* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

* National Portrait Gallery – Beatles to Bowie 2009

In a 2009 retrospective review of the " New Cult Canon ", Scott Tobias wrote " Much like Haynes ' recent I'm Not There, which dissected the various phases of Bob Dylan's life and career by casting six different actors ( including Bale and Cate Blanchett ) as Dylan, Velvet Goldmine doesn't come at glam-rock directly, and both films cause no end of frustration to those who can't get on their wavelength "; " Haynes ' background in semiotics has led some critics to dismiss these films as too academic, but figures like Dylan and Bowie are notoriously elusive, and his effort to access them indirectly, through allusion and representation, pays more dividends than a straightforward biopic ever could.

Adelaide Oval has hosted major concerts during its time, with some of the most famous acts including Fleetwood Mac ( 1977 & 2004 ), David Bowie ( 1978 & 1983 ), KISS ( 1980 ), Madonna & Paul McCartney ( 1993 ), Michael Jackson ( 1996 ), Billy Joel & Elton John ( 1998 ), P! nk ( 2002 ), Pearl Jam ( 2009 ), AC / DC and Wolfmother ( 2010 ) and Foo Fighters ( 2011 ).

* 2009: Scott Aukerman and Jimmy Pardo parodied the 1977 David Bowie / Bing Crosby duet version " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy " on the 2009 Christmas album, Comedy Death-Ray, to raise money for the Los Angeles Food Bank.

Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones ( born 30 May 1971 ), also known as Zowie Bowie, is an English film director best known for directing the science fiction films Moon ( 2009 ) and Source Code ( 2011 ).

The stadium has also been used as the venue for some big concerts, including U2 ( 9-10 August 2009 " 360 Tour "), David Bowie ( 1990, " Sound + Vision Tour "), Bijelo Dugme ( 22 June 2005, " Reunion Tour "), Marko Perković Thompson and Bon Jovi ( 8 June 2011 " World Tour ").

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

Huntington City was renamed in honor of the son of William Duckett Bowie and his business partner, Oden Bowie, who was President of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad at the time, and previously Governor of Maryland.

Another moment that garnered a huge crowd response was when David Bowie performed " Heroes " and dedicated it to his son, as well as " All our children, and the children of the world ".

Rossdale was born in Kilburn, London, the son of Barbara Stephan ( née Bowie ) and Douglas Rossdale, a doctor.

Bowie gets custody of their 9-year-old son, Zowie.

Film director and son of musician David Bowie.

Fearing for the safety of his wife's relatives in San Antonio, Bowie invited her cousins Getrudis Navarro and Juana Navarro Alsbury, as well as Alsbury's 18-month-old son, Alijo Perez Jr., to stay inside the walls of the Alamo.

In many cases, " these stories were pure melodrama, with Bowie rescuing some naïve planter's son or damsel in distress.

Among these were Almaron Dickinson, who brought his wife Susanna and their infant daughter Angelina ; Bowie, who was accompanied by his deceased wife's cousins, Gertrudis Navarro and Juana Navarro Alsbury, and Alsbury's young son ; and Gregorio Esparza, whose family climbed through the window of the Alamo chapel after the Mexican army arrived.

In 2007, the band released a special Christmas single called " Mistletunes ", containing two specially recorded Christmas songs: " Il est Ne " and " Christmas in the Club ," which featured Mystic Bowie and scratcher / turntableist Kid Ginseng ( Weymouth and Franz's son ).

Blocker was born Bobby Dan Blocker in De Kalb in Bowie County in northeastern Texas, son of Ora Shack Blocker ( 1895 – 1960 ) and his wife Mary David Blocker ( 1901 – 1998 ).

The character of Bowie Grant in Robotech Masters segment ), which is the second sage of Robotech, is Claudia's nephew and son of her brother, Vince Grant and his wife, Dr. Jean Grant, both of whom play major roles in Robotech II: The Sentinels, Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

; Oliver Riggs: The son of Charles Riggs, a security guard at the U. N. His mother, Bowie O ' Shea, was a musician who left after Oliver was born.

* Duncan Jones, also known as " Zowie Bowie ".

* Duncan Jones, film director and his father David Bowie, musician

Duncan Jones with his father David Bowie, who showed up for the premiere of Jones's directorial debut Moon ( film ) | Moon. Father playing with his baby

Duncan Jones is the only child from the marriage of musician David Bowie ( born David Robert Jones ) and his first wife, the former American model Mary Angela Barnett.

Aside from Duran Duran and the Sneaker Pimps, recording artists included Orbital, Moby, Fluke, Luscious Jackson, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Dreadzone, Duncan Sheik, The Smashing Pumpkins, Everything but the Girl and the theme " Polaroid Millenium " by British musician Su Goodacre ( alias " Superior ") which also played during the final credits.

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.

Alexandria Zahra Jones, Bowie and Iman's daughter, was born on 15 August.

* January 14 – Young singer David Jones changes his last name to Bowie to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of the Monkees.

' With the thought of Bowie starring in the film in mind, Henson decided he wanted Jareth to sing and appear throughout the film, something Jones considered to be the " wrong " decision.

Bowie was the ninth of ten children born to Elve Ap-Catesby Jones and John Bowie.

" 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.

* David Bowie ( David Robert Jones, born 1947 ), British musician, often cited as changing his name to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of The Monkees

Jones was born in Bowie County, Texas.

During his childhood, James Black, creator of the famous Bowie knife, lived with the Jones family before moving to Washington, Arkansas.

Rock star David Bowie ( born David Robert Jones ) took the name Bowie after the Bowie knife because, in his words " it cuts both ways ".

* Leslie Conn ran Doris Day's music publishing company and wrote and produced " Liza Jane ", the first recording to be released as a single by David Bowie ( under the name Davie Jones and the King Bees.

Britain had produced some significant Blue-eyed soul singers in the 1960s, including Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield and interest had been maintained by figures such as David Bowie, but it was not until the 1980s that a clear genre of British soul music developed with flourishing soul scenes in major cities like London and Manchester, often with many black artists, supported by local and pirate radio stations.