David Bowie invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie renamed himself after the 19th-century American pioneer James Bowie and the knife he had popularised. His April 1967 solo single, "The Laughing Gnome", using speeded-up thus high-pitched vocals, failed to chart. Released six weeks later, his album debut, "David Bowie", an amalgam of pop, psychedelia, and music hall, met the same fate. It was his last release for two years. Bowie met dancer Lindsay Kemp in 1967 and enrolled in his dance class at the London Dance Centre. He commented in 1972 that meeting Kemp was when his interest in image
David Bowie discography the "Billboard" 200 in the US. Just as its contract with Bowie was ending, RCA re-issued all of his albums on CD in 1984. However, by 1989 the rights had reverted to Bowie. Rykodisc outbid Rhino for the rights to the RCA catalog and re-issued all of the albums as part of their "Sound + Vision" series. In 1997 Bowie licensed the albums to EMI. In 2013 the rights were acquired by the Warner Music Group. General Specific David Bowie discography The discography of English singer David Bowie (1947–2016) included 27 studio albums, 11 live albums, 51 compilation albums, eight