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David Bowie
Born in Brixton, South London on January 8th 1947,
David Bowie was a British rock star. Bowie was the first,
and perhaps the most accomplished, pop chameleon as
he wrote, produced and released a wide range of
different styles of music, all under the pop umbrella.
David Bowie is perhaps best known for his colourful
characters like ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and the ‘Thin White
Duke’, and has become an icon of pop culture. He
collaborated with other pop stars, such as John Lennon
and Carlos Alomar with ‘Fame’ in the mid 1970s, and was
inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll hall of fame in the late
1990s.
Beyond the music, Bowie was also a star of the silver
screen, having famously starred in Labyrinth and The
Man Who Fell to Earth. Following a career spanning over
fifty years, David Bowie died at the age of 69, in New
York City in 2016.
As early as in childhood, David Robert Jones was
interested in music and started by playing the
saxophone in his early teens. His older half-brother Terry
was a strong influence and introduced David to a world
of music and literature. After graduating school aged 16,
David worked as an artist, but music continued to be his
true passion. He led a group called the Lower Third
under the name Davy Jones, and even produced several
singles, but nothing which had popular success. David
renamed to Bowie, and went solo, before recording his
first, unsuccessful LP.
With the release of ‘Space Oddity’ in 1969, Bowie was
propelled to stardom. The BBC picked up the song and
played it during its broadcast of the first moon landing.
David’s next LP ‘The Man Who Sold the World’, was a
smash hit, but it was the following, ‘Hunky Dory’ its
singles ‘Changes’ and ‘Life On Mars’ that solidified him
as a rock legend.
After a flurry of hit releases, Bowie picked up on the new,
growing glam scene, and created a new persona, Ziggy
Stardust. The resulting album, titled ‘The Rise and Fall of
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’, was the first
of Bowie’s iconic characters, portrayed by the man
himself, that have made him such a memorable figure in
popular culture.
The 70s would be Bowies decade. He collaborated with
the likes of Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and
Keith Richards, and released more smash albums with
‘Aladdin Sane’ and ‘Young Americans’. By this time, the
music was creeping away from rock, and toward more
eclectic styles. The costumes were also becoming more
and more eccentric.
In the 1980s, David would explore the world of film and
broadway. His performance in ‘The Elephant Man’ was
critically acclaimed, while his portrayal of Jareth the
Goblin King in Labyrinth has since become legendary.
Bowie would continue to act and write music through the
90s, with varying levels of success. In more recent times,
Bowie’s prolific career was fully realised as he was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in ’96, and
was awarded a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in
2006. Bowie’s career was bookended by a late success
with the highly regarded albums ‘The Next Day’ (2013)
and Blackstar, released on his 69th birthday. David
Bowie died just two days later, when it was revealed that
he had been struggling through a battle with cancer for
the prior 18 months.
Bowie has left behind a musical catalogue which is full
of pop iconography and musical explorations which have
furthered the trajectory of rock music for all time. With 26
prolific releases to his name, David Bowie is truly
deserving of the title of Rock God.
David Bowies Income
How much did David Bowie earn?
David Bowie’s net worth, at the time of his death in 2016,
was 230 million dollars.
His records and products associated with his music over
the past five years have earned him nearly $200 million.
The counters take as their base David’s earnings in the
years 1972 to 1983, the height of his career. During this
time, he earned an average of $1.72 million per year
through his music sales alone!
If David Bowie would still be alive and earn the same as
he did then, he would have made as many dollars since
the beginning of the year as the counter on the left
indicates.
That would be an average of 143 thousand dollars a
month, 4,700 dollars a day, or 5.5 cents per second! The
counter on the right shows how much the star has
earned in the time since you have accessed this page!
In 2003 David had a brush
with royalty and was
presented a knighthood
from Queen Elizabeth 2nd,
but he turned it down. He
told the newspapers, "It's
not what I spent my life
working for."
David Bowie left
approximately half of his
entire fortune, about 100
million dollars, to his wife
Iman. His two children, each
were given one quarter of his
estate, around 50 million
dollars each.
When he was in his teens,
David (who was still calling
himself David Jones) would
regularly meet his friend Reg
Kenneth Dwight (Elton John)
at a Soho Cafe, to talk about
art and music.
Bowie starred in more than
twenty fives films throughout
his life, including The Last
Temptation of Christ,
Basquiat, and The Prestige,
It’s estimated that his film
work has contributed to over
two fifths of his overall
income.
Rolling Stone ranked Bowie
number 39 on their of the 100
greatest artists of all time list,
and number 23 on the list of
greatest singers of all time.
Did you know that Bowie
didn’t just leave money in his
will to his family? He also
gave two million dollars to his
personal friend and assistant,
Corinne Schwab, who he
knew as ‘Coco’.
Bowie’s smash hit album ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from
Mars’ sold 7.5 million copies. That’s about 7.6 million dollars of David Bowie’s income.
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In the 1990s, Bowie created
‘Bowie Bonds’, which where
financial securities that were
backed by Bowie’s royalties
for his work in the 60s, 70s
and 80s. how much did David
Bowie make? David Bowie
earned 55 million dollars from
the sale of the royalties.