* Iggy Pop's 1977 album The Idiot is titled in reference to James Osterberg, Tony Visconti and David Bowie's love of the book.

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.

The tour and film coincided with a prolific time in Bowie's recording and acting career.

" Bloom did not respond to the offer, but his referral to Dick James's partner Leslie Conn led to Bowie's first personal management contract.

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 ".

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.

The genre was also a strong influence to David Bowie's Station to Station ( 1976 ) and this kind of experimentation led to his ' Berlin Trilogy '.

This, and other stories of Bowie's prowess with a knife, led to the widespread popularity of the Bowie knife.

David Bowie's memories of the Sales ' contribution to the recording led him to invite the pair to join Tin Machine in the late 1980s.

Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.

This image of Bowie's death was created by Charles A. Stephens Colonel James Bowie, Painting in the Alamo ( postcard )

Black produced the knife ordered by Bowie, and at the same time created another based on Bowie's original design but with a sharpened edge on the curved top edge of the blade.

Despite their altercation, Underwood and Bowie remained good friends, and Underwood went on to create the artwork for Bowie's early albums.

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 ".

Glass has praised Bowie's gift for creating " fairly complex pieces of music, masquerading as simple pieces ".

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

In June 1969, he played Mellotron on David Bowie's single " Space Oddity " for a session fee of £ 9.

He went on to play piano for Bowie's " Life on Mars?

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.

Due to the time lag ( the signal would take several seconds to be broadcast twice across the Atlantic Ocean ) Richards concluded there would be no practical way for Jagger to be able to hear or see Bowie's performance, meaning there could be no interaction between the artists, which would defeat the whole point of the exercise.

In 1993, Kravitz wrote " Line Up " for Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, and appeared on Mick Jagger's solo album, Wandering Spirit, in a cover of the Bill Withers soul classic " Use Me ", and played guitar on the title track of David Bowie's The Buddha of Suburbia.

Vaughan was invited to join Bowie's band for the Serious Moonlight Tour, but Vaughan declined at the urging of his management.

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.

Labyrinth was featured in music trade papers such as Billboard due to David Bowie's soundtrack for the film.

Belew then played on Bowie's " Heroes " tour in 1978, recorded for the double live album Stage, and contributed to Bowie's next album, Lodger.

The video for David Bowie's 1980 UK number one single " Ashes to Ashes " included appearances by Strange with three other Blitz Kids and propelled the New Romantic movement into the mainstream.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

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

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

In 1984, he formed Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, a brass nonet in which Bowie demonstrated jazz's links to other forms of popular music, a decidedly more populist approach than that of the Art Ensemble.

* The " pantomime dame " from the vaudeville troupe is played by influential dancer Lindsay Kemp, a former teacher of Bowie's who collaborated with him on several music videos, including " John, I'm Only Dancing ".

Bowie's influences at this stage of his career included the theatrical tunes of Anthony Newley, music hall numbers by acts like Tommy Steele, some of the more whimsical and ' British ' material by Ray Davies of The Kinks, Syd Barrett's slightly cracked nursery rhymes for the early Pink Floyd, and the Edwardian flam shared by such contemporary songs as The Beatles ' " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite ".

She met and became friends with David Bowie and his first wife Angie on Bowie's first tour of the USA in late 1972 and was a major champion of Bowie's music in the American press as he was trying to break into America.

Most of Bowie's songs are then available ( in-game only ) for later listening either if the player opts to " buy " the recordings or simply walk into an apartment that already has some of the music laid out in plain view or in hidden compartments.

The music video for Bowie's " Day-In Day-Out ", directed by Julien Temple, included " offending " scenes such as a man urinating on Ronald Reagan's Hollywood Walk of Fame star but was edited for television broadcast.

Reininger's voice, which was compared to David Bowie's during Tuxedomoon's early career, has been described as evolving into " Tom Waits " and a wolf from Tex Avery's " Baron Brown ," by music critic Rod Smith.

Although the common belief that Pop wrote the lyrics while Bowie composed the music is generally accurate, their approach occasionally saw the positions change, with some music ( such as " Dum Dum Boys ") being Pop's and some lyrics ( including the first verse to " Sister Midnight ") being Bowie's.

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 ".

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 ".

Afterwards, he held a series of cliché struggling actor gigs: bartender, waiter, phone answering service attendant and a handful of Off Off Broadway roles, finally earning a role in the music video for David Bowie's " Fashion " for which he was paid $ 50 a day and got to meet David Bowie.