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Daycare in Bowie, MD for Ages 6 weeks to 12 years
KinderCare has partnered with Bowie families for more than 50 years to provide award-winning early education programs and high-quality childcare in Bowie, MD.
Whether you are looking for a preschool in Bowie, a trusted part-time or full-time daycare provider, or educational before- or after-school programs, KinderCare offers fun and learning at an affordable price.
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Lanham KinderCare
Phone:
(301) 577-37904880 Forbes Blvd
Lanham
MD
20706Distance from address: 4.74 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Gambrills KinderCare
Phone:
(410) 721-06901069 State Route 3 N
Gambrills
MD
21054Distance from address: 5.
06 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Bowie KinderCare
Phone:
(301) 390-72443560 Mitchellville Rd
Bowie
MD
20716Distance from address: 5.38 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Russet KinderCare
Phone:
(301) 497-04883504 Russett Cmn
Laurel
MD
20724Distance from address: 6.
75 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Lake Arbor KinderCare
Phone:
(301) 336-026210280 Lake Arbor Way
Mitchellville
MD
20721Distance from address: 7.38 miles
Ages: 2 years to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Laurel KinderCare
Phone:
(301) 470-308014225 Park Center Dr
Laurel
MD
20707Distance from address: 7.
53 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Hanover KinderCare
Phone:
(410) 551-66118050 Rockenbach Rd
Hanover
MD
21076Distance from address: 8.70 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Calverton KinderCare
Phone:
(301) 595-064011740 Beltsville Dr
Beltsville
MD
20705Distance from address: 9.
30 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Severna Park KinderCare
Phone:
(410) 647-7424488 Jumpers Hole Rd
Severna Park
MD
21146Distance from address: 11.69 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Columbia Gateway KinderCare
Phone:
(410) 290-09287195 Columbia Gateway Dr
Columbia
MD
21046Distance from address: 12.
24 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Laurel Knowledge Beginnings
Phone:
(301) 725-65007551 Montpelier Rd
Laurel
MD
20723Distance from address: 12.33 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Marshalee Drive KinderCare
Phone:
(410) 796-06666080 Marshalee Dr
Elkridge
MD
21075Distance from address: 13.
89 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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KinderCare at Arnold
Phone:
(410) 544-2338283 Peninsula Farm Rd
Arnold
MD
21012Distance from address: 14.53 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Child Development Center at the Dept.
of Labor
Phone:
(202) 693-7979200 Constitution Ave NW #1450
Washington
DC
20210Distance from address: 14.87 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 5 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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Hickory Ridge KinderCare
Phone:
(410) 730-84496185 Sunny Spring
Columbia
MD
21044Distance from address: 14.
90 miles
Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
Open:Tuition & Openings
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There are 2 KinderCare centers in Bowie, based on CareLuLu data.
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Bowie KinderCare | Bowie MD
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About the Provider
Description:
Our experts designed our classrooms – and every activity and lesson – to help prepare your child for success in school and beyond.
With designated learning centers such as dramatic play and blocks in every classroom, children have the opportunity for rich social play and child-initiated discovery.
You’ll also find that our classrooms feature a print-rich environment full of carefully selected materials, written charts and labels, and children’s literature. By helping your child connect spoken words and print, we’re helping develop early literacy and writing skills.
Whether your child has first words or first grade on the horizon, we’re excited to show you how everything in our center is designed for learning!
Yuna Crockett, Center Director
Program and Licensing Details
- License Number:
33202 - Capacity:
103 - Age Range:
6 weeks through 17 months, 18 months through 23 months, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 5 years to 15 years - Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
No - Type of Care:
Infant Programs, Toddler Programs, Discovery Preschool Programs, Preschool Programs, Prekindergarten Programs, Before and After School Programs, Summer Programs - Schools Served:
Heather Hills Elementary - District Office:
Region 4 – Prince George’s County - District Office Phone:
(301) 333-6940 (Note: This is not the facility phone number. )
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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A.16.03.02B | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed children enrolled missing the required written information from the child’s parent about the child’s individual needs. 11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing children’s record information. |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A. 16.03.02C(2) |
Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed no evidence that the provider gave the parent or advised them how to obtain the Parents guide to regulated child care. 11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing children’s record information. |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A.16.03.02E | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed children enrolled missing the required lead test information. 11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing children’s record information. |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A.16.03.03A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed children enrolled missing the required emergency from. 11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing children’s record information. |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A. 16.03.03D |
Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed a child enrolled missing the required parent written agreement. 11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing children’s record information. |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A.16.03.04D(1-2) | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed a child enrolled missing the required Health Inventory Part 1. 11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing children’s record information. |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A.16.03.04D(3) | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed a child enrolled missing the required Health Inventory Part 2. 11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing children’s record information. |
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| 2021-10-06 | Full | 13A.16.12.05C(3) | Corrected |
| Findings: LS did not observe a refrigerator thermometer in room 1B and Room 2.  11/4/2021 – LS observed corrections to the missing refrigerator thermometer.. |
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| 2021-08-04 | Complaint | 13A.16.07.01 | Corrected |
| Findings: On this date a complaint investigation was conducted at KinderCare. The complaint alleges that 2 year old was left on the playground unsupervised and was never reported to the parents. Office of Child Care received the first complaint regarding the same incident on June 7, 2021 and the allegations where indicated. Licensing Specialist spoke with Director who stated that the child was left outside for a few minutes. He stated that the child was brought in and parents were notified. Written statements were received from all staff who were involved. A second call was placed to the Office regarding the same incident that occurred in June. LS discussed with (Staff in Charge) if parents were notified about the incident that occurred in June. She is unsure because the Director handled the incident and he is on vacation this week.  Staff were interviewed by CPS representative and all stated that the child was only outside for a few minutes. LS advised to submit incident report with parents’ signature so we have verification they were notified. Please submit continued training for Supervision for all staff by August 13, 2021 |
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| 2021-08-04 | Complaint | 13A.16.08.01A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: On this date a complaint investigation was conducted at KinderCare. The complaint alleges that 2 year old was left on the playground unsupervised and was never reported to the parents. Office of Child Care received the first complaint regarding the same incident on June 7, 2021 and the allegations where indicated. Licensing Specialist spoke with Director who stated that the child was left outside for a few minutes. He stated that the child was brought in and parents were notified. Written statements were received from all staff who were involved.  A second call was placed to the Office regarding the same incident that occurred in June. LS discussed with (Staff in Charge) if parents were notified about the incident that occurred in June. She is unsure because the Director handled the incident and he is on vacation this week. Staff were interviewed by CPS representative and all stated that the child was only outside for a few minutes. LS advised to submit incident report with parents’ signature so we have verification they were notified. Please submit continued training for Supervision for all staff by August 13, 2021 |
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| 2021-06-08 | Complaint | 13A.16.08.01A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: On this date a complaint investigation was conducted for allegations that a child was left outside for an hour. During a site inspection director stated that there was an incident yesterday where a child in the 2’s classroom got out of line when the class was returning to the classroom.  Director stated that the child was outside for about 1 to 2 minutes when the teacher from the infant room saw the child and brought hi in. The director conducted a coaching with the teacher from the class and reminded her to conduct the required name to face head count. Director submitted a written statement |
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| 2021-02-17 | Mandatory Review | ||
| Findings: No Noncompliances Found |
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| 2020-01-28 | Full | ||
| Findings: No Noncompliances Found |
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Description:
I am Dr. Pamela Young-Grigsby, owner and licensed provider at Glory To God Family Daycare Inc. I am a essential licensed provider and daycare approved by MSDE. I am certified in CPR and First Aid. I havecompleted the Maryland State Licensing requirements as well as the nutritional guidelines serving healthy meals.
Our mission at Glory to God Family Daycare is simple: At your service in His service where Jesus is Lord.
Using that mantra, I will imbue your children–not only academically–but with Jesus as their compass.
Currently we only have openings for infants and toddlers.
Nestled in a quiet residential community in Bowie, MD we instruct with a preschool curriculum a diverse group of children in a peaceful, loving, safe environment. From the moment you walk in the door, you will immediately feel the nurturing ambiance where your child will learn, play and grow.
Why Choose Us?
– Facility is fully licensed and insured.
– MSDE Approved essential daycare facility
– Holiday, weekend and evening hours are available.
– Spring break openings as well as summer break.
– Staff are flexible and reliable.
– Honesty and trustworthiness are taught.
– A loving environment envelopes your child.
– Drop in care also available.
– Experience with children with special needs.
– Healthy meals are included in the tuition.
Proverbs 22:6: Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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Description:
Hello parents and guardians, we are a well established family daycare center in Bowie, Md. Our goal as a Christian family child care is to provide a loving and enriching family like environment. While at thesame time meeting your child’s social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and physical needs. We partner with you, and help you raise children with character.
Please note that our hours of operation are 8-6pm….
Description:
The CATERPILLAR CLUBHOUSE provides quality childcare for children of working parents in a safe, supportive, family environment. The center provides enrichment experience for children from 6 weeks to 5yrs of ageand also serves as a Before and After school Program and Summer Camp.
The CATERPILLAR CLUBHOUSE was established to meet the ever-increasing need of quality child care with an emphasis on early education based on the Word of God. We exist to meet the physical, emotional, social and spiritual need of all the children who are entrusted to our care.
More importantly, we LOVE what we do! We are honored that you have, or are considering us for your child care needs!…
Recent Review:
This is my child’s 2nd month at Caterpillar Clubhouse and my wife and I are EXTACTIC over the development and socialization that we have seen with our 1 year old in such a short amount of time. Coming from afull time nanny to a daycare was a huge change for the entire family, but the staff really helped the transition easily. Everyone is soooo friendly. The owner is such a delight and very active in running her business. The facility looks and feels new – it is top notch, IMO.
We were recommended by two of our friends whose toddlers also attend here. We are so happy that our child attends this establishment and we honestly couldn’t ask for anything more!
Pictures throughout the day. Updates of bathroom breaks. Outdoor activities. Singing and dancing. Family involvement via projects/homework (nothing major to do). Everything you need to know and do for your child is on an app – very modern and so easy to use to keep update with our child!
Overall, the vibe of this business feels like love when you walk in and the staff are full love.
5 stars!…
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Welcome to Pomme d’Or Multicultural Daycare
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A home-like environment has a closer teacher to child bond since the caregiver often cares for the child the entire day. Fewer cases of illnesses since the child is exposed to fewer children.
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We are proud to say that we have created life-long friendships with past clients well beyond their time here at our home.
We treat each child and parent like family and are committed to ensuring that your child receives the best care possible. We offer flexible hours, weekend care, overnight care, special needs care, and babysitting for when you need to get out of the house! During the school year, we organize field trips to local museums and the Patuxent Wildlife petting zoo to add a level of fun and adventure for your child.
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Kozy Tykes Llc
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Description:
Hi My name is Ty. I am the owner of Kozy Tykes LLC.
I have been caring for children for about 12 years now.
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FAQs for finding daycares in Bowie
In 2022 what type of daycare can I find near me in Bowie, MD?
There are a variety of daycares in Bowie, MD providing full time and part-time care. Some daycares are facility-based and some are in-home daycares operated out of a person’s home. They can also vary in the degree of education and curriculum they offer. Additionally, some daycares offer bilingual programs for parents that want to immerse their children in multiple languages.
How can I find a daycare near me in Bowie, MD?
If you are looking for daycare options near you, start several months in advance of when you need care for your child. Care.com has 442 in Bowie, MD as of October 2022 and you can filter daycares by distance from Bowie or your zip code. From there, you can then compare daycare rates, parent reviews, view their specific services, see their hours of operation and contact them through the website for further information or to request an appointment.
What questions should I ask a daycare provider before signing up?
As you visit daycare facilities in Bowie, MD, you should ask the providers what their hours are so you can be prepared to adjust your schedule for drop-off and pick-up. Ask what items you are responsible for bringing for your child and what items you may be required to provide that will be shared among other children or the daycare staff. Also, make sure to check directly with the business for information about their local licensing and credentials in Bowie, MD.
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My Little Anjel’s WeeCare
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Bowie, MD
(667) 202-1380
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6:30 am – 6:00 pm
Denise Petersen Daycare
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Mitchellville, MD
(316) 395-9572
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Olivia Statom Daycare
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Bowie, MD
(216) 259-8440
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6:30 am – 6:30 pm
Deeannia Hobbs Daycare
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Bowie, MD
(206) 887-9382
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7:30 am – 6:30 pm
Deborah Shackelford Daycare
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(316) 395-9572
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6:30 am – 11:00 pm
Rebecca Thompson Daycare
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Bowie, MD
(410) 709-7416
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6:00 am – 6:00 pm
Toi Lawrence Daycare
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Mitchellville, MD
(651) 371-8786
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6:30 am – 6:00 pm
Oriyomi Badmus-Mumuni & Taiwo Badmus Daycare
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Bowie, MD
(312) 598-1767
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7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Elizabeth Greene Daycare
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Bowie, MD
(928) 218-5745
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Annie Chelliah & Katherine Ryan Daycare
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(757) 300-5744
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7:30 am – 5:30 pm
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Teachers at Bowie KinderCare at KinderCare Education LLC in Bowie, Maryland
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Our Teachers bring warmth, patience, and understanding to the classroom every day, encouraging children to learn and grow. They inspire children to be lifelong learners using our nationally recognized curriculum that promotes social, physical, verbal, and cognitive development. Our Teachers are committed to making their center successful and know that creating meaningful relationships with children, families, and their team play a crucial role in that success.
As a member of our teaching staff, you will:
- Create a safe, nurturing environment where children can play and learn
- Partner with parents with a shared desire to provide the best care and education for their children
- Support your center’s success by partnering with center staff and leadership to achieve goals around enrollment, accreditation, and engagement
- Cultivate positive relationships with families, teachers, state licensing authorities, community contacts and corporate partners
- Implement KCE’s curriculum in a way that is consistent with the unique needs of each child
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- Paid time off
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- CPR and First Aid Certification or willingness to obtain
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- Completed 12 core ECE Units Infant/toddler OR BA Degree in Child Development
- Must be physically able to use a computer with basic proficiency, lift a minimum of 40 pounds, and work indoors or outdoors
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- Read, write, understand, and speak English to communicate with children and their parents in English
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David Bowie – biography, photo, personal life, wife and children, cause of death, height and weight, listen to songs online
Biography of David Bowie
David Bowie is a British rock musician, singer, actor and artist, who, due to the mixing of styles and images, was eventually dubbed the “chameleon of rock music.
” On account of his 25 studio albums and the creation of a huge number of his own alter egos – from the Gaunt White Duke to Ziggy Stardust.
Pictured: David Bowie
David has been creative for more than 50 years, but all this time he managed to be an innovator. In addition, Bowie was able to influence other famous musicians, including Iggy Pop and Michael Jackson.
Childhood and family
Born in the winter of 1947 in the London Borough of Brixton, the boy was christened David Robert Jones. His parents are Irish Margaret Mary Pegy, nee Barnes, who worked as a usher in a cinema, and Hayward Stenton John Jones, a human resources clerk for one of the charitable organizations. They got married only a year after the birth of their son. Then Margaret took the name Hayward. Stansfield Road, where the family settled, was located between two areas of London – Stockwell and Brixton.
David Bowie’s parents
As soon as the boy learned to speak, it became clear that mom and dad would not be able to cope with his curiosity and activity on their own.
Little David was interested in everything that surrounded him. A few years later he was sent to Stockwell School, where he went to a preparatory class. School teachers recalled that they, too, could barely cope with a five-year-old bully and a bully who, surprisingly, showed brilliant academic results and had an amazing singing talent.
David Bowie as a child
When David was six, the Joneses decided to move to the London suburb of Bromley, where the boy went to the first grade of elementary school. At the same time (1957-1958) he became interested in football, playing for the school team.
School football team with little David Bowie
After little David was attracted to the sound of the flute, he began to study this instrument and actively learned to play it. As soon as the school opened musical and choreographic circles, 9-year-old David became their regular participant, striking teachers with his talents. However, David did not get along with the school choir – the teachers rejected his singing.
Being completely immersed in creative life, the future musician managed to do homework in all school subjects and diligently attended classes.
When dad brought home Elvis Presley records for the first time, David was simply blown away. He begged Hayward to buy him a ukulele, and designed a bass guitar himself so that he could participate in skiffle sessions with his comrades. The young musician’s imagination knew no bounds, he created bewitching stage performances in the style of Chuck Berry and adored Elvis. In the school club, he also took his first piano lessons. The total passion for music influenced David’s studies: he failed the final exam.
Youth and first steps to fame
In the 60s, David studied at the Bromlin Technical College. The young man’s bright musical talent was noticed by the trustee of the educational institution, Owen Frampton, whose son, Peter, also studied there. The guys became friends, the father in every possible way set up his son to study music with Jones.
But full cooperation was waiting for them only after a long thirty years.
David Bowie at school
David focused on studying printing and jazz music. He was very passionate about the work of Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. Fascinated by the sound of the saxophone, the teenager worked in a butcher shop to buy his first pink plastic saxophone, and soon his mother gave him an alto.
At fifteen, David Bowie was seriously injured in a fight with his best friend George Underwood. The cause of the conflict between them was the girl. Within four months, the future musician underwent a series of operations – the doctors did everything possible so that the boy would not go blind in his left eye. However, the doctors failed to help David – he lost the perception of color: with his left eye he saw everything around with the constant presence of a brown background. This defect also manifested itself visually – from the outside it created the illusion of heterochromia.
David Bowie’s heterochromia is the result of an eye injury
It was during these difficult times that the young man created his first rock band called The Kon-Rads and began to play rock and roll with him at various parties.
Through this experience he has mastered expanded his skills almost universally, playing the saxophone and guitar, keyboards and harmonica, ukulele and percussion instruments.
David Bowie in The Kon-rads
A year later, the leader of the group left the team and college and moved to The King Bees, telling his parents that he would become a pop star.
Fascinated by the songs of Mick Jagger, David found out that in the old British “jagger” means “knife”, and on this basis he created the pseudonym “Bowie”, by which he was later recognized by the whole world. His “knife”, Bowie, was a hunting knife, created in honor of the Texan Jim Bowie – the hero of the revolution.
The date of birth of “David Bowie” is considered to be January 14, 1966 – on this day he appeared with The Lower Third on the cover of their album.
The Kon-rads – Slide
David was ready for accomplishments and eager to prove himself, as he told the following in one of his many interviews:
I have always felt like an instrument of some higher power, but I don’t understand what exactly drives me.
Probably, sooner or later, everyone begins to guess that he lives on earth not for himself. In any case, I very early and strongly began to feel the vector of destiny in myself. Unknown musician David Bowie decided to go for broke and wrote a letter to businessman John Bloom, who made a fortune selling household appliances. Bowie suggested that he “make another million” by promoting his band by investing in a musical project. Bloom gave the letter to agent Leslie Conn, who was at the forefront of The Beatles. The young man’s self-confidence was rewarded: Conn signed the first contract with him and took up his promotion.
David Bowie in his youth
The first attempts to win over the public and achieve recognition were not successful, like David Bowie’s first album in 1967. David changed several bands, but the singles he wrote were not sold. As a result, the manager terminated the contract.
Bowie’s first album was not very successful. At least in 1967
In the late 60s, after unsuccessful attempts to break into the top of the musical Olympus, Bowie spent time studying circus arts and mime in the theater.
There he met the mime Lindsey Kemp. The musician learned from a new acquaintance to go beyond the ordinary and enthusiastically immersed himself in the study of the dramatic arts, creating characters that he later embodied in images and characters that delighted the whole world.
David Bowie and Lindsey Kemp
In 1969, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, David released the single Space Oddity, which gained popularity and accompanied all reports about the Apollo 13 flights. David Bowie was able to get into the stream – the single entered the top five hits in England, and soon David released an album of the same name, with which he received his first commercial success not only in Europe, but also in America.
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World (live 2000)
Bowie’s acoustic compositions are replaced by heavy metal and heavy rock in his third disc The Man Who Sold the World, which will soon be dubbed “the beginning of the era of glam rock.” After that, David left for New York and created his own rock band Hype, inspired by the unusual style of another group, The Velvet Underground.
The rise of a creative career
Bowie’s first big concert, which became a landmark, took place in 1972. The musician came up with a character for the performance – Ziggy Stardust, who played himself on stage, while the audience squealed with delight.
Ziggy Stardust – Bowie’s first alter ego
After a resounding success, David staged a tour of the UK, the outfits for which were designed by Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto. The era of success began for David Bowie and his new band The Spiders from Mars, which included guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Woody Woodmansee. The scope of the tour expanded, and the band engaged the Cleveland Music Hall in the USA, later the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The records of the musician took the top positions of the charts in Britain.
David Bowie with band
April 1973 was another creative and commercial milestone for Bowie. It was then that Aladdin Sane’s album took first place in the English charts.
This had a very positive effect on the musician’s career – subsequent discs invariably became leaders or entered the top ten in Europe and America.
Interview with David Bowie (with Russian translation)
Bowie did not linger in the image of Ziggy and continued to embody new ideas and experiment. In his next album Diamond Dogs (1974) he reads the concept introduction and sings the song suite. The musical style is shifting – the disc was recorded in the genres of soul and funk. The album makes David the most “selling” musician.
David Bowie of the Diamond Dogs era
In 1974, the musician went on another large-scale tour for more than six months in the cities of the United States. In Los Angeles, Michael Jackson visited his musical show. At this concert, Bowie literally “gave” Jackson his future calling card – the moonwalk.
David Bowie Moonwalk
During the tour, the musician’s addiction to drugs became apparent. According to the rock star, he had several overdoses, as a result of which his mind was “clouded”.
Fans and critics noted the singer’s haggardness and too obvious thinness.
Bowie’s perception of reality was getting weaker, but? despite psychological problems, in 1976 David went on another tour. It was a wild commercial success, but at the same time, Bowie also faced ideological problems – the musician was accused of popularizing fascism for his statements about Hitler as the “first rock artist.” Bowie was also detained at one of the Eastern European customs for the transport of Nazi paraphernalia.
David Bowie as the White Duke
The artist also confessed to his unsuccessful experiments with heavy prohibited substances and apologized. He even blamed the image of the Gaunt White Duke, which appeared before the public on this tour, calling himself completely crazy:
I am absolutely cold and indifferent to everything. But in that case, I ask myself, where does this stormy source of creative energy come from? I do not understand. The songs of David Bowie do not belong to me, I just release them through myself into this world.
Then I listen to them and am amazed: the author at least experienced strong feelings! It is not given to me to know such people in a state of inner numbness. I’m not a man – I’m a piece of ice. Bowie tried to get rid of drug addiction by moving to Schöneberg (West Berlin) with the same addicted friend Iggy Pop, where they lived for 3 years in the mid-70s.
David Bowie and Iggy Pop were roommates in
During this time, David helped Iggy release two solo albums and recorded three new albums himself. “Triptych”, as the musician called them, was the basis of a new world tour, during which the singer visited Australia and New Zealand. The musician also visited Russia, after which the record David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev,s Peter and de Wolf, created based on the work of Sergei Prokofiev, saw the light of day.
David Bowie in Red Square
The album Heroes, which was also written in Berlin, fully corresponded to the mood in the society of Germany, divided by the Berlin Wall.
On the title track of Heroes (1977), Bowie sings about two lovers who secretly meet near her. This composition was covered dozens of times, sounded in the pictures “Moulin Rouge!” with Nicole Kidaman and Godzilla with Jean Reno.
David Bowie in front of the Berlin Wall
Film career
1980 was a turning point for Bowie – he stopped using illegal substances. In addition, during this period, David collaborated with a huge number of celebrities. For example, together with Freddie Mercury and Queen, David recorded the song Under Pressure, which took first position in the British charts. Also in a cameo role, the artist appeared in the German film about the dangers of drugs “We are children from Zoo Station” and recorded the soundtrack for the film.
David Bowie recorded a song with Freddie Mercury
In the 80s, he also participated in theatrical productions, wrote new songs and music for films. Albums released during that period consistently topped the charts around the world, increasing the musician’s popularity.
At the same time, Bowie began to participate in promotions and charity events, which instantly increased donation collections tenfold.
David Bowie on The Dick Cavett Show (subtitles in Russian)
Among the iconic roles of Bowie in the films of those years, one can also distinguish an alien in the fantastic “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, the goblin king in the film “Labyrinth” and a two-hundred-year-old vampire in the horror “Hunger”. On the set of the latter, the musician worked together with the French film star Catherine Deneuve. David also considered the role of Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese’s drama The Last Temptation of Christ to be very significant for himself. In addition, in Richard Shepard’s crime comedy A Robbery Story, he played the charming robber bartender Monty, and Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s biographical drama Basquiat.
Still from the film “Labyrinth”
In 2007, in the joint British-American fantasy thriller The Prestige, David, as always talented, played Nikola Tesla.
The artist’s partners in the film were Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. In a big movie, this was Bowie’s last role.
David Bowie in The Prestige
Creativity in the new time
In the 90s, David creates a new group Tin Machine, in which he performs on an ongoing basis. Together with the members of the group, he held several world tours and released two more albums (I and II).
David Bowie & Tin Machine (1989)
However, Bowie does not stop there and conducts experiments on mixing a variety of musical styles – this earns him the national title of “rock music chameleon”. Critics called the musician’s next disc 1.Outside the most conceptual and ambitious. Bowie recorded it in 1995 with Brian Eno. In the 2000s, another Heathen studio album was released, and then, with a difference of a year, the Reality album.
During a world tour in 2004, the musician ended up in a Hamburg hospital where he was operated on for a clogged artery. The tour was postponed indefinitely as Bowie felt very weak.
For more than a year, the musician recovered his strength, and then became a nominee for the prestigious Grammy music award, which he soon received.
David Bowie – Lazarus
In the summer of 2011, David Bowie announced that he was ending his musical career, but two and a half years later he released his next album, The Next Day, which again took the top lines of the charts in more than forty countries.
David Bowie in his last years
According to the musician, he wrote songs inspired by the history of modern Russia. The last, twenty-fifth album of the brilliant artist was Blackstar, released just two days before David Bowie left this world.
David Bowie’s private life
The personal life of the outrageous experimenter Bowie was as rich and very difficult as the musician himself. Early in his career, he met his first serious love, actress Hermione Farthingale. Together with her, they created poetic minuets, playing in the band Feathers. After living together for about a year, they broke up.
David Bowie and Hermione Farthingale (1969)
In the late sixties, Bowie married Angela Barnett, a model whom he met at one of the many parties. They formalized their marriage at 1970, after which David invited the young wife to live together, without restricting each other’s sexual freedom. At that time, he called himself a trisexual (try – from English “try”) and tried to match the chosen image.
David Bowie, Angela Barnett and their child
A year after the wedding, Angela gave birth to a musician boy, whom the lovers named Duncan Zoe Heywood Jones. The free relationship that the husband preached did not really suit the woman. Scandals and showdowns broke out in the family every now and then. Therefore, after living together for ten years, the couple decided to divorce. Angela admitted much later that she never understood what David wanted from her. And Bowie years later said that his sexual interests of that time were only a tribute to fashion and had nothing to do with real feelings.
David Bowie with son Duncan
David’s son, by the way, became a director and released such films as “Source Code” and “Moon 2112”.
Ten years after the divorce, Bowie met the black model Iman Abdulmajid and literally lost his head. Nefertiti from Michael Jackson’s Remember The Time video was unlike any of his former lovers. From the first meeting, according to the musician, he began to come up with names for their future children. Iman, on the contrary, could not imagine the idol of millions as a husband and father. But it turned out that the outrageous and extravagant David Bowie on stage and the restrained, caring, with an incredibly attractive sense of humor David Jones are truly two different people, as the model in love later joked.
Wedding of David Bowie and Iman Abdulmajid
Iman Abdulmajid remembered the marriage proposal from Bowie for the rest of her life. According to her, the ring, which she admired during a joint trip to Florence, David gave her two years later, going down on one knee.
And in order to acquire it, Bowie had to find the very jewelry store and the owner of a rare item. In 1992, happy lovers got married.
Alexandria, daughter of David Bowie
After 8 years, in 2000, the couple had a daughter, Alexandria (Lexi), and Iman could not imagine a more exemplary father and husband. They lived happily together for almost twenty-five years and only David’s death could separate them. The inconsolable widow declared that she would never marry again.
Death
A year and a half after David learned from the doctors about his diagnosis – liver cancer, the musician began work on a new musical with his friend Ivo Van Hove, carefully choosing the songs for his latest album. Then only the closest people knew about David’s illness. About the last days of the musician, Ivo spoke as follows:
Bowie continued to work on his deathbed. I saw a man who is struggling. He fought like a lion and continued to work no matter what.
Legendary Space Transformer David Bowie passed away on January 10, 2016.
Four days later, the musician was cremated in New York, and then his ashes were transported to Bali, where they were buried according to the traditions of Buddhism. According to some reports, the artist left behind a large creative legacy of unpublished works during his lifetime. Relatives promised to release albums with rock genius compositions gradually.
Memory
On January 8, 2017, on the musician’s 70th birthday, his posthumous EP No Plan was released with four tracks. In the same year, the Royal English Mail announced the release of a personalized series of stamps – Bowie became the first solo artist to be honored posthumously. Another significant event of the year was the awarding of the main British music award “Grammy” to David Bowie. It was also the first time she was awarded posthumously.
David Bowie – Blackstar
In 2018, a bronze monument was erected in honor of the musician in Aylesbury called “Earth Messenger”. At the same time, under the song Space Oddity by Bowie, Elon Musk launched a Falcon Heavy into space with a Tesla on board.
David Bowie Wall in Brixton, London
In 2019, a film about Bowie’s career, beginning with the move to the US, was scheduled to be shot. The working title of the biopic was “Stardust”, and British actor Johnny Flynn was invited to play the main role. The producers clarified that they do not claim to recreate the musician’s autobiography and will focus only on this period of David’s life. For 2020, Parlophone Records plans to release two albums with two previously unreleased Bowie songs.
Best movies
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David Bowie’s Rules of Life – Biographies
Musician, actor, artist, famous for his dramatic image changes David Bowie left us a large collection of his work. He passed away at the age of 69. Its impact on culture will be felt for generations. The artist gave us time to reflect on his words. David Bowie’s rules of life, which we can learn from his speeches, can become wise advice.
David Bowie’s Rules of Life
1 Humor is important
I have redefined my image so often that I deny that I was originally a fat Korean woman.
Now I plan to release an illegal autobiography. I hope it sells in such huge quantities that I can sue myself. With the proceeds of fabulous money, I will finance the film in which I will play all the roles.
I’m always surprised that people take what I say seriously. Even I don’t take myself seriously.
2 Never settle for anything less
I have always had a repulsive need to be more than human. I am not a prophet or a stone age man, just a mortal with superman potential. That’s how we live.
3 Find a way around your limitations
I had to admit to myself that I’m not very clear when it comes to explanations. But my music does it for me.
The only art that I will study will be “something” that I can steal…
4 Be a visionary
The absolute transformation of everything we ever thought about music will happen within 10 years and nothing can stop it. I don’t see any point in pretending it won’t happen. I am completely sure that copyright, for example, will not exist in 10 years.
Humanism has taken the place of religion: work very hard and somehow you will either save yourself or become immortal. Of course, this is complete nonsense, and our progress is nothing. Maybe there is progress in technology, but there is no ethical progress at all.
Prince’s rules of life
5 Negotiate with your inner ghosts
On the other hand, I like it when my music awakens the ghosts inside of me. Not demons, you understand, but ghosts. There is horror in knowing what the world is.
Oddly enough, there are some songs you really don’t want to write. I didn’t like writing Heathen. There was something so ominous and final in those words, and tears streamed down my face. But I couldn’t stop, they just flew out. It’s a strange feeling, like something else is guiding you.
6 Be simple in your genius
I am in the business of writing about very personal experiences, each time trying to explore them in a different way.
What I do is not very intellectual. For heaven’s sake, I’m a pop singer. As a person, I’m pretty uncomplicated.
To be honest, some of the interpretations of my songs that I read are much more interesting than the meaning that I put into them.
7 Let people know about your talents
David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed
Why be modest, most of the musicians, with a few exceptions, did their best work with me, it was their finest hour. In my opinion, I often bring out the best in people and can give an opportunity to show talent.
Lady Gaga’s Rules for Success
8 Create a unique perspective
I think Mick Jagger would be amazed if he realized that for many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
When I get stuck writing lyrics, I will push my last resort: “absolutely illogical.”
9 Fame is not everything
Fame can fall on interesting people and turn them into mediocrity.
It seems to me that Madonna is not a very happy woman. In my own experience, after going through such personality changes, you grow claws, and all your problems are always in the spotlight, which few people like.
10 Get to know your roots
I have always regretted not being able to speak openly with my parents, especially my father. I have heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe in anything; every relative I asked has their own truth and vision of the same stories.
I never thought I’d be such a “family oriented” guy, I didn’t think I needed it. But they say that as you grow up, you become who you should have always been, and I feel that this is happening to me. I’m quite surprised at what I’ve become because I’m actually like my father!
11 Do more in the short time you have
As you get older, the questions come down to two or three. How long? And what should I do with the remaining time? Fight this corpse.
The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and difficult confrontation. Once you stop being surprised by being alive, you lose out to death.
It’s shocking, but all the clichés are true. The years are really speeding up. Life is really as short as everyone says. If all the other clichés are true…hell, don’t make me look like that.
Adapted translation by Velimira Antropova
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Aging of imagery
David Bowie did not come to his changing imagery right away. At first, the visual component was just a continuation of the passion for rock and roll that began in childhood.
In 1957, at the age of 10, he danced along with his cousin Christina to the newly released Presley song Hound Dog, twisting his hips with might and main, imitating his newfound idol. “We danced like possessed elves,” Christina recalled.
By the end of the same 1957, he played the ukelele and a one-string bass-trough in the school band, the then popular skiffle style – a mixture of American country and English folk. According to the recollections of those who saw it, “his movements were mesmerizing, he seemed to be from another planet.”
At the age of 11, he entered a secondary school with a focus on design and fine arts among the subjects. In parallel, he became interested in jazz, and began to intensively master the saxophone presented by his mother.
The first bands he played in – Konrads, King Bees, Manish Boys, Lower Third, like most of the English bands of the early 1960s – were oriented towards American rhythm and blues, although even then the young Bowie was clearly strove to become not just a leader, but a frontman, that is, the face of a group for whom the visual component was no less, if not more important, than the musical one. “I dreamed of being Mick Jagger,” he later recalled.
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16-year-old David Jones poses as a model for a photo shoot for Boyfriend fashion magazine at the epicenter of London’s fashion, Carnaby Street. Summer 1963.
The visual component gradually overtightened – so much so that at some point he even announced that he was leaving rock and roll and would study dance, mime and mima. At the same time, he abandoned his real, most ordinary surname Jones and took the pseudonym Bowie – after the name invented back in the 30s of the 19th century in America and which became especially popular there during the years of the “gold rush” and the Civil War the so-called “Bowie knife”.
In April 1967, he released David Bowie’s first solo album, which went largely unnoticed. Which only strengthened his desire to move towards mimams.
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Actor, mime, choreographer Lindsey Kemp had a huge impact on David Bowie’s movement and visual style. Kemp brought elements of Italian square theatre, avant-garde dance and – thanks to his open, even demonstrative homosexuality – the very androgyny that is so characteristic of Bowie to Bowie’s rock and roll plasticity.70s.
In February 1969, he briefly joined Tyrannosaurus Rex, the folk-psychedelic duo of Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrine Took, which later grew into the super-popular band T. Rex. But – what is characteristic! Bowie didn’t sing or play musical instruments in this band. In full accordance with his then interests, he performed the role of a mime and a dancer next to Bolan, who sang and played the guitar, and Took, a percussionist, enriching the group’s psychedelic music with his bizarre movements.
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Bowie’s friendship with Marc Bolan, established in the 1960s, continued throughout his life. The picture shows a heartbroken Bowie at a friend’s funeral. September 20, 1977
Rock and roll, however, did not let go. Throughout the spring of 1969, Bowie worked on his second album and, most importantly, on the single, which was destined to become a breakthrough for him, and in which the alter ego invented by him appears for the first time – an image with which Bowie will be associated for a long time, almost all his life.
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Paradoxical as it may seem in the light of Bowie’s visual, dance, facial aspirations of the second half of the 1960s, his first image was a creation rather poetic, drawn from the world of the incredibly popular in that decade of space Topics.
On July 16, 1969, the American spacecraft Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to land on the moon four days later and allow two astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – to be the first earthlings to set foot on the surface of an extraterrestrial cosmic body, thereby fulfilling the promise made by President Kennedy back in 1962 to land on the moon “in this decade”. Since the time of Gagarin’s first flight into space, there has not been such a feverish close attention to everything space. The planet froze in tension and in anticipation of a historic event.
The forthcoming Apollo lunar mission, unlike Gagarin’s flight, was not a secret, and on July 11, five days before the launch, in an atmosphere of joyful cosmic excitement, little known then 22-year-old Bowie prudently releases a “space” single with the “strange” space name “Space Oddity” – “Space Oddity”.
The song was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s epic “Space Odyssey 2001” released a year earlier.
Contents “Space Oddity” – dialogue, negotiations between the astronaut Major Tom thrown into space and the Mission Control Center. Both parties – both Major Tom and Ground Control – were sung by Bowie himself. At first, the conversation goes in optimistic-hospitable tones: they triumph on Earth, congratulate Major Tom on his success. He goes into outer space, and then the irreparable happens – he breaks away from the ship, the Center loses contact with him, and he just manages to send to Earth: “Tell my wife that I love her very much.”
Bowie’s calculation turned out to be accurate – during the entire Apollo flight, the constant space television and radio broadcasts vitally needed the appropriate musical arrangement, and the BBC hastily seized on the “space” song just released so conveniently, making it sound accompaniment television broadcast of the moon landing.
In the wake of the space fever, despite the song’s lack of a happy ending, unlike a real space mission, “Space Oddity” managed to climb to number five in the UK charts. In the US, it has gone largely unnoticed. In October, Bowie appeared with her on television in the Top of the Pops program, after which both the song itself and its author and performer again almost disappeared into oblivion for three long years. For Bowie, the insulting reputation of “one hit wonder” (the miracle of one hit) was fixed – this is the name of artists who, having achieved success with one song, disappear without a trace after it.
Bowie did not disappear without a trace, just as his hero did not disappear without a trace. Major Tom is the first of a series of alter egos invented by Bowie.
If the other “persons” of Bowie succeeded each other, each of them marked a certain stage of his artistic career, then Major Tom went with him through his whole life.
Could Thomas Jerome Newton, the mysterious alien, the protagonist of the 1976 year by Nicholas Roeg of the film “The Man Who Fell to Earth” performed by Bowie, be the reincarnation of Major Tom? Nothing but the coincidence of the name and the space theme seems to suggest this, but still …
Major Tom unexpectedly pops up in the song “Ashes to Ashes” from the 1980 album Scary Monsters – the time when Bowie was desperately struggling with cocaine and heroin addiction: “Remember that guy from the old song? I heard a rumor from Mission Control… I don’t even want to believe it… From dust to dust… We know that Major Tom is a junkie. me, no, no, again…” The green tubes here are the rolled up dollar bills invariably associated with cocaine.
In 1995 another “space” song “Hello Spaceboy” appeared. Although Major Tom’s version was not on the original Outside album, the remix Bowie released a year later with the Pet Shop Boys features lines from “Space Oddity” sung by Pet Shop Boys vocalist Neil Tennant.
And, finally, in the video for the title track of Bowie’s death album “Blackstar” we see a skeleton in an astronaut costume ordered by the musician especially for filming. The musician did not give any explanations or comments on his idea.
“Could it be Major Tom?” asks the director of the video, Johan Renck, after Bowie’s death. and his appearance in the latest video seems quite logical.”
In 2013, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield sent a video of himself performing “Space Oddity” back to Earth while on board the International Space Station. He slightly changed the words – instead of the story, which is not entirely appropriate for the current astronaut, about losing communication with the Mission Control Center and disappearing without a trace in the depths of space, his Major Tom successfully completes his mission and returns to Earth.
The publication of the video clip was preceded by the dedication: “In admiration for the genius of David Bowie”.
Thus Bowie’s “space” song became the first actually performed in space. Major Tom went down in history – finally and irrevocably.
Ziggy Stardust
For all Major Tom’s enchanting cosmic magic, he had no special visual incarnation. The original 1969 recording did not have a video version (there were no video clips then, and promo videos on film were expensive, and were filmed only for very successful artists), and in concert performances Bowie appeared on stage in the archetypal appearance of the hippies of the late 60s – a mane descending to shoulders of hair, a bright colorful shirt and flared trousers.
Meanwhile, the search for a new bright original image did not stop. First, on the cover of The Man Who Sold the World (1970) album, an extravagant drag queen with a female hairstyle and in a luxurious female dress appeared, but rather quickly disappeared. In the US, the cover was considered too provocative and the album was refused to be released in this form.
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On the cover of The Man Who Sold the World (UK only), Bowie appeared in an extravagant drag queen outfit with a woman’s hairstyle and a woman’s dress
And, finally, in 1972, the world was revealed demonstratively bisexual androgynous Ziggy Stardust – a hybrid of his two like-minded American friends: external extravagance and a hint of the name of Iggy Pop and the musical and poetic sophistication of Lou Reed.
The mysterious alien from the mysterious planet was designed for the concept show and concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
The “Starman” single sold well and was critically acclaimed. However, the real explosion came on July 16, 1972, after the release of the album, when Bowie and his Spiders from Mars were invited to perform the song “Starman” on the super-popular BBC television program Top of the Pops. The general public, who did not specifically follow Bowie during the past three years with “Space Oddity”, managed to forget about him, and the singer’s return with another space song was perceived simply as a sequel to his first hit.
Bowie looked, however, in a radically different way.
Let me remind you – this is 1972 years, before the mass invasion of video clips with their sophisticated visuals, before MTV and before the abundance of digital TV channels. All British youth, all musicians and teenagers dreaming of the pop world, loyally stuck to the TV screens every Saturday, hoping for the coming of a new rock messiah.
That evening their expectations were justified. Bowie spoke to the audience in a new language, addressing them directly. At the phrase “I had to phone someone so I picked on you ooh ooh” (I needed to call someone, and I chose you-I-I-ah-ah-ah!) directly at the viewer looking at the screen.
“It seemed that Bowie had chosen me, that I was the one … the chosen one … It was almost a religious experience,” one fan recalled.
And then he put his hand on the shoulder of his guitarist Mick Ronson and lovingly pulled him to him, making the young people who were in the mood for sexual emancipation gasp with admiration and recoil in horror, completely unaccustomed to such manifestations of same-sex tenderness of their parents.
A few months earlier, in an interview with Melody Maker, Bowie had declared his unambiguous homosexuality: “I’m gay and have always been gay, even when my name was David Jones.” The subsequent life of the musician suggests that then he, to put it mildly, exaggerated, but at 19In 1972, only five years after the cautious decriminalization of homosexuality and in an environment of still obvious suspicion and rejection by the majority of society, such a demonstrative coming out was a gesture of desperate courage, a political act.
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Ziggy Stardust is one of David Bowie’s most striking and memorable looks
It was still a few years before the advent of punk, but Bowie single-handedly, in one fell swoop and in the most decisive way, discarded both aesthetics that had dominated the past decade – both mindless commercial pop and the hippie counterculture that opposed it. It was really like the coming of the Messiah.
Just as the moment that converted them to a new faith is remembered by numerous future stars who looked longingly at the TV screen that evening: Boy George, Adam Ant, Mick Jones of the Clash, Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet, Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths, Susie Sue of Siouxsie and the Banshees, musicians Duran Duran, Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Robert Smith of the Cure, Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen.
“This is one of the turning points in modern music, or if not music, then at least show business. It took incredible courage and tremendous self-confidence to take such a step. To say that it was something of a out of the blue – to say nothing, “remembers his impressions of the then 15-year-old future New Romantic host Gary Newman. Even the already quite successful professional Elton John did not hide his delight: “It was something completely new. WOW! Nobody has ever seen anything like it!”
Of course, “Space Oddity” was also remembered: “If Bowie’s first hit was a science fiction story, then here we are dealing with a confidently triumphant self-proclaiming of a new star,” wrote New Musical Express. The point, of course, was not in the song – quite simple and musically unremarkable. It was about appearance, image and unprecedented – even against the backdrop of the defiant audacity of the Rolling Stones – Bowie’s self-confidence.
“Starman” has changed not only music – it has changed fashion, art, sex. It is no coincidence that at the monumental exhibition dedicated to Bowie at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Bowie’s various performances of the legendary song – led by the epoch-making one on Top of the Pops – were dedicated to a huge wall lined with video monitors. On one of the monitors, a looped concert performance was played, during which Bowie, kneeling in front of guitarist Mick Ronson, imitates oral sex with his guitar.
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Bowie kneels in front of his guitarist Mick Ronson, simulating oral sex on his guitar. One of the concerts of Ziggy Stardust tour, London, Earl’s Court, May 12, 1973
Following such a grandiose success of the space “Starman” one should inevitably expect the re-release of its predecessor – “Space Oddity”. The single, re-released in 1973, had already made its way into the American charts, and with the next re-release in 1975, it finally topped the British charts, becoming the first number one in the artist’s career.
Gaunt White Duke
Ziggy Stardust brought Bowie global success, worldwide fame, a lot of money and almost inevitably, at that time, the drug addiction that accompanied rock success.
In 1974 he moved to the USA, first to New York, then to Los Angeles. Los Angeles in the mid-1970s was for rock musicians, especially the British who flocked there, the focus of revelry, alcohol and drug intoxication, aesthetic decadence.
It was in Los Angeles, parting ways with Yoko Ono, that John Lennon went to his alcohol-soaked “Lost Weekend”. And along with Ringo Starr who joined him, he entered the infamous Hollywood Vampires, a club of desperate drunkards founded by Alice Cooper. To become a member, a recruit had to outdrink the others. In addition to those mentioned, Brian Wilson, Iggy Pop, Keith Moon, Keith Emerson, Marc Bolan and other lesser-known characters also belonged to the club.
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With John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Grammy Awards.
Bowie’s favorite drug was cocaine, and his two years in Los Angeles were literally soaked with the drug. Several times during this time he had an overdose, his mind, by his own admission, became very confused. He later admitted that due to the “astronomical” amount of cocaine consumed, he had little to no recollection of the process of making the Station to Station album recorded there.
It is in the title track of the album Station to Station, in its first macabre-ominous line, that Bowie’s new persona Thin White Duke (The Exhausted White Duke) is first mentioned: “The return of the Thin White Duke throwing darts in lover’s eyes” (the return of the exhausted white duke throwing arrows into the eyes of his beloved).
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Bowie’s new persona The Gaunt White Knight, introduced in 1976, reflected his actual physical exhaustion from cocaine abuse.
The name fully reflected the physical condition and appearance of Bowie himself.
Sinister was not only the appearance, but also the ideological content of the new image, which often, unlike previous persons, went beyond the limits of artistry and voluntarily or involuntarily combined with the personality of the artist himself.
He became close friends in Los Angeles with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, a longtime admirer of the British mystic, magician and occultist of the first half of the 20th century Aleister Crowley. Together they spent a lot of time in the company of another admirer of Crowley – avant-garde filmmaker and artistic provocateur Kenneth Unger. In a sense, this new passion was a continuation of Bowie’s deep interest in Nietzsche and his idea of the superman, which was so clearly manifested in his songs at the turn of the 60s and 70s.
- David Bowie as an artist: Aleister Crowley, magic, occultism, Kabbalah and tarot cards
In Crowley’s ideas expressed at the very beginning of the century, as well as in the Nietzscheism that fascinated Bowie, one could trace the grains of fascism, for which Bowie began to express sympathy pretty candid. On tour in Stockholm, he declared that “Britain will not be harmed by a fascist leader,” and on the Soviet-Polish border, when in May 1976, together with Iggy Pop, he set off on his second trip along the Trans-Siberian Railway, he was detained by customs officers who found him in luggage with Nazi symbols.
It is not surprising that, against the backdrop of all this, upon his arrival in London in the same May 1976, he greeted the crowd of admirers from the salon of an open Mercedes from the salon of an open Mercedes with his right hand thrown up, the press immediately interpreted this gesture as a Nazi salute.
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Bowie in an open Mercedes at Victoria Station in London 2 May 1976 years old. A moment after this picture was taken, he will throw up his right hand, which was interpreted by the press as a Nazi salute “What I do is theater and only theater. There is nothing sinister about it, pure clowning. I use myself as a canvas on which I try to apply the colors of our time. I am not a fascist at all.”
Years later, he was more outspoken and attributed his pro-fascist statements and behavior at the time to cocaine addiction and immersion in the image of the Gaunt White Duke: “I was completely beside myself, completely insane and up to my ears in mythology … everything around Hitler and right-wing ideas” .
He put all the blame on Los Angeles: “This fucking place should just be wiped off the face of the Earth.
Video
On the Gaunt White Duke, Bowie essentially stopped the risky and not always justified search for some permanent look, a new persona, endlessly changing artistic alter egos. On stage, he appeared simply in the image of David Bowie – invariably inventive, invariably stylish, but not already loaded with any additional meanings.
That, however, did not stop him in the least in his search for a new bright visuality, which was transferred to the culture of video clips that rapidly developed at the turn of the 1970s and 80s. Each clip can be analyzed separately, trying to understand to what extent it is the merit of Bowie himself, and to what extent the director.
I will name just a few, in my opinion, the brightest and most memorable Bowie clips.
B John, I’m Only Dancing (1972) directed by Mick Rock Bowie appears with neon orange hair and red nail polish. On the cheek – a tattooed anchor and the inscription “Hello, Sailor!” (Hi, sailor!) Due to the dancers from the Lindsay Kemp troupe accompanying the Bowie group, the clip was not allowed to air on the BBC – their appearance and movements were considered obscene.
Ashes to Ashes (1980)
A mixture of horror and fantasy. Monochrome otherworldly lunar landscapes, against which Bowie appears in changing guises – in a clown suit, locked in a prison cell, in a dentist’s chair and bound hand and foot immersed in a giant aquarium. Dressed as Pierrot, he plods in front of a bulldozer, flanked by black-clad key figures from the New Romantic movement, including Visage frontman Steve Strange.
Dancing in the Street (with Mick Jagger, 1985)
Face to face with his once idol and role model Mick Jagger. As Rolling Stone put it in its review, “rock ‘n’ roll’s two most shameless peacocks” engage in a desperate dance duel, trying to out-dance each other in hilarious parody of their partner’s moves. The result of the fight? Draw.
Lazarus, Blackstar (2016)
And finally, two videos from the Blackstar album. Bowie recorded him already terminally ill, and he came out two days before his death. Bowie carefully concealed his serious illness; the album and both clips, where he appears with his face tied with a bandage, are the artist’s epitaph to himself, finally released pain and farewell to the world.
Movies
Few pop stars of his generation worked in films as successfully and fruitfully as David Bowie, although his super-successful career as a musician usually overshadows his acting achievements.
In fact, Bowie has appeared as an actor in more than 30 films – and this is not counting the numerous documentaries about him and with his participation and, albeit a small but significant experience as a film producer, the most remarkable example of which was the film produced by Bowie “Scott Walker – 30th century man” about the avant-garde singer-songwriter Scott Walker, whom Bowie admired and had a great influence on.
Among Bowie’s acting credits, there aren’t that many leading roles, but in any of his film roles, his extraordinary personality is clearly manifested, so much so that many of these films are completely unimaginable without him. It is often based on the brightest visual image carefully designed by Bowie himself – the directors just have to bring it into their picture.
I have already mentioned the picture “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, which was built entirely by director Nicholas Roeg around the frighteningly bewitching appearance of an alien performed by Bowie.
It is also impossible to imagine without Bowie’s demonic appearance the erotic thriller about vampires “Hunger”, in which he plays with two magnificent partners – Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.
Or take, say, the George Lucas-produced musical fantasy tale Labyrinth, in which Bowie not only plays the sinister goblin king Jareth, but also sings.
He leaves an indelible personal imprint on all his movie characters, even if these characters are widely known personalities, with their own brightest individuality, and even if these characters do not fit well with the image of David Bowie that has developed in our minds.
His Pontius Pilate in “The Last Temptation of Christ” by Martin Scorsese is a thoughtful, serious, judicious, tense intellectual dialogue with Christ, without the hysterical hand-wringing habitual for this hero.
In the biopic “Basquiat” about the New York nugget artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, director Julian Schnabel gave him the role of Andy Warhol.
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David Bowie as Andy Warhol in Basquiat. 1996
How difficult it is to imagine another inventor Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s thriller “The Prestige”. For this role, Nolan needed not necessarily a movie star, but someone with “extraordinary charisma.” “I could not imagine anyone other than Bowie in this role,” the director said.
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David Bowie is unique. And its uniqueness lies in its incredible diversity, not only musical, but also visual. It is no coincidence that a huge exhibition dedicated to him – costumes, designs, video clips, scenery – was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one of the most famous and most prestigious museums of fine art.
David Bowie – Movies and TV series
David Bowie
British rock singer-songwriter, producer, sound engineer, artist and actor. For fifty years he was engaged in musical creativity and often changed his image, which is why he is called the “chameleon of rock music.” At the same time, Bowie managed to maintain his own recognizable style, successfully combining it with current musical trends. Bowie is considered an innovator, in part due to his work 1970s. He influenced many musicians, and was known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
Having released the album David Bowie and several singles in the early years of his activity, David Bowie nevertheless became known to the general public only in the fall of 1969, when his song “Space Oddity” reached the top five in the British hit parade. After three years of experimentation, he reappeared in public in 1972 during the heyday of glam rock, creating a flamboyant androgynous image of a character named Ziggy Stardust.
In 1975, Bowie had his first major American success with the number one single “Fame”, co-written by John Lennon and Carlos Alomar, and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer described as “plastic soul”. soul). The album’s sound represents a radical shift in Bowie’s musical style, which initially alienated many of the singer’s British fans. He then lived up to the expectations of his label and American fans with the release of the minimalist album Low (1977) is the first of three discs of the so-called “Berlin Bowie Trilogy”, recorded with Brian Eno over the next two years. All three albums reached the top five of the UK charts and received extremely positive reviews from critics for a long time.
Bowie has achieved recognition as a film actor as well; among his most famous roles are the alien Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth (awarded with the American Saturn Film Award), the vampire John in The Hunger, the goblin king Jareth in The Labyrinth.
In a 2002 BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was ranked 29th. Over the course of his career, he has sold over 136 million records, making him one of the top 10 most successful artists in UK popular music history. Six of his albums are included in the list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” according to Rolling Stone magazine (and the first three of them were released in a row – from 1972 to 1973, the remaining three – in 1976-1977). In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at 39.No. 100 of the Greatest Rock Artists of All Time and No. 23 of The 100 Greatest Vocalists of All Time.
On January 8, 2016, on his 69th birthday, Bowie officially released the Blackstar album. Two days later, the musician died of liver cancer, which he had been fighting for the past year and a half
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BOWIE David – biography, news, photo, date of birth, press dossier. Personalii GlobalMSK.ru.
Biography
David Bowie is a famous British singer and musician who has been making music for over 50 years.
“Rock Chameleon” created the largest legendary cult in the music world and became one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century through constant innovative transformations in all genres of music. Effectively alternating images from a folk singer to an alien, he won the title of one of the most successful artists in the history of the British charts and the best musicians of the last 60 years.
Childhood and adolescence
David Robert Jones (later David Bowie) was born on January 8, 1947 in London Brixton to Margaret Mary Pegy, an Irish woman who worked as a cinema cashier, and Hayward Stenton John Jones, an Englishman by nationality who was a clerk in the department charitable organization staff. Later it turns out that David was born on the same day as his idol Elvis Presley, exactly 12 years after him. According to the sign of the zodiac, both musicians turned out to be Capricorns, and according to Chinese astrology, the Pig became their patron.
At the time of the birth of their son, David’s parents lived in a civil marriage, only after 8 months they legalized their relationship.
In 1953 David Bowie’s family moved to Bromley where he attended Burnt Ash Primary School. During his school years, he began to study music, attended a choir and a music club, where teachers noted his phenomenal ability to interpret. After he first heard the compositions of Elvis Presley, David decided that he must certainly become a pop star. He persuaded his father to buy him a ukulele and made his own bass to participate in skill sessions with friends. Passion for music had a negative impact on school performance, as a result of which Bowie failed his final exam and went to study at a technical college.
While in college, the future rock star discovered modern jazz and was inspired to become a saxophonist.
At the age of 15, Bowie had a misfortune – he got into a fight with his friend in college and received a serious injury to his left eye. The musician spent the next four months in the hospital, where doctors performed a series of operations to prevent his blindness. Alas, they failed to fully restore their vision, as a result of which the singer partially lost the perception of color, and after the transformation, the eye began to see everything in brown. In addition, the musician remained with signs of heterochromia for the rest of his life, the color of the iris of the injured eye remained darker.
By the time he graduated from college, the future rock legend could play many musical instruments, including guitar, saxophone, keyboards, harpsichord, electric guitar, vibraphone, ukulele, harmonica, piano, koto, and percussion.
Music and Art
David Bowie’s musical career began with the creation of his own band The Kon-rads, with whom he played rock and roll at local weddings and parties. But the ambitions of the novice musician did not allow him to stay in its composition, and he moved to The King Bees. Working with a new team, David Jones wrote a bold letter to millionaire John Bloom, inviting the oligarch to become his producer and earn another million. But Bloom ignored the novice musician’s offer and gave his letter to Leslie Conn, one of the publishers of the Beatles’ songs, who became interested in Bowie and signed the first contract with him.
Even in his youth, David took the pseudonym Bowie to avoid confusion with Davey Johnson of the Monkees, who was gaining popularity in those years. The star named David Bowie was born on January 14, 1966. Then he began to perform in the famous club “Marks” as part of the group “The Lower Third”.
The first failures in the music arena forced the musician to give up his dream for several years. He plunged into the world of theatrical performances and joined the circus. Studying dramatic art, Bowie completely immersed himself in the creation of images, characters and characters, with which he later conquered the whole world.
The first success in the musical direction to David Bowie came only 7 years after the start of his career. His single “Space Oddity” hit the top five in the UK charts in 1969, after which he released an album of the same name, which became successful throughout Europe. The musician stirred up the rock culture that existed at that time, giving this genre of music progressiveness.
In 1970, Bowie released his third album, The Man Who Sold the World, in which he switched to hard rock.
David Bowie’s worldwide fame came in 1975 after the release of the Young Americans album, which included the musical work “Fame”, which became the first hit in the USA. During that period, he performed on stage in the form of the Gaunt White Duke, performing rock ballads.
In 1980, Bowie again blew up the music world with the album “Scary Monsters”, which brought the musician not only fame and recognition, but also huge profits. Then he began collaborating with the popular band Queen, with whom he recorded the song “Under Pressure”, which became a No. 1 hit in the British charts. In 1983, the musician released another album of dance music, Let’s Dance, which became a bestseller – its sales reached 14 million copies.
In the early 90s, the singer began to experiment with images and genres, securing the status of “rock music chameleon”. He, deftly preserving his individual image, constantly changes musical directions and themes of songs, appearing on stage in different images. During this period, he released a number of albums, the most interesting and conceptual of which was “1.Outside”. At 19In 1997, the rock musician celebrated his 50th birthday at Madison Square Garden, where he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his invaluable contribution to the recording industry.
David Bowie’s latest album was Blackstar, which he released on January 8, 2016 on his 69th birthday. It included 7 compositions, some of them will be used later in the musical “Lazarus” and the TV series “The Last Panthers”. The last two videos created for the songs “The Stars” and “The Next Day” featured famous artists – Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard. The last appearance of the singer on the screen was the video for the musical composition “Lazarus”, in which David appeared as a dying old man.
The artist’s discography includes 26 studio and 9 live albums, 46 compilations. David Bowie also has 112 singles and 56 music videos. The rock legend was named one of the 100 Greatest Britons in 2002 and was named the most popular singer of all time. In 2006, he was awarded the Grammy Award for his contribution to the development of world music.
In addition to music, David Bowie actively acted in films. During his creative biography, Bowie managed to turn from an actor who transforms mainly into images of rebel musicians, into a versatile master of disguise. On account of the musician, the role of an alien in the fantastic film “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, the goblin king in the American children’s film “Labyrinth”, work in the drama “Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo”.
Together with Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, David Bowie appeared in the erotic vampire horror film The Hunger as a 200-year-old vampire. No less significant work was the role of Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Temptation of Christ.
In Basquiat, a drama about an African-born artist, David Bowie took on the role of Andy Warhol. The last film role of the legend of rock music was the main character of the film “The Prestige” by Nikola Tesla, in which he played along with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale.
Interestingly, David Bowie visited Russia three times. The first tour of the musician took place in the 70s, then David crossed 1/6 of the land from the Far East to Moscow. The second appearance in the capital of Russia took place a year later. This time the artist was accompanied by his friend and colleague – Iggy Pop.
Well, at the end of the 90s, a rock star was already expected with a concert in the Grand Kremlin Palace, which he brilliantly held, although he himself was dissatisfied with the performance.
Personal life
David Bowie’s personal life has always interested his fans.
The rock musician connected his past interest in homo- and bisexuality with the “fashion trends” of that time, and not with the manifestations of his true feelings. At the same time, he emphasized that, having created the image of a bisexual for himself, he managed to achieve fame and realize his dreams.
The rock musician was married twice and has two adult children. Bowie married for the first time in 1970 to model Angela Barnett, who in 1971 gave birth to his son, Duncan Zoey Haywood Jones. Since David Bowie had a strong friendship with Mick Jagger in those years, fans suggest that the rocker wrote the romantic ballad “Angie” in honor of Barnett, although Jagger himself does not confirm this information.
Bowie’s first marriage ended after 10 years of marriage. David’s son later became famous in the field of cinema, having created the films “Moon 2112” and “Source Code” as a director. During these years, there was a time of close collaboration with Iggy Pop, the godfather of grunge and punk rock, about which the biographical documentary Lust for Life was later created.
In 1992, David Bowie again went down the aisle – his second chosen one was a model from Somalia, Iman Abdulmajid. Before the wedding, the girl became famous for starring in the role of Nefertiti in Michael Jackson’s video “Remember the Time”. In 2000, the couple had a daughter, Alexandria Zahra. Choosing models as wives, Bowie could afford it, because his height was 178 cm and weighed 74 kg. A tall, athletic build, the singer looked harmoniously in the photo next to each of the chosen ones.
In 2004, Bowie underwent major heart surgery for a blocked artery in his heart. He underwent an angioplasty, after which it took time to recover.
Death
On January 10, 2016, David Bowie died in London. The death of the legend of rock music came as a result of a 1.5-year battle with cancer. During this time, in addition to the main illness, the artist was attacked by heart problems – he suffered 6 heart attacks. The singer’s health problems began in the mid-70s, when he became addicted to drugs.
Despite the fact that the singer managed to get rid of drug addiction, it left an indelible mark on his health – Bowie suffered from memory lapses and compared his brain to “leaky Swiss cheese.”
David Bowie’s death occurred in the family circle and with the support of loved ones. Before his death, the singer managed to celebrate his 69th birthday, marking it with the release of the new album Blackstar.
According to the will, the singer’s body was cremated, and the ashes were buried in a secret place on the island of Bali. Following the example of his friend and colleague Freddie Mercury, David Bowie did not want to worship his monument, so he insisted on a modest burial, which only relatives know about.
Memory
Since the death of a musician, interest in his personality has not decreased. In 2017, he was awarded the BRIT Awards in the Best British Act category. Such an award had never before been awarded posthumously. With the help of the Internet, a fundraiser began for the installation of a monument in honor of David Bowie, but it was not possible to raise the required amount. And only in 2018, a bronze sculpture appeared in Aylesbury, which was called the “Earth Messenger”.
2016 – BlackstarDavid Bowie: biography, personal life, filmography
Contents:
David Bowie – Music
David Bowie – Movies
– David Bowie – The Hunger
– David Bowie – “Labyrinth”
– David Bowie – The Prestige
– David Bowie – “Arthur and the Invisibles”
David Bowie – Personal lifeDavid Bowie was born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, London.
David Bowie – Music
After playing in rock bands for a while, Bowie began to perform under his own name, taking on a pseudonym similar to Mick Jagger (jugger is translated from Old English as “knife”, “Bowie” is also a hunting knife). At 19In the 60s, he was looking for a style that was interesting to him and studied everything unusual that attracted him – from avant-garde music to experimental theater – and released a number of unsuccessful singles with The Lower Third, The King Bees, Manish Boys, The Lower Third.
In 1970, Bowie’s third album, The Man Who Sold the World, was released, which is considered to be the beginning of the era of glam rock – it was the first to use a heavier sound, combined with an androgynous image of the musician himself in a dress on the cover. At 19In 1972, with the release of the concept album about the apocalypse The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Bowie revealed to the world the famous image of Ziggy Stardust – in creative outfits from Kansai Yamamoto and other designers – and gave rise to an enduring cult in pop culture. Bowie toured extensively in Europe and performed in the US, and began producing for Lou Reed (vocalist of the Velvet Underground) and Iggy Pop.
In 1973 Aladdin Sane was released with the famous cover featuring Bowie as Ziggy Stardust with a red lightning bolt on his face. In the album Diamond Dogs 19At 74, inspired by Orwell’s 1984, he moved towards soul and funk.
By the next Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album, Bowie’s style mutated into hard rock, he himself broke with drugs, and the song Ashes to Ashes took first place in the UK charts. The video for it is to this day considered one of the most innovative clips of all time. But it was Bowie’s slick dance songs from Let’s Dance and Tonight, both of which sold 14 million copies, that made Bowie a true global megastar.
Bowie recorded songs in collaboration with various musicians, including TV on the Radio, Kashmir and Lou Reed, and in 2011 the album Toy was released, consisting of reworked classic songs of the musician, but it was not sold, but was made available for free downloads. In August 2011, Bowie biographer Paul Trinca stated that the musician had ended his career, but in 2013 he released several new singles and the album The Next and immediately topped the iTunes chart. Bowie’s latest, 25th studio album Blackstar was released on January 8, 2016, two days later he died of liver cancer.
David Bowie – Movies
Bowie’s first major film role came in 1976’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, about an alien from a drought-stricken planet; this role earned him a Saturn Award. In 1979, he played a Prussian officer who returned from the war in the film Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo. Continuing to act in films, Bowie also appeared in Broadway productions.
His next big role was as John the Vampire in The Hunger, a movie that has gained cult status in some youth subcultures. In Nagisa Oshima’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” 19For 83 years, Bowie played a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp. The following projects – the rock film “Absolute Beginners” and the musical “Labyrinth” – failed at the box office, but overgrown with their own groups of fans.
In 1988, Bowie played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ.
David Bowie – The Hunger
Tony Scott’s 1983 cult horror film based on the novel by Whitley Strieber. Beautiful vampire Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) married cellist John (David Bowie) in the 17th century, promising him eternal youth and love. They feed on people’s blood and burn their bodies in an oven in the basement of the house, teaching music for a living. One day, John begins to age rapidly and turns to gerontologist Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon) for help, but she does not help him. Desperate John asks Miriam to kill him and end his suffering.
David Bowie – Labyrinth
Jim Henson’s 1986 fairy tale film directed by George Lucas. The action centers on young Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), who sets off into an unusual labyrinth world to save her little brother from the goblin king Jareth (David Bowie). The king himself is secretly in love with her, and the girl only has 13 hours to find Toby, otherwise he will turn into a goblin. David Bowie also wrote all of the songs in the film. Despite the failure at the box office, clips, books, video games and comics were created based on the picture.
David Bowie – The Prestige
Christopher Nolan’s 2006 drama based on Christopher Priest’s novel about the confrontation between two magicians: Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman). Angier’s wife drowns while performing a submersion trick with Borden, and the two showmen’s rivalry escalates into a personal feud. Angier sabotages Borden’s bullet stunt, causing him to lose two of his fingers, and in return frames Angier in a room with a disappearing bird.
He became the first in the history of rock, who composed his images as talented as the music itself. Bowie, through his characters, told not only about his inner world, but also changed the world around him. He influenced fashion, dance, video art – and, in general, the entire aesthetics of the 20th and 21st centuries. 
As a nine-year-old child, he impressed classmates and teachers with the incredible artistry of dance movements. Dance as a way of self-expression came to him before music, and it was in dance that he expressed all his emotions generated by his favorite rock and roll. 
This was clearly hinted at by the pun inherent in its very title, an echo of the title of Kubrick’s film: Space Odyssey – Space Oddity. Much later, in 2003, Bowie himself admitted this: “I saw the film several times, each time stoned, I literally went crazy, it completely shocked me. The song grew out of it.” 
“They were in such a hurry that they didn’t even bother to listen to the text. Well, I was just glad,” Bowie recalled with a laugh. 
Unlike everyone else, he is not so much a visual image as actually an “alter ego” of a musician. 
Bowie’s response to space was the title of another of his “space” songs: “Hallo Spaceboy!” And he called the performance of Hadfield “the most soulful version of the song.” The video, having overcome some copyright problems (it turned out that “Space Oddity” is the only Bowie song to which the musician himself does not have rights, and despite his wishes the copyright holder persisted), went viral on YouTube, gaining over 50 million views. 
Two months before the album’s scheduled release in June 1972, the lead single “Starman” was released in April, a return to the space theme. The alien – “a star man somewhere in the sky” – brings the guys on Earth a “cosmic rhythm” (cosmic jive), this rhythm “will blow their minds because it’s worth it”, will allow them to “forget, immerse themselves in it and dance boogie” (let the children lose it, let the children use it, let the children boogie). 
He again changed his image and went on stage in the guise of Ziggy – orange hair, brightly painted in all the colors of the rainbow, body-hugging jumpsuit and high astronaut boots. The rest of the Spiders from Mars matched him – in blue, bright red and golden velvet suits, the design of which was largely copied from the clothes of the heroes of A Clockwork Orange – the next film after Stanley Kubrick’s A Space Odyssey 2001. 
It is worth remembering that much more explicit gays Elton John and Freddie Mercury decided on such confessions only by the middle of the decade. 
It can be said without exaggeration that at that moment the “new romantics” movement, which became dominant in British pop music a decade later, was born. 
March 1, 1975 
He was incredibly emaciated, frightening with his almost skeletal thinness and deathly pallor. This look is most evident in the 1976 fantasy film directed by Nicola Roeg, The Man Who Fell to Earth, in which Bowie played the lead role of alien alien Tom Jerome Newton. 
Bowie defended himself by saying that the photographer grabbed his hand in motion. 
Being associated with rock and roll and going to live in Los Angeles is a recipe for disaster.” He called this period “the darkest days of my life”, and the Gaunt White Duke – “a rather vile type.” “It was a dangerous time, I was at the physical and emotional limit and seriously feared that I would go crazy.” 
It is obvious, however, that all of them bear the imprint of the bright individuality of the artist. 
This is not to say that Bowie, despite the makeup, is very similar to Warhol, but two unique stardoms have merged, giving an image so convincing that it is already difficult for us to imagine Warhol in any other way than Bowie portrayed him. 
His hit single “Starman” from the famous album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars entered the top ten of the UK charts. During the relatively brief use of the Ziggy Stardust persona, Bowie often employed musical innovation and unusual visual staging. 
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From early childhood, the future rock musician showed his interest in music, and at the preparatory school he established himself as a talented, purposeful and intelligent boy. At the same time, he was a rather naughty child with a cocky character, which did not prevent him from getting high grades in school performance. 
Then he had to work as a loader in a local butcher’s shop to buy his first selmer saxophone made of pink plastic, and a year later his mother gave David a white alto saxophone for Christmas. 
Given that the singer was left-handed from birth, he uses musical instruments as a right-hander and plays the right-handed guitar. 
The first few recorded singles of the singer were complete failures, which led to the termination of the contract with Conn. After that, Bowie released his debut album and recorded the sixth single, which also failed to chart. 
Critics called this work of the musician “the beginning of the era of glam rock.” After that, the singer creates the Hype group, in which he gives the first big concert, performing under the pseudonym Ziggy Stardust. He made a real sensation in the music world and elevated the musician to the pinnacle of fame. 
In the image of an FSB agent, the singer starred in the prequel to the cult mystical series of the 90s Twin Peaks: Through the Fire. 
This is due to the fact that in the mid-70s, in an interview, he declared his bisexuality. Since then, David Bowie’s sexual orientation has been massively discussed in society, despite the fact that at 19In 1993, he refuted these frank confessions, calling them the biggest mistake of life. 
Then he began to rarely appear on stage and reduced the number of performances. In 2011, information appeared that the “chameleon of rock music” had finished his singing career, but in 2013 he again began to delight fans with the release of new albums. 
He left behind a rich musical legacy around the world, having sold more than 136 million of his records and CDs. 
His mother, Margaret Mary Peggy, was a movie theater usher and his father, Hayward Stenton Jones, worked in the human resources department for a charity. From childhood he sang in the school choir, and at 9years, he began to attend music and choreographic classes, where everyone was amazed at his abilities. Later, Bowie started playing the piano, got a saxophone and a homemade bass – and began to give performances in the style of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. 
The breakthrough in his career came in 1969 with the single Space Oddity, which became a top five hit in the UK. 
A large-scale tour with complex special effects and choreography established Bowie in superstar status, but his cocaine addiction intensified during the same period. The 1976 album Station to Station, on which he transformed into the “Gaunt White Duke” – an image inspired by Sinatra – became the musician’s transition from dark soul to kraut rock. In the same year, Bowie moved to Berlin for three years with Iggy Pop, where he released his so-called “Berlin Trilogy”, largely inspired by Kraftwerk and other heroes of the German electronic scene. During this period, he moved from narrative to more abstract lyrics, and records consistently topped the charts in the UK. 
In 1989, the musician again gathered a regular group called Tin Machine and released an album of the same name with it, but the success that followed did not last long, sales of the second album were noticeably lower, and the team was disbanded. After that, until the end of 19In the 90s, Bowie continued to release solo records, moving from soul, jazz and hip-hop to alternative rock and electronica in the spirit of Brian Eno, but later the intensity of recording new material noticeably decreased. 
His body was cremated on January 14 in a private ceremony in New York and buried in a secret location known only to relatives – later revealed to be Bali. 
He was considered for the role of the Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman, but the producers dropped the idea because he was “too neat to be the villain” and brought in Jack Nicholson. Bowie starred with David Lynch in the feature film Twin Peaks: Through the Fire, and at 1996 played Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat. In 2006, Bowie starred alongside Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, playing the role of Nikola Tesla. 
