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 ".

Graduating from his plastic saxophone to a real instrument in 1962, Bowie formed his first band at the age of 15.

Earning the distinction of being one of the first white artists to appear on the US variety show Soul Train, Bowie mimed " Fame ", as well as " Golden Years ", his November single, that it was offered to Elvis Presley to perform, but Presley declined it.

After completing Low and " Heroes ", Bowie spent much of 1978 on the Isolar II world tour, bringing the music of the first two Berlin Trilogy albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries.

Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s.

Reuniting Bowie with Eno, the quasi-industrial Outside ( 1995 ) was originally conceived as the first volume in a non-linear narrative of art and murder.

" Bowie declared himself gay in an interview with Michael Watts in the 22 January 1972 issue of Melody Maker, a move which coincided with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.

After Bowie backed out due to previous commitments, their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?

* Denny Jaeger and Michel Rubini, the first to use the Synclavier to score a major motion picture ( The Hunger, with David Bowie, released through MGM in April, 1983 ) and to score the first network TV series ( The Powers of Matthew Starr, from Paramount Television, released September, 1982 ).

* British — David Bowie dressed as Pierrot for the video of Ashes to Ashes ( 1980 ) and for the sleeve of his album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ) ( 1980 ); Leo Sayer dressed as Pierrot on tour following the release of his first album, Silverbird ( 1973 ); Robots in Disguise: The Tears ( 2008 ), a video directed by Graeme Pearce, features black-suited Pierrots involved in love triangle.

In 1980, David Bowie scored his first UK number one in nearly a decade thanks to director David Mallet's eye catching promo for " Ashes to Ashes ".

McLain was suspended indefinitely by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn ; the suspension was then set for the first three months of the 1970 season.

Tagea Brandt Rejselegat ( 1938 and 1967 ), the election as a Fellow of the Royal Society ( 1969 ), the William Bowie Medal ( 1971, as the first woman ), and the Medal of the Seismological Society of America ( 1977 ).

A re-release of Raw Power was released on April 10, 2010, including the first remastering of the David Bowie mix and a live 1973 performance.

At the age of thirteen in 1972, Smith first saw David Bowie on television, performing Starman on Top of the Pops.

It is also often erroneously said that the band took its name from a line in David Bowie's song " Ziggy Stardust ", but Bowie wrote the lyrics in 1972, four years after the release of the first Nazz album in 1968.

* The original single version appears on disc three of Bowie's The Platinum Collection ( 2005 ), marking the first appearance of this version on a Bowie compilation.

" Stephen Smith signed Kravitz with talent booking agency CAA, who soon were fielding offers for Kravitz, first on a club tour, and then in opening slots for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bob Dylan and David Bowie.

Many of Kitano's routines involved him portraying a gangster or other harsh character, and his first major film role, in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( where he starred opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie ), featured him cast as a tough ( but sympathetic ) POW camp sergeant during World War II.

The final day of recording was 26 July 2006 and featured archive footage and tributes, including The Rolling Stones – the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops – opening with " The Last Time ", the Spice Girls, David Bowie, Wham !, Madonna, Beyoncé, Gnarls Barkley, The Jackson 5, Sonny and Cher and Robbie Williams.

1983: Opened several dates for David Bowie on the Serious Moonlight tour and on this tour, among other highlights, they were the first artists to ever play the newly opened Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington.

Witness accounts agreed that Bowie did not attack first, and the others had focused their attack on Bowie because " they considered him the most dangerous man among their opposition.

Bowie said the photographer simply caught him in mid-wave.

Devo caught the attention of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, who championed the band and enabled Devo to secure a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records.

" Bowie caused further controversy by allegedly making a Nazi salute while riding in a convertible, although Bowie has always strongly denied this, insisting that a photographer simply caught him in the middle of waving.

Bowie received a serious injury at school in 1962 when his friend George Underwood punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl.

Onstage in Oslo, Norway, on 18 June, Bowie was hit in the eye with a lollipop thrown by a fan ; a week later he suffered chest pain while performing at the Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel, Germany.

He is of a now-obsolete series based on David Bowie, with one green and one blue eye, with Carlton's particular model, the 4. 5, being based on Bowie circa 1985.

For example, David Bowie has the appearance of different eye colors due to an injury that caused one pupil to be permanently dilated.

The extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour.

On October 7, at 8: 09 a. m., Iran Brown, a 13-year-old boy, was shot — accounts vary between the lower body, stomach and chest — as he arrived at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School at 4901 Collington Road in Bowie, Maryland, in Prince George's County ( Brown's name was concealed from the public but was later revealed ).

With his citizenship assured, Bowie now had the right to buy up to 11 leagues of public land.

Bowie State University (" Bowie State "), is a public university located on 355½ acres ( 1. 4 km² ) in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, north of the suburban city of Bowie.

After retiring, Irvin worked as a scout for the New York Mets from 1967 to 1968 and later spent 17 years ( 1968 – 1984 ) as a public relations specialist for the commissioner's office under Bowie Kuhn.

Bowie toured and gave press conferences as Ziggy before a dramatic and abrupt on-stage " retirement " at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973.

On July 22, 1881, Bowie incorporated as a city in Montague County, Texas, naming itself after James Bowie.

After hearing that the Mexican army commander in Nacogdoches, José de las Piedras, had demanded that all residents in his area surrender their arms, Bowie cut short a visit to Natchez in July 1832 to return to Texas.

The Baysox hosted the double-A All-Star Game on July 12, 2000, bringing players from not only the Eastern League, but also the Southern and Texas leagues to Bowie.

Bowie and The Dandy Warhols played a rendition of " White Light / White Heat " together as an encore to the July 29 gig, which was billed as The New Heathens Night.

David Bowie performed during his Serious Moonlight Tour on July 13, 1983.

Others bands who played at the Roundhouse during this period included Gass, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds, Zoot Money's Dantalian's Chariot, David Bowie, The Sinceros, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Incredible String Band, The Doors with Jefferson Airplane, Ramones, The Clash, Elkie Brooks, and Motörhead who appeared at the Roundhouse on July 20, 1975.

Scott Buete ( born July 23, 1980 in Bowie, Maryland ) is an American soccer player who plays for the Baltimore Blast.

* In July 1973, David Bowie performed his final concert, as Ziggy Stardust, at the venue.

In July that year, following the end of the tour, Bowie and Pop holed up in Château d ' Hérouville, the same locale where Bowie recorded Pin Ups ( 1973 ) and would soon record much of Low, and began putting together the rest of the songs that later became The Idiot.

** 26 July: Rock star David Bowie performs.

John Bowie " Fergy " Ferguson Sr. ( September 5, 1938 – July 14, 2007 ) was a professional ice hockey player and executive.

The first fruits of this came with a new version of Bowie ’ s 1979 song " Look Back in Anger ", performed at the Intruders At The Palace benefit concert on 1 July 1988.

Pitching for the Portland Sea Dogs in, he was voted the Eastern League's Pitcher of the Week for the week ending July 28 after tossing a complete game two-hit shutout against the Bowie Baysox, striking out six batters and not walking anybody in the 2 – 0 win.

The success of the album — impacted by Jagger's solo appearance at Live Aid that July and his rush-recorded duet hit cover of " Dancing in the Street " with David Bowie — influenced Jagger to record a successor, Primitive Cool, which would be released in 1987.