website.
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