In December 1978 David Bowie appeared in the audience and later declared to NME that he " had seen the future of pop music.

In 2001 Camillus collaborated with custom Knifemaker Jerry Fisk, the only Knifemaker to be declared a Living National Treasure, to produce a Bowie knife.

In 2002, Chas Bowie of The Portland Mercury declared Adkins " the poster boy of low-rent artwork.

Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy ( and Davie ) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie renamed himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.

Having established himself as a solo artist with " Space Oddity ", Bowie began to sense a lacking: " a full-time band for gigs and recording — people he could relate to personally ".

Like his audience and his critics, Bowie himself became increasingly disaffected with his role as just one member of a band.

Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, a 1981 biographical film focusing on a young girl's drug addiction in West Berlin, featured Bowie in a cameo appearance as himself at a concert in Germany.

Nomi was so impressed with the plastic quasi-tuxedo suit that Bowie wore during " The Man Who Sold the World " that he commissioned one to be made for himself.

After mustering out of the militia, Bowie settled in Rapides Parish, where he supported himself by sawing planks and lumber and floating them down the bayou for sale.

After the Sandbar Fight and subsequent battles in which Bowie used his knife to defend himself, the Bowie knife became very popular.

Bowie was older than Travis with a better reputation and considered himself a colonel, thus outranking Travis, a lieutenant colonel.

On February 26, David Crockett reported that Bowie, though suffering from his affliction, continued to crawl from his bed around noon every day and presented himself to the Alamo's inhabitants, which much boosted the morale of his comrades.

Various other stories circulated, with some witnesses claiming that Bowie shot himself and others saying he was killed by soldiers while too weak to lift his head.

David Bowie, Christiane's favorite singer at the time of the story, appears as himself in a concert.

On 9 January 1997, the day after Bowie turned 50, Bowie held a 50th birthday concert for himself, performing tracks off his Earthling album as well as a selection of songs from his back catalogue.

Although the character of Brian Slade is heavily based on David Bowie, Bowie himself disliked the script and vetoed the proposal that his songs appear in the film.

Bowie himself has said that his debut album " seemed to have its roots all over the place, in rock and vaudeville and music hall.

David Bowie, who had some input on the storyline and game's design, makes two cameo appearances within the game, although not as himself ; first as Boz, a game character who's a revolutionary wanted by authorities, and secondly as the nameless lead-singer of the fictional musical group, " The Dreamers ", who perform illegal concerts in Omikron.

For Bowie himself, The Duke was " a nasty character indeed ", and later, " an ogre for me ".

Wong supported himself as a photographer and as a dancer ( appearing in rock videos with David Bowie, Donna Summer, and Janet Jackson, among others ) before scoring his first screen roles in 1985, appearing in a Hong Kong musical called Ge wu sheng ping ( aka Musical Dancer ) and in a screen adaptation of James Clavell's best-seller Tai-Pan.

After his mother died in 1892, he moved away from his remaining family, to Bowie, Texas, where he supported himself with a variety of odd jobs.

When Pop pronounced himself happy with the result, Bowie protested that they needed real drums to finish it off.

Bowie himself later admitted:

In a September 1976 interview with Playboy, Bowie said: " It's true — I am a bisexual.

Bowie in a 1972 interview while noting that other artists described as glam rock was doing different work said " I think glam rock is a lovely way to categorize me and it's even nicer to be one of the leaders of it ".

In an MTV interview for a program about children of famous rock musicians, he commented that " I respect The Allman Brothers Band very much, but I've always been more into Black Sabbath, David Bowie, and Metallica.

In a 1999 interview with Rolling Stone, Fanny fan David Bowie revealed his respect for the band:

Gray said in an interview after the release of Immune that the band planned on releasing two to three more albums and in 2006 announced two new band members: Jack Wiese on guitar and Jeff Bowie on bass.

* David Bowie refusing to co-operate during an interview.

In 1987, while working on his album Never Let Me Down, Bowie reflected in an interview about the his state of mind during the time the film was made:

Desmond Child has mentioned in a magazine interview that he collaborated with David Bowie on the song " The Night Was Not " ( the song did appear on the Times Square soundtrack, performed by Child's band, Desmond Child & Rouge ).

J. P. Smith, with Tippity Witchet and others of the L. T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for " the big apple " to-morrow after a most prosperous Spring campaign at Bowie and Havre de Grace.

The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single " Fame " and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as " plastic soul ".

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including blue-eyed soul, industrial, adult contemporary, and jungle.

After a series of operations during a four-month hospitalisation, his doctors determined that the damage could not be fully repaired and Bowie was left with faulty depth perception and a permanently dilated pupil.

Dissatisfied with the King Bees and their repertoire of Howlin ' Wolf and Willie Dixon blues numbers, Bowie quit the band less than a month later to join the Manish Boys, another blues outfit, who incorporated folk and soul — " I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger ", Bowie was to recall.

Declaring that he would exit the pop world " to study mime at Sadler's Wells ", Bowie nevertheless remained with the Lower Third.

While with the Buzz, Bowie also joined the Riot Squad ; their recordings, which included a Bowie number and Velvet Underground material, went unreleased.

After Kemp cast Bowie with Hermione Farthingale for a poetic minuet, the pair began dating ; they soon moved into a London flat together.

Playing acoustic guitar, she formed a group with Bowie and bassist John Hutchinson ; between September 1968 and early 1969, when Bowie and Farthingale broke up, the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime.

Breaking up with Farthingale shortly after completion of the film, Bowie moved in with Mary Finnigan as her lodger.

Continuing the divergence from rock and roll and blues begun by his work with Farthingale, Bowie joined forces with Finnigan, Christina Ostrom and Barrie Jackson to run a folk club on Sunday nights at the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street.

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.