(來(lái)源:滬江英語(yǔ))
CHILDHOOD
童年
1.David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.He shares the same birthday as Elvis。
大衛(wèi)·鮑威原名大衛(wèi)·羅伯特·瓊斯,于1947年1月8日出生于英國(guó)倫敦。他和埃爾維斯(貓王)同天生日。
2.Rock guitarist Peter Frampton was Bowie‘s friend at school - his dad was head of the art department。 He’s gone on to play guitar with Bowie many times during his career
搖滾吉他手皮特·弗蘭普森是鮑威校友兼好友——他的父親是藝術(shù)系領(lǐng)導(dǎo)。他在職業(yè)生涯中,為鮑威彈過(guò)多次吉他。
PRE-FAME
成名前
3.Around 1967, he wrote songs for actor Paul Nicholas。
1967年左右,他為演員保羅·尼古拉斯寫(xiě)過(guò)幾首歌曲。
4.1967 also saw the release of a single, The Laughing Gnome, which many fans argue is the worst song he has ever recorded。
鮑威1967年還發(fā)行了單曲《The Laughing Gnome》,許多粉絲都認(rèn)為這是他錄過(guò)最難聽(tīng)的歌曲。
STARMAN
成名
5.Bowie‘s first hit in the UK - 1969’s Space Oddity - was used by the BBC in the moon landing。
鮑威在英國(guó)的第一首熱單是1969年發(fā)行的《Space Oddity》——之后這首歌在月球登陸時(shí)被BBC使用。
6.He was voted fourth in the BBC‘s Culture Show public vote in 2006 to discover Britain’s greatest living icons。 Above him were Sir Paul McCartney (3), Morrissey (2) and Sir David Attenborough at number one。
為尋找英國(guó)最偉大的在世標(biāo)志性人物,2006年BBC進(jìn)行了文化演出公眾人物評(píng)選,大衛(wèi)·鮑威排名第四。前三名分別為保羅·麥卡特尼爵士(第三),莫里西(第二)和戴維·阿滕伯勒爵士(第一)。
THE PERFORMER
表演家
7.Bowie was hit in the eye by a lollipop while on stage in Oslo, Norway in 2004。
2004年在挪威奧斯陸表演時(shí),鮑威被棒棒糖擊中眼睛。
8.Director Nicolas Roeg cast Bowie in his first leading role, as a stranded alien in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth。 In one scene, shot in a record store, a poster for Bowie‘s Young Americans album can clearly be seen hanging from the ceiling。
導(dǎo)演尼古拉斯·羅伊格讓鮑威在自己于1976年拍攝的電影《天降財(cái)神》中擔(dān)任電影主角。鮑威在影片中扮演一位滯留地球的外星人。電影中有個(gè)鏡頭,鮑威的《青年美國(guó)人》專(zhuān)輯海報(bào)就掛在天花板上。
PERSONAL liFE
私生活
9.Bowie married Somalian supermodel Iman in 1992。 They have a daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones, born in 2000。 Iman has a Bowie knife tattooed on her ankle in tribute to her husband。
鮑威在1992年和索馬利亞超模艾曼結(jié)婚,并在2000年生下女兒亞歷山大·薩拉·瓊斯。為表對(duì)丈夫的敬意,艾曼在腳踝上刻有鮑威刀的紋身。
THE MUSICIAN
音樂(lè)家
10.He was in 10 bands - The Konrads, The Hooker Brothers, The King Bees, The Manish Boys, The Lower Third, The Buzz, The Riot Squad, The Hype, Tin Machine and Tao Jones Index。 (Some of these performed under other names)。 He plays just about every instrument on Diamond Dogs - including the famous guitar riff on Rebel Rebel。
他曾經(jīng)在10只樂(lè)隊(duì)中工作過(guò)——包括康拉茲樂(lè)隊(duì)、虎克兄弟樂(lè)隊(duì)、王蜂樂(lè)隊(duì)、壞男孩樂(lè)隊(duì)、地三樂(lè)隊(duì)、蜂鳴樂(lè)隊(duì)、混亂軍團(tuán)樂(lè)隊(duì)、之聲樂(lè)隊(duì)、鍍錫機(jī)樂(lè)隊(duì)和陶·瓊斯樂(lè)隊(duì)。(其中一些樂(lè)隊(duì)以其他名稱(chēng)演出。)在《鉆石狗》中,他幾乎彈遍了各種樂(lè)器——包括《叛逆將軍》中著名的即興吉他。
MISCELLANEOUS
全面發(fā)展
11.His image appears on every single one of his album covers - except the UK release of The Buddha Of Suburbia and his final album, Blackstar。
每張單曲封面上都有他的照片,除了他在英國(guó)發(fā)行的《The Buddha Of Suburbia》以及他最后一張專(zhuān)輯《Blackstar》。
12.Bowie drew, painted, sculpted and wrote in his spare time。
[cn]業(yè)余時(shí)間,鮑威還會(huì)繪圖、作畫(huà)、雕塑和寫(xiě)作。
13.His favourite artists were Tintoretto, John Bellany, Erich Heckel, Picasso and Michael Ray Charles。
他最喜歡的藝術(shù)家有丁托列托、約翰·貝蘭尼、埃里奇·赫克爾、畢加索和米迦勒·雷·查爾斯。
14.In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 39th on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time, and 23rd on their list of the best singers of all time。
2004年,在滾石評(píng)選出的史上最偉大100名藝術(shù)家中,鮑威排名第39;而在滾石選出的最偉大歌手中,他排名23。