The legendary David Bowie got his first of many number one hits with Fame, on September 20, 1975.
It had taken the high school dropout eight years — after the release of his first album The World of David Bowie in 1967 — to get to the top, despite the phenomenal success of his influential The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in 1972. By the time the eighties rolled up, Bowie was a certified pop star the world over, and had begun dabbling in acting as well.
What many aren't aware of is his success as an entrepreneur though. One of the first major artists to take an interest in the Internet, he launched the first artist newsgroup online and was the first to release an Internet-only single titled Telling Lies, in 1997.
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