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David Bowie <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  David Bowie is a British singer, actor, and composer, born January 8, 1947 in London, England. His birth name was ... but he was forced to change his stage name to David Bowie to avoid confusion with Davey Jones, the lead singer for the pop rock group, The Monkees. He gained international attention in the 1970s with his science fiction glam rock album, Space Oddity, considered to be a masterpiece of the glam rock era. In it, he donned the persona of Ziggy Stardust, an androgynous alien. In 1976, genre fans got to see him in a role many thought suited him well: Thomas Jerome Newton, the sympathetic alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth. In the 1980s, Bowie moved into film acting. He was one of the leads in the goth classic film The Hunger with Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. Three years later, he had the lead male role in Jim Henson's Labyrinth. On April 24, 1992, he married actor and model, Iman. His son from from a previous marriage, Duncan Haywood Zowie Bowie, served as best man at the wedding. Bowie and Iman have one child together, Alexandria Zahra Jones, who was born on August 15, 2000.
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