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
BOWIE CHANGED HIS REAL NAME (DAVID ROBERT JONES)
TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES
BOWIE MET HIS SECOND WIFE—SOMALIAN SUPERMODEL
IMAN—ON A BLIND DATE ARRANGED BY A MUTUAL FRIEND
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.
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
THE ELEPHANT MAN, WITH BOWIE IN THE TITLE ROLE,
WAS A HIT ON BROADWAY IN 1980.
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
HE VOICED THE CHARACTER OF LORD ROYAL HIGHNESS
IN SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IN 2007.
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.
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