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
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.
Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.
Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.
I heard the news today, oh boy.
I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.