Celebrity Name : David Bowie

Celebrity Real Name : David Robert Jones

Date of Birth : January 8, 1947

Birth Location :England
Biography of David Robert Jones:
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and mixer, whose work spans more than four decades. A knowing and occasionally camp figure, he is universally recognised as one of the more accomplished and inspired artists in popular music. Throughout the 1970s he took cues from art, philosophy and literature and appeared to elevate pop and rock to a more sophisticated level. He is also a film and stage actor, music video director and visual artist.

Career overview :
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.
In 1975 Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer identified as “plastic soul”. The sound constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees.
He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist and challenging 1977 album Low – the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno. His most experimental works to date, the so-called “Berlin Trilogy” nevertheless produced three UK top-five albums. The anthem-like, towering title track of the second work “Heroes” (1977) is widely regarded as a milestone in rock and pop.

References in popular culture :
Bowie is referenced numerous times in the cartoon The Venture Bros.:
* In the episode “Ghosts of the Sargasso”, the opening tells of a test pilot named Major Tom. When he communicates to mission control during a flight, the dialogue is taken verbatim from Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes. The plane Major Tom is flying is TVC 15, a title of another Bowie song.
* In “The Incredible Mr. Brisby”, the episode’s villain has a panda that he won from David Bowie in a trivia contest.
* The two-part second season finale “Showdown at Cremation Creek”, however, has the largest reference and he plays a vital role in the plot. He appears (voiced by James Urbaniak) at the wedding between The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, giving Dr. Girlfriend away. It is revealed later that he is the Sovereign, leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent and an enigmatic figure that has appeared in the shadows since the beginning of the show. Bowie apparently has shapeshifting powers in the show, which he uses to defeat Iggy Pop, Klaus Nomi and Phantom Limb to rescue Dr. Girlfriend.
Bowie is also the subject of a Phish song bearing his name, found on the Junta album.[wikipedia]