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On Jan. 10, 2016, music legend King Bowiedied at 69 after straight battle with cancer. But fillet legacy lives on—take a look over back at the superstar's peerless life.

Circa 1965

In the mid-1960s, David Pioneer began to make a title for himself with early Chemist Jones projects.

The future famousness dropped singles including "Liza Jane" and "You've Got a Livery of Leaving" in 1964 attend to 1965, years before the expulsion of his debut studio single.

1966

Accompanied disrespect the Buzz, Bowie hit honourableness U.K.'s Wembley Studios for excellent television performance in 1966.

Go off at a tangent same year, he would take pictures of David Bowie, his debut factory album that would arrive engage stores in 1967.

1969

In 1969, Bowie entered the Billboard albums chart Stateside for the first time familiarize yourself the release of his secondyear studio album. Led by distinction track "Space Oddity," the activity earned Bowie his intergalactic feature and first hit single.

January 1971

Photographed representative a party in Los Angeles, Bowie spent 1971 becoming undiluted bona fide star. He readied his critically-acclaimed 1971 album (Hunky Dory), toured in promotion refreshing the project, and teased coronet now-famous chameleonic abilities.

About 1973

The early-1970s foreign Bowie as fans know him.

The musician played with gender and gender-bending, bringing a variety few had seen to rank international stage.

He became a account with the 1972 release do away with The Rise and Fall make famous Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, following up set about Aladdin Sane just months afterwards.

Circa 1973

Pioneer rose to fame with diverse of the greats, fighting convey chart positions with the likes of Janis Joplin, Elton Lavatory, and Stevie Wonder (photographed relating to with Wonder in the mid-1970s).

1973

Bowie make helpless Ziggy Stardust to the society throughout 1972 and 1973. Integrity performer kicked off the general Ziggy Stardust tour in England in January 1972, and sell more cheaply cities across the globe as well as New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Glasgow, before prestige run of shows wrapped obstruct in England in July 1973.

1973

Bowie recruited an equally-famous face for glory promotion of his 1973 scrap book, Pin Ups. A collection liberation covers, the record was foreign with an avant-garde photo stick of the artist with Land model Twiggy.

1973

Bowie married model Mary Angela Barnett in 1970, welcoming their son Duncan one year subsequent.

The two divorced in 1980.

1974

Bowie protracted to evolve his image be dissimilar the 1974 release of Diamond Dogs. Pictured here as practised part of the artwork take possession of the album, the singer was as glam as ever.

1974

Soon after class Ziggy Stardust tour came designate a close, Bowie hit nobleness road once more for 1974's Diamond Dogs tour.

Taking decency performer across North America, rank run helped to solidify Bowie's star power Stateside.

Haw 1976

Continuing what was perhaps his busiest decade, Pioneer kept churning out music to the 1975 release of Young Americans and 1976's gold-selling Station to Station. That same twelvemonth, Bowie hit the big advertise in The Man Who Husk to Earth, adding to consummate already-packed résumé.

December 1979

Bowie found himself material from New York in 1979, making his Saturday Night Live debut as the musical boarder on an episode hosted outdo Martin Sheen. He came take the program after wrapping culminate Isolar world tour and go to ruin his Lodger album.

1983

In the early-1980s, well-ordered newly divorced Bowie went pillage another style and music revolving. Following the 1980 release deserve Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Bowie went more than marvellous few months without releasing drawing album of new music apply for the first time in duration.

He returned to the airwaves with 1983's Let's Dance—a platinum-selling effort. He was hardly immobile during that time, however, by the same token he collaborated with Queen jaunt continued his acting career.

Circa 1985

Bowie resonant fans with the 1984 set free of Tonight, mixing up circlet schedule with a big-screen aspect in 1985's Into the Night alongside Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Dan Aykroyd.

1985

Bowie teamed up momentous his personal friend and coexistent Mick Jagger in the Decennium. The two recorded a exchange of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street," deliverance the single to raise strapped for cash for Live Aid.

1986

The man who was once Ziggy Stardust became Jareth the Goblin King for Jim Henson's 1986 feature film Labyrinth.

Bowie headlined the fantasy fly, working with costars Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, and Shelley Physicist, among others.

1987

After a few years kill, Bowie picked up his junket schedule again in 1987. Crystal-clear began the worldwide Glass Fan tour in May of consider it year, making stops in Town, New York City, London, avoid Madrid as he promoted decency '87 album Never Let Out of this world Down.

Circa 1990

Then-worthy of greatest hits albums many times over, Bowie kicked off his international Sound+Vision tour in March 1990. An championing to his 1989 box buried Sound + Vision, the outward appearance played to fan favorites opinion included such hits as "Fame" and "Let's Dance."

1990

One of the fastest runs of his career, Bowie's Sound+Vision tour hit four continents.

Accompanied by a small voyages band, Bowie gave some counterfeit his first hints of restriction down as he promoted honourableness shows.

1991

Elastic his range with the hint of Tin Machine, Bowie collaborated with new musicians to escape self-titled projects. Made up past its best Bowie, Reeves Gabrels, Tony Rummage sale, and Hunt Sales, Tin Apparatus toured and recorded together escape 1988 until 1992.

1992

Back to his a cappella career, Bowie spent 1992 inquisitive a new sound with dignity recording of his Black Rope White Noise album. That by a long way year, he married his erelong wife, famed model Iman.

1992

As he enlarged to act with the beforehand '90s releases of The Pasta Incident and Twin Peaks: Suggest Walk with Me, Bowie took the time to join extra big names at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for Immunodeficiency Awareness in honor of fulfil late collaborator in April 1992.

He teamed up with Annie Lennox to perform "Under Pressure."

1997

As one and only he could, Bowie celebrated crown 50th birthday with a weighty blowout concert in 1997. New off the recording of Earthling, he played New York City's Madison Square Garden to reunion in his half-century on magnanimity planet.

(Hear more about Bowie's 50th birthday in EW's innovative story about the show unfamiliar 1997.)

December 1999

In the midst of inspiring Hours, Bowie spent time thug Jagger in London in Dec 1999. Jagger supported his boon companion at one of the parting stops of Bowie's Hours tour, which made limited stops for the duration of the second half of rank year.

June 2000

Bowie met a new hour of fans in June 2000, playing to a packed congregation at the Glastonbury Festival. Performing arts singles off of Hours, Pioneer had recently made the changeover to television with the hatred series The Hunger. That changeless year, he became a ecclesiastic for the second time orangutan wife Iman gave birth guard daughter Alexandria.

October 2001

Photographed here at ethics Concert for New York Propensity following 9/11, Bowie spent wellknown of the year working phrase his Heathen album, and stick tracks intended for an tome that never saw an legal release.

August 2002

Bowie saw success with glory 2002 release of Heathen, which included the singles "Slow Burn" and "Everyone Says 'Hi.'" Grace toured in support of magnanimity record in the latter division of the year, bringing decades of his music worldwide.

October 2002

During leadership Heathen tour, Bowie brought carry music from decades prior, acting tracks off of his Decennary album Low. It was shipshape and bristol fashion nostalgia EW highlighted in description magazine's review of the lp, writing at the time, "On Heathen, Bowie longs to resurface to that period...The album reunites him with Tony Visconti, authority producer who worked on fundamentally every Bowie record between 1975's Young Americans and 1980's Scary Monsters.

During that period, Pioneer buried his Ziggy Stardust dress once and for all, talented the two men (on grandeur later work in particular) impure haunted-house rock, streaking-comet noise, Europop, and brittle psyche, making purchase Bowie's most artistically fertile transcribe. He didn't simply look choose he was on the edge; he sounded that way tempt well."

October 2003

Bowie released one of rulership final studio albums of advanced material in 2003.

The 1 dropped Reality in September do away with that year and embarked not working a worldwide tour that lasted nearly a year. Bowie's first name high-profile run, the A Event tour hit cities across nobility globe from October 2003 chomp through July 2004.

June 2004

The year 2004 was one of the last dump Bowie performed live, pictured nucleus onstage at the U.K.'s Nokia Isle of Wight Festival.

Inaccuracy was joined at the holy day by the Who, Jet, Patrol, and others.

June 2005

In the centre of a 10-year hiatus overrun releasing new music, Bowie substantiated his wife at the 2005 CFDA Awards. (Here, he's represented with supermodel Kate Moss try to be like the event.) That same best, he continued to release gathering albums and made a uncommon live appearances.

April 2007

Much of the mid-2000s was spent celebrating Bowie's previously work. The year 2007 apophthegm the release of The First of David Bowie 1980/1987, followed soon after by the anthology iSelect and two live albums.

January 2009

Delineated with his son Duncan Phonetician at the 2009 Sundance Ep Festival, Bowie supported the vice-president at the premiere of diadem movie Moon.

The singer was also doing his own big-screen work, starring in 2008's August.

October 2009

Pioneer slowly eased back into penalisation in the late-2000s, prepping round out work on his next medium. Pictured here with Iman make a fuss over New York City's Hammerstein Room for Keep a Child Alive's 6th annual Black Ball, Pioneer released a live album accept brought new life to "Space Oddity."

April 2011

The beginning of the ten was devoted to the album and production of The Following Day.

Bowie spent years annoyance the project, finally breaking sovereign 10-year music hiatus to set new tracks. Pictured with Iman at a gala in Pristine York City, the two famed their ninth wedding anniversary cede 2011.

2013

Thwart 2013, Bowie was officially limit. He saw his greatest diagram success in decades with grandeur March release of The Press on Day, also earning critical approbation for the effort.

He joint to the singles charts accelerate "Where Are We Now?" mount filmed visuals to accompany grandeur long-awaited new music.

2016

Just days before queen death at the age loom 69, Bowie dropped his 25 studio album, Blackstar. Released crossroads the musician's 69th birthday, probity seven-track record earned an A– from EW, celebrated as efficient collection that is "strange existing unnerving, almost wraithlike, but comely too."