David Bowie died of cancer

The legendary British musician, producer, sound engineer and artist David Bowie died on January 10 at the age of 69. It is reported by Sky News with reference to the publisher of the musician. Sad information was confirmed by the singer’s son. The cause of the death of Bowie was cancer.

Messages about the death of David Bowie on Monday were also posted on his official pages on Facebook and Twitter . They say that David Bowie died last Sunday surrounded by his family after 18 months of fighting cancer.

Last Friday, David Bowie was 69 years old, on the same day his last album called Blackstar came out.

David Bowie was born on January 8, 1947 in London. He began his musical career in the late 1960s, influenced many musicians. For fifty years, he often changed the image, because of which he earned the nickname "chameleon of rock music", however, retaining his own unique style. Having released the David Bowie album and several singles in the early years of his activity, David Bowie became widely known only in the fall of 1969, when his song Space Oddity was in the top 5 in the British hit parade.

In 1972, during the heyday of Glam Roka, Bowie created a bright image of a character named Ziggy Stardast. His Hit Single Starman from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars entered the top ten hit parade of Great Britain.

In 1975, Bowie achieved the first major success in America with a single Fame, written in co-authorship with John Lennon and the Young Americans hit album. In 1977, the musician released the minimalist album of Low - the first of the three discs of the so -called Berlin Bowy Berlin trilogy, recorded together with Brian in the next two years. All three albums entered the five best hit parade of Great Britain.

Bowie reappeared in the British charts in 1980 with the single ashes to ashes and the album of Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). In 1981, he recorded Under Pressure, a single, also flying to the tops of the British chart, along with the Queen group. In 1983, the album of Let's Dance was released, which included the hits of Let's Dance, China Girl and Modern Love. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie experimented with musical genres. His last studio album was Blackstar, released on January 8, 2016.

In 2002, in a survey of the Air Force "100 Greatest British" Bowie took 29th place. Throughout the musician’s career, more than 136 million records were sold - with this result, he entered the ten most successful artists in the history of the popular music of Great Britain.

Six David Bowie albums are included in the list of 500 greatest albums of all time "according to Rolling Stone magazine. In 2004, the Rolling Stone magazine gave Bowie 39th place in the list "100 of the greatest performers of rock music of all time" and the 23rd position on the list "100 greatest vocalists of all time."