"David Bowie died affably today amidst by his ancestors afterwards a adventuresome 18 ages action with cancer. While abounding of you will allotment in this loss, we ask that you account the family’s aloofness during their time of grief," apprehend a account acquaint on the artist's official amusing media accounts.
The affecting singer-songwriter and ambassador dabbled in glam rock, art rock, soul, harder rock, ball pop, jailbait and electronica during his all-embracing 40-plus-year career. He just appear his 25th album, Blackstar, Jan. 8, which was his birthday.
Bowie’s aesthetic advance came with 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, an anthology that fostered the angle of bedrock brilliant as amplitude alien. Fusing British mod with Japanese kabuki styles and bedrock with theater, Bowie created the flamboyant, androgynous adapt ego Ziggy Stardust.
Three years later, Bowie accomplished his aboriginal above American crossover success with the No. 1 individual “Fame” off the top 10 anthology Young Americans, afresh followed with the 1976 beat art bedrock LP Station to Station, which fabricated it to No. 3 on the archive and featured top 10 hit “Golden Years.”
Other memorable songs included 1983’s “Let’s Dance” — his alone added No. 1 U.S. hit — “Space Oddity,” “Heroes,” “Changes,” “Under Pressure,” “China Girl,” “Modern Love,” “Rebel, Rebel,” “All the Young Dudes,” “Panic in Detroit,” “Fashion,” “Life on Mars,” “Suffragette City” and a 1977 Christmas assortment with Bing Crosby.
With his different-colored eyes (the aftereffect of a schoolyard fight) and aciculate frame, Bowie was a accustomed to segue from music into analytical cine roles, and he starred as an conflicting gluttonous advice for his dying planet in Nicolas Roeg’s surreal The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). Critics afterwards acclaimed his three-month Broadway assignment as the agee advance in 1980’s The Elephant Man.
Bowie aswell starred in Marlene Dietrich’s endure film, Just a Gigolo (1978), portrayed a Apple War II captive of war in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), and played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese’s The Endure Temptation of Christ (1988). And in addition groundbreaking move, Bowie, who consistently accepted technology, became the aboriginal bedrock brilliant to morph into an Internet Service Provider with the barrage in September 1998 of BowieNet.
Born David Jones in London on Jan. 8, 1947, Bowie afflicted his name in 1966 afterwards The Monkees’ Davy Jones accomplished stardom. He played saxophone and started a mime company, and afterwards stints in several bands he active with Mercury Records, which in 1969 appear his anthology Man of Words, Man of Music, which featured “Space Oddity,” a agitating song about an astronaut, Above Tom, ambagious out of control.
In an attack to activity absorption in Ziggy Stardust, Bowie appear in a January 1972 annual account that he was gay — admitting that ability accept been a publicity accomplishment — absolute his hair orange and began cutting women’s garb. The anthology became a sensation.
Wrote bedrock analyzer Robert Christgau: “This is adventurous being appropriate down to the adamant wispiness of its sound, and Bowie's actorly intonations add amusement and shades of acceptation to the words, which are generally amusing and rarely precious, alms an almighty aboveboard and abundant angle on the bedrock star’s world.”
Bowie afflicted apparatus in 1975. Becoming bedeviled with the dance/funk sounds of Philadelphia, his self-proclaimed “plastic soul”-infused Young Americans ailing at No. 9 with the individual “Fame,” which he co-wrote with John Lennon and guitarist Carlos Alomar.
After the soulful but colder Station to Station, Bowie afresh ashamed expectations afterwards clearing in Germany by recording the atmospheric 1977 anthology Low, the aboriginal of his “Berlin Trilogy” collaborations with keyboardist Brian Eno.
In 1980, Bowie brought out Scary Monsters, which casting a nod to the Above Tom appearance from “Space Oddity” with the aftereffect “Ashes to Ashes.” He followed with Tonight in 1984 and Never Let Me Down in 1987 and collaborations with Queen, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, The Pat Metheny Group and others. He formed the quartet Tin Machine (his brother Tony played drums), but the bandage didn’t accumulate abundant analytical acclamation or bartering accretion with two albums.
Bowie alternate to a abandoned career with 1993’s Black Tie White Noise, which saw him acknowledgment to plan with his Spider From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson, afresh recorded 1995’s Outside with Eno and toured with Nine Inch Nails as his aperture act. He alternate to the flat in 1996 to almanac the techno-influenced Earthling. Two added albums, 1999’s hours … and 2002’s Heathen, followed.
Bowie aswell produced albums for, a part of others, Lou Reed, The Stooges and Moot the Hoople, for which he wrote the song “All the Young Dudes.” He becoming a lifetime accomplishment Grammy Award in 2006.
Bowie was almost quiet amid the years of 2004 and 2012, reemerging in 2013 with the anthology The Next Day. Its accession was met with a amusing media firestorm which catapulted it to No. 2 on the Billboard 200, his accomplished charting anthology ever.
While appeal for a bout by the antisocial bedrock brilliant had been relentless, Bowie kept a absolutely low profile, advancement a abode in New York but rarely seen.
Bowie afresh opened the bedrock agreeable Lazarus in New York City, in which he revisits the appearance he played in The Man Who Fell to Earth. The activity — based on American biographer Walter Tevis' 1963 sci-fi novel, directed by Ivo van Hove and starring Michael C. Hall — was accomplished by Bowie, who has continued accomplished the abstraction of a acknowledgment to the appearance he played onscreen.
A video for the song "Lazarus," which is included on the anthology Blackstar, was appear on Jan. 7.
Survivors cover his wife, the archetypal Iman, whom Bowie affiliated in 1992; his son, administrator Duncan Jones; and babe Alexandria.
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