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The brittle sound of Station to Station proved a precursor to that found on , the first of three recorded where was integral to the making of the albums, but despite wide-spread belief, he was not the producer.

Journalists who do not read the album covers often credit Eno with production of the trilogy but in fact Bowie and co-produced, with Eno co-writing some of the music, playing keyboards and developing strategies. Bowie stressed in 2000 "Over the years not enough credit has gone to Tony Visconti on those particular albums. The actual sound and texture, the feel of everything from the drums to the way that my voice is recorded is Tony Visconti.

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Visconti said at the time that "Bowie wanted to make an album of music that was uncompromising and reflected the way he felt. He said he did not care whether or not he had another hit record, and that the recording would be so out of the ordinary that it might never get released."
Heavily influenced by the sound of and and the minimalist work of , Bowie journeyed to near to meet the famed German producer .

Conrad Plank was considered the revolutionary producer of that era for German rock, but had no interest in working with Bowie, refusing him entry into the studio. Bowie and his team persevered, however, and recorded on their own new songs that were relatively simple, repetitive and stripped, a clear and perverse reaction to , with the second side almost wholly instrumental. (By way of tribute, proto-punk recorded an EP entitled "Bowi".

) The album provided him with a surprise #3 hit in the UK when the BBC picked up the first single, " ", as its 'coming attractions' theme music. Low was renowned for having been far ahead of its time. Bowie himself has said "cut me and I bleed Low".

It was produced in 1976 and released in early 1977.
The Low sessions also formalised Bowie's three phase approach to making albums that he still favours today. Much of the band were present for the first five days only, after which Eno, Alomar and Gardiner remained to play overdubs.

By the time Bowie wrote and recorded the lyrics everybody but Visconti and studio engineers had departed.
The next record, , was similar in sound to Low, though slightly more accessible. The mood of these records fit the of the , symbolised by the divided city that provided its inspiration.

The remains one of Bowie's best known, a classic story about two lovers who met at the .
Also in 1977, Bowie appeared on the ITV music show Marc, hosted by his friend and fellow glam pioneer of , with whom he had regularly socialised and jammed since before either became famous. He turned out to be the show's final guest, as Bolan was killed in a car crash shortly afterwards.

Bowie was one of many superstars who attended the funeral.
For 1977, Bowie joined , of whom he was an ardent admirer, in a recording studio to do a version of , with new lyrics added. The two had originally met on Crosby's Christmas television special two years earlier (on the recommendation of his children — Crosby had not heard of Bowie) and performed the song.

One month after the record was completed, Crosby died. Five years later, the song would prove a worldwide festive hit, charting in the U.K at #3 on Christmas Day 1982.

Bowie later remarked jokingly that he was afraid of being a guest artist, because "everyone I met dropped dead a month later", referring to Bolan and Crosby.
There was an extensive world tour in 1978 which featured the music of both Low and "Heroes". A live album of this tour was released, known as .

Songs from both Low and "Heroes" were later converted to symphonies by minimalist composer . 1978 was also the year that featured Bowie narrating 's , which to this day is regarded as one of the best recordings of the work.
(1979) was the final album in Bowie's so-called " " or 'triptych' as Tony Visconti says Bowie called it.

It featured the singles " ", " " and " " and, unlike the two previous long-players, did not contain any instrumentals. However, the album is renowned for being quite a contorted mix of and , and pieces such as " " and " " were surprising detours even by Bowie's standards. However, it contained tracks that were composed using the non-traditional Bowie/Eno composition techniques.

"Boys Keep Swinging" was developed with the band members swapping their instruments with each other and "Move On" contains the chords for an early Bowie composition "All The Young Dudes", however they are played backwards. This was Bowie's last album with Eno until 1995's .
In 1980, Bowie did an about-face, integrating the lessons learnt on Low, Heroes, and Lodger while expanding upon them with chart success.

included the #1 hit " ", featuring the textural work of guitar-synthesist , and revisiting the character of Major Tom from "Space Oddity". The imagery Bowie used in the song's gave international exposure to the underground movement and, with many of the followers of this phase being devotees, Bowie visited the London club "Blitz"—the main New Romantic hangout—to recruit several of the regulars (including of the band ) to act in the video, renowned as being one of the most innovative of all time.
While Scary Monsters utilised principles that Bowie had learned in the Berlin era, it was considered by critics to be far more direct musically and lyrically, possibly reflecting the brutal transformation Bowie had gone through during the experience.

Bowie had his wife Angie, undergone from the drugs of the "Thin White Duke" era, and his conception of how music should be written had totally changed. The album had a hard rock edge with many innovations, including conspicuous guitar contributions from and 's . Perhaps in an appropriate creative high point, as " " hit #1 on the UK charts, Bowie opened a 3-month run on Broadway starring as on 23 September 1980.

In 1981, released " ", co-written by and performed with Bowie. The song was a hit and became Bowie's 3rd and Queen's 2nd #1 single. In the same year Bowie made a cameo appearance in the German movie , the real-life story of a 13 year-old girl in Berlin who becomes addicted to and ends up prostituting herself.

Bowie is credited with "special cooperation" in the credits and his music features prominently in the movie. The soundtrack was released in 1982 and contained a version of " " sung partially in German.
Bowie then scored his first truly commercial blockbuster with in 1983, a slick dance album co-produced by 's .

It was a departure from Scary Monsters for which Bowie received a bit of inside criticism; rather than revolting against 1980s dance music, he had in fact joined the scene. The went to #1 in the United States and United Kingdom and many now consider it a standard.
The album also featured the singles "Cat People", " " and " " , the latter causing something of a stir due to its suggestive promotional video.

"China Girl" was a remake of a song which Bowie co-wrote several years earlier with Iggy Pop, who recorded it for The Idiot. In an interview by , Bowie revealed that the motivation for recording China Girl was to help out his friend Iggy Pop financially, contributing to Bowie's history of support for musicians he admired. Let's Dance was also notable as a stepping stone for the career of the late guitarist , who played on the album and was to have supported Bowie on the consequent Serious Moonlight Tour.

Vaughan, however, never joined the tour after a pay dispute between Bowie and Vaughan's manager at the time. Vaughan was replaced by . toured and performed with Bowie at this time.

The tour was a huge success, and a single performance at the US festival actually scored Bowie a million dollars on its own.
The 1984 follow-up album was also dance-oriented, featuring collaborations with and a cover of ' " ". Critics labeled it a lazy effort, dashed off by Bowie simply to recapture Let's Dance's chart success.

Yet the album bore the transatlantic Top Ten hit " " whose complete video, a 22-minute short film directed by , reflected Bowie's long-standing interest in combining music with . This video would win Bowie his only to date, for Best Short-Form Music Video. It also featured the minor hit " ".

The album also has a pair of dance version rewrites of " " and " ", old songs Bowie wrote with Iggy Pop which had originally appeared on Lust for Life.
In 1985, Bowie performed several of his greatest hits at for . At the end of his set, which comprised "Rebel Rebel", "TVC 15", "Modern Love" and "'Heroes'", he introduced a film of the , for which the event was raising funds, which was set to the song "Drive" by the .

At the event, the video to a single was premièred – Bowie performing a duet with on a version of " ", which quickly went to #1 on release.
Also, Bowie worked with the on the song "This Is Not America", which was featured in the film . This song was the centrepiece of the album, a collaboration intended to underline the espionage thriller's central themes of alienation and disaffection.

In 1986 Bowie contributed the theme song to the film . The movie was not well reviewed but Bowie maintained for many years that the song, a UK #2 hit, was one of the best and most professional he'd ever written. He also took a role in the 1986 as Jareth, the Goblin King, who steals the baby brother of a girl named Sarah (played by ), in order to turn him into a goblin.

Bowie wrote songs for the film, some of which became singles.
Bowie's final dance album was (1987), where he ditched the light dance of his two earlier albums, instead producing harder rock with a dance edge. The album, which 'only' scraped to a UK #6 peak, drew some of the harshest criticism of Bowie's career, condemned by critics as a faceless piece of product and ignored by the public — Bowie himself openly apologised in an interview for the album's quality; defenders of the album maintain that many of its songs are underrated and that Bowie at this time was simply facing the inevitable backlash of an overexposed superstar.

Opening on , the Glass Spider Tour sought to market the album; visiting fifteen countries and produced eighty-six performances, as well as nine promotional press shows. Musicians included: (guitar), (lead guitar), Carmine Rojas (bass), Alan Childs (drums), Erdal Kizilcay (keyboards, trumpet, congas, violin) and Richard Cottle (keyboards, saxophone). Dancers included: Melissa Hurley, , , Craig Allen Rothwell (aka Spazz Attack), and Stephen Nichols.

Some critics called it overproduced and claimed that it was pandering to then-current trends in its special effects and dancers. However, fans that saw the shows from the Glass Spider Tour were treated to many of Bowie's classics. In August of 1988, Bowie portrayed in the film .

In 1989, for the first time since the early 1970s, Bowie formed a regular band, , a hard-rocking quartet, along with , , and . Tin Machine released two studio albums and a live record. The band received mixed reviews and a somewhat lukewarm reception from the public, but Tin Machine heralded the beginning of an ongoing collaboration between Bowie and Gabrels.

The original album, ( ), was a success, holding the number three spot on the charts of the UK. Tin Machine launched its first world tour, featuring a now unshaven David Bowie, that year. Despite the success of the Tin Machine venture, Bowie was mildly frustrated that many of his ideas were either rejected or changed by the band.

Bowie began the with a stadium tour, in which he played mostly his biggest hits. The "Sound + Vision Tour" (named after the Low single) was conceived and directed by choreographer of the troupe , who Bowie collaborated and performed with on stage and in his videos. The tour drew large crowds, perhaps in part because he had declared that this would be the last time he would play the hits.

Though he surprised no one when he later reneged on that promise and also on the promise that his set in each country would be focused on the favourite hits voted by phone poll in that country ...

an idea quickly jettisoned when a puckish campaign by the British magazine resulted in a landslide in favour of !, it is true that his later tours generally featured few of those hits, and when they appeared, they were often radically reworked in their arrangement and delivery.
Bowie's negative press-image continued when the cover of Tin Machine's second album became unusually controversial, due to the presence of naked statues as its cover art.

The coverage only seemed to invite unrelated negative commentary about Bowie to further permeate the public discourse.
After the less successful second album and the complete failure of live album , Bowie tired of having to work in a group setting where his creativity was limited, and finally disbanded Tin Machine to work on his own. But the Tin Machine venture did show that Bowie had learned some harsh lessons from the previous decade, and was determined to get serious about concentrating on music more than commercial success.

In retrospect, music critics have found that Tin Machine's music, both stylistically and melodically, had many similarities to that of the phenomenon which hit with in . Songwriter 's journals confirmed his fondness for both Bowie and the short-lived band.
In 1992 he performed his hit "Heroes" and "Under Pressure" (with ) at the .

1993 saw the release of the soul, and influenced , which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer . Though considered by some critics to be musically far superior to Let's Dance, the public was still unsure whether or not it was ready to be receptive of Bowie again. The album, however, met the number one spot on the UK charts with singles such as "Jump They Say" and "Miracle Goodnight".

However, until re-released later in the 1990s, the album was extraordinarily rare after the fledgling on which it had been released suddenly went belly-up . The album is often considered Bowie's oddest departure.
Undaunted, Bowie explored new directions on albums such as 1993's (built on incidental music composed for a TV series).

The album still contained some of the new elements introduced in Black Tie White Noise, except with more of a twist in the direction of . The album's odd success later led to a 1994 re-release in the United States, and Bowie hails it as being an album of entirely his own, original, and newly created work.
1995's ambitious, quasi- , supposed to be the first volume in a subsequently abandoned non-linear narrative of art and murder, reunited him with .

The album introduced the characters of one of Bowie's short stories, and was quite an interesting success. The album put Bowie back into the mainstream scene of rock music with its singles such as " " and " ," the latter featured in the closing credits of the movie .
In September of 1995 Bowie began the with Gabrels again joining Bowie as his live band's guitarist.

In a move that was equally lauded and ridiculed by Bowie fans and critics, Bowie chose 's as the tour partner. NIN Bowie toured as a co-headlining act. Although initially successful, the tour was cancelled early due to poor sales.

However, Reznor has gone on record numerous times as being heavily influenced by Bowie, and further collaborated with him by "The Heart's Filthy Lesson".
On 17 January 1996 David Bowie was inducted into the at the eleventh annual induction ceremony.
Receiving some of the strongest critical response since Let's Dance was 1997's , which incorporated experiments in British jungle and drum and bass and included a single released over the , called "Telling Lies.

" There was ultra-sustained energy in this album, along with lesser experiments in drum rhythms, while still holding to Bowie's own musical concepts.
Singles such as "Little Wonder" were the forefront of the album. There was a corresponding world tour, which was fairly successful.

Bowie's track in the Paul Verhoeven film , " " was remixed by Trent Reznor for a single release. The video's heavy rotation (also featuring Reznor) contributed to Bowie's newfound relevancy in the late 1990s and his overall image restoration.
On , Bowie played a concert at to celebrate his 50th birthday (although his birthday was the previous day).

Guest performers included , , , of , , and whose 1972 album Bowie co-produced.
The 1998 film drew its title from a Ziggy-era Bowie song and contained many events paralleling Bowie's life on and off stage; the relationship between the two main characters, Curt Wild (played by ) and Brian Slade (played by ) was loosely based on that of Iggy Pop and David Bowie during the 1970s. The tagline "The rise of a star .

.. the fall of a legend" obviously recalls the name "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust", and the film contains numerous references to Bowie's career.

In an interview with the band , Bowie noted that he liked the story, but the movie felt more like the early 1980s than the early 1970s. He did not permit his own songs to be used in the film when requested, and soon he combated it in a lengthy court case, where Bowie sued to try to stop the film's release due to his offence at the depiction of the Slade character as being vile and opportunistic.
In 1998, David Bowie had reunited with to record a song for The Movie called "Sky Life".

Although the track was edited out of the final cut, and did not feature on the film's album, the reunion led to the pair pursuing a new collaborative effort.
1999 found Bowie composing the soundtrack for a computer game called " ." David Bowie and his wife, Iman, made appearances as characters in the game.

That same year, re-recorded tracks from the game and new music was released in the album featured "What's Really Happening", the for which were written by Alex Grant, the winner of Bowie's "Cyber Song Contest" Internet competition. This album presented Bowie's exit from heavy electronica, with an emphasis on more live instruments, and, through songs like " " and " ," a thematic move into Bowie's sense of his own aging and sentimentalism. After this album, Bowie's guitarist, Reeves Gabrels, quit working with Bowie, feeling that the music was becoming "too soft.

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Plans surfaced after the release of for an album titled , which would feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs. Sessions for the album commenced in 2000, but the album was never released, leaving a number of tracks, some as-of-yet unheard, on the editing floor.
Bowie and Visconti continued collaboration with the production of a new album of completely original songs instead.

The result of the sessions was the 2002 album , notable for its dark and atmospheric sound, and Bowie's largest chart success in recent years. It also included a cover of the song " ", which was another offshoot of Bowie's consistent interest in the band. Singles for " ," " ," and " " were released along with numerous B-sides featuring pieces from the Toy sessions and "Safe," a reworking of "Sky Life.

" The songs " " and "Uncle Floyd" (retitled " ") from Toy were also released as album tracks as songs reminiscent of an earlier style.
In 2003, a report in the named Bowie as the second-richest entertainer in the UK (behind Sir ), with an estimated fortune of £510 million. However, the 2005 credited him with a little over £100 million.

In September 2003, Bowie released a new album, , and announced a world tour. ' ' was the best-selling tour of the following year. However, it was cut short after Bowie suffered chest pain while performing on stage in the northwestern German town of on .

Originally thought to be a pinched nerve in his shoulder, the pain was later diagnosed as an acutely blocked ; an emergency was performed at St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg by Dr. Karl Heinz Kuck.

He was released in early July and continued to spend time recovering. Bowie later admitted he had suffered a minor , resulting from years of heavy smoking and touring. The tour was cancelled for the time being, with hopes that he would go back on tour by August, though this did not materialise.

He recuperated back in New York City. Bowie released a live DVD of the tour, entitled in October 2004, which included songs spanning the full length of Bowie's career, although mostly focusing on his more recent albums.
During the tour, Bowie had been hit in the eye with a lollipop stick while performing in Oslo, Norway.

Bowie was reported to have stopped the concert and to have yelled "Wanker! You fucking wanker!" at the lollipop thrower.

He later resumed the concert and apologised to the crowd for his response.
Still recuperating from his operation, Bowie worked off-stage and relaxed from studio work for the first time in several years. In 2004, a duet of his classic song " " with appeared in .

The soundtrack for the film featured David Bowie songs performed in Portuguese by cast member (who adapted some lyrics to make them relevant to the film's story). Most of the David Bowie songs featured in the film were originally from David Bowie (Deram), Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Diamond Dogs. Bowie commented, "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with".

Despite hopes for a comeback, in 2005 David Bowie announced that he had made no plans for any performances during the year. After a relatively quiet year, Bowie recorded the vocals for the song "(She Can) Do That", co-written by Brian Transeau, for the movie . Rumours flew about the possibility of a new album, but no announcements were made.

In April 2005, film writer and director revealed Bowie was working on a rock opera adaptation of the comic book .
David Bowie finally returned to the stage on , alongside , for the nationally televised event Fashion Rocks, his first gig since the heart attack. Bowie has shown interest in the Montreal band since he was seen at one of their shows in New York City nearly a year earlier.

Bowie had requested the band to perform at the show, and together they performed the Arcade Fire's song "Wake Up" from their album , as well as Bowie's own " ". He joined them again on , singing " " and "Wake Up" from Central Park's Summerstage as part of the CMJ Music Marathon.
Bowie contributed back-up vocals for 's song "Province" from their album Return to Cookie Mountain.

He made other occasional appearances, as in his commercial with for . He appeared on Danish alt-rockers 2005 release, , which was produced by Tony Visconti. The album also featured a spoken word performance by Lou Reed, making it the second project involving both Bowie and Reed in two years, since Reed's 2003 .

On , David Bowie was awarded the . In November, Bowie performed at the Black Ball in New York for the Keep a Child Alive Foundation alongside his wife, Iman, and . He duetted with Keys on "Changes", and also performed "Wild is the Wind" and "Fantastic Voyage".

For 2006, Bowie once again announced a break from performance, but he made a surprise guest appearance at 's concert at the in . He sang on " " and " ", closing the concert. The former performance was released, on 26 December, as a single.

It was announced that in May 2007 Bowie would curate the Highline Festival in the abandoned railway park in New York called the Highline where he would select various musicians and artists to perform.
This is a discography of David Bowie's studio albums. See for details about singles and other albums.

(1969, UK #17, US #16)

(1971, UK #3, US #93)

(1972, UK #5, US #75)

(1973, UK #1, US #17)

(1973, UK #1, US #23)

(1974, UK #1, US #5)

(1975, UK #2, US #9)

(1976, UK #5, US #3)

(1977, UK #2, US #11)

(1977, UK #3, US #35)

(1979, UK #4, US #20)

(1980, UK #1, US #12)

(1983, UK #1, US #4)

(1984, UK #1, US #11)

(1987, UK #6, US #34)

(1993, UK #1, US #39)

(1995, UK #8, US #21)

(1997, UK #6, US #39)

(1999, UK #5, US #47)

(2002, UK #5, US #14)

(2003, UK #3, US #29)

Bowie's first major film role in (1976) earned acclaim. David's character Newton is an alien from a planet that is dying from a lack of water. He comes to Earth to ship some of our large supply back to his homeworld.

Thanks to his advanced knowledge he can get patents for a number of new inventions. However, his rise to power seems to change him and as despair and alcohol consume him, his mission seems to have come in jeopardy. In (1979), an Anglo-German co-production directed by , Bowie played the lead role of a Prussian officer returning from World War I who is discovered by a Baroness ( ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

In the eighties Bowie continued to play several roles in excellent films. In 1981, he guest starred the cripple, but flamboyant and optimistic neighbor on the British soap opera, "Lives..

.of the Curious." In 1982 he made a cameo appearance as himself in , a dark movie about drug addiction.

Bowie also starred in (1983), a revisionist movie with and . In the film, Bowie and Deneuve are vampire lovers, with her having made him a vampire centuries ago. But while she is truly ageless, he discovers to his horror that while he is immortal, he can still age, and rapidly becomes a pathetic, monstrous husk as the film progresses.

's film (1983) was based on 's novel . Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a ; another famous musician, , played the camp commandant. Bowie had a cameo as The Shark in , a 1983 pirate comedy made by some of the members of , and a small part as a hit-man in the 1985 film .

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence impressed some critics but his next serious project, the rock musical (1986), was both a critical and box office disappointment. The same year he appeared in the cult classic, the dark fantasy (1986), playing Jareth, the king of the .

Jareth is a powerful, mysterious creature who has an antagonistic yet strangely flirtatious relationship with Sarah ( ), the film's teenage heroine. Appearing in heavy make-up and a mane-like wig, Bowie sings a variety of new songs specially composed for the film's soundtrack. Bowie also played a sympathetic in 's (1988).

He was briefly considered for the role of by and for 1989's . Hamm recalls "David Bowie would be kind of neat because he's very funny when he does sinister roles." The role ended up going to .

The nineties were a bit less interesting for David Bowie. He portrayed a disgruntled restaurant employee opposite in , and played mysterious agent Phillip Jeffries in (1992). He portrayed in – artist/director 1996 of the artist .

Bowie also appeared in , a TV horror serial based on the 1983 movie. He played the title role in (2000) in which he is the neighbour of a terminally ill twelve year old. Shortly after Mr Rice dies, the boy discovers that Mr.

Rice has planned a special treasure hunt which will lead to an important secret.
In 2001, Bowie appeared as himself in the film , volunteering himself to be a walkoff judge between Ben Stiller's character Zoolander, and Owen Wilson's character Hansel. The film, a comedy and pseudomockumentary, pays homage to Bowie's legacy as a fashion pioneer in allowing him this role.

Bowie portrayed alongside and in (2006), directed by . It follows the bitter competition between two magicians around the turn of the century. Bowie has voice-acted in the new movie (or Arthur And The Invisibles in the US); his role in the film is the villain, Maltazard.

He appeared as himself and wrote and performed a song mocking the main character in a 2006 episode of . He will lend his voice to a character in the upcoming episode " ".
Bowie met his first wife (known as Angie) in .

According to David, they met when they were both "fucking the same bloke" (Record executive Calvin Mark Lee). She is credited by some as being one of David's biggest influences in his early career and rise to fame, though David has later tried to play down her importance. They married one year later on at Bromley Registry Office in Beckenham Lane, , where she permanently took his adopted last name.

They had a son (born on ) whom they named (Zowie later preferred to be known as Joe/Joey, although now he has reverted to his legal birth name - "Duncan Zowie Heywood Jones"). They separated after eight years of marriage and divorced on , in . Angie later cited it as "a marriage of convenience" for both.

In a 1976 interview with Playboy Magazine, Bowie said, "It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

" He distanced himself from that in a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, and expressed a more nuanced view in a 2002 interview with Blender: "I had no problem with people knowing I was . But I had no inclination to hold any banners or be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that became my headline over here for so long.

America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do."
Bowie married his second wife, the -born , in . The couple have a daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones (known as Lexi).

He also has a stepdaughter by Iman's first marriage. The couple make their home in Manhattan.

In the episode "Eight O' Clock at the Oasis", Lorelai gets invited to a David Bowie concert.

In Season 7, Zack wants to play " " at Michel's dog's funeral.

In the episode " ", the opening tells of a test pilot named . When he communicates to mission control during a flight, the dialogue is taken verbatim from " " and " ".

The plane Major Tom is flying is " ", a title of another Bowie song.

In " ", the episode's eponymic villain has a panda as a companion (companda) that he won from David Bowie in a trivia contest. Bowie later hires to kill Brisby and regain the Panda for him, a mission in which she succeeds.

The two-part second season finale, " ", gives Bowie a vital role in the plot. He makes an unofficial appearance (voiced by ) at the wedding between and , giving Dr. Girlfriend away.

It is revealed later that he is the Sovereign, leader of the and an enigmatic figure that had appeared in the shadows earlier in the season. Bowie apparently has powers in the show, which he uses to defeat his former henchmen , and seriously injure his former employee to rescue Dr. Girlfriend.

He also seems to possess an invulnerability to Phantom limb's Touch of Death.

Bowie is also the subject of a song bearing his name, found on the album.

dresses as Bowie, specifically referencing the album cover, in the 2004 Special.

Bowie's song " " was featured in the PS2 game , developed by . A remix of "Everyone Says 'Hi'" was also featured on the earlier game, , by the same developers.

Bowie recently announced that he will be a special guest on a future episode of in 2007.

Bowie was featured in the red carpet scene near the beginning of the movie.

In the mid-1990s magazine likened legend , then lead singer of band , to a Spanish-speaking version of David Bowie.

Similarly, the late , musician and father of model , was often referred to as "the Japanese David Bowie".

Bowie is featured in a song (named "Bowie") by New Zealand based folk/comedy band, The .

The band wrote a song called David Bowie I love you.

Bowie is referenced in 's song "New York, New York" (1985).

Bowie is mentioned in episode, "She of Little Faith" where Homer blows up the church. The townsfolk are arguing about where to get the funds for the church reconstruction, and Marge suggests, "Why don't we just write to David Bowie again?" and Rev.

Lovejoy responds "God no, that man has done enough for this church already."

In 's movie the main character and several people on a helicopter sing part of Bowie's song, "Space Oddity".

In an episode of Joey sings some of the lyrics from "Space Oddity" to Phoebe whilst driving back from Las Vegas.

On another occasion, it is sung by Chandler in front of a camera.

Bowie makes a guest appearance in the film in which he judges an impromptu runway competition.

Singer released a song entitled, "Not David Bowie", on her 2006 boxset.

The 2006 British TV series takes its title from the Bowie song of the same name. The song features in the first episode, playing over the scene in which main character discovers he has been transported back in time to 1973. Another character, , refers to himself as "the Gene Genie", a reference to Bowie's " ", which appears in the soundtrack of another episode.

The spin-off is another take on a David Bowie song of the name song, starring set in in 1981.

"If you took one David Bowie, and attached another David Bowie onto the shoulders of the other David Bowie, and another two to the arms of the first David Bowie, you would have something that didn't exactly look like John Watson, but those who knew him would find him hauntingly familiar."

In an episode of , Angus sings "Changes" to Kit, played by Pam Grier.

Chicago-based rock band have a song entitled "With David Bowie" which alludes to a form of teenage obsession with Bowie and his music.

Carlton, the main character in 's novel is a Bowie robot, modelled after the rock star of the late 20th Century.

makes reference to David Bowie.

Snake's commanding officer in the Virtuous Mission speaks with a British accent, uses the codename "Major Tom". Snake also iniates communication with Major Tom upon contact with his landing point with the line "Can you hear me Major Tom?"

The song, "P.

Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" references Bowie ("Then I was down south and I heard some funk with some main ingredients like Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, David Bowie. It was cool.")

episode #57 ("The Freshman") featured the song " ", used as background music for a scene in Giles's home.

In 's movie , 's character states that David Bowie is the coolest as the song "China Girl" plays in the background. Drew's company including Adam are glowing with affirmation.

Indie rock band, , references David Bowie in their song "Distopian Dream Girl", "My stephfather looks just like David Bowie, but he hates David Bowie.

I think Bowie's cool, I think 'Lodger' rules, and my stepdad's a fool."

In the television series, , an episode titled, " ," Ken Miller listens to the song "Fashion."

In the TV show , when Larry takes off in the rocket, "Moonage Daydream" is playing in the background.

The song, "Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)" references Bowie ("You look like David Bowie, But you've nothing new to show me")

In a episode, watches Carrot Scalp perform standup using a bow (as in a bow and arrow). One of the "jokes" he attempts with it is singing a note and then saying "Look, I'm David Bow-ie".

In the UK sci-fi Comedy , the four main characters are attempting to escape a ship in a stolen space craft.

An operator at Ground Control asks for the pilots' identification. The pilot (being the Cat) replies "Ground control, this is..

.er..

." to which Dave Lister suggests "..

.Major Tom". The Operator then continues, "Ground Control to Major Tom", the opening lyric to Bowie's first hit song "Space Oddity".

The band made a cover of the song "Under Pressure" in 2006.

and covered the song "Under Pressure" for the disaster.

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Rock Movers Shakers, Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.

Rock Movers Shakers, Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.