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DAVID BOWIE IN 250 WORDS (ish)
Here's one of our potted histories. Everything you need to know about a band or artist we play on Classic Hits Forest Radio all squeezed into 250 words (ish) (just in case you were going to count).
So pull up a chair and find out everything you need to know about David Bowie. But don't get too comfy, it is only 250 words (ish).
David Bowie in 250 words (ish)
David Bowie was an English singer and is seen as one of the most influential musicians of the last century. He was born in Brixton London in 1947 and died in 2016. As a child Bowie was inspired by a collection of American 45s brought by his father. Shortly after this he took up the ukulele and started to play the piano. When Bowie was in school, he was punched in the left eye and after treatment was left with a permanently dilated pupil, one of his most recognisable features.
Bowie released 27 studio albums, 11 live albums and a whopping 128 singles. In the UK he had 5 No.1 singles and 25 singles in the UK top 10. His No.1s include ‘Space Oddity (1975)’, ‘Ashes to Ashes’ and ‘Let’s Dance’. Out of the 27 studio albums Bowie released 11 made it to No.1 in the UK.
‘Scary Monster and Super Creeps’ (1980) stayed at No.1 for 2 weeks. ‘Aladdin Sane’ (1973) and ‘Pin Ups’ (1973) both spent 5 weeks each at No.1. ‘Let’s Dance’ released in 1983 was Bowies 15th studio album. The album has sold 10.7 million copies worldwide and in the UK is on its silver certification.
Throughout his career, David Bowie had many alter egos, the most well-known being Ziggy Stardust. There is a statue of Bowie in Aylesbury where he debuted as Ziggy Stardust. His 5th studio album ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ (1972) was based around a concept of a fictional glam rock star sent to save Earth from an apocalyptic disaster. The single ‘Starman’ was released on the album and was inspired by the film ‘The Wizard of Oz’. The chorus is loosely inspired by the song ‘Over the Rainbow’. The songs ‘Hot Love’ and ‘Telegram’ by T-Rex also inspired the song.
David Bowie won many awards over his career including 6 Grammy awards and 4 Brit Awards. In 1999 the French government made him Commander of the Ordre Des Arts et des Letters. However, he declined a knighthood in 2003 saying it was not what he spent working for.
The spider Heterophoda Davidbowie was named after him in 2008 and in 2015 an asteroid was named 342843 Davidbowie.
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