David Bowie

David Bowie's latest album, The Next Day, is currently number one in forty countries. 

So I thought it would be a great idea to compile some facts about this incredibly interesting human. 

• Many people believe that Bowie has two different coloured eyes. However, in actual fact, he has a dilated pupil in one eye from a school yard fight with George Underwood, Underwood later went on to do album artwork for Bowie.
• David Bowie was born David Robert Jones.
• Like many other artists Bowie was unsuccessful prior to his huge success constantly being booed off stage with his band The Hype.
• Bowie change his name so he wouldn't get confused with Davey Jones from The Monkees. 

• In 1973 Bowie had no less than six albums in the charts.
• Bowie's first lead acting role was as an alien in1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.
• The baby noises in Labyrinth's song Magic Dance are made by Bowie.
• He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. 

• Bowie shared a flat in Berlin with Iggy Pop for three years.
• In 2007 Bowie made a guest appearance as Lord Royal Highness in an episode of Spongebob Square Pants.
• At the height of his cocaine, addiction during his 1974 Diamond Dogs tour, he weighed a tiny 43kg - supposedly living on peppers and milk.

• Bowie declined a knighthood in 2003, saying, "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for, it's not what I spent my whole life working for."
• Bowie refused to star in the London Olympics Closing Ceremony. 

I hope you learnt something new and interesting about the man who is David Bowie.

Rachel xx