David Bowie - Biography

David Bowie American Singer
Real name: David Robert Hayward-Jones
He was born  January 8, 1947
Place: Brixton  England . 
His brother: Terry
His children: Zowie with Angie and Zarah with Iman. 
His wife: Iman (Top Model)
It was his brother Terry who motivated  Bowie  to play the Saxophone. 

1960 Inspired by the jazz of the  West End , he picked up the saxophone and took saxo lessons with Ronnie Ross.

David Bowie played with bands like The Konrads, The King Bees with his school friend George Underwood, The Manish Boys and The Lower Third .

1963 David Bowie and the King Bees recorded their first album. 

1966 He became a soloist, with its disk Space Oddity that had a lot of success

1966  Kenneth Pitt signed on as his manager, and his career began-

1969 His single Space Oddity peaked at No. 5 in the  United Kingdom

1967 David Bowie debuted in the movies with the short film "Image" of Michael Armstrong

1970 David Bowie performed in "The Man Who Sold the World ", and traveled to the  US  for promotion.  There he married Angela Barnett, a model.  His son Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones was born in march.

1972 He admitted he is bisexual to the magazine Melody Maker

1976 David abused cocaine, lost weight excessively, had irregular behavior and health disappeared.  He recorded three albums with Brian Eno. 

1980 David Bowie divorced Angela

1992 April 27 David Bowie married the model Iman

1997 15 000 people participate in the celebration of the 50 years of Bowie  in the Madison Square Garden of New York. 

2000 Birth of Alexandrie Zahra Jones, daughter of Iman and David. 

2004 David Bowie Gets A Bossa Nova Makeover In Wes Anderson's 'Life Aquatic' , the brazilian samba star Seu Jorge remade 11 Bowie songs for the film Life Aquatic, of Wes Anderson.

Filmography

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2001 Zoolander de Ben Stiller
2001 Mr. Rice's secret de Nicholas Kendall
1996 Basquiat de Julian Schnabel avec Jeffrey Wrigh
1991Twin Peaks de David Lynch
1991The Linguini Incident de Richard Shepard
1998 Mio West
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ de Martin Scorsese
1986 Labyrinth de Jim Henson
1986 Absolute Beginners de Julien Temple
1985 Into the night de John Landis
1983 The Hunger de Tony Scott
1982 Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence de Nagisa Oshima
1979 Just a gigolo de David Hemmings
1969 The Virgin Soldiers de John Dexter
1967 The Image