RAPTE-ME CAMALEÃO

Quem é David Robert Jones? Também conhecido como David Bowie, ele foi o artista que mais transmutou-se no sentido real da palavra.

Quando começou como artista, no final dos anos 60, Bowie ainda usava o sobrenome Jones, mas por causa das confusões com o homônimo Davy Jones dos Monkees, adotou definitivamente Bowie como nome artístico. Em 1967 gravou um disco de canções folk com influências psicodélicas. Mas foi em 1969, com o disco ‘Space Oddity’, que começou a ser notado, por causa da canção que intitula o álbum, sobre o Major Tom, na esteira do sucesso alardeado da viagem da Apolo 11 (que pousou o primeiro homem na lua).

No início dos anos 70, Bowie assumiu seu lado andrógino e praticamente divulgou o glam-rock para o resto do mundo. Com ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ ele aparecia na capa usando um longo vestido. Na sequência, o disco ‘Hunk Dory’ já trazia futuros clássicos da extensa discografia do astro.

Mas foi com ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars’, que Bowie explodiu como um sucesso mundial. Com a bem costurada e sensacional história do pop-star alienígena que tinha cinco anos de vida entre os humanos, Ziggy Stardust’ e sua banda ‘The Spider from Mars’, formada por Mick Ronson na guitarra, Trevor Bolder no baixo e Mick Woodmansey na bateria.

Bowie ainda encarnou a persona de Ziggy Stardust no álbum seguinte, em ‘Aladin Sane’, no qual retomava as aventuras do perdido Major Tom. Mas logo cansou-se do jogo de cena que era a interpretação de Ziggy e extinguiu-o. A partir daí, ele partiu para um som mais soul e influenciado pela obra de George Orwell, '1984', lançou ‘Diamond Dogs’. A partir de ‘Young Americans’, Bowie começa a se aproximar do universo pop. Essa fase foi coroada com o lançamento de ‘Let’s Dance’ em 1983.

Bowie também atuou como ator em filmes como ‘O Homem que Caiu na Terra’, ‘Furyo (Em Nome da Honra)’, ‘Fome de Viver’, ‘A Última Tentação de Cristo’, ‘O Grande Truque’ e ‘Labirinto’, do qual até compôs a trilha sonora. Pode-se dizer que a experiência de viver como Ziggy e atender a entrevistas como o alienígena, chamou atenção à sua persona e lhe rendeu futuros contatos no cinema.

Os últimos discos de Bowie têm uma pegada mais eletrônica, mas também não faltam referências ao seu passado histórico como artista. Seja em canções como ‘The pretty things are going to hell’ (que remete à ‘Oh! You pretty things’) ou na volta à temática espacial com ‘Hallo spaceboy’, ‘Looking for satellites’, ‘I took a trip on a Gemini spaceship’ ou ‘New killer star’.

David Bowie talvez seja o mestre da arte de se transmutar e de se reinventar. Sendo um verdadeiro camaleão.

1965 The Manish Boys – Davy Jones & the Lower 3rd

1. I pitty the fool
2. Take my trip
3. That’s where my heart is
4. I want my baby back
5. Bars of the county jail

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1967 David Bowie

1. Uncle Arthur
2. Sell me a coat
3. Rubber band
4. Love you till tuesday
5. There is a happy land
6. We are hungry men
7. When I live my dream
8. Little bombardier
9. Silly boy blue
10. Come and buy my toys
11. Join the gang
12. She's got medals
13. Maid of Bond street
14. Please mr. gravedigger

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1969 Space Oddity

1. Space Oddity
2. Unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed
3. Don't sit down
4. Letter to Hermione
5. Cygnet Committee
6. Janine
7. An occasional dream
8. Wild eyed boy from freecloud
9. God knows I'm good
10. Memory of a free festival
11. Conversation piece
12. Memory of a free festival I
13. Memory of a free festival II

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1970 The Man Who Sold the World

1. The width of a circle
2. All the madmen
3. Black country rock
4. After all
5. Running gun blues
6. Saviour machine
7. She shook me cold
8. The man who sold the world
9. The Supermen
10. Lightning frightening (previously unreleased)
11. Holy holy
12. Moonage daydream
13. Hang on to yourself

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1971 Hunky Dory

1. Changes
2. Oh! You pretty things
3. Eight line poem
4. Life on Mars?
5. Kooks
6. Quicksand
7. Fill your heart
8. Andy Warhol
9. Song for Bob Dylan
10. Queen bitch
11. The Bewlay brothers
12. Bombers
13. The Supermen (Ziggy Stardust re-recording)
14. Quicksand (demo)
15. The Bewlay brothers (alternate mix)
16. The shadowman
17. How luck you are

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1972 Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars

1. Five years
2. Soul love
3. Moonage daydream
4. Starman
5. It ain't easy
6. Lady Stardust
7. Star
8. Hang on to yourself
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Suffragette city
11. Rock 'n' roll suicide
12. John, I'm only dancing (b-side)
13. Velvet goldmine (b-side)
14. Sweet head (previously unreleased)
15. Ziggy Stardust (demo)
16. Lady Stardust (demo)

Bonus Disc 30th Aniversary
1. Moonage daydream (Arnold Corns version)
2. Hang on to yourself (Arnold Corns version)
3. Lady Stardust (demo)
4. Ziggy Stardust (demo)
5. John, I'm only dancing (b-side)
6. Velvet goldmine (b-side)
7. Holy holy
8. Amsterdam
9. The Superman
10. Round and round
11. Sweet head (take 5)
12. Moonage daydream (new mix)

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1973 Aladin Sane

1. Watch that man
2. Aladdin Sane
3. Drive-in Saturday
4. Panic in Detroit
5. Cracked actor
6. Time
7. The prettiest star
8. Let's spend the night together
9. The Jean Genie
10. Lady grinning soul

Bonus Disc 30th Aniversary
1. John, I'm only dancing (sax version)
2. The Jean Genie (original single mix)
3. Time (single edit)
4. All the young dudes
5. Changes (live)
6. The Supermen (live)
7. Life on Mars? (live)
8. John, I'm only dancing (live)
9. The Jean Genie (live)
10. Drive-in Saturday (live)

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1973 Pin Ups

1. Rosalyn
2. Here comes the night
3. I wish you would
4. See Emily play
5. Everything's alright
6. I can't explain
7. Friday on my mind
8. Sorrow
9. Don't bring me down
10. Shapes of things
11. Anyway, anyhow, anywhere
12. Where have all the good times gone!
13. Growin' up (previously unreleased)
14. Port of Amsterdam (b-side)

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1974 Diamond Dogs

1. Future legend
2. Diamond dogs
3. Sweet thing
4. Candidate
5. Sweet thing (reprise)
6. Rebel rebel
7. Rock 'n’ roll with me
8. We are the dead
9. 1984
10. Big Brother
11. Chant of the ever circling skeletal family
12. Dodo
13. Candidate (demo)
14. Diamond dogs
15. Rebel rebel
16. 1984
17. Rebel rebel (single version)

Bonus Disc 30th Aniversary
1. 1984/ Dodo
2. Rebel rebel (USA single version)
3. Dodo
4. Growin' up
5. Alternative candidate
6. Diamond dogs (K-Tel version)
7. Candidate (Intimacy mix)
8. Rebel rebel (2003 version)

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1974 David Live

Disc 1
1. 1984
2. Rebel rebel
3. Moonage daydream
4. Sweet thing
5. Changes
6. Suffragette city
7. Aladdin Sane
8. All the young dudes
9. Cracked actor
10. Rock 'n’ roll with me
11. Watch that man

Disc 2
1. Knock on wood
2. Diamond dogs
3. Big Brother
4. The width of a circle
5. The Jean Genie
6. Rock 'n' roll suicide
7. Band intro
8. Here today, gone tomorrow
9. Time

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1975 Young Americans

1. Young Americans
2. Win
3. Fascination
4. Right
5. Somebody up there likes me
6. Across the universe
7. Can you hear me
8. Fame
9. Who can I be now
10. Its gonna be me
11. John I'm only dancing (again)

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1976 Station to Station

1. Station to station
2. Golden years
3. Word on a wing
4. TVC 15
5. Stay
6. Wild is the wind
7. Word on a wing (bonus track)
8. Stay (Bonus Track)
9. It's hard to be a saint in the city (outtake)

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1977 Low

1. Speed of life
2. Breaking glass
3. What in the world
4. Sound and vision
5. Always crashing in the same car
6. Be my wife
7. A new career in a new town
8. Warszawa
9. Art decade
10. Weeping wall
11. Subterraneans
12. Some are (previously unreleased)
13. All saints (previously unreleased)
14. Sound and vision (remixed version)

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1977 Heroes

1. Beauty and the beast
2. Joe the lion
3. Heroes
4. Sons of the silent age
5. Blackout
6. V-2 Schneider
7. Sense of doubt
8. Moss garden
9. Neuköln
10. The secret life of Arabia
11. Abdulmajid
12. Joe the lion (1991 version)

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1978 Stage

1. Hang on to yourself
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Five years
4. Soul love
5. Star
6. Station to station
7. Fame
8. TVC-15
9. Warszawa
10. Speed of life
11. Art decade
12. Sense of doubt
13. Breaking glass
14. Heroes
15. What in the world
16. Blackout
17. Beauty and the beast
18. Alabama song

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1979 Lodger

1. Fantastic voyage
2. African night flight
3. Move on
4. Yassassin (Long live)
5. Red sails
6. DJ
7. Look back in anger
8. Boys keep swinging
9. Repetition
10. Red money
11. I pray ole
12. Look back in anger

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1980 Scary Monsters... and Super Creeps

1. It's no game (part 1)
2. Up the hill backwards
3. Scary monsters (and super creeps)
4. Ashes to ashes
5. Fashion
6. Teenage wildlife
7. Scream like a baby
8. Kingdom come
9. Because you're young
10. It's no game (part 2)
11. Space Oddity (bonus track)
12. Panic in Detroit (bonus track)
13. Crystal Japan (bonus track)
14. Alabama song (bonus track)

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1981 Christiane F

1. V-2 Schneider
2. TVC 15
3.Heroes/ Helden
4. Boys keep swinging
5. Sense of doubt
6. Station to station (live)
7. Look back in anger
8. Stay (US single version)
9. Warszawa

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1983 Let's Dance

1. Modern love
2. China girl
3. Let's dance
4. Without you
5. Ricochet
6. Criminal world
7. Cat people (putting out fire)
8. Shake it
9. Under pressure (& Queen)

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1983 Ziggy Stardust: The Movie

1. Hang on to yourself
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Watch that man
4. Wild eyed boy from freecloud
5. All the young dudes/ Oh! You pretty things
6. Moonage daydream
7. Changes
8. Space Oddity
9. My death
10. Cracked actor
11. Time
12. Width of a circle
13. Let's spend the night together
14. Suffragette city
15. White light/white heat
16. Rock ‘n’ roll suicide

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1984 Tonight

1. Loving the Alien
2. Don't look down
3. God only knows
4. Tonight (& Tina Turner)
5. Neighbourhood threat
6. Blue jean
7. Tumble and twirl
8. I keep forgettin'
9. Dancing with the big boys
10. Absolute beginners
11. This is not America (& Pat Metheny)
12. As the world falls down

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1986 Labirinth (& Trevor Jones)

1. Opening titles/ Underground (David Bowie)
2. Into the labyrinth (Trevor Jones)
3. Magic dance (David Bowie)
4. Sarah (Trevor Jones)
5. Chilly down (David Bowie)
6. Hallucination (Trevor Jones)
7. As the world falls down (David Bowie)
8. The goblin rattle (Trevor Jones)
9. Within You (David Bowie)
10. Thirteen o'clock (Trevor Jones)
11. Home at last (Trevor Jones)
12. Underground (David Bowie)

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1987 Never Let Me Down

1. Day-in day-out
2. Time will crawl
3. Beat of your drum
4. Never let me down
5. Zeroes
6. Glass spider
7. Shining star (makin' my love)
8. New York's in love
9. '87 and cry
10. Too Dizzy
11. Bang bang
12. Julie (b-side)
13. Girls (Japanese version)
14. When the wind blows (radio edit)

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1989 Tin Machine

1. Heaven's in here
2. Tin machine
3. Prisoner of love
4. Crack city
5. I can't read
6. Under the God
7. Amazing
8. Working class hero
9. Bus stop
10. Pretty thing
11. Video crime
12. Run
13. Sacrifice yourself
14. Baby can dance

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1991 Tin Machine II

1. Baby universal
2. One shot
3. You belong in rock 'n’ roll
4. If there is something
5. Amlapura
6. Betty wrong
7. You can't talk
8. Stateside
9. Shopping for girls
10. A big hurt
11. Sorry
12. Goodbye mr. Ed
13. Instrumental

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1992 Tin Machine Live - Oy Vey Baby

1. If there is something
2. Amazing
3. I can't read
4. Stateside
5. Under the God
6. Goodbye mr. Ed
7. Heaven's in here
8. You belong in rock ‘n’ roll

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1993 Big Tie White Nose

1. The wedding
2. You've been around
3. I feel free
4. Black tie white noise (& Al B. Sure!)
5. Jump they say
6. Nite flights
7. Pallas Athena
8. Miracle goodnight
9. Don't let me down & down
10. Looking for Lester
11. I know it's gonna happen someday
12. The wedding song
13. Jump they say (alternate mix)
14. Lucy can't dance
15. Black tie white noise (here come da jazz)

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1993 The Budha of Suburbia

1. Buddha of suburbia
2. Sex and the church
3. South horizon
4. The mysteries
5. Bleed like a craze, dad
6. Strangers when we meet
7. Dead against it
8. Untitled no. 1
9. Ian Fish, UK heir
10. Buddha of suburbia

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1994 Santa Monica '72

1. Intro
2. Hang on to yourself
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. Changes
5. The Supermen
6. Life on Mars?
7. Five years
8. Space Oddity
9. Andy Warhol
10. My death
11. The width of a circle
12. Queen bitch
13. Moonage daydream
14. John, I'm only dancing
15. I'm waiting for the man
16. The Jean Genie
17. Suffragette city
18. Rock 'n' roll suicide

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1995 Outside

1. Leon takes us outside
2. Outside
3. The heart's filthy lesson
4. A small plot of land
5. Segue - Baby Grace (a horrid cassette)
6. Hallo spaceboy
7. The motel
8. I have not been to Oxford town
9. No control
10. Segue - Algeria touchshriek
11. The voyeur of utter destruction (as beauty)
12. Segue - Ramona A. Stone/I am with name
13. Wishful beginnings
14. We prick you
15. Segue - Nathan Adler
16. I'm deranged
17. Thru' these architects eyes
18. Segue - Nathan Adler 2
19. Strangers when we meet

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1997 Earthling

1. Little wonder
2. Looking for satellites
3. Battle for Britain (the letter)
4. Seven years in Tibet
5. Dead man walking
6. Telling lies
7. The last thing you should do
8. I'm afraid of americans
9. Law (earthlings on fire)

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1999 Hours

1. Thursday's child
2. Something in the air
3. Survive
4. If I'm dreaming my life
5. Seven
6. What's really happening?
7. The pretty things are going to hell
8. New angels of promise
9. Brilliant adventure
10. The dreamers

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2002 Heathen

1. Sunday
2. Cactus
3. Slip away
4. Slow burn
5. Afraid
6. I've been waiting for you
7. I would be your slave
8. I took a trip on a Gemini spaceship
9. The angels have gone
10. Everyone says Hi
11. A better future
12. Heathen (the rays)
13. Panic in Detroit (outtake)
14. Conversation piece
15. A better future (Air remix)
16. Sunday (Moby remix)

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2003 Reality

1. New killer star
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Never get old
4. The loneliest guy
5. Looking for water
6. She'll drive the big car
7. Days
8. Fall dog bombs the moon
9. Try some, buy some
10. Reality
11. Bring me the disco king
12. Fly
13. Queen of all the tarts (overture)
14. Rebel rebel (2003 version)
15. Love missile F1-11
16. Waterloo sunset
17. Your turn to drive (outtake)
18. Bring me the disco king (Loner remix)

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2005 Live EP (& Arcade Fire)

1. Life on Mars?
2. Wake up
3. Five years

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2010 A Reality Tour

Disc 1
1. Rebel rebel
2. New killer star
3. Reality
4. Fame
5. Cactus
6. Sister midnight
7. Afraid
8. All the young dudes
9. Be my wife
10. The loneliest guy
11. The man who sold the world
12. Fantastic voyage
13. Hallo spaceboy
14. Sunday
15. Under pressure
16. Life on Mars?
17. Battle for Britain (the letter)

Disc 2
1. Ashes to ashes
2. The motel
3. Loving the Alien
4. Never get old
5. Changes
6. I'm afraid of Americans
7. Heroes
8. Bring me the disco king
9. Slip away
10. Heathen (the rays)
11. Five years
12. Hang on to yourself
13. Ziggy Stardust
14. Fall dog bombs the moon
15. Breaking glass
16. China girl

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