Bowie:The Childhood and Early Years

David Robert Jones was born in Brixton (London), son of Stanton Jones, who comes from Doncaster (Yorkshire) and mother Mary Margaret Jones, who comes from the Irish family. Bowie's parents marry after his birth [2]. They live in Brixton, Stansfield Road 40, and   David Bowie was six years old, when they move in Bromley (Kent). Bowie is enrolled in the "Bromley Technical High School" [3], which is located in Keston in Bromley, where his parents lived until his eighteenth year.

At age fifteen, Bowie has crashed when it was his friend, George Underwood, wearing a ring on his hand, struck in the left eye for a young girl and severely injured him. Bowie was eight months absent from school, until the doctors have not completed the operation and until he could normally open and close the eye. Despite all the difficulties which he passed, he remained good friends with Underwood, who was later illustrated by the early Bowie albums [4]. Doctors, however, after all they failed completely to heal his eye, because his pupil is constantly dilatirala. The result is his permanent impairment of depth perception, and difficult to distinguish colors.

Bowiev interest in music started from his ninth year, when under the influence of a father who has been collecting LP records, start listening to Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Little Richard is very popular. When you listen to the great Richardovog hit "Tutti Frutti" Bowie used to say: "This needs to hear God." His half-brother Terry introduced him to modern jazz and Bowie is keen on Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, while from his mother for Christmas 1959th gets plastic saxophone.

His musical career, Bowie starts very early age of sixteen. Year, 1962. founded his first band named "The Konrads." During the 1960s he was elected to the many blues bands, and some of them are: The King Bees, The Manish Boys, The Lower Third and The Riot Squad. S King Bees 1964th released his first single "Liza Jane". Later transferred to the blues style of British pop. Early singles recorded in the time 1964th to 1966th remained almost unnoticed.

In the early sixties Bowie performs under the name "Davie Jones", and was replaced with actor and singer Davyjem Jones from "The Monkees". Therefore, changing his stage name to "Bowie", the hero Jim Bowie, famous for Bowie knife. At that time, recorded the single "The Manish Boys," the record label Parlophone as Davy Jones, while crossing the label, Pye issued under the name David Bowie.

Bowie his first album issued by the 1967th year for the label "Decca Records" (which is a branch of the house "Dram"), under the simple name of David Bowie. The album is a blend of pop and psychedelia. Around the time to release a new single, "The Laughing Gnome". Later houses "Dram" material on his early albums and singles, and restores it puts together a compilation.
Psychedelic folk and glam rock