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Before Bowie was Bowie, he was mop-topped Davy Jones, pictured here in 1965. The British pop star changed his name after the Monkees and their lead singer, the other Davy Jones, exploded on the music scene. (Photo by Potter/Express/Getty Images)

Nineteen-year-old David Bowie (second from left) fronts the band The Buzz at London's Marquee Club in 1966. As a teen, Bowie performed in several unsuccessful bands before he received attention for Space Oddity in 1969.(Photo by Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

English supermodel Twiggy strikes a glam-rock pose with David Bowie in Paris for the classic cover of his Pin Ups album in 1973. (Photo by Justin de Villeneuve/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Bowie morphs into his alien rock star alter ego "Ziggy Stardust" onstage in Los Angeles in 1973. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

At the height of his Ziggy Stardust fame in 1973, Bowie performs with his band, featuring guitarist Mick Ronson (background, left) on The Midnight Special TV show. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bowie, as his glam-rock creation Ziggy Stardust, performs live at Earls Court Arena during his 1973 Ziggy Stardust tour (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

Family snapshot: Bowie dons an eye patch at a 1974 press conference in Amsterdam with his then wife Angie Bowie and son Duncan Jones, also known as Zowie Bowie. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

Stars converge: David Bowie and actress Elizabeth Taylor meet for the first time for a 1975 photo op in Beverly Hills. (Photo by Terry O'Neill/Getty Images)

Music legends David Bowie, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono and John Lennon pal around at the Grammy Awards at the Uris Theater in New York City, New York. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

It was definitely a holiday to remember when crooner Bing Crosby and rock star David Bowie performed Little Drummer Boy for Crosby's Christmas special in 1977. (Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns)

In 1977, Bowie shared the stage with his rock star buddy Iggy Pop in San Francisco. (Photo by Richard McCaffrey/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)

Bowie showed off his acting skills in the 1986 British rock musical Absolute Beginners. The movie was a commercial flop, but gained cult status because of its soundstrack. (Photo by Georges De Keerle/Getty Images)

Bowie onstage at Bob Geldorf's Live Aid concert, which raised funds for Ethiopian famine relief, at Wembley Stadium in London, 1985. (Photo by Georges De Keerle/Getty Images)

Power couple: in 1992, David Bowie married Somali-born supermodel Iman. The couple has one daughter, Alexandria. (Photo by Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

In the 1996 biopic Basquiat, David Bowie played artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Pop artist Warhol was one of Bowie's greatest inspirations and the subject of his song "Andy Warhol" from his 1971 album Hunky Dory. (Photo by Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

After decades entertaining the world, David Bowie received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997.

A musician, actor and artist, David Bowie stands next to one of his paintings at a New York gallery show in 1990. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Fellow British singer Annie Lennox and David Bowie performed "Under Pressure," a song originally recoreded by Queen and Bowie, during The Concert for Life - The Freddie Mercury Tribute in 1992 (Photo by Kevin Mazur Archive/WireImage)

Bowie rocked out with Nine Inch Nails in 1995. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has called Bowie a major musical influence.

Bowie has a presidential moment with Bill Clinton at a 2007 fundraiser for the New York Food Bank.  (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Film director Duncan Jones, a.k.a. Zowie Bowie, poses with his rock star father David at the premiere of the director's 2009 sci-fi drama Moon in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)

David Bowie and supermodel Iman have been married for 21 years. Iman says she didn't fall for Bowie's rock star persona, but his gentlemanly manners, including a time during their courtship when he bent down to tie her shoe laces. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for DKMS)