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10 Things You Might Not Know About David Bowie

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10 Things You Might Not Know About David Bowie

Jarrod SaundersbyJarrod Saunders
January 11, 2016
in Movies
Tags: Music
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Legendary singer, actor, musician, writer and painter David Bowie has died at the age of 69 from cancer. His son, film director Duncan Jones, confirmed the news and a statement was issued on his social media accounts. Bowie was no stranger to the strange and here we take a look back at things you might not know about David Bowie…

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10. Bowie got the idea for the Ziggy Stardust persona after a chance encounter in London’s Carnaby Street with washed-up pop star and acid freak Vince Taylor.

09. Bowie claims he had a ‘horrible’ incident with a cup of tea when he was 5, and refuses to drink it to this day.

08. The song ‘Under Pressure’ – a collaboration between Bowie and Queen – evolved from a collective jam session at Bowie’s studio in Montreux, Switzerland. He’d originally intended to sing backing vocals on a different Queen song, ‘Cool Cat’.

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07. At the height of cocaine psychosis, Bowie was so addled and paranoid from drugs, he allegedly stored his own urine in the fridge in case a wizard stole it.

06. A fake Twitter account was set up in David Bowie’s name in January 2009. Despite it only ever having featured one tweet (“Cheers from a snowy Berlin! Working on some new material!”), the account has over 41,000 followers.

05. Bowie left school with just one qualification, an O Level in art. He declined the CBE in 2000 and a knighthood in 2003.

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04. Bowie plays saxophone on ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ from Steeleye Span’s Now We Are Six album.

03. A teenage Bowie was interviewed on a BBC programme as the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men. He complained: “It’s not nice when people call you darling and that”.

02. David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947. He shares the same birthday as Elvis.

01. Bowie’s first hit in the UK – 1969’s Space Oddity – was used by the BBC in its coverage of the moon landing.

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