An “Adequate” Voice and “Imaginative” Dancing
David Robert Jones was born on January 8, 1947 in London. He went to Stockwell Infants’ School until he was six, and it was there that he gained a reputation as both a gifted child and a “defiant brawler.” When Bowie attended Burnt Ash Junior School and sang in the school choir, his voice was considered merely “adequate.”. Still, he demonstrated above-average abilities when he played the recorder.
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When he was nine, his dancing in music and movement classes was considered “imaginative,” with his teachers calling his interpretations “vividly artistic.” His poise? “Astonishing” for a child. It was around this time that his interest in music began; his father brought home a collection of American 45s of artists such as Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard. When he listened to Little Richard’s Tutti Frutti, Bowie later said that he “heard God.”