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Featured Article: David Bowie
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones, January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016) was an English musician, singer-songwriter, actor, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing both his music and image, Bowie is regarded as an influential musical innovator. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the eleventh annual induction ceremony in 1996. In 2006, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Bowie also achieved success as a stage and film actor, notably in the 1976 movie The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK singles chart. In 1972, his seminal concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust made Bowie's androgynous persona famous. In 1975, he achieved his first major American success with the number-one single "Fame" and the hit album Young Americans. He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low, the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno. He scored a major hit in 1983 with "Let's Dance," which went to number one in both the United States and United Kingdom and is now considered a classic. The innovative 1984 video "Jazzin' for Blue Jean" won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.
