Bowie was a man of many talents and had many highs and lows in his life, he had a very rough life in his later years but in the very beginning he was a seemingly normal child. David was born on the eighth of January in 1947 in South London with the name David Robert Jones. He was a very musically interested during his early teens and had learned how to play the saxophone and had many musical influences based on his half-brother Terry. Terry Burns was ten years older than David and had a severe mental illness that caused him to be away from home for most of his life after David’s parents had gotten together. Even though Terry was not around David a lot, Bowie still had received a huge influence in the short amount of time they were actually together. After graduating out of Bromley Technical High School, David had become a commercial artist and was making music as a side hobby too; eventually his music career took off and became the David Bowie we now know today. Through all of the tragedies, heart breaks, and drug abuse David just seems to somehow get back up on his feet and show the world what he’s made of.
David Bowie’s musical career was a very long one lasting for many years and never seizing to come to a stop to this day. As stated earlier he was musically interested from a fairly young age learning how to play the saxophone by the age of twelve. For a decent amount of time while being a commercial artist he had joined the band “Davy Jones and the Lower Third” where many singles had arose but none had shone bright enough to become very well known. Around this time David changed his last name to avoid confusion of another artist named Davy Jones from the band “The Monkees” (Perone), so he changed it to Bowie because of the Bo...
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...xamples are The Man Who Fell to Earth, where he played as an alien, and Just a Gigolo.
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