David Bowie is a musician, singer, songwriter, actor and fashion icon whose fierce experimentation with popular music has had an enormous effect on genres from punk and New Wave to goth and electronica. His "Ziggy Stardust" persona helped define the glam rock movement of the Seventies, and his early interest in online endeavors made David Bowie an Internet music pioneer as well.

While David Bowie started out as a Psychedelic Folk singer in the late 1960s, it wasn't until his 1970s Glam Rock period that Bowie started to gain a significant amount of success and fame. Assuming the alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie released a string of hit albums that help to redefine popular music. Since his 70s heyday, Bowie has continued to experiment with new genres of music and release albums.

Apart from his music, David Bowie has also acted in a number of films, including The Prestige, Labyrinth and Zoolander, as well as lent his voice to the animated SpongeBob SquarePants movie.

• 1967: David Bowie
• 1969: Space Oddity
• 1970: The Man Who Sold the World
• 1971: Hunky Dory
• 1972: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• 1973: Aladdin Sane
• 1973: Pin Ups
• 1974: Diamond Dogs
• 1975: Young Americans
• 1976: Station to Station
• 1977: Low
• 1977: Heroes
• 1979: Lodger
• 1980: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
• 1983: Let's Dance
• 1984: Tonight
• 1987: Never Let Me Down
• 1993: Black Tie White Noise
• 1995: Outside
• 1997: Earthling
• 1999: hours...'
• 2002: Heathen
• 2003: Reality

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