Image copyright EPA According to the vote 13 years ago, David Bowie was higher than all the other animals at the time the musicians in the list of “100 Greatest Britons” . Now that the “Chameleon” from the world of music has left us, after eighteen months of struggle with cancer, correspondent Bi-bi-si Michael Poplawski recalls the most surprising of the artist’s life.
1 ) David Robert Jones was born on January 8, 1947 – exactly 12 years after the birth of the “King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley. During hobbies astrology adult Jones (of course, Bowie) times will compare myself with him – according to the Chinese esoteric teachings, both singers were born in the year of the Boar.
2) In 12 years the young Dave learned to play the saxophone: Career, this tool is not just useful to him.
3) Subsequently, Jones will master tools such as electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, keyboards, piano, harpsichord, harmonica, synthesizer and some percussion.
4) colored eyes Bowie “get it” in a fight with a classmate George Underwood at the age of 15 years – so his left eye due to deformation of the retina It becomes green, and the right to stay blue. Contrary to a popular urban legend, David never lost his sight, but the damaged eye had problems with the transmission of color. It is noteworthy that Bowie and Underwood remained friends after the incident.
5) David Jones took the stage name in honor of the variety of hunting knives, “Bowie” when he was 19 years old.
6) Dances Bowie in the late 1960s and taught Lindsay Kemp – choreographer, who later put the motion Kate Bush glorified her music video in 1978 Wuthering Heights (“Wuthering Heights”).
7) The growth of the musician as an adult is 1 meter 78 centimeters.
Moon dust shall cover thee
8) At the beginning of a career, David, he wrote a deliberately comic song The Laughing Gnome (“The Laughing Gnome”), who was waiting for an amazing fate – in 1967 it made no impression on the audience, but six years later, when Bowie was already a superstar, suddenly soared to the sixth place of the British charts. A really cruel joke with the actor played this song in 1990, when an amateur innovation arranged telephone voting among fans of the songs that they would like to hear his greatest hits tour Sound + Vision. Thanks flashmob, a running music publishing NME, “Gnome” was in first place. In violation of promises David did not sing it in that round – which is not the other hits leader vote.
9) The first wife Bowie Angie held with the musician married since 1970 to 1980, she called him nama – whatever that meant.
10) Bowie and his first wife decided to name their first born Zowie Bowie – where the name would be a reference to the word “life (” zoo “). Growing up the boy decided to turn down the share of eccentricities in their personal data, and became known as Duncan Jones – already in middle age he became famous as director of the film” Moon 2112 “and” Source Code. “The father had never appeared in the movies son.
11) After the huge success of the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Bowie repeatedly gave evasive comments about his sexuality: in the 1970s he regularly He talked about his bisexuality, but in 2002, noted that part of his then confession was intended to shock the conservative audience.
12) David developed an interesting relationship with foreign languages - so hardly wait for a break at home with a song 1969 Space Oddity, the young musician has recorded its Italian version Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola, whose text had no relation to the drama with the release of Major Tom in open space. Subsequently, David wrote the French and German versions of its hit Heroes – Héros and Helden respectively. The last in 2007 covered the singer Rammstein Till Lindemann accompaniment Finnish cellist of Apocalyptica.
13) Passion Bowie East also is reflected in the linguistic plane – his song Seven Years in Tibet received unexpected doublet in Mandarin Chinese. In addition, there is a record of David in the Indonesian language.
14) Bowie’s acting career has been quite diverse: he starred in more than 20 films. However, his game has received a variety of assessment: for example, “Beautiful Gigolo, poor Gigolo” was awarded virtual tomatoes by weight of the critics – David later said that in this role, he has absorbed all the “32 film Elvis” (Presley really badly acted in films) . Moreover, who played in “Gigolo” his last role of Marlene Dietrich from the principle did not come to Germany, where there were shooting, so the scene had to shoot her in Paris. On the other hand, the role of Bowie in the fantastic drama “The Man Who Fell to Earth” vampire erotic horror film “Hunger” and war drama “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” have received from the film community high marks.
15) In the case of the film “Labyrinth” in 1986, where Bowie appeared before the public King Goblin, he himself and recorded the soundtrack – one of the most censured by critics of his works.
16) In addition, David happened many times to perform the role of historical and other famous characters: in “The Last Temptation of Christ”, he played Pontius Pilate in the film “Basquiat” – Andy Warhol, and the “Prestige” – Nikola Tesla.
17) Do not stop on the silver screen Bowie flashed in the theater: in the early 1980s he played in Bertolt Brecht’s play “Baal”. Not without its participation and theater books of Frederick Trivza “Elephant Man”.
18) During his career, David has sold over 140 million copies of albums – excluding singles.
19) These studio albums Bowie there are 28 – if you include this number is the soundtrack to the film “Buddha suburbs” and two albums in the group Tin Machine.
20) have just mentioned age group Tin Machine was short-lived: it lasted from 1989 to 1992 and came under a barrage of criticism. Both her album did not find understanding among music experts, the public did not accept the image of Bowie in “Soloist rock band”; In addition, fashion magazines have not failed to note how little attention – by contrast with David – paid to their appearance the other band members. However, after its collapse guitarist Reeves Gabrels worked with Bowie before the 1999 album ‘Hours …’, inclusive.
21) The character of Major Tom, which grew out of Space Oddity, is mentioned two songs mul’tizhanrovoy musician – his megahit 1980 Ashes to Ashes and radically revised duo Pet Shop Boys single 1996 Hallo Spaceboy.
22) Perhaps the most amazing version of Space Oddity appeared Three years ago on board the ISS “space incomprehensible” fulfilled the American astronaut Chris Hadfield.
23) Space and loneliness – themes that musician has carried through his entire career, from the above-mentioned hit and the self-titled album in 1969 before his last release Blackstar, which was released three days before his death.
24) The musician gave his name first in the history of banking musical finance bonds – Bowie Bonds ( “Bowie bonds”). Immediately after the release in 1997, the paper had a financial yield of 7.9% per annum, which is 1.5% more than the US Treasury in the late 90s. By 2004, however, the rating agency Moody’s downgraded its status from “very stable” to just “junk.” However, the launch of iTunes and the online sales of songs could return investors’ interest in such bonds.
25) The surest producer Bowie became Brooklyn italoamerikanets Tony Visconti, he participated in the recording as a breakthrough album Space Oddity 1969, and the last two opuses – The Next Day and Blackstar, not excepting the famous “Berlin trilogy” at the end of 1970.
26) The first American hit number 1 Bowie – Fame – appeared in 1975. Co-author of the song, apart from David and guitarist Carlos Alomar, including former member of Beatles John Lennon.
27) The first UK hit №1 musician wrote a few years before – it was re all the same Space Oddity.
I was five years older, I’m in the grave
28) On own admission, in the “Berlin period” 1977-78 musician diet largely consisted of milk, cayenne pepper and cocaine. But Bowie’s happened more than once dissemble in conversations with journalists.
29) Bowie was in what is now Russia three times: in the late ’70s, he traveled on the Trans-Siberian train from Khabarovsk to Moscow, a year later walked with Iggy Pop on the Red Square, and in 1996 finally reached Moscow with a concert – however, the musician praised his performance in the Grand Kremlin Palace as a “catastrophe” and decided to refrain from repeated Russian tour.
30) in the same tour in support of industrial rock album Outside Bowie took an unexpected decision: to play all the songs live with the luminaries of the genre of American “group of one man” – Nine Inch Nails, dividing the repertoire of “double”. This move caused confusion among the fans of both artists, but Trent Reznor – the only permanent member of Nine Inch Nails – was in very good relations with David, and later played the mysterious pursuer Bowie in the movie I’m Afraid of Americans.
31) The musician in an interview with Britain’s leading Jonathan Ross said that of all the albums they recorded only two were published “needful” – Tonight 1984 and Never Let me Down 1987; these records, as claimed by the actor, he tried to repeat the commercial success of the disco blockbuster Let’s Dance 1983. Never Let me Down was extremely malevolent critics and skated tour Glass Spiders (“Glass Spider”) in support of this record, David will never again return to the execution of the songs out alive.
32) Bowie married Somali supermodel Iman Abdulmajid in 1992, a few days after he sang on a concert in memory of Freddie Mercury; the party late in the joint group and hit David Queen – Under Pressure – then sang a Scottish duo Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox. The very Iman shortly before the wedding co-starred in the role of the Egyptian ruler Nefertiti in the video of Michael Jackson Remember the Time.
33) In 1985, the half-brother of Bowie Terry, who suffered from schizophrenia, committed suicide, jumping under a train. Musician experienced the death of his brother, because he greatly influenced his musical tastes. Eight years later, David dedicated to him stood in blue clip Jump They Say (“They say,” Jump “), where he played hunted businessman paranoid.
34) Released in 1996 year single Telling Lies (“Lying”) became the first resonant music online release. To celebrate the release of the song Bowie has arranged a session with questions and answers in the form of online chat in which he wrote only the truth, and his two assistants were given to fans known false answers (“were telling lies”). When the fans who took part in an interactive session, were asked to assess which of the three respondents – David himself, a true musician gained the fewest votes.
35) In 1996, the name of Bowie made to the “American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” and 10 years later he received the award “Grammy” for his contribution to the art.
36) From the 50th birthday of the musician made me a gift of a concert-dedication in New York’s Madison Square Garden with a lot of guest stars – from Lou Reed to the group Smashing Pumpkins, from the Foo Fighters to the Cure. Many of the artists then specifically to practice the freshest at the time of the album David – Earthling – where hair dyed in red color musician crossed drum ‘n’ bass with hard industrial rock.
37) album ‘Hours …’ in 1999 is remarkable in that was created in conjunction with a computer game Omikron, which were characters and David and Iman.
38) The right to write text on one of the songs with all the same “Hours …” were drawn separately: proved a lucky Alex Grant, and the resulting song called What’s Really Happening?
39) In 2000, David refused knighthood.
40) In the the same year was born his only daughter of Iman – Alexandria Zahra.
41) The first single Bowie – Liza Jane – came out in 1964. David Jones was 17 years old. Later, the actor will be released about 100 singles.
42) One of the most unexpected actors’ problems faced Bowie in 2007: then he had to announce Neptune in the animated series “Spongebob: Square Pants “.
43) In the 70s the artist happened to experiment with the language: it David tried the technique of William Burroughs writer, held in cutting and stirring pieces of paper with the words; Thus was born the lyrics Subterraneans.
44) At Iman has a tattoo of a knife … type “Bowie”!
“What heavy news in the morning. One of the immortals #AshestoAshes [Ashes to ashes]”
45) Recently, the couple lived alternately in New York and London.
46) At the beginning of his career, David has replaced eight groups, and then added to them, said Tin Machine, and formed in 1997 by a group of ephemeral Tao Jones Index; Thus, Bowie visited 10 teams.
47) In addition to music and film, Bowie also actively tried his hand as a painter and sculptor.
48) For a career musician has recorded dozens of duets with various artists, including those participated in the last lifetime record of US singer Bing Crosby Peace On Earth / The Little Drummer Boy.
49) at the beginning of the ’70s Bowie attended performances of ballet companies to get an idea of the stage lighting is used in ballet.
50) German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk mention the name of Bowie’s song Trans Europe Express. The group rejected the request Bowie on possible cooperation.
51) In 1977, David was the last of the invited guests on a personal television shows another star glam rock – Marc Bolan from the group T-Rex . Bolan was killed two weeks after recording the transfer.
52) in a feature prequel to the series of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” – “Through the Fire Walk With Me” – Bowie appears for a few minutes as holograms Agent Philip Jeffries.
53) During his career David Bowie was the only album entirely composed of foreign reprises songs – Pin Ups 1973. It reached number one in the UK charts.
54) The cover Pin Ups adorned supermodel Twiggy.
55) The soundtrack to the 2001 film “Moulin Rouge” was a unique combination of: Artist Beck quail hit Bowie Diamond Dogs, while David himself played jazz standard Nature Boy.
56) Bowie not repeatedly said that can not tolerate treatment “sweetheart”.
57) In spite of the long-term fascination with Eastern spiritual practices, to the end of his life, David described himself in an interview that as an agnostic, how atheist.
58) American minimalist composer Philip Glass has produced the orchestral transcriptions albums from “Berlin trilogy” Bowie.
59) In 1998, the screens released film “Velvet Goldmine”, named for the song musician from the early ’70s. Despite the apparent similarity of the protagonist of the picture with the young David, the artist himself extremely negatively assessed the scenario of tape and did not give the green light to the use of his songs in the soundtrack of the picture.
60) In 2011, the Internet
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