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COMPELLING FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DAVID BOWIE

Added on: 3rd May 2016

 

 

HIS FIRST-EVER RELEASE WAS “LIZA JANE/LOUIE,

LOUIE GO HOME” IN JUNE 1964, UNDER THE NAME

DAVIE JONES WITH THE KING BEES

Liza Jane/Louie, Louie Go Home

 

 

BOWIE CHANGED HIS REAL NAME (DAVID ROBERT JONES)

TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES

David Robert Jones

 

 

BOWIE MET HIS SECOND WIFE—SOMALIAN SUPERMODEL

IMAN—ON A BLIND DATE ARRANGED BY A MUTUAL FRIEND

Somalian supermodel Iman

 

 

AMERICAN LEGEND BING CROSBY, ONE OF THE

BIGGEST-SELLING ARTISTS OF ALL TIME,

RECORDED HIS LAST-EVER SINGLE WITH BOWIE.

THEIR DUET OF “THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY” WAS

RECORDED FOR CHRISTMAS 1977 AND BECAME A HIT

FIVE YEARS LATER, AFTER CROSBY’S DEATH.

Bing Crosby

 

 

BOWIE IS WIDELY KNOWN AS A MUSICIAN BUT HE

WAS ALSO AN ACTOR. HIS FIRST LEADING ROLE

WAS AS A STRANDED ALIEN IN THE 1976 FILM

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. ACTUALLY, IN A

SCENE THAT WAS SHOT IN A RECORD STORE,

A POSTER FOR YOUNG AMERICANS CAN CLEARLY

BE SEEN HANGING FROM THE CEILING

David Bowie acting

 

 

THE ELEPHANT MAN, WITH BOWIE IN THE TITLE ROLE,

WAS A HIT ON BROADWAY IN 1980.

The Elephant Man, with Bowi

 

 

BEFORE HE BECOME ONE OF THE BIGGEST-SELLING

MALE R&B SINGERS OF ALL TIME, LUTHER VANDROSS

SANG BACKUP FOR BOWIE’S 1975 ALBUM

YOUNG AMERICANS

Luther Vandross

 

 

HE VOICED THE CHARACTER OF LORD ROYAL HIGHNESS

IN SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IN 2007.

Lord Royal Highness

 

 

BOWIE WAS HIT IN THE EYE BY A LOLLIPOP WHILE

ON STAGE IN OSLO, NORWAY, IN 2004. IN TYPICAL

BOWIE FASHION, AND DESPITE HIS UNDERSTANDABLE

INITIAL ANGER, HE MADE LIGHT OF THE INCIDENT

AND CONTINUED TO SING.

Lollipop

 


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