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Today would have been David Bowie<\/strong> ‘s 79th birthday, as he passed away in 2016 two days after his 69th birthday. We pay tribute to this exceptional artist.<\/p>\n\n

Did you know?<\/strong>– Born David Robert Jones in London, he changed his stage name to David Bowie<\/strong> because of the similarity to Davy Jones(The Monkees<\/strong>).– Due to a fight he had at the age of 15, it looks like David Bowie<\/strong> 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<\/strong> was a pioneer in online streaming and in 1996 was the first major artist to release a single as a download (“Telling Lies”). It took eleven minutes to download back then.– He was also an avid bookworm and read everything from Alfred D\u00f6blin’s<\/strong>“Berlin Alexanderplatz” to Gustave Flaubert’s<\/strong>“Madame Bovary” and Michael Chabon’s<\/strong>“Wonder Boys”.<\/p>\n\n

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Listen to David Bowie<\/strong> in our “Gothic & Dark” playlist on Spotify:<\/p>\n\n

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