The Starman Who Became David Bowie
David’s life began in South London, where he was born on January 8th, 1947. In Brixton, he soon developed a strong interest in music as a teen, who then began studying the arts through music and design before pursuing a professional career later on in 1963. While his dreams of musician began blossoming from his not so prime life as a child. He was inspired by his parents and step brother, but not in a recreational way that you ought to think firsthand.
Bowie seemed to have a clear view on what he thought his family was, nothing more than an extra. He said the same along with his friends near Brixton and felt distraught and detachment from his immediate family. His family and surroundings were in shambles most of the time and didn’t have the proper amount of money to keep things afloat. Behind Bowie’s interior motives, his family who to were far from him in any sort of connection, he used his drab child hood as fuel to escape the nothingness he felt as a child. Although he felt some resentment …show more content…
By 1966 the world knew him to be Bowie himself, with grown hair and ambitions of fame running through his head. From playing at the young age of nineteen in a small jazz band of the London West End, he was soon signed from his manager, Kenneth Pitt. A few years later in 1969, his rise to the charts blossomed immensely along with the infamous Space Oddity. During the summer of 1972, was a busy one for Bowie in and out of the studio. He produced a few albums along with Lou Reed that same year. During the producing of the awe inspiring and influential Raw Power by Iggy and The Stooges that same year, ended up growing his reputation into something more of a serious Bowie. He later on produced even more Iggy albums such as China Girl (co-wrote), from Let’s Dance with the lesser known Detroit