David Bowie died of cancer on January 10 at the age of 69. Please tell me how to grieve. Unexpectedly, the first round of impact in 2016 came from chameleons. On January 8, he just celebrated his 69th birthday and gave his new album Blackstar as a gift to himself and to everyone else. In just three days, the plot flipped and the building collapsed. I'm sorry, but what kind of words to use to write the obituary, what kind of framework to use to record his life, is not ready. Only by carefully presenting the vivid, shining fragments together, may this "space freak" turn into a special black star to complete another "space odyssey".
1 David Bowie, formerly known as David Robert Jones, was born on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London, England, on the same birthday as Elvis Presley, only 12 years later.
2 He attended Bromley Technical Secondary School, which is now renamed Ravenswood Middle School and is a boys' school.
3 Rock guitarist Peter Frampton was a close friend of Bowie's student days, the former's father was the head of the school's art department, and the two later often performed on the same stage.
4 At the age of 14, Bowie and his friend George Underwood fought for a girl, george accidentally injured Bowie's left eye, resulting in damage to his left eye sphincter, permanent dilation of the pupil, and his later signature different color eyes, left brown, right blue, known by fans as "gold and silver eye demon pupil".
5 Despite a fight, Bowie and Underwood are still good buddies, and the cover and poster design for Bowie's early albums Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was Underwood.
6 Bowie began learning saxophone at the age of 12, playing saxophone in several bands and as a saxophonist on the album Now We Are Six by British folk rock band Steeleye Span.
7 In June 1964, under the name David Jones, he released his first album, Liza Jane/Louie Louie Go Home.
8 To avoid confusion with David Jones, the lead singer of the band Monkees at the time, he thought for weeks about what a new name to call, such as Tommy Jones, and so on, and finally officially changed it to David Bowie, on September 16, 1965.
9 The correct pronunciation of "bowie" is actually very similar to "joey", that is, Joey, which is said to come from an American knife brand he likes.
At the age of 10 17, he was invited to the BBC to do a talk show, and as the initiator of the organization that protects the right of men to grow long hair, he said that "there are always people who sweetly call you dear, which is really unpleasant".
11 In 1967, he wrote songs for actor Paul Nicholas (who became famous for starring in "Just good Friends"), and Paul recorded under the pseudonym oscar.
12 In 1967, he published his first official album "david bowie", which was popular in the folk style, and after the release of the work, the response was flat, and he was hit for the next two years, and did not participate in any music production.
13 In 1967, he also released a single, "The Laughing Gnome", which was jokingly called the most ugly number one of his songs by many fans.
14 At the 1990 World Tour, he launched a global fan mobile voting campaign, "the laughing gnome" had the highest number of votes, but he did not let the fans get their wishes, and did not perform the song at all.
15 In 1969, he published the transformational space oddity, also his second album, and the title song of the same name was used by the BBC when covering the moon landing.
16 In the 1969 "space oddity", 1980 "ashes to ashes" and 1995 "hallo spaceboy", the name of Bowie's fictional character "major tom" has appeared.
17 In 1975, his single "Fame" reached number one on the U.S. charts, the first time his music became a number one song in the United States, and John Lennon participated in the creation of the song, and also played guitar and harmony for him on the album.
18 In early 1972, whether music or styling, he began to make a big change, turning himself into a virtual space creature image ziggy stardust, and ziggy's name originated from the tailor shop of the same name, so called because ziggy needed to change a lot of clothes.
19 In 1975, he released a new album Young Americans, the style of the song turned to American soul music, and Neil Rogers of chic tried to become the guitarist of Bowie's band, but did not succeed.
20 But interestingly, in 1983, the two finally had their first collaboration, releasing the album "Let's Dance", which topped the British and American charts and was Also Bowie's best-selling album, with more than 8 million copies sold worldwide.
21 According to statistics, the total sales of Bowie albums reached 1.4 billion copies.
22 In the 2006 BBC poll for the greatest living idol to date, Bowie finished fourth, ahead of him, James Paul McCartney, Stephen Patrick Morrissey, and David Edin Paulf.
23 While performing in Oslo, Norway, a lollipop hit him in the face, and he hung it there until a staff member removed it.
24 Sang "Oh Mickey!" Tony Bassol choreographed on two of Bowie's world tours, "Diamond Dogs" in 1974 and "Glass Spider" in 1987.
25 Bowie formed a band called "the hype" in 1970, and everyone was gorgeous and visual, but the band received a poor response, booing everywhere they went.
26 British director Nicholas Roig's classic sci-fi film Alien Is Bowie's first film in which he plays a highly developed alien from another civilization. One scene in the film takes place in a record store, with a poster of his album "young americans" plastered on the wall.
27 According to most sources, his exact height value is 1 meter 78.
28 In The Labyrinth of Magic, directed by Jim Hansen in 1986, Bowie plays Jace, the king who rules the demon world.
29 In 2006, Christopher Nolan directed Deadly Magic, in which he made a cameo appearance in the role of Nikola Tesla, with Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.
30 Bowie studied pantomime acting for a period of time, and in 1969, formed his pantomime troupe "feathers", and the master of mime Lindsay Kemp was a key figure in taking him into the avant-garde art.
31 In 1988, Bowie starred in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, playing the Roman consul Pontius Pilate, the inquisitor who had sent Jesus to the cross.
32 He has also collaborated with nagisa Oshima, Luc Besson, David Lynch and other film masters such as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Arthur and His Mini Kingdom, Twin Peaks: Walking with Fire, etc., in addition to playing the dancer dancing tango in Just a Dancing Man, playing Andy Warhol in the American artist Basquiat's biopic "The Years of Light Madness", and playing himself in the biography "Fallen Street" directed by Uli Ed.
33 In 2007 he made a cameo voice for the miniseries of SpongeBob SquarePants because he had a six-year-old daughter who loved SpongeBob SquarePants.
34 In 2003, Bowie rejected the title that Queen Elizabeth had wanted to grant, saying: "I never thought of accepting this kind of thing, I really don't know what it means, anyway, this is not the purpose of my life's struggle." ”
35 In 1992, Bowie married Somali supermodel Iman and in 2000 had daughter Alexander Sarah Jones.
36 Iman placed a bowie knife on his ankle as proof of love.
37 Bowie and his half-brother Terry were intimate. In 1970, Terry was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for depression and committed suicide on January 6, 1985, and Bowie did not attend his funeral to give his family the peace they deserved.
38 Terry is nine years older than Bowie and is one of the most influential loved ones, "aladdin sane", "all the madmen", "the bewlay brothers", and "jump they say", all four songs inspired by Terry.
39 In 2004, Bowie suffered a heart attack while performing in Germany and had to undergo emergency surgery.
40 Law Reed's legendary album Transformer was co-produced with Bowie.
41 The last album under the ziggy name, Pin Ups, was released in 1973 with the cover involving supermodel Choi Ji, and then, at the concert, Bowie announced that Ziggy was dead.
42 Bowie has recorded the Italian version of "space oddity" as "ragazzo solo," which translates to "lonely man and widow."
The song "Move On" from the 43 album Lodger is based on his old song "All the Young Dudes".
44 细细数来，鲍伊曾在十个乐队待过，the konrads, the hooker brothers, the king bees, the manish boys, the lower third, the buzz, the riot squad, the hype, tin machine，tao jones index。
45 "The Man Who Sold the World", a 1970 piece by Bowie, was a classic moment when the Nirvana band covered the song at an unplugged concert on MTV, and at 50 seconds, the first "Oh no, not me" was a classic moment.
46 Bowie wrote music for the 1993 play of the same name based on Hanif Kuressi's novel Buddha of Suburbia.
47 On British folk band Steeleye Span's "Now We Are Six" album, Bowie plays the saxophone for the song "to know him is to love him."
48 In 1977, Bowie co-recorded a Christmas song "peace on earth/little drummer boy" with Bing Crosby, which was not released until a month later, when Bing Crosby died.
49 On the Diamond Dogs album, Bowie tries to play every instrument, such as the super-classic guitar improvisation in "Rebel Rebel.".
50 Bowie was the last guest of the band Mark Pollan, the founder of glam rock, rex dragons, on a live music show, and soon after, Pollan died in a car accident on his way home.
51 Visage's creator, Steve Strange, appeared in a 1980 music video for Bowie's hit single "ashes to ashes."
52 Arcade Fire and TV on the Radio are Bowie's favorite bands of nearly a decade.
53 In Bowie's single "Sound and Vision," folk singer Mary Hodgkin, who became famous for "those were the days," played the harmony.
54 Ten years before the cocteau twins were even on fire, Bowie began muttering in the song "subterraneans" in 1977, singing the entire song in his own language.
55 Bowie shows his face on almost every album cover, except for the British release of "Buddha of Suburbia."
56 His name often appears in other people's songs, such as the German avant-garde electronic band Kraftwerk's "trans europe express" singing "Meet Iki Pope and David Bowie - The Express Across Europe!" And the "backside" of the British striprawbs: "The boy stood on a burning deck with his back to the mast. He didn't dare turn around until David Bowie passed by."
57 In September 1996, Bowie broke with the norm and released a non-physical, Internet-only single "Telling Lies", which was still dial-up and took at least 11 minutes to download a song. In 1998, he founded the bowienet website, which also made him the first rocker to act as an Internet content provider.
58 Bowie's most cherished treasures are a photo of Little Richard wrapped in cellophane that he bought in 1958 and dried chrysanthemums he picked during his honeymoon in Kyoto.
59 Painting, sculpture, writing, Bowie also had a wide range of interests in his spare time, and the artists he most admired were Tintoretto, John Bellani, Eric Heckel, Picasso, and Michael Ray Charles.
60 In 2004, Bowie ranked 39th and 23rd respectively on rolling stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists and Best Singers charts.
61 Bowie says his favorite profession is actually scribbling on a canvas without feeling. Above is a portrait he painted for Iggy Pope.
62 In the 2006 BBC comedy show Extras, Bowie made a cameo appearance in the second season, ending with him playing the piano while singing "chubby little loser", teasing Ricky Jervis for his role as an amateur actor in the film, Andy.
63 In the 2009 zach Schneider film Watchmen, in the 4 minutes and 34 seconds of the opening, the wise man shakes hands with Bowie, and the birch tree wallpaper in the ping-pong room of the Night Owl's home comes directly from Nicholas Logue and David Bowie's classic "The Man Who Fell to Earth".
64 Artist Ed Chapman presented Bowie with a mosaic sculpture based on a starman when he was 65 years old.
65 Tilda Swinton is regarded as a female version of David Bowie, who has also always idolized Bowie. The two not only played a middle-class couple in "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", but also played role swaps and cos each other.
66 In 2009, David Bowie mentioned in the Proust questionnaire in Vanity Fair that his greatest achievement was "getting up in the morning" and that his most frightening thing was "converting kilometers into miles."
67 In 2013, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London exhibited more than 300 objects documenting Bowie's debut for 4 months.
68 Bowie also spent some time as an artistic director at JWT in London.
69 While working on their latest and final album, Blackstar, Bowie and the production team repeatedly listened to Kendrick Lamar's album, which was the biggest winner of this year's Grammy finalists.
Written by /Beijing News reporter Gu Junshu Tian Ying
Editor: Dai Yuxi