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David Bowie is rock’s foremost futurist and a genre-bending pioneer, chameleon, and transformer. Throughout his solo career and in his alliances with other artists - including Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno and Nine Inch Nails - Bowie has positioned himself on the cutting edge of rock and roll. His innovations have created or furthered several major trends in rock and roll, including glam-rock, art-rock and the very notion of the self-mythologized, larger-than-life rock star.
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Bowie was born David Jones in 1947 and grew up in a bleak suburb of postwar London. About his youth, the most salient fact is that a friend once punched him in the eye, permanently dilating one pupil and thereafter giving his eyes the inimitably cool appearance of being two different colors. Between 1964, when he made his first record with an R&B combo called the King Bees, and 1969, when he hit the pop charts, he made decreasingly futile stabs at mod pop, music-hall whimsy, Kinks-derived satire and Dylanesque hippie balladeering. Alarmingly, he ... practiced mime on the side.
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Bowie released his first album in 1967 for the Decca Records offshoot Deram, simply called David Bowie, an amalgam of pop, psychedelia, and music hall. Around the same time he issued a novelty single utilising speeded-up Chipmunk-style vocals, "The Laughing Gnome", with the B-side "The Gospel According to Tony Day". None of these managed to chart, and he would not cut another record for two years. His Deram material from the album and various singles was later recycled in a multitude of compilations.
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Everyone agrees that David Bowie is one of the most interesting and theatrical of rock's living legends. After that, there's no consensus. At one extreme, Bowie is seen as a flashy, shamelessly commercial 70s pop singer whose knack for reinventing himself far outweighed his talent. But this is false on many counts. First, Bowie has a serious rock pedigree. He got his start way back in the mid-60s, working in the same London rock scene that gave rise to acts like the Kinks, Who, and Yardbirds.
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Bowie has abandoned nothing. The "regular guy" Bowie of the last 20 years is merely a more cunningly conceived image, designed to beguile an even broader audience. So pleased was he with Bowie's early successes, that Lucifer has decided to employ Bowie to resonate across ever larger segments of society. There's no doubt that Bowie's wealth and global renown have, inexplicably, grown over the last couple of decades, despite the atrophying of his creativity. What sustains his popularity?
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More changes for Bowie would take place in 1976, as he entered the world of movie acting, starring in the science-fiction flick, The Man Who Fell to Earth. He ... would changed his image again, cutting his hair short, dressing in 1930's era German clothing, and in turn, becoming known as the "Thin White Duke". He released the album Station to Station, with the Top 10 single "Golden Years", and went back out on tour. Following the tour, he moved to Berlin, and began collaborating with producer Brian Eno, which resulted in the new wave sounding, synthesizer-driven music of Low, released in 1977. Following that he helped produce Iggy Pop's album The Idiot, and went out on tour with him, playing piano. He then returned to Berlin and recorded 1978's Heroes, and then toured to support it. The '78 live album Stage would come from this tour. Bowie also appeared in his next film, Just a Gigolo, and also narrated a new version of Peter and the Wolf. Bowie then relocated to Switzerland and in 1979, he released Lodger.
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