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5 years without David Bowie, all the actors who played him on screen

Five years ago, David Bowie left us. Long live the White Duke. Nipped by a liver tumor, the artist-legend he died two days after the release of his 25th studio album, Blackstar, which coincided with his 69th birthday. Married since 1992 with the Somali supermodel Faith, Bowie had two sons, Duncan Zowie Haywood (from the first marriage with Angela Barnett) e Alexandria Zahra. Born January 8, 1947 in Brixton, south London suburb, David Robert Jones became David Bowie at the age of 19 in what was probably the first great “alter ego” of the many incarnated during his fifty-year career.

King of reinvention, David Bowie is the visionary who has been able to influence art in all its forms. Starting with music, thanks to his new style of composing and approaching instruments (he could play fourteen of them). 150 million albums sold and immortal songs like Life on Mars? Space Oddity, Starman e Heroes. Pioneer of fashion (genderless but not only) and online music (with the internet provider Bowienet), the artist has also had success as an actor working with directors such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Christopher Nolan.

Today, the legacy of “greatest entertainer of the twentieth centuryIs more vivid than ever.

On the occasion of the five years since his death, Rai5 will broadcast the unreleased film at 22.15 London Boy. The docufilm produced by Rai that will tell the first part of the life of David Bowie, in the wake of the BBC documentary The First Five Years and the expected biopic Stardust of Gabriel Range. Previewed at the latest Rome Film Fest, Stardust stars the 37-year-old Johnny Flynn as Bowie, during the glorious 1972 American tour in which he created the mythological alter ego Ziggy Stardust. We celebrate David Bowie with the 10 actors (and others) who played him. Gives Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the cult Velvet Goldmine until Noah bean in the series Vinyl.

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