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 ".

After a disastrous opening gig at the London Roundhouse, they reverted to a configuration presenting Bowie as a solo artist.

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

During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut, The Idiot, and its follow-up, Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977.

Tin Machine began work on a second album, but Bowie put the venture on hold and made a return to solo work.

Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career.

Wakeman featured playing this instrument, to varying degrees, on the David Bowie track " Space Oddity ", the Yes albums Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales From Topographic Oceans, as well as the solo albums The Six Wives of Henry VIII and White Rock.

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.

The success of Belew's solo hit single " Oh Daddy " led to him touring with David Bowie.

They recorded The McCoys ' song " Sorrow " ( also covered by David Bowie on his 1973 cover album, Pin Ups ) with the band before embarking on a solo career, where he recorded " Bye Bye Baby ".

Uggla's solo influences includes Karl Gerhard, David Bowie, The Clash, Marc Bolan, Wendy Carlos and Mott the Hoople.

The episode featured previously lost footage of David Bowie performing The Jean Genie from Top of the Pops in 1973, some rarely seen footage of Ringo romping in the snow performing his solo hit It Don't Come Easy as well as classic festive songs by Slade, Shakin ' Stevens and the Pogues with Kirsty MacColl.

Edwin H. ( Eddie ) Kramer ( born 1942 in Cape Town, South Africa ) is an audio engineer and producer who has worked with, among others, Led Zeppelin, Triumph, Kiss ( and solo Ace Frehley ), Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Spooky Tooth, Peter Frampton, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Anthrax, Carly Simon, Loudness and Robin Trower.

Hotei frequently records overseas and has collaborated with many foreign musicians, including ; playing on The Stranglers Hugh Cornwell's 1993 solo album, on stage with David Bowie at the Nippon Budokan in 1996, and at the closing ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics with Michael Kamen.

During the 1970s, Bley, in partnership with videographer Carol Goss, was responsible for an important multi-media initiative, Improvising Artists which issued LPs and videos documenting the solo piano recordings by Sun Ra and other works of free jazz with Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz, Gary Peacock, Lester Bowie, John Gilmore, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Steve Lacy and others.

He has described Cohen's song " Suzanne " as " the perfect lyric with the perfect melody " and Bowie as " so influential and the greatest solo artist of the 20th Century in any walk of art.

The saxophone solo played over the fadeout of the song was performed by Ronnie Ross, who taught David Bowie to play the saxophone during Bowie's childhood.

The group recorded two studio albums before dissolving in 1992, when Bowie returned to his solo career.

It produced mixed but generally positive reviews upon release in May 1989, picking up favourable comparisons with Bowie ’ s two more recent solo albums.

The group then went on hiatus while Bowie conducted his solo Sound + Vision Tour.

As early as 1990, Bowie knew he'd be going back to solo work, although not because he disliked working with the band.

" Shortly after the release of Oy Vey, Baby, Bowie returned to solo recording with his single “ Real Cool World ”, and despite intentions to return to the studio with Tin Machine in 1993 for a third album, the band dissolved.

She has released four albums as a solo artist, and has toured extensively as a vocalist with acts including David Bowie and Gnarls Barkley.

His second album, Playboy ( 1987 ), consisted of solo acoustic piano renditions of rock songs by David Bowie, 10cc, The Specials, X and others, as well as original compositions.

" Bowie thought his performance in the movie was " the most credible performance " he'd done in a film up to that point in his career.

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.

Beckerman began his career participating in various youth leagues in the Bowie, Maryland area.

Nonetheless, in 2005, ESPN, citing Bowie's injury-laden college career, named the Blazers ' choice of Bowie as the worst draft pick in North American professional sports history .< ref >

In 1995, the four began their broadcasting career as a hobby with a 30-minute Public-access television cable TV show in Bowie featuring sports chat and irreverent humor.

He showed signs of improvement in, going a combined 9-4 for Bowie and the Orioles ' new Triple-A team in Ottawa and earning another callup to the major leagues, where he earned his first career win and had a 1. 80 ERA in two starts.

Bowie used his time with the band as a way to revitalize himself and his career, ( which he would later call a " lifeline "), citing Reeves Gabrels as a source of his new-found energy and direction:

Even into the later years of his career, he was highly regarded by the legends of baseball, from Tommy Lasorda to Bowie Kuhn to Joe Dimaggio.

Cultice began his photography career in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was inspired by his love of rock ' n roll and pop icons like KISS and David Bowie.

On April 8, 1974, when Hank Aaron hit his record-breaking 715th career home run, Kubek, who was calling the game with Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola, criticized Bowie Kuhn on air for failing to be in attendance at Atlanta on that historic night.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

In 1989 Bowie created the rock group Tin Machine, who released a self-titled album with EMI.

* Zebra ( 1989 ) with Lester Bowie

On June 24, 1989, the Nets traded Williams to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Sam Bowie and a draft pick.

The group set up allowed Bowie a certain level of anonymity, and to that end Bowie stipulated that all four members divide interviews equally between them and that in the cases where he was interviewed, that another member of the band be present as well.

Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

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

Frustrated by his band-mates ' limited aspirations, Bowie left the Konrads and joined another band, the King Bees.

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.

The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.

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

In October 2001, Bowie opened The Concert for New York City, a charity event to benefit the victims of the September 11 attacks, with a minimalist performance of Simon & Garfunkel's " America ", followed by a full band performance of " Heroes ".

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.

The riff was provided to " Fame " co-writers John Lennon and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Brown's band in the late 1960s.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

The band drew artistic influence from many other British rock acts at the time, such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Black Sabbath, Slade, Deep Purple and David Bowie.

The band has covered songs by artists such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Pink Floyd, James Brown, David Bowie and Bob Marley both live and in the studio.

It shows Bowie and band miming to the record intercut with footage of Bowie's dancers The Astronettes dancing on stage and behind a back-lit screen.

It intercuts footage of Bowie and band in concert with contrasting footage of the group in a photographic studio, wearing black stage outfits and standing against a white background.

With the band in limbo, Pop met David Bowie in September 1971, and the pair became good friends.

David Bowie had long been a fan of the band, and heard from Watts that they were about to split.

More inspired by Elton John, who they would be reacquainted with since Elton's band Bluesology had originally backed the former Bluebelles, and Bowie, the group wore more wilder outfits with each member adapting their own flamboyant style to their distinctive looks.

In April 1980 the band was able to release an EP entitled Holiday ' 80, containing the principal track " Marianne " and a cover of " Nightclubbing " ( written by Bowie and Iggy Pop ).

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.

Although successful, the album is controversial among some fans for the inclusion of nursery rhymes sung by " The St. Eeleye School Choir " ( band members singing in the style of children ), and the cover " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", featuring a guest appearance from David Bowie on saxophone.

One of the most covered and popular songs in rock and roll history, the song was revamped several times including a 1982 live recording by rock band Van Halen and a 1985 duet by rockers David Bowie and Mick Jagger, It is considered by many as the " Motown Anthem ".