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Returned from the warm city of Sochi. I went to watch football, a lot of football. Over three days, I had 10 hours of mini-football among teams from orphanages and boarding schools as part of the “The Future Depends on You” project. The XII final of the MegaFon tournament was already held here, where the strongest teams met to compete for Grand Prize- trip to London to visit football club"Arsenal".

First time with this social project I met back in 2013 during the 2nd stage of the competition. Then the Nizhny Novgorod team was able to make it to the finals. They weren't at the games this year. After the city and regional qualifying stages, 19 teams from Russia, Tajikistan and South Ossetia took to the field under the scorching Sochi sun.

1. The competition was held in two age groups - in the youngest, pupils born in 2004-2005, in the older, 2002-2003.

2. Representatives of Sputnik Sport, the Russian Football Union and Megafon were present at the opening, who wished the tournament participants a good game and spectacular goals. Everything went quickly, so every minute was planned. The guys had very eventful days, filled with emotions. After breakfast games until lunch, then free time or some kind of activity: meeting the actors of the TV series “Molodezhka” Ilya Korobko and Serafima Nizovskaya, a concert of the punk band “Lampasy”, who recorded the soundtrack for the tournament, as well as relaxing in “Sochi Park” with the most extreme slides in Russia.

3. The games have begun. The tournament was held according to the round-robin Olympic system. In groups, everyone played with everyone. In the ¼ bracket, the team that took first place in the group played with the fourth place, the guys from the second place played with the third place.

4. Raising team spirit before the match among the Navruz junior group team from a boarding school in the Shakhrinav district of the Republic of Tajikistan.

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7. I arrived without information about the players and teams, so I didn’t have any favorites to root for. After the first day, I realized one thing - it’s hard to watch without replays. It is impossible to keep track of even two fields that are located next to each other, and the games took place on eight fields at the same time. Distracted for a second - a goal, a card or even the match is over!

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9. Most powerful game In the group stage, the children from special boarding school No. 14 of the Stavropol Territory showed. We left the group with a score of 34:11.

10. The worst result was the Nekrasovtsy team from Orel. They did not make it out of the group, losing all matches with a total score of 8:37.

11. The guys are so young, but they already know how to simulate and play according to the “rules” of adult football: lie down on the field once again, trip yourself up and all that. Sometimes it really hurt, tears came to my eyes.

12. By the end of the group games, I fell in love and was rooting for the guys from Tajikistan, who showed a crazy game. In the younger group, the future Messi is already growing up, he is also small and is outwitting everyone, although he calls himself Neymar. I admired their performance. They had the most emotional coach, who knew how to shout once again and raise the team spirit. The only team that came with a flag and its own victory chant.

13. I love penalties - it’s a thing that creates wild tension and intensity. In such situations, real emotions manifest themselves, especially in children. There was only one penalty shootout in the entire tournament. It took place in ¼ between the teams of Orenburg and Totem.

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15. The height of goalkeepers did not allow them to catch all the swords, so the key to success was good and accurate strikes. The final point was set by the goalkeepers themselves: one of them missed the target.

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17. The bitterness of defeat. In fact, there were no hysterics or insults. The guys accepted defeats with dignity even in the semi-finals. Growing up in orphanages seems to force you to hold back your emotions and be a little withdrawn. Therefore, such a project is very important. It gives a lot of fun to the children themselves, opens up opportunities for them and shows cool football for the spectators.

18. In the finals in the junior group, Orenburg from the city of Orsk and Navruz from Tajikistan, where my favorite played, met. In the photo he is to the left of the referee wearing the captain's armband.

19. Filming football turned out to be slightly dangerous. A couple of times the ball flew into my head while I was looking for angles through the telephoto, and once the ball almost hit me right in the face. A still from the “one second before” series. I miraculously managed to dodge.

20. Defender who saved his own goal from a powerful accurate free kick. The goalkeeper had no time to get to the opposite side, only the defender’s foot made the ball fly up with a loud bang.

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22. Celebrating the victory of the Galaxy team from the senior group. They were frankly higher in level of play than their opponents who were trying to win on individual skill. Galaxy played a pass, hitting the swords while playing the wall!

23. Before the awards ceremony, the guys touched their future cups.

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25. Ceremonial awarding ceremony from the Russian Football Union.

26. The guys were inundated with gifts that day. In addition to the main cups for first place in the tournament, the best goalkeeper, defender and scorer were awarded in the junior and senior groups.

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28. In the younger group, the champions were the “Orenburgzhye” team from the Orphanage of the city of Orsk, Orenburg region, and among the older children, the best game was shown by the “Galaktika” team, representing “Shatalovsky Orphanage» the city of Smolensk. The winners of the tournament in Sochi will go to London in the fall, where they will attend a match with Arsenal and play a friendly game with students from the Gunners academy. The winners will also be able to represent the country with honor during the first ever international stage of the project, which will be held in Moscow this fall!

29. In the evening there was a gala dinner, awards for teams and participants in nominations from the tournament partners. Everything was very solemn. Still, children from orphanages rarely attend such events. They were not spoiled by these feasts, so there was joy and fun on their faces, only some of the children showed sadness from the lost games. Towards the end of the tournament, a festive fireworks display took place. Apparently I was so imbued with the situation and the children during these days that the final salvos filled me with a warmth that I had never experienced at city holidays.

Thanks to Megafon for the opportunity to look at everything with my own eyes.

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Some interesting events tend to start in a rather banal way. On the morning of Friday, May 20, he wrote to me Amir Rashidov, PR manager of the Megafon company, with an offer to attend the final of the open all-Russian football competition among teams from orphanages and boarding schools, “The Future Depends on You.” I looked on the Internet what it is and found event group VKontakte and decided that I had to agree. I postponed one important meeting to another day, called Amir, received several information press releases and began to wait for Saturday, May 28. The week, filled with endless stress from the oncoming tax audit, flew by quickly and mind-blowingly, so I was looking forward to the weekend to finally have a full blast.

Frankly speaking, I am far from a person from sports and active recreation (everyone laughed together at this point), and therefore I didn’t really understand what I was getting myself into. But it was all the more wonderful in the process to understand how lucky I was to touch a rare event these days that contains only positive components. I don’t know who the person was who recommended me as a “popular Sochi blogger” (be silently jealous!), but thank him very much. I have never regretted that I went out of town instead of taking part in festive events in honor of the opening of the holiday season.

True, I had to get up early, which on the weekend is comparable to a feat. :) I got to the sea terminal, where I met Amir and another participant - a blogger Svetlana, and we were taken to the venue for the final competition. I was sure that such a project should arouse interest among Sochi activists, but, apparently, the carnival and other amusements drew all the attention to themselves. While we were driving, it turned out that we were being taken not to the Sputnik health and tourism center, but beyond Matsesta, to the Sputnik-Sport training center for national football teams. I was wondering where on Sputnik they managed to place a football stadium. I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t know about the other Satellite at all, and when we got there, I looked out in amazement at the green expanses that opened up to me.

This is so you can clearly see how much space the entire complex takes up. You know, you have to try really hard to find so much free, flat space in Sochi! But now I am calm about the preparation of domestic teams for the championships. :)

However, we didn’t go to the field right away; first we lingered in a small dressing room, where a security guard sits and various awards, photographs, certificates, licenses, certificates, etc. are displayed.

There are also photos from past finals. Perhaps one day one of my shots will appear on these walls? :)

Then we looked at the results of yesterday's qualifying matches - and finally went to reconnoiter the area.

The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals were to be held on this large field, divided into three parts. I thought that the grass, so bright green, was quite real, but it turned out that it was a particularly durable plastic covering. Until you look closely and touch it, you will never guess. What progress has there been...

We walked like this around the training center for about twenty minutes because we arrived too early. The first buses with children, coaches, judges, press and other interested parties appeared only at twenty minutes to ten. And we joyfully ran to meet them. :)

Cool, there are girls here too! As Pyotr Lidov (Megafon's director of public relations) later explained, it seems, there is gender equality in this project, and if a girl wants to play football, then let her play, she will be helped in the same way as boys. Another thing is that girls rarely choose this sport.

The kids, who clearly felt more confident here than we did, quickly began taking the seats with their things, changing into their uniforms and doing a warm-up.

And then everyone reached out to the fields - and we followed them.

It's a nightmare, how many of them are there! :) I thought there would be a dozen teams, but members of 21 teams entered in the final competitions arrived - both those who made it to the quarter-finals and those who did not make it, but were ready to cheer for their more successful opponents.

I then took pictures of the buses that brought them here. You can imagine the scale of the sporting disaster. :)

At first the people were in no particular hurry. Some continued to change clothes, some were warming up with all their might, and some took more comfortable seats.

The uniforms on the teams were all with Megafon logos, but did not fit everyone perfectly - there was a feeling that they were the same size, and therefore too big for some, and, on the contrary, small for others. :)

The coaches, meanwhile, have already begun to calculate tactics and strategy and conduct pre-final briefings. It is still difficult to discern which of them will lead their team to victory...

Doctors quietly leaked into Sputnik-Sport. Football is a dangerous sport, so their help will be greatly needed.

While we were looking around, competitors appeared on the field.

Therefore, cameras at the ready and let’s get to work. By the way, Sveta had a thing with her that I’ve been wanting to get since I found out about it. A camera-lens from Sony (no one seems to make them anymore), which can be used either separately or in conjunction with a smartphone. The thing is expensive, but simply excellent. synerj , I told you about her.

I didn’t have time to track the moment when the warm-ups smoothly flowed into the quarter-final competitions, because it was physically impossible to concentrate on several fields at once. I only came to my senses when the commentator began to wildly rejoice at the goals scored.

And here, in the end, I need to tell you in more detail about the event that I was lucky enough to attend. :)

Open all-Russian football competitions “The Future Depends on You” have been held for 11 years, since 2005. Children with difficult fates take part in them - pupils of orphanages, boarding schools and even children's correctional institutions.

The fact that these children, left without the care of loved ones, found the strength to take up sports and achieve considerable heights in it, while their more prosperous peers wasted time on all sorts of bullshit, personally fills me with awe. They play with such dedication that you involuntarily begin to envy them...

Once upon a time, the competition began with several orphanages in St. Petersburg, but to date more than 800 teams from 120 cities of Russia and neighboring countries have taken part in the tournament - that’s more than 25 thousand children.

In 2016, over 5 thousand young football players from Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Tajikistan and South Ossetia took part in the qualifying games of the competition (and last year a team from China came).

They are divided into two age groups: the youngest 12-13 years old and the older 14-15 years old, in order to avoid physical discrepancy. Thus, some players can come to Sochi for 3-4 years, and there will be not one, but two winners who take first place.

The prizes, I’ll say right away, are simply fabulous. The team that takes second place receives a year of paid lessons with a professional coach and all the necessary sports equipment. An excellent opportunity to train so that next year you can get first place. But for him they are already giving something incredible - the whole team goes to London to visit the Arsenal football club. Can you imagine such happiness? Me not. :) It's simply amazing! :)

And this is not a scam, the children really go to London. Yes, it is they, abandoned by their parents, who do not know and do not have much of what their peers simply have. It is not surprising that young football players

David Bowie's childhood

David attended preparatory school at Stockwell School until he was six years old. Teachers described the boy as talented and smart, but at the same time a bully and a brawler.

Since 1953, the Joneses have changed their place of residence - the family moves to Bromley, a suburban area of ​​London. There David enters primary school. At school, the boy studied well, participated in the school choir (quite mediocre, according to teachers), was a member of the school sports team in football and was fond of playing the flute.

From the age of nine, the future musician begins to attend a music and choreography club that appeared at school, where his teachers described his interpretive abilities as “brightly artistic, amazing, phenomenal.” Soon David heard the musical compositions of Elvis Presley for the first time - on records brought by his father. The American musician amazed the boy, and after that he begged his father to buy him a ukulele, and also made a bass himself to participate in skiffle sessions with friends. At school, David began to learn to play the piano.

His passion for music had a negative impact on his studies - David Jones was unable to pass the final exam, which forced him to continue his studies at Bromley Technical College in 1958.

College

David Bowie- Space Oddity Original Video (1969)

In college, David preferred to study printing and printing. Then the future musician discovers modern jazz, is interested in the works of John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. At the age of fifteen, an unpleasant incident occurs in David's life - because of a girl, a conflict arises between him and his best friend that time George Underwood. The conflict escalated into a fight, during which Underwood seriously injured Jones, hitting his left eye with a ring during a punch to the face.

David was forced to leave his studies for four months and go to the hospital, where doctors performed a series of operations to prevent blindness. Doctors were unable to completely restore his lost vision, and David was left with lost color perception in his injured eye for the rest of his life. David sees everything around him with his left eye in brown. Due to the mydriatic pupil after injury, the impression was created different color eye. Despite all the consequences of the fight, the friends did not quarrel and continued to communicate closely and subsequently collaborated on the creation of David's albums - George illustrated Jones's early albums.

By the time he graduated from college, the musician could play the saxophone, guitar, keyboards, electric guitar, harpsichord, harmonica, piano, mellotron, stylophone, ukulele, xylophone, koto, vibraphone, percussion instruments and percussion. Even though David is left-handed, he uses a regular, right-handed guitar.

David Bowie's string of failures

At the same time, Jones’s pseudonym, David Bowie, appeared, taken by the musician in order to avoid confusion with Davy Jones from the group “The Monkees”. The origin of the pseudonym is associated with a passion for the work of Mick Jagger. Having discovered that “jagger” translated from Old English as “knife,” David took the pseudonym Bowie (the name of a type of hunting knife invented by tracker Jim Bowie).

Leslie Conn started promoting young musician, initially unsuccessful commercially. By then, Bowie had left The King Bees. David's next group was Manish Boys, with which the musician released a single, which also did not receive recognition. Bowie changed bands again, joining Lower Third. The single recorded with them became equally unselling and Conn's contract with Bowie was terminated. The single released with the group “Buzz” was also unsuccessful. This was followed by debut album and the sixth single, traditionally not included in the charts.

After this, Bowie gave up recording for two years and began studying mime and circus art, meeting mime Lindsey Kemp. Lindsay introduced David to his first serious love, Hermione Farthingale, with whom Bowie collaborated in the creation of poetic minuets, and later Hermione and David played in the same group, but not for long. The couple lived together in an apartment in London for about a year, after which Bowie and Farthingale separated.

David Bowie's first success

Later, Bowie travels to New York, where he meets The Velvet Underground, whose unusual style inspired David to create the rock band Hype. In February 1972, Bowie gave his first big concert, performing under his new, but never established, pseudonym as Ziggy Stardust. The concert created a real sensation and became the impetus that brought Bowie fame. Inspired by the success of the performance, David went on a large-scale tour across the country, during which Bowie laid the foundations of his concert artistic style - creative unusual costumes, the legendary fire mullet.

Bowie later went on a tour of the United States, starting with a performance at the famous Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is now located. Bowie's albums, meanwhile, hit the top five and then the top three on the English charts.

Bowie's next album, Aladdin Sane, hit airplay in April 1973 and became a number one album in Britain. The musician's subsequent albums consistently entered the top ten in the English and American charts.

David Bowie's drug addiction

In 1976, Bowie, despite all the problems with his health and consciousness, went on the next tour, successful in commercial terms, but scandalous in political terms. During the tour, David Bowie made several shocking statements in support of fascism and Adolf Hitler, was detained by customs for transporting fascist paraphernalia, and in London, Bowie greeted the crowd with a gesture close to the Nazi salute.

Bowie subsequently apologized for his fascist remarks and other incidents, explaining that he was out of his mind after several unsuccessful uses of hard drugs. As a result, drug addiction is on a par with interest in German music led to a move to West Berlin, where David Bowie shared an apartment with his friend, Iggy Pop, who was also being treated for drug addiction. During his three years in Berlin, Bowie not only recorded three of his albums, but also produced Iggy, helping him with his first two solo albums and joining Iggy's band on their 1977 tour of Europe and the US as keyboardist and backing vocalist.

David Bowie - "Life On Mars?"

Three of his own albums, recorded in Berlin, were called the “Berlin Trilogy” and were among Bowie's best albums, not to mention consistently reaching the top 5 of the British and top 20 of the American charts. In support of the “trilogy,” in 1978, Bowie and a group of musicians went on a world tour, which included visits to Australia and New Zealand. Next year, the musician records the album “David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf”, which is based on Sergei Prokofiev’s work “Peter and the Wolf”.

David Bowie - megastar

All of Bowie's albums and singles in the eighties instantly topped the charts, transforming Bowie from superstar to megastar. Bowie also continued his theater and film career, actively toured the world and participated in charity concerts and events, instantly increasing fundraising by several dozen times. Among the most notable film roles of that time, it is worth noting the role of Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese’s film “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988).

In the early nineties, Bowie organized a permanent group, Tin Machine, with which he released two albums and went on several world tours, and also met his future second wife, Iman. They met at a party dedicated to the birthday of their common hairdresser. Soon, David and Iman began dating and eventually formalized their relationship in 1992.

Experiments of the nineties

One of the most interesting, conceptual and at the same time ambitious albums of these years can be called “1.Outside”, released in 1995, in which the influence of industrial is intertwined with other directions electronic music. The album was recorded together with Brian Eno, a recognized guru this direction. In 1996, David Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That same year, as part of his world tour, David visited Iceland, Japan and Russia for the first time.

Neoclassicism

At the beginning of 2004, the musician was discharged from the hospital. The previously planned and postponed tour was postponed indefinitely due to the star’s poor health. The musician returned to the stage only in 2005, performing at a concert with the group “Arcade Fire”. In 2006, Bowie was awarded a Grammy Award for his great contribution to the development of music.

In August 2011, the musician announced his retirement, but in January 2013, David released a new single, “Where Are We Now?” and announced plans to release a new album with the working title “The Next Day”, the lyrics for which, according to Bowie, he wrote under the impression of history modern Russia. The album was released on March 11, 2013 and took leading positions in the charts in forty countries around the world, and also became Bowie's fourth record to reach the top of the British charts.

Personal life of David Bowie

In 1992, David Bowie married model Iman Abdulmajid, and in 2000 they had a daughter, Alexandria Zahra.

Death of David Bowie

David Bowie's latest video - Lazarus

Illustration copyright EPA Image caption The number of pieces of art that people around the world have been inspired by Bowie's death is incalculable.

A 13-year-old poll puts David Bowie ahead of all other living musicians on the list of the 100 Greatest Britons. Now that the “chameleon” from the world of music has left us after a year and a half fight cancer, BBC correspondent Mikhail Poplavsky recalls the most amazing things from the artist’s life.

1) David Robert Jones was born on January 8, 1947 - exactly 12 years after the birth of the “King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley. During the period of his passion for astrology, the adult Jones (of course, Bowie) will more than once compare himself with him - according to Chinese esoteric teachings, both singers were born in the year of the Pig.

2) At the age of 12, young Dave learned to play the saxophone: during his career, this instrument came in handy more than once.

3) Subsequently, Jones will master instruments such as electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, keyboards, piano, harpsichord, harmonica, synthesizer and a number of drums.

4) Bowie “got” his multi-colored eyes in a fight with classmate George Underwood at the age of 15 - so his left eye became green due to a deformation of the retina, while his right remained blue. Contrary to popular urban legend, David never lost his sight, but his damaged eye had trouble seeing colors. It is noteworthy that Bowie and Underwood remained friends after the incident.

5) David Jones took on the nickname after a type of Bowie hunting knife when he was 19 years old.

6) Bowie was taught dancing in the late 1960s by Lindsay Kemp, a choreographer who would later choreograph Kate Bush's moves in the 1978 video that made her famous. Wuthering Heights("Wuthering Heights").

7) The musician's height as an adult was 1 meter 78 centimeters - exactly the same as his second wife Iman Abdulmajid.

Moon dust will cover you from Bowie's song Hallo Spaceboy

8) At the beginning of his career, David recorded a deliberately comedic song The Laughing Gnome("The Laughing Dwarf"), which had a surprising fate - it made no impression on the public in 1967, but six years later, when Bowie was already a superstar, it suddenly soared to sixth place in the British charts. This song played a truly cruel joke on the artist in 1990: then a lover of innovation arranged a telephone vote among fans for the songs that they would like to hear on his tour greatest hits Sound+Vision. Thanks to a flash mob launched by the music publication NME, "Gnome" was in first place. In violation of his promises, David did not sing it on that tour - which cannot be said about other top-voting hits.

9) Bowie's first wife Angie, who was married to the musician from 1970 to 1980, called him Nama - whatever that means.

10) Bowie and his first wife decided to name their first child Zoe Bowie - where the name would be a reference to the word "life" ("zoo"). The grown boy decided to reduce the share of eccentricities in his personal data and became known as Duncan Jones - already in mature age He will become famous as the director of the films "Moon 2112" and "Source Code". The father never appeared in his son's films.

11) After the huge success of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Bowie repeatedly made evasive comments about his sexuality: in the 1970s he regularly spoke about his bisexuality, but in 2002 he noted that some of his confessions at the time were intended to shock conservative public.

12) David has developed an interesting relationship with foreign languages ​​- so, barely waiting for a breakthrough in his homeland with the song 1969 Space Oddity, a young musician recorded its Italian version Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola, whose text had nothing to do with the drama of Major Tom's spacewalk. David subsequently recorded French and German versions of his hit Heroes - Heros And Helden respectively. The last one was in 2007 quail Rammstein vocalist Till Lindemann accompanied by Finnish cellists from Apocalyptica.

13) Bowie's fascination with the East was also reflected linguistically - his song Seven Years in Tibet received an unexpected doublet on Mandarin dialect Chinese language. There is also a recording of David in Indonesian.

14) Bowie's acting career was quite varied: he starred in more than 20 films. At the same time, his performance received very different ratings: for example, “Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo” received virtual tomatoes from a lot of critics - David later said that in this role he absorbed all “32 Elvis films” (Presley was indeed unsuccessful in acting in films) . Moreover, who played her own role in "Gigolo" last role Marlene Dietrich, out of principle, did not come to Germany, where filming was taking place, so the scene with her had to be filmed in Paris. On the other hand, Bowie's roles in the fantasy drama "The Man Who Fell to Earth", the vampire erotic horror "The Hunger" and war drama"Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" received high marks from the film community.

15) In the case of the 1986 film Labyrinth, where Bowie appeared before the public as the Goblin King, he himself recorded the soundtrack - one of his most critically reviled works.

16) In addition, David has often played the roles of historical and other famous characters: in “The Last Temptation of Christ” he played Pontius Pilate, in the film “Basquiat” he played Andy Warhol, and in “The Prestige” he played Nikola Tesla.

17) Not stopping at the film industry, Bowie also shone in the theater: in the early 1980s, he played in Bertolt Brecht's play "Baal". The theatrical production of Frederick Treves' book "The Elephant Man" was also not without his participation.

18) During his career, David has sold more than 140 million copies of albums - excluding singles.

19) These studio albums Bowie has 28 - if you include the soundtrack to the film "The Buddha of Suburbia" and two albums as part of the group Tin Machine.

20) The just-mentioned group Tin Machine had a short life: it existed from 1989 to 1992 and came under heavy criticism. Both of her albums were not understood by music experts, and the public did not accept Bowie as a “soloist of a rock ensemble”; In addition, fashion magazines did not fail to note how little attention - in contrast to David - the rest of the group paid to their appearance. However, after its collapse, guitarist Reeves Gabrels worked with Bowie up to and including the 1999 album "Hours...".

21) The character of Major Tom, who grew out of Space Oddity, was mentioned in two more songs by the multi-genre musician - his 1980 megahit Ashes to Ashes and the Pet Shop Boys' radically reworked 1996 single Hallo Spaceboy.

22) Perhaps the most amazing version of Space Oddity appeared three years ago: “Cosmic Obscurity” was performed by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the ISS.

23) Space and loneliness are themes that the musician carried throughout his career: from the hit mentioned above and the 1969 album of the same name to his latest release Blackstar, published three days before his death.

24) The musician gave his name to the first music financial bonds in the history of banking - Bowie Bonds. Immediately after issue in 1997, these financial securities had a yield of 7.9% per annum, which is 1.5% more than that of the US Treasury in the late 90s. By 2004, however, the Moody's rating agency downgraded their status from "very stable" to almost "junk." However, the launch of iTunes and online song sales was able to return investor interest in such bonds.

25) A Brooklyn American became Bowie's most loyal producer Italian origin Tony Visconti: He participated in the recording of both the breakthrough LP Space Oddity in 1969 and the last two opuses - The Next Day and Blackstar, not excluding the famous "Berlin trilogy" in the late 1970s.

26) Bowie's first US #1 hit Fame- appeared in 1975. The co-author of the song, in addition to David himself and guitarist Carlos Alomar, is also listed as former member Beatles John Lennon.

27) The musician recorded his first British No. 1 hit a couple of years earlier - it turned out to be a re-release of the same Space Oddity.

I'm already five years older, I'm already in the grave from Bowie's song The Hearts Filthy Lesson

28) By his own admission, during the “Berlin period” of 1977-78, the musician’s diet largely consisted of milk, cayenne pepper and cocaine. However, Bowie more than once happened to be disingenuous in conversations with journalists.

29) Bowie was in the territory of today's Russia three times: in the late 70s, he traveled along the Trans-Siberian Railway from Khabarovsk to Moscow, a year later he walked with Iggy Pop along Red Square, and in 1996, he finally made it to Moscow with a concert - however, the musician assessed his experience as a “disaster” and decided to refrain from repeated Russian tours.

30) On the same tour in support of the industrial rock album Outside, Bowie made an unexpected decision: to play all the songs at concerts together with the luminaries of the genre, the American “one-man band” - Nine Inch Nails, dividing the repertoire “for two”. Such a demarche caused confusion among the fans of both artists, but Trent Reznor - the only permanent member of Nine Inch Nails - remained on very good terms with David and subsequently played Bowie's mystical stalker in the video I"m Afraid of Americans.

33) In 1985, Bowie's half-brother Terry, who suffered from schizophrenia, committed suicide by jumping in front of a train. The musician experienced the death of his brother, as he greatly influenced his musical tastes. Eight years later, David dedicated to him a blue tones clip Jump They Say(“They say: “Jump”), where he played a hunted, paranoid businessman.

34) Single released in 1996 Telling Lies(“Telling Lies”) became the first high-profile Internet music release. To celebrate the song's release, Bowie held a question-and-answer session in the form of an online chat, in which he wrote only the truth, and his two assistants gave fans knowingly false answers ("were telling lies"). When fans taking part in an interactive session were asked to judge which of the three respondents was David himself, a real musician received the least number of votes.

35) In 1996, Bowie's name was included in the " American Hall rock and roll fame", and 10 years later he received a Grammy Award for his contribution to the arts.

36) On his 50th birthday, the musician gave himself a gift in the form of a dedication concert in New York's Madison Square Garden with a huge number of invited stars - from Lou Reed to the Smashing Pumpkins, from Foo Fighters to the Cure. Many of the artists then specially learned the parts of David’s latest album at that time - Earthling - on which the musician, who dyed his hair red, crossed drum and bass with hard industrial rock.

37) The 1999 album "Hours..." is notable for the fact that it was created simultaneously with the computer game Omikron, in which there were the characters of both David and Iman.

38) The right to write lyrics for one of the songs from the same “Clocks...” was awarded separately: the lucky winner was a certain Alex Grant, and the resulting track was called What's Really Happening?

39) In 2000, David refused his knighthood.

40) In the same year, his only daughter from Iman, Alexandria Zahra, was born.

41) Bowie's first single, Liza Jane, was released in 1964. David Jones was 17 years old at the time. Subsequently, the artist will release about 100 singles.

42) One of Bowie's most unexpected acting challenges came in 2007: he had to voice Neptune in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants.

43) In the 70s, the artist happened to experiment with language: for this, David tried the technique of the writer William Burroughs, which consisted of cutting and mixing pieces of paper with words; this is how the lyrics of the song were born Subterraneans.

44) Iman has a tattoo of... a Bowie knife!

"What tough news this morning. One of the immortals #AshestoAshes [Ashes to Ashes]" Stephen Fry, actor, writer and television presenter

45) Recently, the couple lived alternately in New York and London.

46) At the beginning of his career, David changed eight groups, then the aforementioned Tin Machine and the ephemeral group Tao Jones Index, formed in 1997, were added to them; Thus, Bowie was in 10 groups.

47) In addition to music and cinema, Bowie also actively tried himself as a painter and sculptor.

48) During his career, the musician recorded dozens of duets with various artists, including taking part in the last lifetime recording of the American singer Bing Crosby Peace On Earth/The Little Drummer Boy.

49) In the early 1970s, Bowie attended ballet performances to gain an understanding of the stage lighting used in ballet.

50) German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk mention Bowie's name in a song Trans Europa Express. However, the group rejected Bowie's request for a possible collaboration.

51) In 1977, David was the last invited guest on the personal television show of another glam rock star, Marc Bolan from the group T-Rex. Bolan died two weeks after recording the program.

52) In the feature-length prequel to David Lynch's Twin Peaks series, Fire Walk With Me, Bowie appears for a couple of minutes as a hologram of Agent Philip Jeffries.

53) In his entire career, David Bowie had the only album consisting entirely of reprises of other people's songs - 1973's Pin Ups. It reached number one in the UK chart.

54) Pin Ups featured supermodel Twiggy on the cover.

55) The soundtrack to the 2001 film Moulin Rouge featured a unique combination: artist Beck quail Bowie hit Diamond Dogs, while David himself performed a jazz standard Nature Boy.

56) Bowie said more than once that he hated being called “darling.”

57) Despite his long-term fascination with Eastern spiritual practices, towards the end of his life David described himself in interviews as either an agnostic or an atheist.

58) American minimalist composer Philip Glass has released orchestral arrangements of albums from Bowie's Berlin Trilogy.

59) In 1998, the film “Velvet Goldmine” was released, named after a song by a musician from the early 70s. Despite the obvious similarity between the film’s protagonist and young David, the artist himself assessed the film’s script extremely negatively and did not give the green light to the use of his songs in the film’s soundtrack.

60) In 2011, the artist's unreleased tracks surfaced on the Internet, which were supposed to be included in the Toy album - a 2001 project that never saw the light of day. Instead of refining those tracks, David chose to focus on recording the Heathen album.

61) At a concert in Oslo in 2004, Bowie was hit with a lollipop from a fan in his eye. The artist escaped with minor injuries.

62) When asked how he manages to maintain such excellent physical shape after 55 years, the musician noted with a smile that he never misses an opportunity to box. “Boxing is hard, but that’s the point,” David said.

63) Towards the end of the tour in support of the 2003 album Reality, the musician began to have health problems: chest pain, initially identified by doctors as a pinched nerve, turned out to be a blocked artery and required surgical intervention. The remainder of the tour had to be cancelled; Bowie never went on tour around the world again.

Something happened on the day he died, the spirit soared a meter into the air and retreated, someone else took his place, boldly shouting: “I am black Star! I'm a black star!" from Bowie's song ★ (Blackstar)

64) Long-term treatment and fatigue from show business led to the longest album break in the artist’s career: after 2003’s Reality, his next studio LP, The Next Day, was released only in 2013.

65) A number of people have appeared in the videos for singles from The Next Day famous actors Stars: Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard.

66) In 2013, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London hosted a unique biographical exhibition about Bowie - it featured more than 300 exhibits.

67) Bowie's latest disc - ★ (Blackstar) - was released on the artist's birthday.

68) For his birthday and the release of the album ★ - January 8 - the musician also released a video for his latest single - Lazarus(“Lazarus”), which contains the line: “Look up here, I"m in heaven"; at the end of the video, the singer closes the closet door from the inside.

69) On the page, launched a few days before Bowie's birthday by Vietnamese and Norwegian programmers, the user who entered his age into the search bar is told what the musician was doing at his age. When you enter a number above 69, the machine says: "He's an astronaut. Or an extraterrestrial being. Or something we can't comprehend."

David Bowie: short biography

Called a musical chameleon due to his ever-changing appearance and sound, future rock star David Bowie was born in London on 01/08/47. The real name of the British singer is David Robert Jones. He is with early age developed an interest in music and began playing the saxophone at age 13. David was significantly influenced by his half-brother Terry, who was nine years older and introduced him to the worlds of rock music and beat literature. But Terry was not well. He suffered from mental illness, due to which his family was forced to place him in a mental hospital. This haunted David all his life. Terry committed suicide in 1985. The tragedy formed the basis of Bowie's song Jump They Say.

After graduating from Bromley Technical School at the age of 16, David began working as an artist. He continued to play with a number of bands and formed his own called Davy Jones and the Lower Third. Several singles were released then, but none of them gave the young artist the much-needed commercial boost.

Carier start

Out of fear that he would be confused with Davy Jones from the Monkeys, the aspiring artist changed his last name - he was inspired by a knife named after the American folk hero 19th century Jim Bowie.

Eventually, David began performing alone. But after an unsuccessful solo album, he temporarily left the music world. As often happened in his later life, these years turned out to be experimental for the young artist. For several weeks in 1967, he lived in a Buddhist monastery in Scotland. Bowie later formed his own mime troupe called the Feathers.

Pop star

By early 1969, Bowie had returned to music. He signed a contract with the record company Mercury Records and in the summer the single “Space Oddity” was released. Bowie later admitted that the song came to him after watching Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: Space Odyssey" The composition quickly resonated with the public, in large part due to the fact that the BBC used it during its coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The track was also a success upon its release in the US in 1972, peaking at number 15 on the charts.

Bowie's next album, The Man Who Sold the World (1970), brought him even closer to fame. The recording featured a heavier rock sound than previous compositions and included the song "Everybody's Crazy", dedicated to his brother Terry. The next effort, “Hunky Dory” (1971), included two hits: the title track, which was dedicated to Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground, and “Changes,” which became the embodiment of David himself.

Ziggy Stardust

As Bowie's celebrity status grew, so did Bowie's desire to keep fans and critics constantly guessing. In an interview with Melody Maker magazine in January 1972, he claimed to be gay and then introduced the imaginary rock star Ziggy Stardust and his backing band, the Spiders from Mars, into the pop world. His 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars, made him a superstar. Dressed in a suit from some wild future, the British singer ushered in a new era in rock music that seemed to officially announce the end of the 1960s and the era of Woodstock.

Was David Bowie gay? The singer's biography is full of contradictory facts. In September 1976, in an interview with Playboy magazine, he announced that he was bisexual. According to his first wife, Bowie had an affair with Mick Jagger. However, in a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he said that he had always been heterosexual.

More change

David Bowie, whose biography is marked by frequent changes of images, also quickly changed the image of Stardust. The singer took advantage of his popularity and produced collections and Lou Reed. In 1973, he broke up Spiders from Mars and shelved Ziggy. David Bowie musical works in the style of glam rock, collected in the collection Alladin Sane (1973). The release included the songs "Genie Jean" and "Let's Spend the Night Together", which were the result of his collaborations with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Around the same time, he expressed his passion for English fashion and released Pin Ups, an album of cover versions of songs by popular bands, including Pink Floyd and Pretty Things.

Conquest of America

By the mid-1970s, Bowie had undergone a full-scale reinvention. Gone are the outrageous costumes and flashy sets. In just two years, he released the albums Diamond Dogs (1974) and Young Americans (1975). The former went to number one in the UK with the hits Rebel Rebel and Diamond Dogs, and number five in the US. A promotional tour of North America ran from June to December 1974. The high-budget production featured theatrical special effects, but was marred by David Bowie's mental illness. The documentary Cracked Actor, directed by Alan Entob, captured the pale and emaciated singer suffering from a severe drug addiction. Young Americans featured a young Luther Vandross on backing vocals, and the song "Glory", written with Carlos Alomar and John Lennon, became Bowie's first American single to hit number one on the charts.

After moving to Los Angeles, David Bowie recorded the song Station to Station, which made the plastic soul of the Young Americans collection more avant-garde, and the track became a hit. Bowie soon decided that the city was too boring for him and returned to England. After arriving in London, he greeted crowds of fans with a Nazi-like wave of his hand, a manifestation of the drug-addicted singer's growing detachment from reality. The incident caused a huge scandal, and Bowie left the country to live in Berlin, where he lived and worked with Brian Eno.

In Berlin, David came to his senses and began to draw and study art. He became interested in German electronic music, and Eno helped record their first joint album Low. Released in 1977, the release was a stunning blend of electronic music, pop and avant-garde. Although the collection received mixed reviews, it proved to be one of the most influential albums of the late '70s, as did its follow-up, Heroes, released the same year. In 1977, Bowie not only recorded two collections of solo compositions, but also produced recordings of Iggy Pop's tracks "Idiot" and "Lust for Life" and toured anonymously as his keyboardist. That same year, David resumed his acting career by starring in the film Just Gigolo with and Kim Novak. He returned to the stage in 1978, starting an international tour, the recording of which was released as a double album, Stage.

In 1980, David Bowie, whose biography was again connected with New York, released the collection Scary Monsters. The release received positive reviews and included the single "Ashes to Ashes", a kind of new version of the earlier composition "Space Oddity". The release was accompanied by a number of innovative videos (Fashion, DJ, Ashes to Ashes), which became the basis of early MTV.

Three years later, Bowie recorded Let's Dance (1983), which featured hits such as "Modern Love" and "Chinese Girl" and featured Stevie Ray Vaughn's guitar virtuoso.

Works in cinema

Of course, music is not the only thing David Bowie was interested in. The singer's biography is marked by his participation in many feature films. His love for cinema helped him get the lead role in the 1976 film “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” In 1980, Bowie performed on Broadway in The Elephant Man, and his performance was critically acclaimed. In 1986, he starred as Jareth in the fantasy adventure film Labyrinth, directed and produced by George Lucas. The actor performed with a young Jennifer Connelly and the dolls in the film, which became a classic of the 1980s. Just a Gigolo (1978), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Hunger (1983), Linguini Incident (1991) - pictures in which David Bowie played the main role. The films in which he played cameo roles are The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Zoolander (2001). In addition, he participated in several television series, as well as documentaries about his career.

In decline in popularity

Over the next decade, David Bowie tried to combine films and music, which negatively affected his popularity. Music career the artist began to decline. His side project with musicians Reeve Gabrels and Tony and Hunt Sales, known as Tin Machine, produced two self-titled albums in 1989 and 1991, which were failures. The much-hyped 1993 compilation Black Tie White Noise, which David Bowie called a wedding gift for his new wife, supermodel Iman Abdulmajid, also struggled to gain the attention of music lovers.

Ironically, David's most popular creation from this period was bonds backed by royalties from his pre-1990 work. Bowie issued the securities in 1997 and earned $55 million from the sale. The rights to the songs were returned to him when the bonds expired in 2007.

Last years

In 2004, Bowie suffered a heart attack while performing on stage in Germany. He made a full recovery and returned to work with the band Arcade Fire and American actress Scarlett Johansson on her album Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008) - a collection of cover versions of Tom Waits compositions.

David Bowie was awarded a Grammy Award in 2006. He remained silent for several years until the release of his 2013 album, which rocketed to number two on the Billboard charts the very next day. The following year, Bowie released a collection best songs“Nothing Has Changed,” which featured the new song “Sue.” In 2015, he participated in the production of the rock musical Lazarus with Michael Hall in leading role, which refreshed the image of his character from the film “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”

Bowie released his last album, Blackstar, on 01/08/16, when he turned 69 years old. The New York Times critic noted that it was "a strange, irreverent and ultimately rewarding work, with a mood created by a poignant awareness of mortality." Only a few days later the world learned that the album was recorded under difficult conditions.

Death and posthumous awards

The pop icon died on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday. A post on his Facebook page stated that the singer died quietly surrounded by his family after a year and a half of battle with cancer. David Bowie's wife Iman, his son, daughter Alexandria and adopted daughter Zulekha Haywood were left without a husband and father. The musician's legacy consists of 26 released albums. His producer and friend Tony Visconti wrote on Facebook that Blackstar was a "parting gift."

David Bowie's death shocked his friends and fans. Iggy Pop tweeted that his friendship was the light of his life. He had never met such a brilliant person. The Rolling Stones remembered him as a "wonderful and kind man" who was "truly original." And even those who did not know him personally felt the influence of his work. Kanye West tweeted: "David Bowie was one of my most important inspirations." According to Madonna, this great artist changed her life.

In February 2017, Bowie's latest work won the Grammy categories for Best Production Design, Best Engineering, Best Rock Performance, and Best Album. alternative rock" and "Best Rock Composition".

David Bowie: biography. Family

In the late 1960s, the British singer met American top model Angela Barnett. Their wedding took place on March 19, 1970, and on May 30, 1971, the couple had a son. They divorced in 1980. Bowie's son is now known by his real name, Duncan Jones.

On April 24, 1992, in Lausanne, David married the Somali-American model Iman. The wedding took place on June 6 in Florence. In August 2000, the couple had a daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones. The couple lived in New York and London, and owned apartments in Sydney.

On July 10, 2016, exactly 6 months after the death of David Bowie, his grandson was born, whose father was Duncan.