Biography
David Bowie is the famous British singer and a musician who has been engaged in musical creativity for more than 50 years.
"Chameleon rock music" created the largest legendary cult in the musical world and became one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century at the expense of permanent innovative transformations in all genres of music. Effectively alternating images from a folk singer to aliens, he won the title of one of the most successful artists in the history of British charts and the best musicians of the last 60 years.
Childhood and youth
David Robert Jones (later David Bowie) was born on January 8, 1947 in London Brikstone in the family of Irish Margaret Mary Poggy, who worked as a cashier in the cinema, and Heiovord Stanton John Jones, Englishman by nationality, which was Clerk in the personnel department of a charitable organization. Later it will be found that David was born on one day with his idol Elvis Presley, exactly 12 years after him. By the sign of the zodiac, both musicians turned out to be Capricorn, and by Chinese astrology, the patron was the Caban.
At the time of the birth of the son, David's parents lived in a civil marriage, only after 8 months they led their relationships. From early childhood, the future rock musician showed his interest in music, and in the preparatory school has established itself as a talented, purposeful and intelligent boy. At the same time, he was a rather naughty child with a mural character that he did not prevent him from obtaining high grades for academic performance.
In 1953, David Bowie's family moved to Bromley, where he entered primary school Burnt Ash Primary School. In school years, he began to engage in music, visited the choir and musical circle, where the teachers noted his phenomenal ability to interpretations. After he first heard the compositions of Elvis Presley, David decided that it would certainly be a pop star. He persuaded his father to buy him ukulele and independently smaster bass to participate with friends in skill sessions. The passion for music has a negative impact on school performance, as a result of which Bowie failed the final exam and went to study at the Technical College.
In college, the future rock star discovered modern jazz and caught fire the idea of becoming a saxophonist. Then he had to work out by a loader in a local meat shop to buy his first saxophone "Selmer" from a pink plastic, and a year later, Mom gave David on Christmas white alt-saxophone.
At the age of 15, a misfortune happened to Bowie - he came up with his friend in college and received a serious injury to the left eye. The next four months the musician spent in the hospital, where the doctors have conducted a number of operations to prevent blindness from him. Alas, they failed to fully restore vision, as a result of which the singer partially lost the perception of color, and the eye after the transformation began to see everything in brown. In addition, for life, the musician remained with signs of heterochromia, the color of the iris wasply of the injured eye remained darker.
By graduation, the future legend of rock music was able to play many musical instruments, which included a guitar, saxophone, keyboards, harpsichine, electric guitar, vibro, ukulele, lip harmonica, piano, cato and percussion. Taking into account the fact that the singer from birth was Levchey, he enjoys musical instruments as right-handed and plays in the right guitar.
Music and creativity
David Bowie's musical career began with the creation of their own group The Kon-Rads, with which he played rock and roll at local weddings and parties. But the ambitions of a novice musician did not allow him to be held in her composition, and he moved to The King Bees team. Working with the new team, David Jones wrote a bold letter to Milliona John Bloom, offering the oligarch to become his producer and earn another million. But Bloom ignored the proposal of a novice musician and handed his letter to one of the publishers of Beatles Leslie Connon, who became interested in Boui and concluded the first contract with him.
Even in the youth, David took the pseudonym Bowie to avoid confusion with the popularity of the popularity of Davy Johnson from the "The Monkees" group. Star under the name David Bowie was born on January 14, 1966. Then he began to perform in the famous club "Marks" as part of the group "The Lower Third". The first few recorded singles singer were completely failing, which led to the rupture of the contract with Konnon. After that, Bowie released his debut album and recorded the sixth single, who also did not hit the charts.
The first failures on the musical arena forced the musician for several years to refuse to realize his dreams. He plunged into the world of theatrical ideas and joined the circus. Studying dramatic art, Bowie completely plunged into the creation of images, characters and characters, which later conquered the whole world.
The first success in the musical direction to David Bowie came only 7 years after the start of the career. His single Space Oddy in 1969 came to the top five British hit parade, after which he released the same album, which became successful in all of Europe. The musician shook the rock culture that existed at that time, giving this genru of the music of progressiveness.
In 1970, Bowie releases the third album "The Man Who Sold The World", which goes into a heavy rock. Critics called this work of the musician "The beginning of the Glam Rock era". After that, the singer creates a group "Hype", which gives the first large concert, speaking under the pseudonym Siggy Stardast. He made a real furyor in the musical world and ascended the musician to the top of glory.
The worldwide glory to David Bowie came in 1975 after the release of the Young Americans album, which included the Music Work "Fame", which became the first hit in the United States. At that time, he performed on stage in the image of an exhausted white duke, executing rock ballads.
In 1980, Bowie again blew up the musical world by the SCARY Monsters record, which brought not only fame and recognition to the musician, but also a colossal profit. Then he began to cooperate with the popular group "Queen", with which he recorded the song "Under Pressure", who became hit No. 1 in British charts. In 1983, the musician released another album with Let's Dance dance music, which became a bestseller - its sales reached 14 million copies.
In the early 90s, the singer begins to experiment with images and genres, fixing the status of "chameleon rock music". He, deftly keeping an individual image, constantly changes musical directions and the subject of songs, appearing on stage in different images. During this period, he released a number of albums, the most interesting and conceptual of which was "1.outside". In 1997, Rock musician celebrated his 50th anniversary of Medison-Square-Garden, there he was awarded the registered star on the Hollywood "Alley of Glory" for invaluable contribution to the recording industry.
The latest album David Bowie became the "Blackstar", which he released on January 8, 2016 on the day of his 69th anniversary. It included 7 compositions, some of them will be used later in the Lazar Musicle and the TV series "Recent Panthers". In the last two video clips created on the songs "The Stars" and "The Next Day" played the famous artists - Tilda Suinton, Gary Oldman and Marion Cotyar. The last appearance of the singer on the screen was the clip on the musical composition "Lazar", in which David appeared as a dying old man.
The artist's discography is 26 studio and 9 concert albums, 46 collections. On the account of David Bowie also 112 singles and 56 clips. The legend of rock music in 2002 entered the list of "100 of the greatest British" and received the title of the most popular singer of all time. In 2006, he was awarded the Grammy Prize for his contribution to the development of world music.
In addition to music, David Bowie actively filmed in the cinema. During the creative biography, Bowie managed to turn from the actor, which is transformed mainly into the images of the musicians-rebounds, in a diverse transfer wizard. On the account of the musician, the role of aliens in the fantastic tape "The man who fell to Earth", King Goblins in the American Children's Film "Labyrinth", work in the drama "Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo."
Together with Catherine Denev, Susan Sarandon David Bowie appeared in the erotic-vampire horror "Hunger" in the role of a 200-year-old vampire. No less significant work turned out to be the role of Pilate Pilate in the film Martin Scorsese "The Last Temptation of Christ". In the form of the FSB agent, the singer starred in the prequel to the cult mystical series of the 90s "Twin Pixes: Through the Fire."
In the Drama "Basky" about the artist of African origin, David Bowie, tried on the role of Andy Warhol. The latter Kinorol Legend of Rock Music was the main character of the film "Prestige" Nikola Tesla, in which he played along with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bail.
Interestingly, in Russia David Bowie visited three times. The first tour of the musician took place in the 70s, then David crossed 1/6 sushi from the Far East to Moscow. The second appearance in the capital of Russia took place a year later. At this time, the artist was a company of his friend and colleague - Iggy Pop.
Well, in the late 90s, the rock star was already waiting for a concert in the Greater Kremlin Palace, which he brilliantly spent, although he had been dissatisfied with his speech.
Personal life
David Bowie's personal life has always been interested in his fans. This is due to the fact that in the mid-70s in an interview, he declared his bisexuality. Since then, the sexual orientation of David Bowie was massively discussed in society, despite the fact that in 1993 he denied these frank confessions by calling them the biggest mistake of life.
Rock musician is a past interest in homo- and bisexuality associated with "fashion trends" of that time, and not with the manifestations of its true feelings. At the same time, he stressed that by creating a bisexual image, he managed to achieve fame and realize dreams.
Rock musician was married twice, he has two adult children. For the first time, Bowie married in 1970 at the Angele Barnett model, which in 1971 gave him the son of Dankan Zone Haywood Jones. Since in those years David Bowie connected strong friendship with Mick Jagger, the fans suggest that Rocker's romantic ballad wrote a rocker in honor of Barnett, although Jagger himself does not confirm this information.
The first marriage of Boui collapsed in 10 years of living together. The son of David later became famous in the field of cinema, creating the films "Moon 2112" and "Source Code" as director. For the same years, the time of dense cooperation with Iggy Pop, the godfather of grunge and punk rock, which later was created by the biographical documentary "Thirst for Life".
In 1992, David Bowie again went under the crown - his second chosen was the model from Somalia Iman Abdulmagid. Before the wedding, the girl became famous for the fact that he starred in the role of Nefertiti in Michael Jackson's clip "Remember The Time". In 2000, the spouses had a daughter Alexandria Zahra. Choosing in wives of models, Bowie could afford it, because its growth was 178 cm at a weight of 74 kg. High, sports physique Singer harmoniously looked at the photo next to each of the elected.
In 2004, Bowie suffered a serious heart surgery associated with the blocking of the heart artery. He was made angioplasty, after which it took time to restore. Then he rarely appeared on stage and reduced the number of speeches. In 2011, information appeared that "chameleon rock music" finished the singing career, but in 2013 he began to re-please the fans by the release of new albums.
Death
January 10, 2016 David Bowie died in London. The death of the legend of rock music came as a result of a 1,5-year-old fight against cancer. During this time, in addition to the main disease, the artist attacked the problems with the heart - it suffered 6 heart attacks. Health problems at the singer began in the mid-70s, when he was addicted to drugs.
Despite the fact that the singer managed to get rid of drug addiction, she left an indelible mark on his health - Bowie suffered in memory and compared his brain with "holey Swiss cheese."
The death of David Bowie came in a family circle and with the support of loved ones. Before his death, the singer managed to celebrate his 69th birthday, marking it with the release of the new album "Blackstar". He left behind the rich musical heritage of the world, selling more than 136 million of its plates and disks.
According to the will, the singer's body was cremated, and the dust is buried in a secret place on Bali Island. According to the example of his friend and Freddie Mercury colleagues, David Bowie did not want to worship his monument, so insisted on a modest burial, which only relatives know about.
Memory
Since the death of a musician, interest in his personality is not reduced. In 2017, he was awarded the Brit Awards Award in the category "Best British Artist". Such a reward before it was never awarded posthumously. With the help of the Internet, the monetary fee began to install the monument in honor of David Bowie, but failed to collect the right amount. And only in 2018, a sculpture of bronze appeared in Eilsbury, which was called the "Earth Messenger".
After the death of the star, some fans of his successor called Brian Molko, the leader of the Placebo group, a charismatic musician with androging appearance, with which David Bowie supported friendly relations.
Discography
- 1967 - David Bowie
- 1969 - Space Oddity
- 1973 - Aladdin Sane
- 1974 - Diamond Dogs
- 1975 - YOUNG AMERICANS
- 1977 - Heroes.
- 1983 - Let's Dance
- 1995 - 1.outside
- 2002 - Heathen.
- 2003 - REALITY.
- 2013 - The Next Day
- 2016 - Blackstar.