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David Bowie
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in 1947 in Brixton, a district of London. He showed that a rock star could play a role, and that an artist could keep reinventing himself. From glam rock through soul and electronic music to dance music: every few years he sounded different.
Music and breakthrough
His first big hit was Space Oddity, released in July 1969, five days before the launch of Apollo 11. The breakthrough came with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972). Bowie invented a rock star from space and became that character, on stage and off, with the guitarist Mick Ronson and the Spiders from Mars as his band. A performance of Starman on Top of the Pops in July 1972 made him known in England. On 3 July 1973 he said farewell to Ziggy at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. On Young Americans (1975) he made what he called 'plastic soul', and Fame became his first number 1 hit in America. In West Berlin, with Brian Eno and the producer Tony Visconti, he made Low and "Heroes" (both 1977) and then Lodger (1979). Let's Dance (1983), with Nile Rodgers as co-producer, became his greatest commercial success.
Influence
The New Romantics danced to Bowie at the Blitz club in London, and regulars of that club appeared in the video for Ashes to Ashes (1980). With Major Tom (völlig losgelöst), Peter Schilling wrote a sequel to Space Oddity. Bowie died in New York in January 2016, two days after the release of his last album Blackstar.
Listening
Ziggy Stardust · David Bowie, 1972Apple Music ↗
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) · David Bowie, 1982
Discography
Studio albums
- 1967David Bowie
- 1969David Bowie
- 1970The Man Who Sold the World
- 1971Hunky Dory
- 1972Ziggy Stardust
- 1973Aladdin Sane
- 1973Pin Ups
- 1974Diamond Dogs
- 1975Young Americans
- 1976Station to Station
- 1977“Heroes”
- 1977Low
- 1978David Bowie
- 1979Lodger
- 1980Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps
- 1981Christiane F.: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (soundtrack)
- 1983Let’s Dance
- 1984Love You Till Tuesday (soundtrack)
- 1984Tonight
- 1986Labyrinth: From the Original Soundtrack of the Jim Henson Film (soundtrack)
- 1987Never Let Me Down
- 1993Black Tie White Noise
- 1993The Buddha of Suburbia (soundtrack)
- 19951.Outside: The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle
- 1997Earthling
- 1999‘hours…’
- 2002Heathen
- 2003Reality
- 2011Toy
- 2013The Next Day
- 2016★
- 2016Lazarus (soundtrack)
- 2022Moonage Daydream: A Film by Brett Morgen (soundtrack)
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
- Mixtape 4: When Rock Was Still PopNL Reader
- Mixtape 7: The 1980sNL Reader
- Mixtape 8: Electronic MusicNL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 5NL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 6NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
- Magazine: The Man Who Sees MusiciansNL Magazine
- Magazine: Rock Behind the Iron CurtainNL Magazine
Mentioned in other articles
- Glam rock Genre
David Bowie invented Ziggy Stardust, a rock star from space, and became that character on stage and off it.
- Chanson Genre
Scott Walker and David Bowie recorded songs by Brel, and Dutch kleinkunst also looked to the chanson.
- Ziggy Stardust Album
After the American promotional tour of February 1971, David Bowie wrote more than thirty new songs in England.
See also
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Hunky Dory
- Aladdin Sane
- Pin Ups
- Diamond Dogs
- Station to Station
- “Heroes”
- Low
- Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps
- Let’s Dance
- Tonight
- ‘hours…’
- Chanson