David Bowie

David Bowie
David Bowie
	Bowie performing in 2002
Background information
Birth name	David Robert Jones
Born	8 January 1947; London, England
Died	10 January 2016 (aged 69); New York City, US
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter; actor;
Years active	1962–2016
Website	davidbowie.com

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft had a significant impact on popular music.

Bowie's taste included many of his contemporaries such as Iggy Pop, The Velvet Underground and John Lennon. He mainly played rock music when taking part in The BBC's Star Special radio programme in 1979. When it came to his own music, Bowie was a particular fan of The Bewlay Brothers, Teenage Wildlife and the rare track Some Are; revealing twelve of his personal favourites in a list in 2008.

A lifelong reader, Bowie was a fan of countless classic novels including Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Albert Camus's The Stranger and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 2013 he compiled a list of one hundred books featuring cerebral choices and some lighter comics.

Music (likes)

Miscellaneous

Scott Walker (general) ^[1]

What's on David Bowie's iPod? (2010)

Stay with Me - Lorraine Ellison
El Ninõ – For with God No Thing Shall Be Impossible - John Adams; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Willard White, Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, conducted by Kent Nagano
Junker's Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene 1; 'Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky' - John Adams; Orchestra of St Luke's, Edo de Waart
Embroidering Pouch - Peng Liyuan
All These Deserters - Boxharp
Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) - Scritti Politti
Dinner at Eight - Rufus Wainwright
Different Trains I: America-Before the War - Steve Reich; Kronos Quartet
Blue Skies - Josephine Baker
Gathering Storm - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem) - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Get Around to It - Arthur Russell
Sénégal Fast-Food - Amadou & Mariam
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp with Orchestra - Gavin Bryars; Hampton String Quartet, Michael Riesman and Orchestra ^[2]

The Mail on Sunday iSelect List (2008)

Life on Mars? - David Bowie
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) - David Bowie
The Bewlay Brothers - David Bowie
Lady Grinning Soul - David Bowie
Win - David Bowie
Some Are - David Bowie
Teenage Wildlife - David Bowie
Repetition - David Bowie
Fantastic Voyage - David Bowie
Loving the Alien - David Bowie
Time Will Crawl - David Bowie
Hang On to Yourself - David Bowie ^[3]

BBC Star Special (1979)

Love Street - The Doors
TV Eye - Iggy Pop
Remember - John Lennon
96 Tears - ? and The Mysterians
Nursery Suite - Elgar
Inchworm - Danny Kaye
Trial2/Prison - Philip Glass
Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground
Helen Fordsdale - Mars
He’s My Star - Little Richard
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
Warning Sign - Talking Heads
Beck's Bolero - Jeff Beck
Try Some, Buy Some - Ronnie Spector
20th Century Boy - T. Rex
Where Were You - The Mekons
Big City Cat - Steve Forbert
We Love You - The Rolling Stones
2HB - Roxy Music
It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City - Bruce Springsteen
Fingertips - Stevie Wonder
Rip Her To Shreds - Blondie (Debbie Harry)
Beautiful Loser - Bob Seger
Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie
Yassassin - David Bowie
The Book I Read - Talking Heads
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
Something On Your Mind - King Curtis
Tellin' Lies - The Staple Singers ^[4]

Literature (likes)

David Bowie Is Exhibition Top 100 Books (2013)

Interviews With Francis Bacon - David Sylvester
Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
Room At The Top - John Braine
On Having No Head - Douglass Harding
Kafka Was The Rage - Anatole Broyard
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
City Of Night - John Rechy
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Iliad - Homer
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Tadanori Yokoo - Tadanori Yokoo
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
Inside The Whale And Other Essays - George Orwell
Mr. Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art - James A. Hall
David Bomberg - Richard Cork
Blast - Wyndham Lewis
Passing - Nella Larson
Beyond The Brillo Box - Arthur C. Danto
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
In Bluebeard’s Castle - George Steiner
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
The Divided Self - R. D. Laing
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Infants Of The Spring - Wallace Thurman
The Quest For Christa T - Christa Wolf
The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter
The Master And Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Puckoon - Spike Milligan
Black Boy - Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - Yukio Mishima
Darkness At Noon - Arthur Koestler
The Waste Land - T.S. Elliot
McTeague - Frank Norris
Money - Martin Amis
The Outsider - Colin Wilson
Strange People - Frank Edwards
English Journey - J.B. Priestley
A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Day Of The Locust - Nathanael West
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Life And Times Of Little Richard - Charles White
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn
Mystery Train - Greil Marcus
Beano (magazine)
Raw (magazine)
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom - Peter Guralnick
Silence: Lectures And Writing - John Cage
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews - Malcolm Cowley
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll - Charlie Gillete
Octobriana And The Russian Underground - Peter Sadecky
The Street - Ann Petry
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby, Jr.
A People’s History Of The United States - Howard Zinn
The Age Of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
Metropolitan Life - Fran Lebowitz
The Coast Of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
The Bridge - Hart Crane
All The Emperor’s Horses - David Kidd
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
Tales Of Beatnik Glory - Ed Saunders
The Bird Artist - Howard Norman
Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music - Gerri Hirshey
Before The Deluge - Otto Friedrich
Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson - Camille Paglia
The American Way Of Death - Jessica Mitford
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Lady Chatterly’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 - Jon Savage
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
The Hidden Persuaders - Vance Packard
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Viz (magazine)
Private Eye (magazine)
Selected Poems - Frank O’Hara
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens
Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder - Lawrence Weschler
Zanoni - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual - Eliphas Lévi
The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
The Leopard - Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
Inferno - Dante Alighieri
A Grave For A Dolphin - Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The Insult - Rupert Thomson
In Between The Sheets - Ian McEwan
A People’s Tragedy - Orlando Figes
Journey Into The Whirlwind - Eugenia Ginzburg ^[5]

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