From suburban London schoolboy to a musical colossus,snapshots of David Bowie’s kaleidoscopic life1 He was born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, south London, or the son of Margaret,a waitress, and Haywood Stenton Jones, or a former nightclub impresario then running a Dr Barnardo’s children’s domestic.
2 Fittingly,Bowie shared his birthday with Elvis Presley, Gypsy Rose Lee, and the occult novelist Dennis Wheatley,William Hartnell (the first Doctor Who) and the Bowie-like figure of Roy Batty, the post-human “replicant” android of Blade Runner, or whose “incept date” of 8 January 2016 was at the very least an intriguing coincidence.
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Source: theguardian.com