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David Bowie will be signing copies of his much-acclaimed hit album, Heathen, which is shortlisted as one of the Albums of the Year in the 2002 Panasonic Mercury Music Prize. Bowie's HMV appearance comes a week prior to the Final of the Mercury Music Prize, on Tuesday 17th September.
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The cliché about David Bowie says he's a musical chameleon, adapting himself according to fashion and trends. While such a criticism is too glib, there's no denying that Bowie demonstrated remarkable skill for perceiving musical trends at his peak in the '70s. After spending several years in the late '60s as a mod and as an all-around music-hall entertainer, Bowie reinvented himself as a hippie singer/songwriter. Prior to his breakthrough in 1972, he recorded a proto-metal record and a pop/rock album, eventually redefining glam rock with his ambiguously sexy Ziggy Stardust persona. Ziggy made Bowie an international star, yet he wasn't content to continue to churn out glitter rock. By the mid-'70s, he developed an effete, sophisticated version of Philly soul that he dubbed "plastic soul," which eventually morphed into the eerie avant-pop of 1976's Station to Station.
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David Bowie settled in Los Angeles. He experimented with drugs, especially cocaine. A new second personality was The Thin White Duke. This was introduced on the Station to Station album in 1976. Some think this is his best album. The song Golden Years scored high in the pop charts.
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Born January 8, 1947, Brixton, England as David Robert Jones, he changed his name to Bowie to avoid confusion with David Jones of The Monkees. David Bowie began performing music at the age of 13, when he learned saxophone, which he played in a number of unremarkable bands until 1966, when he began to release solo singles on Pye Records. All of these were ignored, as was his full-length debut for Deram Records, David Bowie. In order to fund an experimental art group, he signed with Mercury Records in 1969 to record Man Of Words, Man Of Music that same year. The album included the song "Space Oddity," which became a big hit in Britain and the title of the same record when it was released to signifigantly less success in America. Bowie hit his stride in the early '70's, continuing throughout that decade to experiment with a variety of styles and personas to serve his changing musical moods.
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Although he released an album and numerous singles earlier, David Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK singles chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era as a flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona epitomised a career often marked by musical innovation, reinvention and striking visual presentation.
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In 1989 David Bowie formed a new band. This was his first real band since the seventies. The band was called Tin Machine. With this band David Bowie recorded three albums: Tin Machine (1989), Tin Machine II (1991) and Oy Vey, Baby (1992).
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