David Bowie

David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, and actor. A highly influential artist and performer, Bowie's career spanned over five decades, and his work, especially from the 1970s, left a significant impact on popular music. Bowie sold over 100 million albums, and 10 of his 25 albums reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, the most recent being , released only two days before his death from liver cancer in 2016.
The filmmakers of Disney's Moana have gone on record to say that Tamatoa was based on David Bowie's characters and stage personas, and the song "Shiny" is a tribute and homage to Bowie's songs. Additionally the Guardians of the Galaxy's spaceship, "The Bowie", was named after him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. His song "" was also used in Disney/Pixar's Lightyear.
He died two days after his 69th birthday.
==Selected filmography==
===As an actor===
Year	Title 	Role	Medium 	Studio
1996	 	 	Feature film	Miramax Films (a then-Disney subsidiary)
2006	The Prestige	 	Feature film	Touchstone PicturesWarner Bros. Pictures
===As a performer/songwriter===
Year	Title 	Song 	Medium 	Studio 	Originally appears on 	Notes
1990	Pretty Woman 	"" (Gass Mix) 	Feature film	Touchstone PicturesSilver Screen Partners	(1975) 	Co-written with and
1997	Grosse Pointe Blank 	"" 	Feature film	Hollywood Pictures 	(1982) 	Collaboration with Queen
1997	Starship Troopers 	"I Have Not Been to Oxford Town"	Feature film	Touchstone Pictures 	(1995) 	
2004	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen 	"" 	Feature film	Walt Disney Pictures 	(1971) 	Performed in film by Lindsay Lohan
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 	"""" 	Feature film	Touchstone Pictures 	Hunky Dory (1971) 	Brazilian singer also recorded fourteen Bowie covers in for the film's soundtrack
2014	Guardians of the Galaxy 	"Moonage Daydream" 	Feature film	Marvel Studios 	(1972) 	
2014	Fantasia: Music Evolved 	"" 	Video game 	HarmonixDisney Interactive 	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)	The game includes the original, orchestral, and Ashtar Command Parallel mixes
2022	Lightyear 	"" 	Feature film	Pixar 	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)	The song is featured in the trailer
2023	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	"" 	Feature film	Lucasfilm 	 	
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