-David Bowie was born David Robert Jones, on the 8th of January 1947 in Stanfield Road, Brixton, South London, England.
-David Bowie changed his stage name to David Bowie in 1966 to avoid confusion with another famous Davy Jones (of The Monkees).
-David Bowie's left eye was damaged in a fight with a school friend over a girl. His pupil is unable to dilate or contract.
-Space Oddity became Bowie's first big hit single (reaching #5 in the UK) in 1969. (Although it was his second album.)
-David Bowie was his debut album. It failed to chart.
-Reality is Bowie's most recent album.
-Bowie plays saxophone, guitar, bass guitar, stylophone, piano, drums and keyboards.
From A to Ziggy
David Bowie has, over his career, paraded forth a dizzying array of personalities, from jammin' space alien to casual soul man. These personalities have been, respectively:
