David Bowie
David Bowie
David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1947
CityLondon, England
My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.
I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.
I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.
Nothing prepared me for your smile
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
I've come to the realizations that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time.
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.
I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.