The album's opening track, " Sister Midnight ", was written by Bowie, Pop and guitarist Carlos Alomar, and performed live, on the Station to Station tour in early 1976.

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.

All songs written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie, except " Sister Midnight " co-written by Carlos Alomar.

Scott went on to co-produce Bowie ’ s Aladdin Sane and Pinups albums, as well as the little-seen Midnight Special television program episode The 1980 Floorshow.

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 ".

Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours — I've got a new song for it.

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.

After a break in Philadelphia, where Bowie recorded new material, the tour resumed with a new emphasis on soul.

" Michael Lippman, Bowie's lawyer during the negotiations, became his new manager ; Lippman in turn would be awarded substantial compensation when Bowie fired him the following year.

Station to Station ( 1976 ) introduced a new Bowie persona, the " Thin White Duke " of its title track.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

Bowie reached a new peak of popularity and commercial success in 1983 with Let's Dance.

Tin Machine IIs arrival was marked by a widely publicised and ill-timed conflict over the cover art: after production had begun, the new record label, Victory, deemed the depiction of four ancient nude Kouroi statues, judged by Bowie to be " in exquisite taste ", " a show of wrong, obscene images ", requiring air-brushing and patching to render the figures sexless.

Bowie explored new directions on The Buddha of Suburbia ( 1993 ), a soundtrack album of incidental music composed for the TV series adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's novel.

Bowie and Visconti continued their collaboration, producing a new album of completely original songs instead: the result of the sessions was the 2002 album Heathen.

Galore contained all of the Cure's singles released between 1987 and 1997, as well as the new single " Wrong Number ", which featured longtime David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels.

The old Bowie County Courthouse, constructed in Boston in 1889 in the exact geographic center of the county, was abandoned after construction of the new building.

They announced a new lineup for the tour, featuring guitarist Earl Slick, who held previous stints with David Bowie and John Lennon, Bassist Kenny Aaronson, who toured with Bob Dylan in 1988.

Comparisons were being made to David Bowie, though Suede sounded nothing quite like anybody else around at the time, and soon they fell upon what critics quickly deemed was a new movement.

Through touring heavily throughout 1999 and 2000, Guided by Voices ' live act became legendary, with shows often stretching past the three-hour mark, and populated by an endless stream of new and classic songs, Pollard solo tracks, impromptu covers of The Who, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, all accompanied by continuous alcohol consumption.

Having been impressed by Belew's work with Gaga and David Bowie, Fripp asked Belew to join his new four-piece band ( at that time called Discipline ) as singer and second guitarist.

The following year, the Mexican government passed new laws allowing land sale in Texas, and Bowie returned to land speculation.

1993 brought Equipoise an album of new material and RhodeSongs a compilation of music from Rhodes ' first four album, alternative versions and a David Bowie cover.

Billy's had taken to having regular Roxy Music and David Bowie nights and, in an effort to find something new, the denizens took to wearing bizarre home-made costumes and clothing and excessive amounts of make-up, presenting a highly androgynous appearance.

Though she didn't release new album for years, she was still invite to perform at 9th Asia Song Festival which was held in Yeosul, Korea on 4th Augest. In September, she will be involved in another china drama Tun Shu Xi Jiang about revolution occurring in Xinjiang with Hong Kong actor Bowie Lam and Chinese director Zhang Jizhong.

By 1985 Temple was now well known for being a director of successful music videos by the Kinks, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and other British artists, several of which were early, groundbreaking, videos for the new MTV channel, but he was yet to direct a major film.

Santiago soon introduced his new roommate to 1970s punk and the music of David Bowie.

In 1973 David Bowie covered the song on his Pin Ups album, and in 1977 the punk band London introduced the song to a new generation on a four-track EP for MCA Records ; the London version, produced by Simon Napier-Bell, was actually recorded in the same studio ( IBC Studios in Portland Place ) in which the Easybeats had cut the original.

Bowie and Quast had also been working on tracks for a new Libraness album.