In the interest of learning more about our favorite alien, I thought I'd post this timeline I found on the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame website. Sorry it only goes to 1999. Also, I apologize for any typos, but I just copied and pasted directly to here. Feel free to comment or add trivia you know about Bowie.
January 8, 1947 - David Robert Jones, a.k.a. David Bowie, is born in Brixton, London.
September 20, 1969 - David Bowie's timely single about an astronaut, "Space Oddity," hits #5 on the UK charts.
November 4, 1970 - David Bowie releases 'The Man Who Sold the World' in the US.
December 11, 1971 - David Bowie releases 'Hunky Dory,' which contains the classic "Changes."
April 5, 1972 - David Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' hits #93.
May 13, 1972 - Bowie declares his bisexuality in the British Magazine 'Melody Maker.' In later years, he distances himself from such statements.
June 6, 1972 - David Bowie's 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' enters the UK album charts.
July 4, 1972 - David Bowie's "Starman" hits #10 in the UK and #65 in the US.
September 12, 1972 - Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes," a glam-rock anthem penned and produced by David Bowie, hits #3 in the UK.
September 22, 1972 - David Bowie opens his first US tour in Cleveland, Ohio.
September 28, 1972 - David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars sell out New York City's Carnegie Hall on their gender- bending Ziggy Stardust tour.
February 24, 1973 - David Bowie scores his first Top Forty hit in the US with the re-release of 1969's "Space Oddity."
March 31, 1973 - Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side," a musical tour of the New York demimonde from the David Bowie-produced 'Transformer,' becomse an unlikely Top Forty hit.
April 7, 1973 - David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust hits #75.
April 7, 1973 - David Bowie scores his first US Top 40 hit with "Space Oddity" which peaks at #15.
April 28, 1973 - Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side," produced by David Bowie, hits #16.
May 5, 1973 - David Bowie releases 'Aladdin Sane' ("a lad insane"), a further elaboration upon his hard-rocking spaceman persona. It yields the singles "Jean Genie" (#2 UK, #71 US) and "Drive-In Saturday" (#3 UK),
May 25, 1973 - David Bowie releases Diamond Dogs which will eventually peak at #5.
November 3, 1973 - David Bowie's 'Pin-Ups,' on which he covers a 13 nuggets from London pop scene of the Sixties, hits #23. It is his third album in little over a year.
November 8, 1973 - David Bowie hits #8 with 'David Live'.
November 16, 1973 - David Bowie hosts an NBC-TV special.
May 25, 1974 - David Bowie releases the decadence-themed 'Diamond Dogs,' a true solo album on which he sings and plays most of the instruments.
July 6, 1975 - David Bowie begins filming 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'.
September 14, 1975 - Fame (David Bowie) was a hit.
September 20, 1975 - "Fame," a song from David Bowie's 'Young Americans' album, tops the US singles charts. It is cowritten by Bowie, John Lennon and guitarist Carlos Alomar.
January 10, 1976 - David Bowie's "Golden Years" goes to #10.
February 7, 1976 - David Bowie's 'Station to Station' enters the album charts. It is the highest-charting album of Bowie's career, peaking at #3.
March 18, 1976 - 'The Man Who Fell to Earth,' a science-fiction movie starring David Bowie in an award-winning performance, debuts takes place in London.
July 17, 1976 - David Bowie's compilation album 'Changesonebowie' hits #10 in the US.
January 6, 1977 - David Bowie releases 'Low,' the first of a trilogy of more experimental albums that also includes 'Heroes' (1977) and 'Lodger' (197
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January 10, 1977 - David Bowie wins the US Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films Best Actor Award for 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'.
May 11, 1977 - Iggy Pop releases 'The Idiot' and it hits #30 in the UK and #32 in the US. The album is produced by David Bowie.
September 11, 1977 - David Bowie records his guest appearance on 'Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas'. Bowie and Bing perform a duet of "The Little Drummer Boy."
1977 - David Bowie hits #35 with 'Heroes'.
November 6, 1977 - Iggy Pop releases 'Lust for Life'. The album is produced by David Bowie.
December 10, 1977 - David Bowie hits #35 in the US with Heroes, a collaboration with Brian Eno.
July 14, 1979 - David Bowie hits #20 in the US with 'Lodger'.
March 1, 1982 - Pete Townshend, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger, Adam Ant, Pat Benatar, the Police and David Bowie kick off the "I Want My MTV" advertising campaign.
May 15, 1983 - "Let's Dance", featuring Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar, is David Bowie's first #1 hit in both the US and UK.
June 10, 1989 - 'Tin Machine,' the first of three albums by Tin Machine -- a quartet that includes David Bowie -- is released. The other are 'Tin Machine II' (1991) and the live 'Oy Vey, Baby' (1992).
September 26, 1995 - David Bowie's 'Outside,' a challenging and unconventional "gothic hyper-drama," is released.
January 17, 1996 - David Bowie is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the eleventh annual induction dinner. Madonna and David Byrne are his presenters.
January 8, 1997 - David Bowie turns fifty.
September 11, 1998 - The entrepreneurial David Bowie launches his own Internet Service provider, BowieNet.
October 5, 1999 - 'hours...', a pensive, end-of-the-millenium album by David Bowie, is released.
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