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
Mini Tour (David Bowie) Mini Tour (David Bowie) The Mini Tour was a small-scale concert tour by David Bowie including his performance at the Glastonbury Festival on 25 June 2000 and a concert at the BBC Radio Theatre, BBC Broadcasting House, London, on 27 June. It is considered by some to be part of the Hours Tour. The live recording made on 27 June 2000 for the BBC was documented on a bonus CD included with the first edition of "Bowie at the Beeb" (2000). The full performance from the Glastonbury show was released as "Glastonbury 2000" on 30 November 2018. This setlist is