| Real
Name: |
David Robert
Jones |
| Date
of Birth: |
8th January
1947 |
| Place
of Birth: |
40 Stansfield
Road, Brixton, London |
| Mother's
Name: |
Margaret
Mary Jones - nee Burns (Peggy) |
| Father's
Name: |
Haywood
Stenton Jones |
| Half
Brother's Name: |
Terry Jones |
| Eye
Colour: |
One Blue,
One Brown (due to fight at school) |
| First
School: |
Burnt Ash
Primary School |
| Secondary
School: |
Bromley
Technical High School For Boys |
| Scout
Group: |
St Mary's
Church, Bromley |
| First
Instrument: |
White Acrylic
Plastic Alto-Saxophone |
| First
Band: |
The Kon-rads
(while at Bromley High). David played Saxophone |
| First
Job after leaving school:: |
Trainee
Commercial Artist |
| First
Band Recorded With: |
Davy Jones
and The King Bees |
| First
Single Release: |
Liza Jane/Louie
Louie Go Home (5th June 1964) |
| Producer
of First Single: |
Leslie
Conn |
| Other
Bands Before Going Solo: |
Davy Jones
& The Manish Boys / Davy Jones & The Lower Third |
| Changed
Name to Bowie: |
Due to
having same name as Davy Jones of the Monkees |
| First
Hit: |
Space Oddity
(in 1969) |
| First
Number One: |
Space Oddity
(re-released in 1975) |
| First
Wife: |
Mary Angela
Barnett (married February 1970 in Bromley) |
| First
Child: |
Zowie Duncan
Haywood Jones (born 30th May 1971 in Bromley) |
| Second
Wife: |
Iman Abdulmajid
(married June 1992 in Florence) |
| Second
Child: |
Alexandria
Zahra Jones (born 15th August 2000 in New York) |
| Characters/Personas: |
Ziggy Stardust
/ Aladdin Sane / The Thin White Duke |
| Memorable
Occasions: |
Announcing
Ziggy's retirement at Hammersmith Odeon July 1973 |
|
The salute
at Victoria Station in London 1976 |
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