Weill's score uses a number of styles, including rag-time, jazz and formal counterpoint, notably in the " Alabama Song " ( covered by multiple artists, notably The Doors and David Bowie ).

From the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics.

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.

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.

Amos also featured her use of the clavinet on her 2004 recording " Not David Bowie ", released as part of her 2006 box set, A Piano: The Collection.

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

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

Released six weeks later, his album debut, David Bowie, an amalgam of pop, psychedelia, and music hall, met the same fate.

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.

David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust Tour

With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture ".

Pin Ups, a collection of covers of his 1960s favourites, followed in October, producing a UK number three hit in " Sorrow " and itself peaking at number one, making David Bowie the best-selling act of 1973 in the UK.

He later commented that the accompanying live album, David Live, ought to have been titled " David Bowie Is Alive and Well and Living Only In Theory ".

Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier in Berlin, was released as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal.

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.

Bowie portrayed a disgruntled restaurant employee opposite Rosanna Arquette in The Linguini Incident ( 1991 ), and the mysterious FBI agent Phillip Jeffries in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ).

* David Bowie ( 1967 )

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.

Previous guest designers include Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, Marjane Satrapi, Guillermo del Toro, David Bowie, David Byrne, and Dennis Hopper.

The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in its early days by The Hunger, a 1983 vampire film, which starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon.

* David Bowie, singer / songwriter

Bossier City is a song by David Allan Coe, in which he sings, " And it sure smells like snow in Bossier City ...". Also Johnny Rodriguez recorded a song called " Achin ' Bossier City Backyard Blues " in 1972.

* Was released in UK on Queen's Greatest Hits II ( which would later be included in The Platinum Collection ( 2000 and 2002 )) removing the second time David Bowie sings, " This is our last dance.

* David Berman of the Silver Jews sings the lyric " Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster " in the song Tennessee, which appeared on the 2001 album Bright Flight.

The diverse contemporary Massachusetts folk music scene includes musicians such as David Coffin, who specializes in early music and sea music ; Lui Collins, a folk singer / songwriter ; Vance Gilbert, a folk singer with a background in jazz ; and Aoife Clancy, formerly of Cherish the Ladies, who sings traditional Irish and contemporary folk songs.

On her 2009 album The Performance, Shirley Bassey sings the semi autobiographical " The Girl From Tiger Bay " which was written by the Manic Street Preachers and David Arnold.

David Rovics also sings of Riley in " Saint Patrick's Battalion "

David Bowie sings in the song " Cygnet Committee ": " stoned the poor on slogans such as / Wish You Could Hear / Love Is All We Need / Kick Out The Jams / Kick Out Your Mother ".

David Tibet of the apocalyptic folk band Current 93 released a collection of her recordings, entitled Fountain of Snow, and she sings on the final version of " Idumæa " on Current 93's 2006 album Black Ships Ate the Sky.

The crew aboard Zissou's research vessel Belafonte includes Pelé dos Santos, a safety expert and Brazilian musician who sings David Bowie songs in Portuguese, and Klaus Daimler, the German second-in-command who viewed Zissou and Esteban as father figures.

* Martin Gore sings lead on " Pipeline " while David Gahan sings for the rest.

During a concert performance, the group is about to sing Ain't Too Proud to Beg when David jumps on stage and steals the microphone from Dennis and sings himself.

David Bowie in " Song for Bob Dylan " from Hunky Dory ( 1971 ) sings: " You gave your heart to every bedsit room ".

Their album No Balance Palace ( 2005 ), features Lou Reed reciting a poem by Eistrup on " Black Building " and David Bowie who sings a duet with Eistrup on " The Cynic ".

In 2003 Dean worked with surfer and musician Donavon Frankenreiter, on whose self-titled album he plays the drums and sings, with fellow ex -" Innocent Criminal " David Leach on percussion.

Here he meets David Powers, a British journalist, and is taken to a sushi bar and then a karaoke bar, where he sings " You Are My Sunshine " as a duet.

Songs written by Martin Gore, except tracks 1, 2, 3, 16, and 17 written by Vince Clarke. David Gahan sings lead vocals on all songs except " Somebody " which is handled by Martin.

David Browne of Entertainment Weekly also commented on " Jóga ", writing that it was more " somber " than another album track, " Bachelorette ", and Bjork sings the lyrics with " the strings swelling luxuriantly ".

As the soprano sings the final words, the key changes to a pure diatonic A major which accompanies, in writer David Ellis's words, the " ecstatic final stanza ":

" L. A. Song ", the song Lindsey sings at Caritas, was written by actor Christian Kane and producer David Greenwalt.

David Gilmour sings a chorus, mostly in 3 / 4 ( or " waltz time "), in a narrative response to the first set of lyrics.

In the second section, drums, bass, and guitar enter, and the music becomes more consonant, resolving to the key of A minor through the use of D and A suspended second chords, as David Gilmour sings a refrain of " Ooh, babe ".

Julee Cruise portrayed her in in a stage version performed by The Children's Theatre Company and School of Minneapolis that was released on home video by MCA, though she sings in a much lower register than she does for David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti.