David Bowie

Biography

David Bowie’s final days in 2016 marked the close of a five-decade career distinguished by relentless innovation and guarded privacy. This evergreen explainer outlines the ver...

status_and_legacy

Yes, David Bowie is deceased. The musician died on 10 January 2016 at his home in New York City at age 69. Public reports and official statements confirmed the death, which foll...

music

David Bowie was a British singer-songwriter whose restless experimentation reshaped rock, pop, and performance art. Born David Robert Jones in London in 1947, he cultivated an e...

music

Since David Bowie’s 1969 release, ‘Space Oddity’ has been reimagined across genres, revealing how its narrative isolation and melodic simplicity invite intimate reinterpre...

people

David Bowie did not release a personal signature colunder his name as a dedicated men’s or women’s fragrance in the way many celebrities do. Bowie worked closely on image, m...

people

Angela "Angie" Bowie (born Mary Angela Barnett) is the American-born former model, actress, and writer best known as the first wife of musician David Bowie and the mother of mus...

culture-and-style

“Shiny David Bowie” is an informal phrase people use when describing a version of David Bowie that feels glossy, glam, or hyper-stylized, often evoking his sleek visual work...

Relationships

David Bowie and Iman Abdulmajid met in 1990 through a mutual friend at a private gathering in New York. Iman, already an established model, recalled an immediate creative and pe...

relationship

Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid is a Somali-American model and actress best known as the wife of musician David Bowie. Their marriage, which lasted from 1992 until Bowie's death in 2016...

music

The phrase David Bowie toy album refers to a specific mid-2000s artifact from Bowie’s late-career catalog, not a children’s record or a playful side project. Released quietl...