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Children's Music,
Pop / Rock,
R&B / Soul
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| Descriptive "tags": |
rock, glam rock, classic rock, 80s, alternative, british, pop, glam
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| Decades Active: |
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
1990s,
2000s
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| Links online: |
BBC Music,
Blog,
Discography,
Fan Page,
Fan Page,
Fan Page,
Fan Page,
Fan Page,
Fan Page,
IMDb,
Lyrics,
MusicMoz,
MySpace,
Official Homepage,
Wikipedia,
Wikipedia,
YouTube
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Biography
David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947, Brixton, London, England. One of the great enigmas of popular music and certainly the most mercurial, Bowie underwent a veritable odyssey of career moves and minor crises before establishing himself as a major performer. He began playing saxophone during his teens, initially with various school groups. School also contributed to his future pop star career in a more bizarre way as a result of a playground fight, which left the singer with a paralysed pupil (being stabbed in the eye with a school geometry compass). Consequently, he had eyes of a different colour, an accident that later enhanced his otherworldly image. In the early 60s, however, his style was decidedly orthodox, all mod clothes and R&B riffs. Over the next few years, he went through a succession of backing groups including the King Bees, the Manish Boys, the Lower Third and the Buzz. In late 1966, he changed his surname owing to the imminent emergence of Davy...
Read the Full Biography of David Bowie
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