David Bowie

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One of the portraits on display at the Time Warner Center.

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David Bowie (pronounced /ˈboʊiː/) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s.
Although he released an album and numerous singles earlier, David 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 album Low -- the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno. Arguably his most experimental works to date, the so-called "Berlin Trilogy" nevertheless produced three UK top-five albums.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes" and its parent album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). He paired with Queen for the 1981 UK chart-topper "Under Pressure", but consolidated his commercial -- and, until then, most profitable -- sound in 1983 with the album Let's Dance, which yielded the hit singles "China Girl", "Modern Love", and most famously, the title track.
In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie ranked 29. Throughout his career he has sold an estimated 196 million albums, and ranks among the ten best-selling acts in UK pop history. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 39th on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

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[davidbdesign]

So calculate it knowing its 42 tiles high it gives you 21 feet high of mosaic and I paid 2 great dollars for the apple app that is unfortunately no more available... snif

[davidbdesign]

Someone recently made the mistake to make an iTunes app named ''Ziggy'', ending into the hands of someone intelligent and perseverant... and... surprise... it didn't just describe the whole story of the persona, you can zoom closer and closer into tiles! So they evaluate an authentic 48'' x 57.5'' to be 12,500$ with frame. It'll take me some time too finish it but with my iPod witch takes pictures of anything appearing on your screen, I can have good clear tiles of 6 inch high each...

[repelghosts]

All these photos were taken by my friend Mick Rock...99 per cent at least.

[littlewonder18]

I want this in my bedroom please!

[izabelabar]

Thanks:)

[ladystardust13uk]

what art gallery was this in please? I think it's fab!

[DBCrowns]

That is cool.  Many Bowie's . Who could ask for more?

[girpo]

cOOL tIME wARNER THING BUT WHY DID YOU WRITE A BIO? WE KNOW WHO BOWIE IS!