Bowie’s onstage persona Ziggy Stardust brought androgyny to the stage, and remains one of his most popular characters.
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Rock star David Bowie has died surrounded by family following an 18-month battle with cancer. “For me, frankly, as an artist, that’s the most satisfying thing for the ego”, Bowie said. In March 1976, Bowie was on his “Isolar” tour, traveling as the Thin White Duke along with his good friend and collaborator, Iggy Pop. After a performance at the War Memorial Arena in Rochester, New York, Bowie and his crew were relaxing in a three-room suite at the Americana Rochester Hotel when they received a rude awakening from the local vice squad.
During half a century, Bowie recorded dozens of albums.
British rock singer, David Bowie, poses beside his Rolls Royce in May 1973.
As well as playing here four times, Bowie also spent time during the filming of the movie Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, released in 1983, in which he played a British soldier in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, which was partly shot in Auckland.
David Bowie, front left, and Bob Geldof, right, at the end of the London part of the 1985 Live Aid starvation relief concert at Wembley Stadium in London. The song begins with the line: “Look up here, I’m in heaven”.
David Bowie performing at The Cat Club in 1987 in Hollywood.
In 1996 Bowie performed a string of performances on the European Summer festivals circuit.
David Bowie’s appearance at Britain’s Glastonbury music festival in 2000 included a retrospective selection of his greatest hits, including Rebel Rebel and Changes. And two other Bowie albums reached the Top 10.
As Iman told Harper’s Bazaar about the love of her life, “David doesn’t fight”, she said. It proved to be his final tour before his death.
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Portrait of David Bowie photographed at the Studio of artist Dante Leonoli in Hampstead, London in September 1969.
