English singer David Bowie (born 1947) has been called a cultural chameleon throughout his long and colorful career. From music and film to art and the Internet, Bowie has challenged the perceptions of fans and critics alike with his many malleable...

David Bowie is a performer on the cutting edge of music culture, whose glamour, fluid sexual identity, and mystery influenced musicians such as Michael Jackson and Culture Club. Bowie shifted like a chameleon over a career spanning seedy British club...

David Bowie (pronounced /ˈboʊiː/) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his...

David Bowie has made it his practice to reinvent himself at almost every turn in his career: folk-rocker, glitter rocker, funkmeister, industrial rocker, pop smoothie . . . But who would have predicted that at this late stage in his career Bowie, the Thin...

David Bowie has always shown an acumen for marketing himself, as well as a willingness to do so through unconventional channels. Still, many industry observers were surprised when Bowie chose the small, independent Rykodisc label to reissue his RCA catalogue on CD, a catalogue...

Rocker David Bowie has acted in some odd projects, but none of them compare to his latest job--a guest appearance in the new "SpongeBob Square Pants" TV movie.In “Atlantis SquarePantis,” SpongeBob finds the missing half of an ancient medallion believed to be a relic from...

David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena.The British rocker's donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund was announced by the...

David Bowie has never been my hero. I always thought all that Ziggy Stardust homo-from-Aldebaran business was a crock of shit…. I thought he wrote the absolute worst lyrics I had ever heard from a major pop figure with the exception of Bernie Taupin; lines like "Time takes a cigarette and puts it in your mouth" and "screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo / like some cat from Japan," delivered with a face so straight it seemed like it would crack at a spontaneous word or g...

David Bowie was a remarkable chanteur, even in his earliest days—the period critics now tend to ignore or deride. For a small coterie of Bowie fans in the early Sixties, his records were fresh, amusing and often moving, and in sharp contrast to the more brutal aspects of the evolving heavy-metal movement. His first album for Decca, "Rubber Band," was a prized possession to be mulled over with a mixture of amusement and fascination. David was already writing and performing songs that cut...

Bowie's almost bewildering urge to keep metamorphosising has resulted, in fact, in each attempt at recording being quite astonishingly different as well as seeming to propel him further and further away from the accepted concept of what a rock and roller should be. Apparently unhappy with the image of a rock and roller, he seems to have always sought the more sophisticated embrace of the theatre proper as a means of consummating instincts that have more to do with acting than rock and rolling. Thus h...