He took the dress with him and wore it during interviews, to the approval of critics including Rolling Stone's John Mendelsohn, who described him as "ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall" and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to "kiss my ass". David Robert Jones was born in Brixton on January 8, 1947. [183] On 25 June, he experienced chest pain while performing at the Hurricane Festival in Scheeel, Germany. The album's hard rock edge included conspicuous guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, Chuck Hammer, and Pete Townshend. [222] The theme that was used for The Last Panthers was also the title track for his January 2016 release Blackstar which is said to take cues from his earlier krautrock-influenced work. [270] The short won Bowie his only non-posthumous Grammy award. "[362] Here, too, as in his stagecraft and songwriting, Bowie's roleplaying is evident: historiographer Michael Campbell says that Bowie's lyrics "arrest our ear, without question. Where Are We Now? He will always be with us. [207] Producer and longtime collaborator Tony Visconti said 29 tracks were recorded for the album, some of which could appear on Bowie's next record, which he might start work on later in 2013. At the same time, the non-album single "John, I'm Only Dancing", and "All the Young Dudes", a song he wrote and produced for Mott the Hoople,[62] were successful in the UK. [47], The studio sessions continued and resulted in Bowie's third album, The Man Who Sold the World (1970), which contained references to schizophrenia, paranoia, and delusion. To promote it, Bowie launched the Diamond Dogs Tour, visiting cities in North America between June and December 1974. [161], Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum 'n' bass, Earthling (1997) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album "Little Wonder" and "Dead Man Walking" became UK Top 40 hits. [142] The band's album debut, Tin Machine (1989), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as "a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of Neo-Nazis"; in the view of Sandford, "It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book. Therefore, they really make the money they deserve for their paintings. Born on January 08, 1947 in Brixton, London, [37] Playing acoustic guitar, Hermione Farthingale formed a group with Bowie and guitarist John Hutchinson named Feathers; between September 1968 and early 1969 the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry, and mime. [315] The bonds liquidated in 2007 and the rights to the income from the songs reverted to Bowie. Like Low, "Heroes" evinced the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city of Berlin. [170] Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album remained officially unreleased until 2021. Buckley called Bowie "both star and icon. His last public appearance was at opening night of the production. "[296] David Lynch also hoped to have Bowie reprise his Fire Walk With Me character for Twin Peaks: The Return but Bowie's illness prevented this. [297], Bowie was a painter and artist. [449] Since 2015, Parlophone has remastered Bowie's back catalogue through the "Era" box set series, starting with Five Years (19691973). [132] During the event, the video for a fundraising single, Bowie's duet with Mick Jagger, was premiered. [244] On 8 January 2020, on what would have been Bowie's 73rd birthday, a previously unreleased version of "The Man Who Sold the World" was released and two releases were announced: a streaming-only EP, Is It Any Wonder?, and an album, ChangesNowBowie, released in November 2020 for Record Store Day. [273] Bowie reteamed with Temple for Absolute Beginners (1986), a rock musical film adapted from Colin MacInnes's book of the same name about life in late 1950s London, in a supporting role as ad man Vendice Partners. The event was recorded, and a selection of songs on which he had contributed joint vocals were subsequently released. April 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowies ALADDIN SANE, which was released only ten months after his breakthrough album THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS. [17] In addition to Burns, a significant proportion of Bowie's extended family members had schizophrenia spectrum disorders, including an aunt who was institutionalised and another who underwent a lobotomy; this has been labelled as an influence on his early work. Although the track was edited out of the final cut, it was later re-recorded and released as "Safe" on the B-side of Bowie's 2002 single "Everyone Says 'Hi'". Bowie was quoted in Stockholm as saying that "Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader", and was detained by customs on the Russian/Polish border for possessing Nazi paraphernalia. "[95], After recovering from addiction, Bowie apologised for these statements, and throughout the 1980s and 1990s criticised racism in European politics and the American music industry. [213], According to The Times, Bowie ruled out ever giving an interview again. [103] Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK number three single "Sound and Vision", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached number two. His influence has been unique in popular culturehe has permeated and altered more lives than any comparable figure. [272] He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985). "[61] The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), combining the hard rock elements of The Man Who Sold the World with the lighter experimental rock and pop of Hunky Dory, was released in June and was considered one of the defining albums of glam rock. [216] In mid-2014, Bowie was diagnosed with liver cancer, a diagnosis he kept private. [265] In 1982, he starred in the titular role in a BBC adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht play Baal. [151] Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career. [177] His interest in Buddhism led him to support the Tibetan cause by performing at the February 2001 and February 2003 concerts to support Tibet House US at Carnegie Hall in New York. [207], A music video for "Where Are We Now?" A feature film which presents deleted scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) assembled together for the first time in an untold portion of the story's prequel.. Director: David Lynch | Stars: The Bowie-memed film features ten unique Polaroid frame designs resembling the iconic artwork and imagery of classic David Bowie albums. [65] His own Aladdin Sane (1973) topped the UK chart, his first number-one album. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with The Next Day. [195], Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival. [108], Echoing Low's minimalist, instrumental approach, the second of the trilogy, "Heroes" (1977), incorporated pop and rock to a greater extent, seeing Bowie joined by guitarist Robert Fripp. But Bowie continually shifts from person to person as he delivers them His voice changes dramatically from section to section. [301] Bowie also wrote an appreciation piece in Rolling Stone for Nine Inch Nails in 2005 and an essay for the booklet accompanying Iggy Pop's A Million in Prizes: The Anthology the same year. [201], In late March 2011, Toy, Bowie's previously unreleased album from 2001, was leaked onto the internet, containing material used for Heathen and most of its single B-sides, as well as unheard new versions of his early back catalogue. Although he intended Tin Machine to operate as a democracy, Bowie dominated, both in songwriting and in decision-making. Family tree of David BOWIE. US Store; EU/UK Store; Connect; You were a talented child, you came to live in our town. English singer-songwriter and actor. He died two days after the release of his twenty-sixth and final studio album, Blackstar, which coincided with his 69th birthday. [215] A poll carried out by BBC History Magazine, in October 2013, named Bowie as the best-dressed Briton in history. [165] Bowie reunited with Visconti in 1998 to record "(Safe in This) Sky Life" for The Rugrats Movie. [85], Station to Station (1976), produced by Bowie and Harry Maslin,[87] introduced a new Bowie persona, "The Thin White Duke" of its title-track. The documentary is the first posthumous film about Bowie to be approved by his estate. The same year, Bowie worked with the Pat Metheny Group to record "This Is Not America" for the soundtrack of The Falcon and the Snowman. [232][233] Blackstar also debuted at number one on album charts around the world, including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the US Billboard 200. [28][29][30] His first release under the name was the January 1966 single "Can't Help Thinking About Me", recorded with the Lower Third. "You've Got a Habit of Leaving" fared no better, signalling the end of Conn's contract. [38], After the break-up with Farthingale, Bowie moved in with Mary Finnigan as her lodger. Gay sex was always an anecdotal and laughing matter. [333], Over the years, Bowie made numerous references to religions and to his evolving spirituality. [83] Despite his by now well-established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of Sandford, "for all his record sales (over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone), existed essentially on loose change. [379], On 24 April 1992, Bowie married Somali-American model Iman in a private ceremony in Lausanne. [445] Bowie later stated "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. [450] Bowie was announced as the best-selling vinyl artist of the 21st century in 2022. I really did have doubts about my sanity. [2] His mother, Margaret Mary "Peggy" (ne Burns; 2 October 1913 2 April 2001),[3] was born at Shorncliffe Army Camp near Cheriton, Kent. Her paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants who had settled in Manchester. [303] On 10 and 11 November, three auctions were held at Sotheby's in London, first with 47 lots and second with 208 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, third with 100 design lots. The fierce partisanship of the cult of Bowie was also uniqueits influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom. "[68] His later Ziggy shows, which included songs from both Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, were ultra-theatrical affairs filled with shocking stage moments, such as Bowie stripping down to a sumo wrestling loincloth or simulating oral sex with Ronson's guitar. [342] On 8 January 2017, which would have been Bowie's 70th birthday, a charity concert in his birthplace of Brixton was hosted by actor Gary Oldman, a close friend. [157] It contained some of the new elements introduced in Black Tie White Noise, and also signalled a move towards alternative rock. [45] The band Bowie assembled comprised John Cambridge, a drummer Bowie met at the Arts Lab, Tony Visconti on bass and Mick Ronson on electric guitar. This resulted in years of litigation that concluded with Bowie having to pay Pitt compensation. WebBorn: 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London, England, UK. $69.98. [18][19], He received a serious injury at school in 1962 when his friend George Underwood punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl. Not only did he become a well-known patron of expressionist art: locked in Clos des Msanges he began an intensive self-improvement course in classical music and literature, and started work on an autobiography. The album, which remained in the chart for two years, was soon joined there by the six-month-old Hunky Dory. "[404] Interviewed in 2005, Bowie said whether God exists "is not a question that can be answered. WebBowie on The Blockchain; News; About; Sound; Vision; Pin Ups; Shop. Influenced by artists like David Bomberg, Francis Bacon and Francis Picabia, Bowie created some beautiful, dark paintings. [137][138][139][140], Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s. [199] On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landingand Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with "Space Oddity"EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix. "[79] The album's sound, which Bowie identified as "plastic soul", constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees. Its three singles became Top 20 hits in both countries, where its title track reached number one. [407][e] Earthling showed "the abiding need in me to vacillate between atheism or a kind of gnosticism What I need is to find a balance, spiritually, with the way I live and my demise. [301] His first solo show, titled New Afro/Pagan and Work: 19751995, was in 1995 at The Gallery in Cork Street, London. [10] The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including the Teenagers, the Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley (who shared Bowie's birthday), and Little Richard. The service was closed by 2006. "[416] In the same interview, Bowie described himself as "apolitical", stating "The more I travel and the less sure I am about exactly which political philosophies are commendable. [314] By forfeiting 10 years worth of royalties, Bowie received a payment of US$55million up front. [167], Bowie, with Gabrels, created the soundtrack for Omikron: The Nomad Soul, a 1999 computer game in which he and Iman also voiced characters based on their likenesses. Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old, acquiring a reputation as a gifted and single-minded childand a defiant brawler. After the gag order that was part of their divorce agreement ended, Angela wrote Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie, a memoir of their turbulent marriage. [1] [a] Bowie worked with numerous artists Before arriving at his glammed-out sci-fi look, he flirted with beatnik and hippie imagery. Between 1988 and 1992, he fronted the hard rock band Tin Machine before resuming his solo career in 1993. I've nearly got it right. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. [479], English singer-songwriter and actor (19472016), "The Lower Third" redirects here. [175] On 27June, he performed a concert at the BBC Radio Theatre in London, which was released on the compilation album Bowie at the Beeb; this also featured BBC recording sessions from 1968 to 1972. He moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva. [114][115], The final piece in what Bowie called his "triptych", Lodger (1979), eschewed the minimalist, ambient nature of the other two, making a partial return to the drum- and guitar-based rock and pop of his pre-Berlin era. [149], In October 1990, a decade after his divorce from Angie, Bowie and Somali-born supermodel Iman were introduced by a mutual friend. I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I think Britain could benefit from a fascist leader. [119], Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) produced the number-one hit "Ashes to Ashes", featuring the textural work of guitar-synthesist Chuck Hammer and revisiting the character of Major Tom from "Space Oddity". Frustrated by his bandmates' limited aspirations, Bowie left the Konrads and joined another band, the King Bees. [40] On 11 July 1969, "Space Oddity" was released five days ahead of the Apollo 11 launch, and reached the top five in the UK. WebDavid Bowie - Official Store. Beginning in 1967 from the influence of his brother,[16] he became interested in Buddhism and, with commercial success eluding him,[399] he considered becoming a Buddhist monk. [403] Earlier that year, he knelt on stage at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and recited the Lord's Prayer before a television audience. [192] He performed again in November, alongside Alicia Keys, at the Black Ball, a benefit event for Keep a Child Alive at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. [226] Following his death on 10 January, Visconti revealed that Bowie had planned the album to be his swan song, and a "parting gift" for his fans before his death. The duet was a hit, becoming Bowie's third UK number-one single. [431] At the mural of Bowie in his birthplace of Brixton, south London, which shows him in his Aladdin Sane character, fans laid flowers and sang his songs. "[397] Sandford said, according to Mary Finniganwith whom Bowie had an affair in 1969Bowie and his first wife Angie "created their bisexual fantasy". Satirising life in a British prison, the Bowie composition "Over The Wall We Go" became a 1967 single for Oscar; another Bowie song, "Silly Boy Blue", was released by Billy Fury the following year. "[398] The BBC's Mark Easton wrote in 2016 that Britain was "far more tolerant of difference", and that gay rights (such as same-sex marriage) and gender equality would not have "enjoyed the broad support they do today without Bowie's androgynous challenge all those years ago". [311] Issued in 1997, the bonds were bought for US$55million by the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Angela described their union as a marriage of convenience. [16] Burns, who was 10 years older than Bowie, had schizophrenia and seizures, and lived alternately at home and in psychiatric wards; while living with Bowie, he introduced the younger man to many of his lifelong influences, such as modern jazz, Buddhism, Beat poetry, and the occult. [116] The album was recorded in Switzerland. [302] In 1997, he founded the publishing company 21 Publishing, whose first title was Blimey! [218] In May 2015, "Let's Dance" was announced to be reissued as a yellow vinyl single on 16 July 2015 in conjunction with the David Bowie Is exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, Australia. [123][124], Bowie paired with Queen in 1981 for a one-off single release, "Under Pressure". [14] By the end of the following year, Bowie had taken up the ukulele and tea-chest bass, begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano; meanwhile, his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berrycomplete with gyrations in tribute to the original artiststo his local Wolf Cub group was described as "mesmerizing like someone from another planet". [405] The song "Station to Station" is "very much concerned with the Stations of the Cross"; the song also specifically references Kabbalah. His early compositions and performances were strongly influenced by rock and roll singers like Little Richard and Elvis Presley, and also the wider world of show business. [135] Supporting Never Let Me Down, and preceded by nine promotional press shows, the 86-concert Glass Spider Tour commenced on 30 May. Released six weeks later, his album debut, David Bowie, an amalgam of pop, psychedelia and music hall, met the same fate. [154][d] In 1993, Bowie said he had an "undying" belief in the "unquestionable" existence of God. His debut single, "Liza Jane", credited to Davie Jones with the King Bees, was not commercially successful. [207] The single topped the UK iTunes Chart within hours of its release,[208] and debuted in the UK Singles Chart at number six,[209] his first single to enter the Top 10 for two decades (since "Jump They Say" in 1993). "[401][402] By 1975, Bowie admitted, "I felt totally, absolutely alone. [52] The "Stardust" surname was a tribute to the "Legendary Stardust Cowboy", whose record he was given during the tour. [146] Like his audience and his critics, Bowie himself became increasingly disaffected with his role as just one member of a band. [168] Making extensive use of live instruments, the album was Bowie's exit from heavy electronica. [133], Bowie was given a role in the 1986 film Absolute Beginners. Discussing his flirtations with fascism in a 1980 interview with NME, Bowie explained that Los Angeles was "where it had all happened. [422][423], In 2016, filmmaker and activist Michael Moore said he had wanted to use "Panic in Detroit" for his 1998 documentary The Big One. [91], Matters came to a head in London in May in what became known as the "Victoria Station incident". Bowie's acting career was "productively selective", largely eschewing starring roles for cameos and supporting parts. [42], Bowie's second album followed in November; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words/Man of Music; it was reissued internationally in 1972 by RCA Records as Space Oddity. I'd discovered King Arthur". Bowie was born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London. In the ensuing decades he was honoured with numerous awards for his music and its accompanying videos, receiving, among others, six Grammy Awards[438][439][244] and four Brit Awardswinning Best British Male Artist twice; the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 1996; and the Brits Icon award for his "lasting impact on British culture", given posthumously in 2016. [428], He always did what he wanted to do. Among the acts he selected for the festival were Philip Glass, Television, and the Dandy Warhols. [247] In September 2021, Bowie's estate signed a distribution deal with Warner Music Group, beginning in 2023, covering Bowie's recordings from 2000 through 2016. Bowie was first impressed with Presley when he saw his cousin Kristina dance to "Hound Dog" soon after it was released in 1956. [361] Schinder and Schwartz call him "a vocalist of extraordinary technical ability, able to pitch his singing to particular effect. Her impact on him was immediate, and her involvement in his career far-reaching, leaving manager Kenneth Pitt with limited influence which he found frustrating. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Featuring philosophical post-hippie lyrics on peace, love, and morality, its acoustic folk rock occasionally fortified by harder rock, the album was not a commercial success at the time of its release. [12] Having encouraged his son to follow his dreams of being an entertainer since he was a toddler, in the late 1950s David's father took him to meet singers and other performers preparing for the Royal Variety Performance, introducing him to Alma Cogan and Tommy Steele. [186] He returned to the stage on 8 September 2005, appearing with Arcade Fire for the US nationally televised event Fashion Rocks, and performed with the Canadian band for the second time a week later during the CMJ Music Marathon. [447][f] In the United Kingdom, he was awarded 9 platinum, 11 gold, and 8 silver albums, and in the United States, 5 platinum and 9 gold. It again featured a stylistic shift towards art pop and melodic pop rock. [263] The film was a critical and commercial bomb, and Bowie later expressed embarrassment at his role in it. [99] During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut The Idiot and its follow-up Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977. [375] They were last together in January 1969 for the filming of Love You till Tuesday, a 30-minute film that was not released until 1984: intended as a promotional vehicle, it featured performances from Bowie's repertoire, including "Space Oddity", which had not been released when the film was made. [406], "Questioning [his] spiritual life [was] always germane" to Bowie's songwriting. [127] Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album went platinum in both the UK and the US. Bowie said about Angela that "living with her is like living with a blow torch. The film follows Bowie on his first trip to the United States in 1971. Cambridge left and was replaced by Mick Woodmansey. [63], Bowie contributed backing vocals, keyboards, and guitar to Reed's 1972 solo breakthrough Transformer, co-producing the album with Mick Ronson. Bowie was already famous in the U.K., but it wasnt until Changes that he made an appearance on the U.S. charts in April 1972. [72] Pin Ups, a collection of covers of his 1960s favourites, followed in October, producing a UK number three hit in his version of the McCoys's "Sorrow" and itself peaking at number one, making David Bowie the best-selling act of 1973 in the UK. [341] In March 2017, Bowie featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail. [335], Numerous figures from the music industry whose careers Bowie had influenced paid tribute to him following his death; panegyrics on Twitter (tweets about him peaked at 20,000 a minute an hour after the announcement of his death)[336] also came from outside the entertainment industry and pop culture, such as those from the Vatican, namely Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, who quoted "Space Oddity", and the Federal Foreign Office, which thanked Bowie for his part in the fall of the Berlin Wall and referenced "Heroes". Bowie gave birth to their son, Zowie, now known as Duncan, on May 30, 1971. [15] It was an unusual technical school, as biographer Christopher Sandford wrote: Despite its status it was, by the time David arrived in 1958, as rich in arcane ritual as any [English] public school. at number 105,[458] "Space Oddity" at number 189,[459] "Changes" at number 200,[460] "Young Americans" at number 204,[461] "Station to Station" at number 400,[462] and "Under Pressure" at number 429. [377] Bowie and Angela divorced on 8 February 1980 in Switzerland. Although he completed the album in November 1976, it took his unsettled record company another three months to release it. Aladdin Sane spawned the UK top five singles "The Jean Genie" and "Drive-In Saturday". That Bowie's actual tastes swung the other way is clear from even a partial tally of his affairs with women. Taking place in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director. [200] A Reality Tour, a double album of live material from the 2003 concert tour, was released in January 2010. [141] The Sales brothers are sons of American comedian and actor Soupy Sales. [286] Bowie appeared as himself in the 2001 Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander, judging a "walk-off" between rival male models,[287] and in Eric Idle's 2002 mockumentary The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch. After a series of operations during a four-month hospitalisation,[20] his doctors determined that the damage could not be fully repaired and Bowie was left with faulty depth perception and anisocoria (a permanently dilated pupil), which gave a false impression of a change in the iris' colour, erroneously suggesting he had heterochromia iridum (one iris a different colour to the other); his eye later became one of Bowie's most recognisable features. [333] In 2006, Bowie was voted the fourth greatest living British icon in a poll held by the BBC's Culture Show. In the US, he received five platinum and nine gold certifications. [97], Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career. [293] In the 2008 film August, directed by Austin Chick, he played a supporting role as Ogilvie, a "ruthless venture capitalist. [15], Bowie's maternal half-brother, Terry Burns, was a substantial influence on his early life. [25][26] Dissatisfied with the King Bees and their repertoire of Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon covers, Bowie quit the band less than a month later to join the Manish Boys, another blues outfit, who incorporated folk and soul"I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger", Bowie was to recall. [6] His father, Haywood Stenton "John" Jones (21 November 1912 5 August 1969),[3] was from Doncaster, Yorkshire,[7] and worked as a promotions officer for the children's charity Barnardo's. [163] The Earthling Tour took place in Europe and North America between June and November 1997. [47] Not long after, Bowie fired his manager and replaced him with Tony Defries. WebOn 10 January 2016, English musician David Bowie died at his Lafayette Street home in New York City, having been diagnosed with liver cancer 18 months earlier. After Bowie there has been no other pop icon of his stature, because the pop world that produces these rock gods doesn't exist any more. [352] It received generally unfavourable reviews from critics. [144] The album nevertheless reached number three and went gold in the UK. Lodger reached number four in the UK and number 20 in the US, and yielded the UK hit singles "Boys Keep Swinging" and "DJ". The musicians and artists he selected for the Manhattan event included electronic pop duo AIR, surrealist photographer Claude Cahun and English comedian Ricky Gervais. 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