David Bowie is dead, please tell me how sad I am. Unexpectedly, the first round of impact in 2016 came from chameleons. On January 8, he just celebrated his 69th birthday and gave his new album Blackstar as a gift to himself and everyone else. In just three days, the plot flipped and the building collapsed. I'm sorry, but what kind of words to use to write the obituary, what kind of framework to record his life, is not ready. Only by carefully presenting the vivid, shining fragments together, may this "space monster" be transformed into a special black star to complete another "space odyssey".
60 things about him, strung together his life that is either little known or has long been famous in the streets, and also pieced together the most special him.
1 David Bowie, formerly known as David Robert Jones, was born on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London, England, on the same birthday as Elvis Presley, only 12 years later.
2 He attended Bromley Technical Secondary School, which is now renamed Ravenswood Middle School and is a boys' school. Rock guitarist Peter Frampton was a close friend of Bowie's as a student, the former's father was the head of the school's art department, and the two later performed on the same stage.
At the age of 314, Bowie and his good friend George Underwood fought for a girl, and in a fit of rage, George accidentally injured Bowie's left eye, causing damage to his left sphincter, permanently dilated pupils, no longer reacting to light, and he later had his signature different color eyes, left brown and right blue, known by fans as "gold and silver eye demon pupil".
4 Of course, despite a fight, Bowie and Underwood are still good buddies, and the covers and posters for Bowie's three most famous early albums, Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, were designed by Underwood.
5 Bowie began learning saxophone at the age of 12, and after graduating from Bromley Technical High School at the age of 16, he played saxophone in several bands, performed in clubs and schools, and worked as a saxophonist on the album Now We Are Six by the British folk rock band Steeleye Span. 6 In June 1964, he released his first album, Liza Jane/Louie Louie Go Home, under the name David Jones. To avoid confusion with David Jones, the lead singer of The Monkees at the time, he thought for weeks about what a new name to call, such as Tommy Jones, and so on, and finally officially changed it to David Bowie, on September 16, 1965. 7 The correct pronunciation of "Bowie" is actually very similar to "Joey", that is, Joey, which is said to come from an American knife brand he likes.
At the age of 817, he was invited to the BBC for a talk show, and as the initiator of the organization that protects the right of men to keep long hair, he said that "it is really unpleasant that someone always sweetly calls you dear". In 1967, he wrote songs for actor Paul Nicholas (who became famous for starring in Just Good Friends), and Paul recorded under the pseudonym Oscar.
In 101967, he published his first official album " David Bowie " , a folk song style , after the release of the work was like a stone sinking into the sea, the response was mediocre, and he was shocked for the next two years, and did not participate in any music production. That same year, he also released a single, "The Laughing Gnome", which was dubbed by many fans as the most ugly number one of his songs. On the 1990 World Tour, he launched a global fan mobile voting campaign, "The Laughing Gnome" had the highest number of votes, but he did not let the fans get their wishes, and did not perform the song at all.
In 111969, he published the transformational Space Oddity, his second album, with the title song of the same name being used by the BBC when covering the moon landing. In the three songs "Space Oddity" in 1969, "Ashes to Ashes" in 1980 and "Hallo Spaceboy" in 1995, the name of Bowie's fictional character "Major Tom" has appeared.
In 121975, his single "Fame" reached number one on the U.S. charts, the first time his music became a number one song in the United States, and John Lennon was involved in the creation of the song, also playing guitar and harmony for him on the album.
At the beginning of 131972, whether it was music or styling, he began to make a big change, turning himself into a virtual space creature image Ziggy Stardust, and Ziggy's name originated from the tailor shop of the same name, so called because Ziggy needed to change a lot of clothes.
In 141975, he released his new album Young Americans, which shifted to American soul music, and Chic's Neil Rogers fought to become Bowie's band guitarist, but did not do so. But interestingly, in 1983, the two finally had their first collaboration, releasing "Let's Dance", which topped the British and American charts and was Bowie's best-selling album, with more than 8 million copies sold worldwide. 15 In the 2006 BBC-sponsored vote for the greatest living idol to date, Bowie finished fourth, ahead of him, James Paul McCartney, Stephen Patrick Morrissey and David Edin Paulf.
16 When performing in Oslo, Norway, a lollipop hit him in the face, and he kept letting it hang there, knowing that there was a staff member to take it. 17 sang "OH Mickey!" Tony Bassol has choreographed on two of Bowie's world tours, "Diamond Dogs" in 1974 and "Glass Spider" in 1987. 18 Bowie had formed a band called "The Hype" in 1970, and everyone was gorgeous and visual, but the band had a poor response and booed everywhere they went.
19 British director Nicholas Roig's classic sci-fi film Alien Is Bowie's first film in which he plays an alien from another civilization who is highly developed. One scene in the film takes place in a record store, with a poster of his album "Young Americans" plastered on the wall.
In 202007, he made a cameo voice for the spongebopants miniseries because he had a six-year-old daughter who loved SpongeBob SquarePants. (The first on the right is his voice role)
In 211986's Labyrinth of Magic, directed by Jim Hansen, Bowie plays Jas, the king of the demon world.
In 222006, Christopher Nolan directed Deadly Magic, and he made a cameo appearance in the role of Nikola Tesla, with Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.
23 Bowie studied pantomime performance for a period of time, in 1969, formed his pantomime troupe "Feathers", the master of mime Lindesay Kemp was a key figure in the avant-garde art 241988, Bowie participated in Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ", playing the Roman consul Pontius Pilate, who was the judge who sent Jesus to the cross. 25 He has also collaborated with nagisa Oshima, Luc Besson, David Lynch and other film masters such as Happy Christmas on the Battlefield (below), Arthur and His Mini Kingdom, Twin Peaks: Walking with Fire, etc., in addition to playing the dancer dancing tango in Just a Dancer, playing Andy Warhol in the American artist Basquiat's biopic "Light Crazy Years", and playing himself in the biography "Fallen Street" directed by Uli Ed.
26 According to most sources, his accurate height value is 1 meter 78. In 272003, Bowie rejected the knighthood that Queen Elizabeth had wanted to grant, saying: "I never thought of accepting this kind of thing, I really don't know what it means, anyway, this is not the purpose of my life's struggle." ”
In 281992, Bowie married Somali supermodel Iman and in 2000 had a daughter, Alexander Sarah Jones. Iman tattooed a Bowie knife on his ankle as proof of love. 29 Bowie and his half-brother Terry are very close. In 1970, Terry was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for depression and committed suicide on January 6, 1985, and Bowie did not attend his funeral to give his family the peace they deserved. Terry is nine years older than Bowie and is one of the relatives who have influenced him the most, "Aladdin Sane", "All The Madmen", "The Bewlay Brothers" and "Jump They Say", all four of which were inspired by Terry.
30 (Image above is only an infographic) In 2004, Bowie suffered a heart attack while performing in Germany and had to undergo emergency surgery. 31 Lou Reed's legendary album Transformer was co-produced with Bowie.
32's last album, Pin Ups, named Ziggy, was released in 1973 with a cover featuring supermodel Choi, and then, at the concert, Bowie announced that Ziggy was dead. 33 Bowie had recorded the Italian version of "Space Oddity" as "Ragazzo Solo", which translates to "Lonely Man and Widow". The song "Move On" from the 34 album Lodger is based on his old song "All The Young Dudes". 35 In detail, Bowie has spent in ten bands, The Konrads, The Hooker Brothers, The King Bees, The Manish Boys, The Lower Third, The Buzz, The Riot Squad, The Hype, Tin Machine and Tao Jones Index.
36 "The Man Who Sold The World", a 1970 song by Bowie, was covered by the Nirvana band at an MTV unplugged concert, and at 50 seconds, the first "Oh no, not me" was a classic moment. 37 Bowie wrote music for the 1993 play of the same name based on Hanif Kuresi's novel Buddha Of Suburbia. 38 On British folk band Steeleye Span's "Now We Are Six" album, Bowie played the saxophone for "To Know Him Is To Love Him." In 391977, Bowie co-recorded a Christmas song "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" with Bing Crosby, which was not released until a month later, when Bing Crosby died. 40 On the Diamond Dogs album, Bowie tried to play every instrument, such as the super classic guitar improvisation in "Rebel Rebel.".
41 Bowie was the last guest on a live music show by Rex Dragon, the founding father of glam rock, and soon after, Pollen died in a car accident on his way home. 42Visage creator Steve Strange appeared in the music video for Bowie's hit single "Ashes To Ashes" in 1980. 43 Arcade Fire and TV On The Radio are Bowie's favorite bands of nearly a decade. 44 In Bowie's single "Sound And Vision", folk singer Mary Hodgkin, who became famous for "Those were the days", played the harmony for him. 45 Ten years before the Cocteau Twins were even on fire, Bowie began muttering in the song "Subterraneans" in 1977, singing the entire song in his own language.
46 On almost every album cover, Bowie would show his face, except for the British release of "Buddha Of Suburbia". 47 His name often appears in other people's songs, such as the German avant-garde electronic band Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" singing "Meet Iki Pope and David Bowie - The Express Across Europe!" And "Backside" of the British band Drawingbs: "The boy stood on a burning deck with his back to the mast. He didn't dare turn around until David Bowie passed by." In September 481996, Bowie broke with the norm and released a non-physical, Internet-only single "Telling Lies", which was still dial-up and took at least 11 minutes to download a song. In 1998, he founded bowieNet, which also made him the first rocker to act as an Internet content provider.
49 Bowie's most cherished treasures are a photo of Little Richard wrapped in cellophane that he bought in 1958 and dried chrysanthemums he picked during his honeymoon in Kyoto. 50 Painting, sculpture, writing, Bowie also has a wide range of interests in his leisure time, and the artists he admires most are Tintoretto, John Bellaney, Eric Hecker, Picasso and Michael Ray Charles.
51 David Bowie says his favorite profession is actually scribbling on a canvas without feeling. In 522004, Bowie ranked 39th and 23rd respectively on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Artists and Best Singers charts. 53 In the 2006 BBC comedy show Extras, Bowie made a cameo appearance in the second season, ending with him playing the piano while singing "Chubby Little Loser", teasing Ricky Jervis for his role as an amateur actor in the film, Andy. In the 542009-year-old Zach Schneider film Watchmen, in the 4th minute and 34th second of the opening, the schemist shakes hands with Bowie, and the birch wallpaper in the ping-pong room of the Night Owl's home comes directly from Nicholas Logue and David Bowie's classic "The Man Who Fell to Earth". In 552013, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London exhibited more than 300 objects documenting Bowie's debut for four months. (Some of the works on display are pictured below))
The striped jumpsuit worn on the 1973 "Aladdin Lamp" tour was designed by Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto and photographed by Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita. Copyright: Hoeda And David Bowie Archives 2012
The 1978 self-portrait was also used on the cover of the Heroes album.
1974 David Bowie and American writer William Burroughs, photography by Terry O'Neil, David Bowie hand-painted colors. Copyright: David Bowie Archives 2012 & V&A Museum
The cover of the 1997 Earthling album was originally photographed. David Bowie wears a mi-flag coat designed in collaboration with Alexander McQueen. Copyright: Frank W. Ockenfels 356 artist Ed Chapman presented Bowie with a mosaic sculpture based on Starman when he was 65 years old. In 572009, David Bowie mentioned in the Proust questionnaire in Vanity Fair that his greatest achievement was "getting up in the morning" and that his worst fear was "converting kilometers into miles." 58 Bowie also spent some time as an artistic director at JWT in London
59 Tilda Swinton is regarded as a female version of David Bowie, and the former has always idolized Baoye. The two not only played a middle-class couple in "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", but also played role swaps and COS to each other.
60 While working on their latest and final album, Blackstar, Bowie and the production team repeatedly listened to Kendrick Lamar's album, which was the biggest winner of this year's Grammy finalists. Finally, I don't want to say goodbye.