Dressed in a striking costume, his hair dyed red, Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars — Ronson, Bolder and Woodmansey — at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth on 10 February 1972.

Bowie contributed backing vocals to Lou Reed's 1972 solo breakthrough Transformer, co-producing the album with Mick Ronson.

" 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.

During late 1972 – 73 David Bowie featured in a series of promotional films directed by pop photographer Mick Rock, who worked extensively with Bowie in this period.

Mick Rock directed and edited four clips, all originally shot on 16 mm colour film, to promote four consecutive David Bowie singles —" John, I'm Only Dancing " ( May 1972 ), " The Jean Genie " ( Nov. 1972 ), the December 1972 US re-release of " Space Oddity " and the 1973 release of the single " Life On Mars " ( lifted from Bowie's earlier album Hunky Dory ).

David Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars — Ronson, Bolder and Woodmansey — at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth on 10 February 1972.

The Maryland Jockey Club sponsored spring and summer races at the race track south of town, and racing continued there until 1972, when they were moved to the Bowie Race Track.

They are popularly known for the song " All the Young Dudes ", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.

Late in 1972 they were going to record another Bowie song, " Drive-In Saturday ", but their intended arrangement did not satisfy him and their professional relationship effectively ended.

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

* Dan Blocker ( Dec 10, 1928-May 13, 1972 ) was born Bobby Dan Blocker in DeKalb in Bowie County, Texas.

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.

* " Star " ( David Bowie song ), 1972

David Bowie: Panic in Detroit 1973 ( Trident Studios, London December 9, 1972 – January 24, 1973 / RCA records.

Bowie released three more albums – Space Oddity ( 1969 ), The Man Who Sold the World ( 1970 ) and Hunky Dory ( 1971 ) – before he eventually made it on to the UK Albums Chart with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 ), which peaked at number five.

* 1972 – Mott the Hoople releases their hit album, All the Young Dudes, named after the title cut, which was written for the band by David Bowie.

* " Starman " ( song ), a 1972 song by David Bowie

The ensemble returned to the United States in 1972, and the quintet of Mitchell, Jarman, Bowie, Favors and Moye remained static until 1993.

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.

#: Originally from the David Bowie album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 )

Kazuhiko Kato moved to Kensington, London in 1972 and impressed by the burgeoning glam rock scene led by T. Rex and David Bowie, he set about forming a new group in Japan to emulate the style.

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

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 ).

Described by Bowie as " Ziggy goes to America ", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album.

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.

Bowie, whose own music had inspired Francis and Santiago while they were at university, has said that the Pixies made " just about the most compelling music of the entire 80s ".

The first-time collaboration with another artist was spontaneous, as Bowie happened to drop by the studio while Queen were recording.

Commissioner Bowie Kuhn successfully intervened in their dispute, but Jackson's numbers in 1970 dropped sharply, as he hit just 23 home runs while batting. 237.

In 1983 – 84, the Pacers finished with the worst record in the Eastern Conference, which would have given the Pacers the second overall pick in the draft — the pick that that the Blazers famously used to select Sam Bowie while Michael Jordan was still available.

It also includes location footage with Bowie and Cyrinda Foxe ( a MainMan employee and a friend of David and Angie Bowie ) shot in San Francisco outside the famous Mars Hotel, with Fox posing provocatively in the street while Bowie lounges against the wall, smoking.

Bowie juxtaposes the ordinariness of Penge with America by singing " You can walk around in New York while you sleep in Penge ".

Bowie asked Vaughan to play on his upcoming studio album Let's Dance, while Browne offered the band free use of his personal studio in Los Angeles to record an album.

Twelve years later, he would return to working with Bowie, acting as musical director on the 1990 Sound + Vision Tour, while also playing guitar and singing.

Instead of Raymond Briggs describing how much it had snowed the winter he made The Snowman, while walking through the field that morphed into the animation of the same landscape, David Bowie was shown reciting the same speech after walking into the attic of ' his ' childhood home and discovering a scarf in a drawer.

Bowie supported duellist Samuel Levi Wells III, while Wright supported Wells's opponent, Dr. Thomas Harris Maddox.

Some claim that Bowie designed it, while others attribute the design to noted knife makers of the time.

When the Indians finally retreated, Bowie reportedly had lost only one man, while over 40 Indians had been killed and 30 were wounded.

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.

* Broadcaster and writer Stuart Maconie — while working at the NME — started a rumour that Connect 4 was invented by David Bowie, which became an urban myth.

Louisiana and Virginia prohibited the concealed carrying of any Bowie knife, while Mississippi made such knives illegal when carried concealed or when used as a dueling weapon.

Singh had seen the painting while visiting the owner of the painting, David Bowie.

Brylawski moved to New York City to attend graduate school and also traveled to India, while Bowie had already relocated to Boston by 1994 to join then-girlfriend, Helium frontwoman Mary Timony.

She attended Bowie State University to obtain a teaching degree but decided to sing professionally after she was discovered by William E. Pettaway Jr., who heard her singing to herself while pumping gas.

Bowie and Gabrels used a technique they'd started while working on Bowie's previous album Outside, where they'd transfer bits of guitar to a sampling keyboard and construct riffs from those pieces.

Bowie's and Gabrel's musical influences at the time had a big impact on the sound of the album: Bowie was influenced by a " euro " sound and bands like Prodigy, while Gabrels was still into the American industrial sound and bands like Underworld.