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March 19: Last Sunday the international David Bowie fanclub "The Voyeur" held its annual fanmeeting in De Meern in Holland. After the doors opened fans rushed to the stalls of merchandise to get rare Bowie items. Dealers from Holland and England brought a lot of Bowie material, while fans from Holland, England, France, Germany and Belgium made the trek. One of the highlights of the exhibition was an original Bowie hat which Bowie wore in the mid-70s. The Rotterdam-based band "The Madmen" played two sets, including a bevy of Bowie songs.
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It was on September 18th, 1935, that David Bowie invented the Time Machine that would be used to infamously steal the creative art of men in the future. His most notorious use of his invention is the stealing of the Vanilla Ice's song. After returning to the past to collaborate with the band Queen to create the sing "Under Pressure." Other contemporary "musicians" then petitioned David for use of his Machine, most notably Led Zeppelin.
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Bowie was born David Robert Jones in the Brixton section of London on January 8, 1947, the son of a working class family that soon moved to Beckenham, a conservative town in Kent, where he grew up. A fan of Little Richard and jazz, Bowie began playing music at age 12, when his parents bought him a saxophone. He performed in a series of small-time groups while in high school, and then attended technical school, where he earned a degree in art. In 1965 he adopted the name David Bowie to avoid confusion with actor Davy Jones, who later became the "singer" for the made-for-TV band the Monkees.
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David Bowie grew up in Bromley, Kent. He played the saxophone, and was a singer in London blues bands. He uses the alias David Bowie because David Jones sounded too much like Davy Jones (of the The Monkees). He took the name Bowie from Jim Bowie, who invented the Bowie knife.
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Bowie sounds like Bowie, but one-man backing band Erdal Kizilcay drowns him out with 80s blandness: atmospheric synth, predictable funk bass, and robotic drums ("New York's In Love"). There's not much more to say, because every damn song sounds the same - sometimes a little slower (title track), sometimes a little faster ("Day-in Day-out"; "Bang Bang"), but that's it. The only real exception is the creepy spoken poem that begins "Glass Spider," a re-run of Diamond Dog's "Future Legend" with plenty of effects; other "experimental" tracks like "Zeroes," dressed up with crowd noises and Indian instrumentation, are just more of the same pablum. Bowie fans will enjoy this anyway, because the master's voice is in good form and the songs themselves are decent (the tuneful "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)"). The single is "Time Will Crawl," a danceable rocker with lots of clever riffs and a refrain that gets repeated endlessly. The generically snappy guitars ("'87 And Cry") are handled by Carlos Alomar (rhythm) and Peter Frampton (lead), and there are numerous bit players like actor Mickey Rourke.
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Bowie's interest in music was sparked at the age of nine when his father brought home a collection of American 45s, including Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and, most particularly, Little Richard. Upon listening to "Tutti Frutti", Bowie would later say, "I had heard God".[13] His half-brother Terry introduced him to modern jazz and Bowie's enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic saxophone for Christmas in 1959. Graduating to a real instrument, he formed his first band in 1962, the Konrads. He then played with various blues/beat groups, such as The King Bees, The Manish Boys, The Lower Third and The Riot Squad in the mid-1960s, releasing his first record, the single "Liza Jane", with the King Bees in 1964. His early work shifted through the blues and Elvis-esque music while working with many British pop styles.
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