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
The Platinum Collection (David Bowie album) was part of EMI's two-disc Sight & Sound series of releases and features a DVD of 1980s videos on the second disc. All songs written by David Bowie, except where noted. The Platinum Collection (David Bowie album) The Platinum Collection is a compilation album by David Bowie, released in 2005. The period from 1969 to 1987 is summarised over three discs. The first disc is the same as the compilation "The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974", which was released in 1997, and the second disc is the same as the 1998 compilation "The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979". The third