David Bowie: A Career Than Spanned Four Decades

David Bowie was one of Britain's most successful songwriters for four decades. Born David Jones in London in 1947 in Brixton he picked up the saxophone aged 13 and began singing with his first band at 15 before rising to fame in 1969 with Space Oddity, and later with his alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Bowie’s first album, The Man Who Sold The World, was released in spring 1971 and three months later his then wife Angie gave birth to their son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Bowie.