David Bowie died

On January 10, in London, at the age of 69, the English musician, composer, producer and actor David Bowie died.

According to BBC , cancer became the cause of death.

David Robert Jones was born in 1947 in London, studied art, music and design at the Bromly Technical College, organized his first group at the age of 15, and since 1966 he played under the pseudonym David Bowie.

In 1967, he released the first album, David Bowie . The fame of the musician was brought by the song “Space Oddity” , which in 1969 entered the top 5 British hit parade.

In the early 1970s, David Bowie became one of the most striking representatives of Glam rock, creating a stage image of Ziggi Stardast, space rock mixia. In 1972, the Starman single took fifth place in the UK hit-parade, the album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” rose to the fifth position in the British chart, in the same year Bowie picked up the first round of the United States.

In 1975, the single “Fame” , written in co -authorship with John Lennon, and the album “Young Americans” , whose style Bowie described as “plastic Soul”, reached high places in American charts.

In the late 1970s, Bowie, along with Brian Ino, recorded the “Berlin Trilogy”-albums “Low”, “Heroes” and “Lodger” , created under the influence of German electronic music. All three albums entered the top 5 British hit parade.

In 1980, the Asshes to Ashes single with the album "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" was the first number in the UK, this success was repeated in 1981 by the single Pressure , recorded with the Queen group. In 1983, the post-disc “Let's Dance” album with such hits as “Let's Dance” , “China Girl” and “Modern Love” climbed to the top of the British chart.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, among which were white Soul, Industrial, Aor and Jangle. More than 136 million Bowe records were sold all over the world, six of his albums are included in the list of 500 Greatest Albums of all time according to Rolling Stone . The last, 28th studio album of Bowie, Blackstar , was released on January 8, 2016, on the 69th birthday of the musician. In 2000, according to the New Musical Express survey, he was recognized as the most influential musician of the century.

In addition, David Bowie starred in cinema, among his most famous roles - an alien Thomas Jerom Newton in the “Man Who Fell to Earth , 1976), Vampire John in Hunger ( The Hunger , 1983), King of Goblin Dzharet in the Labyrinth ( Labyrinth , 1986).