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
Death of David Bowie Bowie, I’d been listening to Bowie on a loop" and as a result wrote the song "Shiny" partially as a tribute to him. On "American Idol"'s 15th-season finale, the winners sang some of Bowie's most famous songs on stage. Glenn Branca, whom Bowie had met and had referred to as an influence on his Tin Machine music, released "The Light (for David)" in 2016. Branca called Bowie "a kind of muse" and wrote the piece as a tribute to him. Death of David Bowie On 10 January 2016, English singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie died at his Lafayette Street