David Bowie: 1969-2010
Singer/Songwriter
Fashion Icon
Actor
KNOWN TODAY AS:
(1972)
What Got Bowie to this success?.......
HUNKY DORY
Space Oddity
Space Oddity, released in 1969, put David Bowie in the charts internationally.
(Single: Space Oddity, UK & US hit)
BIG BREAK INTO THE MUSIC SCENE...
Struggle/ Trouble Begins
1. Contract with Mercury Records ends
2. Mick Ronson, lead guitar player, leaves London to become gardener in South
FRUSTRATION!
1970 Bowie Visits America (for the first time)
Changes - Wife Angie was expecting the couple's first child.
Bowie returned from USA after promo for album, is completely inspired/transformed.
Introduced to Lou Reed (Urban lyrics)
Iggy Pop (Stage Presence)
MICK RONSON (Guitar Player Moves back to London)
HUNKY DORY BEGAN
Bowie began writing songs on piano, New band Line up "The Spiders"
Mick Ronson - Lead Guitar
Trevor Bolder - Bass
Woody Woodmansey - Drums
Started to Record Demos
Oh! You Pretty Things!
Woke Bowie Up, Peter Noone Released it (with him singing) and Bowie Played Piano. Became a hit in the UK, Bowie's Managers Woke up - spread word.
PETER NOONE Version
RCA Signs a deal with David Bowie
TRIDENT STUDIOS in LONDON ENGLAND
OWNED/started by the SHEFFIELD BROTHERS (Norman and Barry) 1967
Layed Back...
FIRST STUDIO IN LONDON TO USE the Dolby Noise Reduction on an 8 Track reel to reel recording.
'A' Range Trident Console by Malcolm Toft - audio engineer - used his ear.
Bowie one of the first to use this console in his recordings
1896 Beckstein Piano
RESTRUNG - Sucks Now...being auctioned apparently
HUNKY DORY recorded in 2 weeks, mixed in 1 week and a half
BOWIE'S IMAGES
Hunky Dory Image
Hunky Dory: didn't sell as well until his next album, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From
Mars
His way of cultivating a Greta Garbo image
He Made it....
ANY QUESTIONS? NO? Okay...
THE END...??
YES.......
???
END....
Now.
(Single: Space Oddity, UK & US hit)
BIG BREAK INTO THE MUSIC SCENE...
The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
Struggle/ Trouble Begins
1. Contract with Mercury Records ends
2. Mick Ronson, lead guitar player, leaves London to become gardener in South
FRUSTRATION!
1970 Bowie Visits America (for the first time)
Changes - Wife Angie was expecting the couple's first child.
Bowie returned from USA after promo for album, is completely inspired/transformed.
Iggy Pop (Stage Presence)
HUNKY DORY BEGAN
Bowie began writing songs on piano, New band Line up "The Spiders"
Mick Ronson - Lead Guitar
Trevor Bolder - Bass
Woody Woodmansey - Drums
Started to Record Demos
Oh! You Pretty Things!
Woke Bowie Up, Peter Noone Released it (with him singing) and Bowie Played Piano. Became a hit in the UK, Bowie's Managers Woke up - spread word.
PETER NOONE Version
RCA Signs a deal with David Bowie
TRIDENT STUDIOS in LONDON ENGLAND
OWNED/started by the SHEFFIELD BROTHERS (Norman and Barry) 1967
Layed Back...
FIRST STUDIO IN LONDON TO USE the Dolby Noise Reduction on an 8 Track reel to reel recording.
Bowie one of the first to use this console in his recordings
RESTRUNG - Sucks Now...being auctioned apparently
HUNKY DORY recorded in 2 weeks, mixed in 1 week and a half
BOWIE'S IMAGES
Hunky Dory Image
Mars
He Made it....
ANY QUESTIONS? NO? Okay...
THE END...??
YES.......
???
END....
Now.
