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Page 1: 25 Amazing Facts Everyone Should Know about David Bowie
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“His First-ever release was “Liza Jane/Louie, Louie Go Home” in June 1964, under the name

Davie Jones with The King Bees.”

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“Bowie changed his real name (David Robert Jones) to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of

The Monkees.”

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“Bowie met his second wife—Somalian supermodel Iman—on a blind date arranged

by a mutual friend.”

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“ Bowie duet with American legend Bing Crosby “The Little Drummer Boy” was

recorded for Christmas 1977 and would become a hit five years later, after Crosby’s

death.”

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“Bowie is also an actor. His first leading role was as a stranded alien in the 1976 film The

Man Who Fell to Earth.“

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“The Elephant Man, with Bowie in the title role, was a hit on Broadway in 1980.”

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“Before he become one of the biggest-selling male R&B singers of all time, Luther Vandross

sang backup for Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans.”

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“He voiced the character of Lord Royal Highness in SpongeBob SquarePants in 2007.”

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“Bowie was hit in the eye by a lollipop while on stage in Oslo, Norway, in 2004.

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“He suggested that his fans vote via phone for which tracks he should play for his 1990 world

tour and “The Laughing Gnome” earned the most votes. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t play it.”

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“At the height of cocaine psychosis, Bowie was so disoriented and paranoid from drugs,

he allegedly stored his urine in the refrigerator in case a wizard stole it.

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“Bowie’s mid-seventies drug use wasn’t exactly joyous hedonism for him according to

an interview he gave in 2000.

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“David Bowie portrayed the great Nicola Tesla in the 2006 film The Prestige, starring Hugh

Jackman and Christian Bale.”

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““Space Oddity” was Bowie’s first UK hit and introduced him to the masses. This classic

track was used by the BBC in its coverage of the moon landing in 1969.”

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“His son from his first marriage with Angie Bowie is the famous director Duncan Jones who made the sci-fi classic Moon (2009).

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“A fake Twitter account was set up in Bowie’s name in January 2009. Despite it only ever

having featured one tweet the account managed to collect over forty-one thousand

followers.”

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““TCV15,” from the Station to Station album, was inspired by a dream in which Iggy Pop

saw his girlfriend eaten by a TV set.”

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“Bowie got the idea for his Ziggy Stardust persona after a chance encounter in London’s Carnaby Street with washed-up pop star and

acid freak Vince Taylor. Interestingly, the album cover was shot just around the corner on

Haddon Street.”

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“Bowie was offered a knighthood by the Queen in 2003, but turned it down. He told

The Sun, “I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don’t

know what it’s for. It’s not what I spent my life working for.””

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“In 1970 when Bowie briefly formed The Hype (originally called Harry the Butcher and then David Bowie’s Imagination), everyone in

the band dressed up as superheroes. They were ridiculed and booed out of everywhere

they played, literally.”

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“Contrary to popular belief, David Bowie’s eyes were not two different colors. They only appeared so because one eye had a permanently dilated pupil, the result of a

fight.”

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“Blackstar, Bowie’s twenty-fifth and final studio album, was released through his ISO Records label on January 8, 2016, his sixty-

ninth birthday, and two days before his death.”

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“Always ahead of his time, Bowie was the first musician to take advantage of the Internet

when it started to take off. In 1997 he released the single “Telling Lies” online only.”

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“Even though an Englishman, he had an extreme tea phobia due to a “horrible incident”

(as he described it) with a cup of tea when he was five. After this incident he never drank tea

again.”

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“Bowie’s older, schizophrenic half brother Terry killed himself in 1985. He was the

inspiration for many of Bowie’s songs including “Aladdin Sane,” “All the Madmen,” “The Bewlay Brothers,” and “Jump They Say.””

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