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CAPTIVATING FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DAVID BOWIE

Added on: 7th Jul 2016

 

HE SUGGESTED THAT HIS FANS VOTE VIA PHONE

FOR WHICH TRACKS HE SHOULD PLAY FOR HIS

1990 WORLD TOUR AND “THE LAUGHING GNOME”

EARNED THE MOST VOTES. UNSURPRISINGLY,

HE DIDN’T PLAY IT

Phone

 

 

AT THE HEIGHT OF COCAINE PSYCHOSIS, BOWIE

WAS SO DISORIENTED AND PARANOID FROM

DRUGS, HE ALLEGEDLY STORED HIS URINE IN

THE REFRIGERATOR IN CASE A WIZARD STOLE IT.

HE ALSO WEIGHED ABOUT NINETY-FIVE POUNDS

(AT FIVE FEET TEN) AT THE TIME

Wizard

 

 

BOWIE’S MID-SEVENTIES DRUG USE WASN’T EXACTLY

JOYOUS HEDONISM FOR HIM ACCORDING TO AN

INTERVIEW HE GAVE IN 2000. THERE WERE TIMES HE

WOULD WORK SO MUCH THAT HE WOULDN’T GET

SLEEP FOR DAYS SO HE USED DRUGS FOR ENERGY

Bed

 

 

DAVID BOWIE PORTRAYED THE GREAT NICOLA TESLA

IN THE 2006 FILM THE PRESTIGE, STARRING

HUGH JACKMAN AND CHRISTIAN BALE

David Bowie as Nikola Tesla

 

 

“SPACE ODDITY” WAS BOWIE’S FIRST UK HIT AND

INTRODUCED HIM TO THE MASSES. THIS CLASSIC TRACK

WAS USED BY THE BBC IN ITS COVERAGE OF

THE MOON LANDING IN 1969

Space Walk on the moon

 

 

HIS SON FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE WITH ANGIE BOWIE

IS THE FAMOUS DIRECTOR DUNCAN JONES WHO MADE

THE SCI-FI CLASSIC MOON (2009). DUNCAN WAS HIS

FATHER’S BEST MAN AT HIS SECOND WEDDING TO IMAN

Duncan Jones

 

 

A FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNT WAS SET UP IN BOWIE’S

NAME IN JANUARY 2009. DESPITE IT ONLY EVER

HAVING FEATURED ONE TWEET THE ACCOUNT

MANAGED TO COLLECT OVER FORTY-ONE

THOUSAND FOLLOWERS

Twitter

 

 

“TCV15,” FROM THE STATION TO STATION ALBUM,

WAS INSPIRED BY A DREAM IN WHICH IGGY POP

SAW HIS GIRLFRIEND EATEN BY A TV SET

TCV15

 


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