Happy Birthday & memento mori DAVID BOWIE
Today would have been David Bowie ‘s 77th birthday, as he passed away in 2016 two days after his 69th birthday. We pay tribute to this exceptional artist.
Did you know?
– Born David Robert Jones in London, he changed his stage name to David Bowie because of the similarity to Davy Jones (The Monkees).
– Because of a fight he had when he was 15, it looked as if David Bowie had two different eye colors. They were indeed blue, but the pupil was permanently dilated after a fingernail pierced his eye (anisocoria).
– The cover image of “Pin Ups” was originally supposed to be a picture for Vogue, which would have made him the magazine’s first male cover model. But it never happened.
– David Bowie was a pioneer in online streaming and was the first major artist to release a single as a download in 1996 (“Telling Lies”). At the time, it took eleven minutes to download.
– He was also an avid bookworm and read everything from Alfred Döblin’s“Berlin Alexanderplatz” to Gustave Flaubert’s“Madame Bovary” and Michael Chabon’s“Wonder Boys”.
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For the last time: the “Dark Mystery” calendar 2024
Here in the store:
Amazon:
Or search for & find one of the stores supplied by your zip code:
Listen to David Bowie in our “Gothic & Dark” playlist on Spotify:
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