This a reference to Bowie's fascination at that time with fascist ideology.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November ; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words / Man of Music.

During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto-punk artists led him to develop a concept that would eventually find form in the Ziggy Stardust character: a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing " the ultimate pop idol ".

Young Americans yielded Bowie's first US number one, " Fame ", co-written with John Lennon, who contributed backing vocals, and Carlos Alomar.

Lennon would call Bowie's work as " great, but just rock and roll with lipstick on ".

By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

" As described by biographer Christopher Sandford, " The record dashed such high hopes with dubious choices, and production that spelt the end — for fifteen years — of Bowie's partnership with Eno.

During the event, the video for a fundraising single was premièred, Bowie's duet with Mick Jagger.

Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song " Jump They Say ".

The reunion led to other collaborations including a limited-edition single release version of Placebo's track " Without You I'm Nothing ", co-produced by Visconti, with Bowie's harmonised vocal added to the original recording.

On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing — and Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with " Space Oddity "— EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix.

Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ), a rock musical based on Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel about London life, featured Bowie's music and presented him with a minor acting role.

Firstly there was a cover of David Bowie's 1972 glam-rock classic " Suffragette City ", slightly renamed to " SufferRAGEette City " to fit in with the " Rage Hard " promotion.

The Doctors of Madness built on Bowie's presentation concepts, while moving musically in the direction that would become identified with punk.

In addition to the original albums, two compilation albums have been released: Double Hipness ( 2000 ), a collection of early tracks with the 1993 reunion demos ; and Singles ( 2004 ), an extended version of Popera-The Singles Collection which caught up with post-1990 material and included the cover of Bowie's " Boys Keep Swinging ".

In the same year Bauhaus scored their biggest hit with a cover of David Bowie's " Ziggy Stardust ", which was recorded during a BBC session.

The clip for " John, I'm Only Dancing " was made with a budget of just US $ 200 and filmed at the afternoon rehearsal for Bowie's Rainbow Theatre concert on 19 August 1972.

It shows Bowie and band miming to the record intercut with footage of Bowie's dancers The Astronettes dancing on stage and behind a back-lit screen.

An early example of this was David Bowie's album Pin Ups, featuring songs from groups with which he had shared venues in the 1960s.

During this period, in which the band could not release their own music owing to the legal dispute with Rhythm King, the pair undertook remix work for React 2 Rhythm, ICP, Supereal, Inner City, Sunscreem, Ultra Nate and provided two remixes to David Bowie's single Jump They Say.

Cybernauts was a side project consisting of Joe Elliott and Phil Collen teamed with members of the Spiders From Mars ( David Bowie's former band ), minus the late Mick Ronson.

Erlewine viewed its music and Bowie's " paranoid futuristic tales " as " bizarre ", adding that " Musically, there isn't much innovation [...] it is almost all hard blues-rock or psychedelic folk-rock — but there's an unsettling edge to the band's performance, which makes the record one of Bowie's best albums ".

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

The Christiane F. soundtrack album, which featured Bowie's music prominently, was released a few months later.

The duet was a hit, becoming Bowie's third UK number one single.

In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.

It was poorly received by critics, but Bowie's theme song rose to number two in the UK charts.

Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance — among fans and critics alike — to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.

Bowie's song " I'm Afraid of Americans " from the Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls was re-recorded for the album, and remixed by Trent Reznor for a single release.

Although the track was edited out of the final cut, it would later be re-recorded and released as " Safe " on the B-side of Bowie's 2002 single " Everyone Says ' Hi '".

Making extensive use of live instruments, the album was Bowie's exit from heavy electronica.

Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released.

In late March 2011, Toy, Bowie's previously unreleased album from 2001, was leaked onto the internet, containing material used for Heathen and most of its single B-sides, as well as unheard new versions of his early back catalogue.

Their version attracted a good deal of attention, not least from David Bowie, as it was released in June 1979 just six weeks after Bowie's version had hit the UK Top 10 in April.

The Godzilla remix of " Posse on Broadway " contained a sample from David Bowie's 1975 hit " Fame ," but neither the album version nor the original seven-inch edit version ( which was used for the video ) used the Bowie sample.

Later in the evening, following David Bowie's set, a video shot by the CBC ( Video Editor: Colin Dean ) was shown to the audiences in London and Philadelphia, as well as on televisions around the world ( though notably neither US feed, ABC or MTV chose to show the film ), showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children set to the song " Drive " by The Cars.

Two examples are Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child from 1971 and David Bowie's Space Oddity, a single from 1969 that was reissued in 1975 in RCA's Maxi-Million series.

" Michael Lippman, Bowie's lawyer during the negotiations, became his new manager ; Lippman in turn would be awarded substantial compensation when Bowie fired him the following year.

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

" Although Bowie's name and knife were well known during his lifetime, his legend grew after October 1852, when DeBow's Review published an article written by his brother John Jones Bowie called " Early Life in the Southwest — The Bowies.

The album was slightly more successful than its predecessor, reaching # 111 on the Billboard 200, and was notable for its collaboration with Leo Kottke, its musical diversity, and a cover of David Bowie's " Rebel Rebel ", which was slated to be the title track for the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry, when Bowie's publishing pulled the plug by asking for too much money from the little independent movie.

Bowie's enthusiasm for remixing reached its peak when this album was released and the numerous singles from it were also issued to clubs, as well as online: three versions of " Telling Lies " were released on Bowie's official website months prior to the album's release, constituting the first ever downloadable single by a major artist.

The song became a hit when reissued in 1973, in the wake of Bowie's commercial breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

John Mendelsohn of Rolling Stone called the album " uniformly excellent " and commented that producer Tony Visconti's " use of echo, phasing, and other techniques on Bowie's voice [...] serves to reinforce the jaggedness of Bowie's words and music ", which he interpreted as " oblique and fragmented images that are almost impenetrable separately but which convey with effectiveness an ironic and bitter sense of the world when considered together ".

In a live performance with his new band Rocktopus ( now As Fast As ) on WAAF-FM, former Rustic keyboard player Spencer Albee claimed that he had been smoking David Bowie's custom-made ultra-ultra-light cigarettes, which Bowie had evidently given him during the time when they were recording Viva Nueva !.

Yentob and his team were given the task of documenting Bowie's famous Diamond Dogs tour, which was already underway when they started filming.

Many of Adams ' ideas made their way into the final game, including the suggestion that the game open as a typical text adventure, when the player gets into the movie theater playing the film, Labyrinth ; then, the screen fills with David Bowie's image, and the player enters the full color universe of the Labyrinth as a graphic adventure.