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34 DAVID BOWIE

Born David Jones 8^th January 1947 in Brixton, London, England. A true musical Chameleon who at the height of his powers during the 70’s was constantly changing personas and musical direction and this revealed a true musical genius. Critics have often been split on whether he was an innovator of style or a copier, but whatever the truth his influence is widely felt in many fields of music. He seems to have lost his way, at least commercially from the mid 80’s, but such was the strength of his 70’s output his reputation remains undiminished.

NO. OF HITS	82
NO. OF NO.1’S	5
NO. OF TOP TENS	24
WEEKS ON CHART	531

	TITLE	ARTIST	POS	WKS
1	Space Oddity	David Bowie	1	24
2	Under Pressure (1)	Queen/David Bowie	1	18
3	Let’s Dance	David Bowie	1	14
4	Ice Ice Baby (2)	Vanilla Ice	1	13
5	Ashes To Ashes	David Bowie	1	10
6	The Jean Jeanie	David Bowie	2	13
7	Absolute Beginners	David Bowie	2	9
8	Modern Love	David Bowie	2	8
9	China Girl (3)	David Bowie	2	8
10	Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby) (2)	Jedward & Vanilla Ice	2	6
11	Life On Mars	David Bowie	3	15
12	All The Young Dudes	Mott The Hoople	3	11
13	Sound And Vision	David Bowie	3	11
14	Drive In Saturday	David Bowie	3	10
15	The Man Who Sold The World	Lulu	3	9
16	Fashion	David Bowie	5	12
17	Body Ii Body (4)	Samantha Mumba	5	12
18	Rebel Rebel	David Bowie	5	7
18	The Laughing Gnome	David Bowie	6	12
19	Blue Jean	David Bowie	6	8
20	Hot Stuff (Let’s Dance)	Craig David	7	12
21	Boys Keep Swinging	David Bowie	7	10
22	Golden Years	David Bowie	8	10
23	Jump They Say	David Bowie	9	6
24	Starman	David Bowie	10	11
25	John I’m Only Dancing	David Bowie	12	18
26	Oh You Pretty Thing	Peter Noone	12	9
27	Hallo Spaceboy (5)	David Bowie	12	4
28	This Is Not America (6)	David Bowie/Pat Metheny	14	7
29	Little Wonder (7)	David Bowie	14	3
30	Ziggy Stardust	Bauhaus	15	7
31	Thursday’s Child (8)	David Bowie	16	3
32	Fame (9)	David Bowie	17	12
33	Day In Day Out	David Bowie	17	6
34	Sunmachine (17)	Dario G	17	4
35	Young Americans	David Bowie	18	7
36	Loving The Alien	David Bowie	19	7
37	Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)	David Bowie	20	6
38	Been Around The World	Puff Daddy/Family	20	6
39	Everyone Says ‘Hi’	David Bowie	20	3
40	Diamond Dogs	David Bowie	21	6
41	Underground	David Bowie	21	6
42	Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide	David Bowie	22	7
43	All The Young Dudes	Bruce Dickinson	23	5
44	Heroes	David Bowie	24	8
45	Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (19)	David Bowie	26	6
46	Funky Dory (10)	Rachel Stevens	26	4
47	Lust For Life (3)	Iggy Pop	26	2
48	Survive (8)	David Bowie	28	2
49	D.J. (11)	David Bowie	29	5
50	Up The Hill Backwards	David Bowie	32	6
51	Seven (8)	David Bowie	32	2
52	Dead Man Walking (8)	David Bowie	32	2
53	Tvc 15	David Bowie	33	4
54	Time Will Crawl	David Bowie	33	4
55	You Belong In Rock ‘N’ Roll (8)	Tin Machine	33	3
56	Never Let Me Down	David Bowie	34	6
57	John I’m Only Dancing	Polecats	35	8
58	Buddha Of Suburbia	David Bowie	35	3
59	Heart’s Filthy Lesson (12)	David Bowie	35	2
60	Black Tie White Noise	David Bowie	36	2
61	Let’s Dance	Hi-Tack	38	2
62	Beauty And The Beast	David Bowie	39	3
63	The Man Who Sold The World	David Bowie	39	2
64	Strangers When We Met	David Bowie	39	2
65	Miracle Of Goodnight	David Bowie	40	2
66	Loving The Alien	Scumfrog Vs Bowie	41	1
67	Rebel Woman	D.N.A./Jazzie P	42	4
68	Starman	Culture Club	43	2
69	When The Wind Blows (13)	David Bowie	44	4
70	Funtime (3)	Boy George	45	2
71	Rebel Never Gets Old	David Bowie	47	2
69	Baby Universal (8)	Tin Machine	48	3
70	Tin Machine (14)	Tin Machine	48	2
71	Fashion (98)	Glamma Kid	49	1
72	Under The God	Tin Machine	51	2
73	Tonight (3)	David Bowie	53	4
74	Real Cool World	David Bowie	53	1
75	Breaking Glass E.P.	David Bowie	54	7
76	Golden Years	Loose Ends	59	4
77	Seven Years In Tibet (8)	David Bowie	61	1
78	The Sun Machine (15)	E-Zee Possee	62	3
79	Nachna Onda Nei (21)	Tigerstyle	62	1
80	Unemployed In Summertime (20)	Emiliana Torrini	63	1
81	Just For One Day (Heroes) (16)	David Guetta Vs Bowie	73	1
82	I Can’t Read (8)	David Bowie	73	1
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(1) with Freddie Mercury/Roger Taylor/Brian May/John Deacon

(2) with Freddie Mercury/Roger Taylor/Brian May/John Deacon/Robert Van Winkle/M. Smooth/Floyd Brown

(3) with Iggy Pop

(4) with Lukas Burton/Sacha Skarbek

(5) with Brian Eno

(6) with Lyle Mays/Pat Metheny

(7) with Gabriel Reeves/Mark Plati

(8) with Gabriel Reeves

(9) with Carlos Alomar/John Lennon

(10) with Martin Brammer/Gary Clark

(11) with Carlos Alomar/Brian Eno

(12) with Sterling Campbell/Brian Eno

(13) with Husno Kizilcay

(14) with Gabriel Reeves/Hunt and Tony Sales

(15) with Aniff Akinola/Jeremy Healy/Robert Owen/Naomi Thompson

(16) with Brian Eno/Davis Guetta

(17) with Stephen & Paul Spencer/Scott Rosser

(18) with Craig David/F. Smith

(19) with Giorgio Moroder

(20) with Emiliana Torrini/Francis White

(21) with Freddie Mercury/Roger Taylor/Brian May/John Deacon/Michael Jackson

(22) Ian Devaney/Lisa Stansfield/Andy Morris/Deric Angellette/Mason Betha/Sean Combs/Ronald Lawrence/Christopher Wallace