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
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
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
DAVID BOWIE PORTRAYED THE GREAT NICOLA TESLA
IN THE 2006 FILM THE PRESTIGE, STARRING
HUGH JACKMAN AND CHRISTIAN BALE
“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
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
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
“TCV15,” FROM THE STATION TO STATION ALBUM,
WAS INSPIRED BY A DREAM IN WHICH IGGY POP
SAW HIS GIRLFRIEND EATEN BY A TV SET
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