David Bowie was born in 1947. Between the late '60s and the mid-70's, he experimented with multi-media, also recording the albums The Man Who Sold The World, Space Oddity, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station and Young Americans. The track Fame taken from this album was to be his first US No 1.

In 1976 he relocated to Berlin recording Low and Heroes with Eno and Tony Visconti. In 1979 he made his Broadway debut in The Elephant Man and released the Visconti co-production Scary Monsters and Super Creeps followed by the Nile Rogers produced

Let's Dance. Between the mid-eighties and the present, he has worked with his band Tin Machine, collaborated with the dance company La La La Human Steps, and written music for Hanif Kureishi's Buddha Of Suburbia. 1992 brought one of rock's first CD-ROMs, Jump.

In 1994, reunited once again with Eno, he produced the experimental Outside album followed in 1997 with Earthling and in 1999 hours..., his twenty-third studio album. In 1999 he became a Commandeur dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. And in 2000, Bowie was voted the #1 Most Influential Artist of All Time by the U.K.'s tastemaking tome the NME. Bowie's next project in 2002 was a further recorded collaboration with Tony Visconti entitled Heathen. The accompanying live dates in Europe and America saw full performances of both Heathen and the seminal Low. A year later, the Reality album was launched with the world's largest interactive, live-by-satellite event and was followed by the rapturously received and critically acclaimed A Reality Tour of the world.

2006 has seen Bowie return to acting with The Prestige adding to such cinematic highlights as Nic Roeg's The Man who Fell To Earth, Martin Scorcese's The Last Temptation Of Christ, Tony Scott's The Hunger and Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. In spring of 2007, Bowie will be the inaugural curator of the 'Highline' arts and music festival in New York.