The celebrations Big party in the 13th arrondissement in the presence of hundreds of people, Parisian fans of the famous Ziggy Stardust, including the artist’s Parisian friends such as Agneés B., the designer who dressed him “for 25 years”. The inauguration ceremony was followed by an evening in homage to Bowie, with an exhibition of photos and paintings.
When did David Bowie die and where was he buried David Bowie died on the night of January 10, 2016, “peacefully” after a “courageous 18-month fight” against cancer that had spread throughout his body. The announcement was published on the musician’s Facebook page, and the news was confirmed by the artist’s son, who asked for the family’s privacy to be respected. Only a few days earlier his 28th and final album had been released, “Blackstar”, released on January 8 to coincide with the British composer’s 69th birthday. On January 12, 2016, according to his wishes, Bowie was cremated in New Jersey and his ashes were scattered according to Buddhist rituals in Bali, Indonesia.
His career, that’s what his real name was and what he became famous for David Robert Jones was born in London on 8 January 1947. The surname Bowie dates back to the beginning, when the singer-songwriter chose it to differentiate himself from the Monkees singer of the same name.
The first single of his long career is dated January 14, 1966 and it is “Can’t help thinking about me”. The first albums, later considered masterpieces, such as “Space Oddity”, “Hunky Dory” and “The Man Who Sold The World” were not received coldly, as often happens to innovative works.
The popularity of Bowie, a multi-instrumentalist, multifaceted and versatile artist well before becoming a pop icon, comes thanks to the most famous of his alter egos: Ziggy Sturdust, protagonist of his fifth album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars”. The alien with the wedges, the orange hair and the ostentatious, and for the time revolutionary, sexual ambiguity opened the doors to global success for him and marked both the explosion of Glam Rock and Bowie’s career. Ziggy disappeared with the legendary concert at London’s Hammersmith only a year after the album’s release, in 1973, but the mark he left on the world of music was now indelible.
The desire to experiment and change is born
“Aladdin Sane”, which contains classics such as “The Jean Genie”, “Changes”. The covers album “Pin Up” will follow, then “Diamond Dog” built around the figure of Halloween Jack. Black Music, David Bowie’s old passion, is expressed in its fullness in “Young Americans”, an album with funky rhythms from 1975, to leave room for the White Duke, protagonist of “Station To Station”.
The Berlin trilogy, with “Low”, “Heroes” and “Lodger”, is the result of the collaboration with Brian Eno and the influence of German electronica. The three albums were released between 1977 and 1979 and would become an inspiration for the electropop of the following years.
With Scary Monster another period of David Bowie’s career begins and with “Let’s Dance”, produced by Nile Rodgers of Chic, he reaches the peak of his international success, turning towards more openly dance atmospheres.
The following years, despite being characterized by the usual verve and desire to experiment, are not a harbinger of recording successes and the decline begins, accelerated by health problems and the consequences of the excesses of the golden years, marked by cocaine. A heart attack forces him to give up live performances.
David Bowie’s career also includes musicals and cinema, for an all-round artist who is already a legend.
With around 140 million albums sold in his lifetime, David Bowie is among the artists with the highest number of sales and in 2007 he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fourth richest singer in the world. Considered one of the most influential musicians in contemporary music, in 2008 he was placed 23rd in the list of the hundred best singers according to Rolling Stone, which identified Life on Mars?, Space Oddity, Fame and “Heroes” among his best songs. Furthermore, five of his albums are included in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 best albums. In 2019, Bowie was named “the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century” in a poll conducted by BBC Two.
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