As the music legend picks up his bus pass, we rummage through our picture archive
David Bowie (Pic: Getty Images)
A very happy birthday to the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust
and Aladdin Sane. Yes, the man behind all those guides and more, David
Bowie, who is 65 years old tomorrow.
Over the course of 40-odd
years, no-one has been able to match his ability to flit between the
worlds of music, acting and art. And he's changed his looks more often
than most of us change our dull cotton socks.
So what better way
to celebrate his milestone birthday than a look through some of the most
outrageous, influential or just downright iconic photos of him from our
archives?
1964: A young and fresh-faced David Bowie
1965: David Bowie when he was known as Davy Jones outside
the BBC television centre with his band The Mannish Boys where they are
to perform 'I Pity The Fool' on the BBC show Gadzooks! It's All
Happening.
1966: Bowie relaxing with his guitar. Four years before at the age of 15 he formed his first band, The Konrads
1969: He was thrust into the public eye after the release of Space Oddity
1970: Bowie relaxes with his guitar on an early trip to LA
1970: Bowie rocking the punk look years before everyone else
1972: Bowie re-emerged in '72 as Ziggy Stardust with the hit single 'Starman'
1972: Bowie at home in Beckenham
1972: His short lived persona was only one facet of his
career marked by reinvention. 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and
the Spiders from Mars' album released in '72 was iconic of that image
1973: David Bowie leaning out of a railway carriage of the Paris boat train at Victoria station.
1970s photo of David Bowie in high-kicking action
1970: David Bowie with singer Dana Gillespie
1971: Pop star David Bowie with wife Angie and three week
old son Zowie. He is modelling an Oxford Bags dress, Turkish cotton
shirt and a felt hat.
1971: David Bowie outside Haddon Hall, a Victorian Gothic mansion in Beckenham, Kent.
1970s: David Bowie and Lulu
1970s: David Bowie gets his nails done
1973: Make-up artist Pierre La Roche prepares David Bowie for a performance as Aladdin Sane
1970s: On stage in underwear as outerwear
1973: Performing in the guise of Ziggy Stardust
1974: On stage
1974: David Bowie's 1974 live album, David Live
1974: David Bowie (wearing an eyepatch) at a press conference in Amsterdam
1975: David Bowie on set of the film The Man who Fell to Earth
1975: At the Grammy's with Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono and John Lennon
1975: His first major American success came with the single Fame. The sound marked a radical shift in his style.
1975: Ice cool in shades
1975: Leaving Cherokee Recording studios with arranger Paul
Buckmaster while recording Man Who Fell To Earth in Los Angeles,
California.
1975: Ice cool in shades
1975: Young Americans film
1975: Brian Eno who worked closly with Bowie during the mid
to late 70s - producing the 'Berlin Trilogy' albums which all reached
the UK top five
1976: Appearing in the film Man Who Fell to Earth
1977: Bing Crosby and David Bowie performing Little Drummer Boy
1978: Director David Hemmings shows David Bowie how to Tango
when things went slightly wrong during the shooting of his latest film I
am a Gigolo being filmed in West Berlin.
1978: Bowie at Heathrow Airport before embarking on a tour of America and Canada in March
1978: British pop singer David Bowie in concert at Earl's Court, London during his 1978 world tour.
1980: Actor and singer David Bowie seen in the role of John
Merrick in "The Elephant Man", on stage at the Booth Theatre, Beoadway
New York. 18th
1980: The single Ashes to Ashes sat at the top of the chart in 1980 along with the album Scary Monsters (and Super creeps)
1981: Bowie teamed up with Queen for the hit Under Pressure
1985: Mick Jagger and David Bowie photo for 'Dancing in the Street'
1985: David Bowie performing at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium
1987: David Bowie performs on stage during the Glass Spider tour.
1987: David Bowie performs in concert circa 1987 in New York City.
1987: David Bowie signs an autograph
1989: Tin Machine at Manhattan Center Studios in New York City
1992: Annie Lennox and David Bowie perform "Under Pressure" The Concert for Life - The Freddie Mercury Tribute
1992: Actor Michael Caine and David Bowie attend the book
party for Michael Caine "What's It All About" on November 15, 1992 at
Elaine's Restaurant in New York City.
1996: David Bowie in Concert at Roseland
1996: David Bowie performing on stage - Outside tour - Netherlands
1997: David Bowie's 50th Birthday Celebration Concert David Bowie at the Madison Square Garden in New York City
1997: David Bowie, Iman and Courtney Love
1997: David Bowie releases Bowie Bonds
1997: David Bowie honoured with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1999: David Bowie performing live onstage at Wembley at NetAid concert
2001: Banner outside Wembley Arena advertising David Bowie's 'Serious Moonlight' tour dates
2002: David Bowie and Bono at the Meltdown Festival at Royal Festial Hall
2002: David Bowie in Concert at Roseland
2003: David Bowie "Reality Tour" at Madison Square Garden, New York City
2004: David Bowie performs on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival 2004
2005: David Bowie poses for a photo at the 2005 CFDA Awards dinner party at the New York Public Library
2006: Photographer Mick Rock speaks to the audience at his "Glam" Book Signing At Barnes & Nobles March 14, 2006 in New York
2008: David Bowie and Iman arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
2008: Iman and David Bowie arrive at the Vanity Fair party for the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
2010: Iman and David Bowie attend the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City
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