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.

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.

During a meeting that took place on June 18, 1984, Henson showed Bowie The Dark Crystal and a selection of Brian Froud's concept drawings to pique his interest in the project.

On February 20, Bowie took an oath of allegiance to Mexico and then proceeded to San Antonio de Bexar.

As they returned to San Antonio, Bowie took 60 mounted men to intercept the party, which they believed carried valuable cargo.

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.

The fight took place on a sandbar in the Mississippi River across from Natchez, Mississippi, and is the only documented fight in which Bowie was known to have employed his Bowie knife design.

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

David Bowie covered " Louie, Go Home " and The Who took that song and changed the title and lyrics to " Lubie, Go Home ".

" Despite going into the studio with no material ready to record, the album took only 2 1 / 2 weeks to record ( typical for a Bowie album ).

Bowie took songs from this album on the road in September 1996, performing 4 US east coast " club " shows including one at the Roseland Ballroom in New York to positive reviews.

Bowie took an adventurous and humorous approach to music and criticized Wynton Marsalis for his conservative approach to jazz tradition.

Because the least expensive way to build into the suburbs was to rely upon existing railroad right-of-ways, the Orange Line took much of its present form, except that it also featured a further extension along the railroad to Bowie, Maryland and along the Dulles Access Road to the Dulles Airport.

The band took its name from a song on the David Bowie album The Man Who Sold the World.

" This unique collaboration is not just a momentary ' side project ' of two bored L. A. hipsters .” Goss explains, “ I was raised and weaned on rock and roll albums that took your mind and body away on a lovingly crafted journey and both Jeordie and I wanted to carry on the tradition of art and music groundbreakers like Kraftwerk, Warhol, Bowie and Mahavishnu.

As well as the Marvelman family of titles, in the mid-1950s Anglo took over a number of L. Miller's established American reprint titles, continuing the series Jim Bowie, Annie Oakley, and Davy Crockett utilising both the English artists from his studios and a number of Spanish artists.

In despair at his fortunes, on October 6, 1841, Childress took a Bowie knife and committed suicide by cutting open his abdomen.

As Collins and his players looked on, Bowie took the inbounds pass, bounced it to a wide open David Vaughn near the basket, and he slammed it home for the tenth assist, and the triple-double.

It was produced and mixed at Mountain Studios ( Montreux ) in Switzerland and according to Bowie it took only six days to write and record, but fifteen days to mix due to some " technical breakdowns ".

Bowie also produced the album, which took Mott " from potential has-beens to avatars of the glam rock movement ".

He went to work for the Food Board under Herbert Hoover, but sick of working with graham flour, he took a new position as civil aide to the commander in charge of amusements and morale at Camp Bowie, Texas as a dramatic director with the Fosdick Commission.

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

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.

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

* 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 ).

* Cat People ( Putting Out Fire ), a song by David Bowie and the title song from the 1982 film

At the time, Bowie claimed to have a net worth of $ 223, 000 ($ today ), mostly in land of questionable title.

* 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.

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

Its title was inspired by Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, three of the participants in the recording — Bowie, Pop and Tony Visconti — being familiar with the book.

Bowie also wrote and performed the title song, which reached number 2 in the UK singles chart in March 1986.

The title of the documentary was originally to be The Collector, after a comment that Bowie had made to interviewer Russell Harty the previous year, whereby he described himself as " a collector of accents ".

In 1955, he also portrayed legendary frontiersman Jim Bowie on ABC's Davy Crockett, a Walt Disney Production starring Fess Parker in the title role.

They launched their first title, Omikron: The Nomad Soul, in 1999 for PC and Dreamcast, which also featured original music and acts by musician David Bowie.

The band's name is taken from a humorous introduction title on a Saturday Night Live episode ( Season 5, Episode 7, 1979 ) that was shown before David Bowie performed with Klaus Nomi.

Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1981 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal.

Bowie was given a role in the 1986 film Absolute Beginners.

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

Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

The inscription reads " Hier steh ich an den Marken meiner Tage " ( Here I stand at the marches of my days ), a paraphrased line from the sonnet Abschied vom Leben ( Farewell from Life ) by Theodor Körner ( author ) | Theodor Körner. Dietrich's final on-camera film appearance was a cameo role in Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), starring David Bowie and directed by David Hemmings.

In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition ( which included David Bowie and Mikhail Baryshnikov ) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus.

Henson continued to pursue Bowie for the role of Jareth, and sent him each revised draft of the film's script for his comments.

For example David Bowie initially adopted a role as an alien Ziggy Stardust, and later as The Thin White Duke.

Many of Kitano's routines involved him portraying a gangster or other harsh character, and his first major film role, in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( where he starred opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie ), featured him cast as a tough ( but sympathetic ) POW camp sergeant during World War II.

James " Jim " Bowie ( pronounced ) ( c. 1796 – March 6, 1836 ), a 19th-century American pioneer, soldier, smuggler, slave trader, and land speculator, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo.

David Bowie was hired for the role of Jack Celliers after director Nagisa Oshima saw Bowie in a production of The Elephant Man on Broadway, saying Bowie had " an inner spirit that is indestructible.

The demands of his role may sometimes be improbable and elaborate, but Mr. Bowie fills them in a remarkably plain and direct way.

The Hunger starred David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve and introduced Willem Dafoe in a small role.

It was decided that a star lead in the role of Count von Krolock would be just the trick ; feelers were put out to names as diverse as David Bowie, John Travolta, Richard Gere and Placido Domingo.

The story quoted retired RCMP inspector Bruce Bowie, who had played a role in preparing the original Canadian legislation, requiring that large cash transactions be reported, which was passed through parliament during Mulroney's own prime ministership.

The other main role is played by Bowie Lam, who plays Dr. Henry Lai Kwok Chu as an accident and emergency doctor who is best friends with Paul.

Afterwards, he held a series of cliché struggling actor gigs: bartender, waiter, phone answering service attendant and a handful of Off Off Broadway roles, finally earning a role in the music video for David Bowie's " Fashion " for which he was paid $ 50 a day and got to meet David Bowie.

The player assumes the role of the Shining Force leader, Bowie.

The script also included a role for a musician ; the staff had hoped to get David Bowie or Morrissey for the part but nothing came together.

David Bowie cut his hair short to audition for a role, which he didn't receive.

In 2011 Burford joined the cast of the Australian production of Rock of Ages, in the lead role of Drew Bowie.

The film was directed by Julien Temple, featured David Bowie and Sade, and a breakthrough role by Patsy Kensit.