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David Bowie 65th birthday: 65 iconic images of the ever-changing star

By Paula Louise Neale on | From princesspaulasworld.com

David Bowie (Pic: Getty Images)

A very happy birthday to the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. Yes, the man behind all those guides and more, David Bowie, who is 65 years old tomorrow.
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Over the course of 40-odd years, no-one has been able to match his ability to flit between the worlds of music, acting and art. And he's changed his looks more often than most of us change our dull cotton socks.

So what better way to celebrate his milestone birthday than a look through some of the most outrageous, influential or just downright iconic photos of him from our archives?

1964: A young and fresh-faced David Bowie

1965: David Bowie when he was known as Davy Jones outside the BBC television centre with his band The Mannish Boys where they are to perform 'I Pity The Fool' on the BBC show Gadzooks! It's All Happening.

1966: Bowie relaxing with his guitar. Four years before at the age of 15 he formed his first band, The Konrads

1969: He was thrust into the public eye after the release of Space Oddity

1970: Bowie relaxes with his guitar on an early trip to LA

1970: Bowie rocking the punk look years before everyone else

1972: Bowie re-emerged in '72 as Ziggy Stardust with the hit single 'Starman'

1972: Bowie at home Beckenham

1972: His short lived persona was only one facet of his career marked by reinvention. 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' album released in '72 was iconic of that image

1973: David Bowie leaning out of a railway carriage of the Paris boat train at Victoria station.

1970s photo of David Bowie in high-kicking action

1970: David Bowie with singer Dana Gillespie

1971: Pop star David Bowie with wife Angie and three week old son Zowie. He is modelling an Oxford Bags dress, Turkish cotton shirt and a felt hat.

1971: David Bowie outside Haddon Hall, a Victorian Gothic mansion in Beckenham, Kent.

1970s: David Bowie and Lulu

1970s: David Bowie gets his nails done

1973: Make-up artist Pierre La Roche prepares David Bowie for a performance as Aladdin Sane

1970s: On stage in underwear as outerwear

1973: Performing in the guise of Ziggy Stardust

1974: On stage

1974: David Bowie's 1974 live album, David Live

1974: David Bowie (wearing an eyepatch) at a press conference in Amsterdam

1975: David Bowie on set of the film The Man who Fell to Earth

1975: At the Grammy's with Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono and John Lennon

1975: His first major American success came with the single Fame. The sound marked a radical shift in his style.

1975: Watching Rod Stewart and the Faces on tour in America

1975: Leaving Cherokee Recording studios with arranger Paul Buckmaster while recording Man Who Fell To Earth in Los Angeles, California.

1975: Ice cool in shades

1975: Young Americans film

1975: Brian Eno who worked closly with Bowie during the mid to late 70s - producing the 'Berlin Trilogy' albums which all reached the UK top five

1976: Appearing in the film Man Who Fell to Earth

1977: Bing Crosby and David Bowie performing Little Drummer Boy

1978: Director David Hemmings shows David Bowie how to Tango when things went slightly wrong during the shooting of his latest film I am a Gigolo being filmed in West Berlin.

1978: Bowie at Heathrow Airport before embarking on a tour of America and Canada in March

1978: British pop singer David Bowie in concert at Earl's Court, London during his 1978 world tour.

1980: Actor and singer David Bowie seen in the role of John Merrick in "The Elephant Man", on stage at the Booth Theatre, Beoadway New York. 18th

1980: The single Ashes to Ashes sat at the top of the chart in 1980 along with the album Scary Monsters (and Super creeps)

1981: Bowie teamed up with Queen for the hit Under Pressure

1985: Mick Jagger and David Bowie photo for 'Dancing in the Street'

1985: David Bowie performing at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium

1987: David Bowie performs on stage during the Glass Spider tour.

1987: David Bowie performs in concert circa 1987 in New York City.

1987: David Bowie signs an autograph

1989: Tin Machine at Manhattan Center Studios in New York City

1992: Annie Lennox and David Bowie perform "Under Pressure" The Concert for Life - The Freddie Mercury Tribute

1992: Actor Michael Caine and David Bowie attend the book party for Michael Caine "What's It All About" on November 15, 1992 at Elaine's Restaurant in New York City.