Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song " Jump They Say ".

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 ".

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

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.

* Tony Visconti, Arranger / producer, before he worked with David Bowie, Marc Bolan, the Moody Blues and U2, among others

Described by engineer Earle Mankey as a " frighteningly accurate album " and " sort of like Eraserhead " in comparison to Wilson's lush 1960s oeuvre, the album's playful lyrics ( alternately invoking Johnny Carson, Phil Spector and adolescent interests ) and stark instrumentation ( featuring Moog bass lines and gated reverb-drenched drum patterns reflective of contemporaneous work by David Bowie and Tony Visconti ) failed to impact an audience sated on the ubiquitous Endless Summer sound.

( Bolan and Bowie shared the same manager, Tony Howard and producer Tony Visconti )

Visconti placed three microphones at intervals along the length of the hall, one very close to Bowie, one halfway down the hall and the third at the far end of the hall.

During the recording, Bowie sang each verse progressively louder than the last and as he increased volume in each verse, Visconti opened up each of the three microphones in turn, from closest to farthest.

Just weeks after Watts joined, the band played secret warm up gigs in Buckley, Greenock and Lancaster, before heading to North Hollywood to record with David Bowie and T. Rex producer Tony Visconti.

As his drug habit ate away at his physical and mental health, Bowie decided to move from Los Angeles to Paris and then West Berlin, where he began recording the groundbreaking Berlin Trilogy ( Low, " Heroes ", and Lodger ) with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti.

It was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with Bowie producer Tony Visconti, bassist Bones Hillman and Ross Burge on drums, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House producer Mitchell Froom and different session musicians.

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.

As Bowie was preoccupied with his new wife Angie at the time, the music was largely arranged by guitarist Mick Ronson and bassist / producer Tony Visconti.

Despite his exasperation with the singer's preoccupation with married life, Visconti would later rate The Man Who Sold the World his best work with Bowie until 1980's Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ).

He cut a version at Tony Visconti ’ s studio after the European leg of the tour, and in 1980 it was issued as a single to hasten the end of Bowie ’ s contract with RCA.

Encouraged by music producer Gus Dudgeon he soon moved to Trident Studios, where he worked with music producer greats Gus Dudgeon, Tony Visconti, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Frank Zappa as well as recording artist The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Gasolin ', Nazareth, Santana, Mothers Of Invention, Be Bop Deluxe, Free and T. Rex.

The two former albums were produced by David Bowie and T. Rex producer Tony Visconti.

D Generation then recorded their third album, Through the Darkness, this time with David Bowie and T. Rex producer Tony Visconti.

It was produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti and features lead guitar by Robert Fripp.

The song was performed by the fictional band The Flaming Creatures ( performed by Placebo, reprised by Placebo and David Bowie at the 1999 BRIT Awards ) in the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine.

Adolph E. Wright is the Director of Bands at Bowie State University, where he has successfully built the SOS from 30 members, upon his arrival at BSU in 1998, to 185 members by the fall of 2001.

* Rock concerts: Rod Stewart ( 1979 ), KISS ( 1980 ), David Bowie ( 1983 ), U2 ( 1998 ) and Simon and Garfunkel ( 1983 ).

Adelaide Oval has hosted major concerts during its time, with some of the most famous acts including Fleetwood Mac ( 1977 & 2004 ), David Bowie ( 1978 & 1983 ), KISS ( 1980 ), Madonna & Paul McCartney ( 1993 ), Michael Jackson ( 1996 ), Billy Joel & Elton John ( 1998 ), P! nk ( 2002 ), Pearl Jam ( 2009 ), AC / DC and Wolfmother ( 2010 ) and Foo Fighters ( 2011 ).

Blocker was born Bobby Dan Blocker in De Kalb in Bowie County in northeastern Texas, son of Ora Shack Blocker ( 1895 – 1960 ) and his wife Mary David Blocker ( 1901 – 1998 ).

* Goth Oddity-A Tribute to David Bowie ( Cleopatra, 1998 )

* Example 2-Ashes to Ashes: A Tribute to David Bowie ( 1998 )

* 1998 Douglas Bowie

* 1998 British Music Video Awards, UK-Nomination for Best Video: " Little Wonder " ( David Bowie )

In January 1998, Bowie joined the New York Knicks and played 27 games for them in the 1997-1998 season.