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*8 AUGUST 2002*
*’age 55′*
(“tweeter center” performance)
(ouside ‘chicago’)
(‘tinley park’ / ‘illinois’)
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“david robert jones”
“get back to where you once belonged!”
*’8 january 1947′ – ’10 january 2016’*
(born in ‘london)
‘age 69’
*known professionally as david bowie*
/ˈboʊi/
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*OUR THOUGHTS*
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*’singer’ / ‘songwriter’ / ‘actor’*
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(he was a figure in ‘popular music’ for over ‘5 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 artists)
(in the UK, he was awarded 9 platinum album certifications, 11 gold, and 8 silver, releasing 11 #1 albums)
(in the US, he received 5 platinum and 7 gold certifications)
(he was inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ in 1996)
(born and raised in South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963)
(“Space Oddity” became his first ‘top-5’ entry on the ‘UK Singles Chart’ after its release in July 1969)
(after a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the ‘glam rock era’ with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego ‘Ziggy Stardust’)
(age 25)
(the character was spearheaded by the success of his single “Starman” and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity)
(in 1975, Bowie’s style shifted radically towards a sound he characterised as “plastic soul”, initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the album ‘Young Americans’)
(in 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released ‘Station to Station’)
(the following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with ‘Brian Eno’ that would come to be known as the “Berlin Trilogy”)
(“Heroes” (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise)
(after uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK #1s with the 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes”, its parent album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps),
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and “Under Pressure”, a 1981 collaboration with ‘Queen’)
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(he then reached his commercial peak in 1983 with Let’s Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts)
(throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and ‘jungle’)
(‘bowie’ also continued acting; his roles included ‘Major Celliers’ in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin ‘King Jareth’ in Labyrinth (1986), ‘Pontius Pilate’ in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and ‘Nikola Tesla’ in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos)
(he stopped ‘concert touring’ after ‘2004’)
(his final live performance was at a charity event in ‘2006’)
(in 2013, ‘bowie’ returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of ‘the next day’)
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(he remained musically active until he died of ‘liver cancer’ 2 days after the release of his final album (‘blackstar’) in ‘2016’)
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👈👈👈☜*“BRITISH SOLO ACTS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
*THE FAITHFULLY DEPARTED*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥