' 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.

Due to the involvement of the Australian FFC, only one non-Australian actor was allowed to appear in the film, and Clark initially considered David Bowie, whom he had known back in the 1980s, and later briefly thought of John Hurt, although neither of these actors proved available.

Bowie said " I really thought it would be great if we could do a photo, almost a sonic photograph of what we were like at that time.

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 ".

He performed again in November, alongside Alicia Keys, at the Black Ball, a New York benefit event for Keep a Child Alive, a performance that marks the last time Bowie performed his music on stage.

Bowie took the title role in the Broadway theatre production The Elephant Man, earning high praise for an expressive performance.

From 1971 David Bowie moved on from his early psychedelic work to develop his Ziggy Stardust persona, incorporating elements of professional make up, mime and performance into his act.

Sakamoto has also acted in several films: perhaps his most notable performance was as the conflicted Captain Yonoi in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, alongside Takeshi Kitano and British rock singer David Bowie.

From late 1971, already a minor star, David Bowie developed his Ziggy Stardust persona, incorporating elements of professional make up, mime and performance into his act.

Perkins's only notable film performance as an actor was in John Landis ' 1985 film Into the Night, a cameo-laden film that includes a scene where characters played by Carl and David Bowie die at each other's hand.

Problems of synchronization meant that the only remotely practical solution was to have one artist, likely Bowie at Wembley, mime along to prerecorded vocals broadcast as part of the live sound mix for Jagger's performance from Philadelphia.

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.

She only made a few appearances, including a 1973 performance at NBC with David Bowie, singing Sonny Bono's song ( recorded in 1965 by Sonny & Cher ) " I Got You Babe ".

The performance was notable in that it featured numerous covers including songs by David Bowie, Neil Young, and the Breton-Welsh singer-songwriter Katell Keineg.

Some of the most successful artists, such as Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Elton John, David Bowie, and Rod Stewart performed their own songs ( and in some cases those written by others ) in an eclectic variety of styles, in which the presentation of the performance itself became increasingly important.

In a live performance with his new band Rocktopus ( now As Fast As ) on WAAF-FM, former Rustic keyboard player Spencer Albee claimed that he had been smoking David Bowie's custom-made ultra-ultra-light cigarettes, which Bowie had evidently given him during the time when they were recording Viva Nueva !.

On December 4, 1979, Nomi and Arias appeared on Saturday Night Live accompanied David Bowie for a live performance of TVC 15.

The show sponsored the last performance of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust and was broadcast on November 16, 1973 in an episode taped a month earlier from specially-commissioned performances at the Marquee Club in Soho.

Discussing why he chose to be involved in the film, Bowie explained that " I'd always wanted to be involved in the music-writing aspect of a movie that would appeal to children of all ages, as well as everyone else, and I must say that Jim gave me a completely free hand with it.

In 1982 he wrote the soundtrack of the movie Cat People, including the hit single " Putting Out Fire " featuring David Bowie.

David Bowie had this to say about his part of the movie: " They crammed me.

Alan Ladd played Jim Bowie in the 1952 movie The Iron Mistress.

Richard Widmark starred as Jim Bowie in John Wayne's 1960 movie The Alamo ( 1960 film ).

From 1982 to 1985 the Pat Metheny Group released Offramp ( 1982 ), a live set Travels ( 1983 ), and First Circle ( 1984 ), as well as The Falcon and the Snowman ( 1985 ), a soundtrack album for the movie of the same name in which they collaborated with David Bowie.

Bowie also provided the music in the movie, released on the 1981 soundtrack album Christiane F.

The movie was rumored to have originally been written as a vehicle for Mick Jagger and David Bowie, who, according to Bowie were " a bit tweezed that we lost out on a script that could have been reasonably good.

When Jagger and Bowie asked Launer to write a screenplay for them, Launer suggested they do a remake of the movie Bedtime Story, which originally starred David Niven and Marlon Brando.

" While shooting the movie, Bowie was amazed that Oshima had a two-to three-acre camp built on the remote Polynesian island of Rarotonga, but most of the camp was never shot on film.

* The title of the movie takes its name from the song " Velvet Goldmine ", written by David Bowie.

* The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory ( 1987 TV movie ), as Jim Bowie

" Bowie was able to borrow Warhol's actual wig, glasses and jacket from the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh for the movie.

Albert Nelson is an American-born actor who appeared in the 1976 David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth as well the horror movie The Prophecy.

) Here is a movie that captures the loneliness and dread of men waiting for two weeks for what they expect to be certain death, and it somehow succeeds in taking those pop-culture brand names like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and giving them human form.

Bowie investigated, and when the production crew found out who he was, he was asked if he wanted to be in the movie.

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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 the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29.

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

" Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old, acquiring a reputation as a gifted and single-minded child — and a defiant brawler.

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.

" I Pity the Fool " was no more successful than " Liza Jane ", and Bowie soon moved on again to join the Lower Third, a blues trio strongly influenced by The Who.

Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned " Over the Wall We Go " became a 1967 single for Oscar ; another Bowie composition, " Silly Boy Blue ", was released by Billy Fury the following year.

Because of his lack of commercial success, Bowie was forced to try to earn a living in different ways.

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.

John Cambridge, a drummer Bowie met at the Arts Lab, was joined by Tony Visconti on bass and Mick Ronson on electric guitar.

Their initial studio work was marred by a heated disagreement between Bowie and Cambridge over the latter's drumming style ; matters came to a head when Bowie, enraged, accused, " You're fucking up my album.

To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media.

The show was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom as he toured the UK over the course of the next six months and creating, as described by Buckley, a " cult of Bowie " that was " unique — its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom.

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.

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.

Bowie was asked to relinquish the satellite booking, to allow the Spanish Government to put out a live newsfeed.

[...] Bowie looked completely disconnected and was hardly able to utter a coherent sentence.

Bowie was quoted in Stockholm as saying that " Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader ", and was detained by customs on the Russian / Polish border for possessing Nazi paraphernalia.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie and Angela initiated divorce proceedings, and after months of court battles the marriage was ended in early 1980.