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DAVID BOWIE BIOGRAPHY |
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David Bowie stars in LABYRINTH as the powerful and
compellingruler of a magical world. He performs the five
original songs hewrote for the film.
From the very beginning, director Jim Henson envisioned Bowieas
the lead of this major new fantasy film production. "Way back
whenwe first started working on the story, we came up with this
idea of aGoblin King, Henson explains. And then we thought; 'Wouldn't
it bewonderful to have music and someone who can sing?' David
was ourfirst choice from the very beginning. And he liked the
idea. So thewhole thing was really written with him in mind."
Bowie stars as Jareth, the handsome and charismatic ruler
whokidnaps Sarah's baby brother, challenges her to solve the
labyrinth,and then tries to entice her into remaining with him
in his magicalkingdom.
What attracted Bowie to the role? Jim gave me the script,which I
found very amusing, he says. "It's by Terry Jones, of
MontyPython, and it has that kind of slightly inane insanity
runningthrough it. When I read the script and saw that Jim
wanted to putmusic to it, it just felt as though it could be a
really nice, funnything to do."
Bowie's songs for LABYRINTH range from a hauntingly
beautifullove song, As The World Falls Down, to a lively dance
number,Magic Dance, which he performs on camera with his rowdy
goblinsubjects. He also sings the powerful and moving LABYRINTH
theme song, Underground, and is seen performing a song in one of
the film'sfinal and climactic scenes, Within You. A fifth song
Chilly Down,sets the mood for a wildly exuberant dance number by
some of thefilm's fantastic creatures, the Fireys.
As one of pop music's biggest and most influential stars,Bowie
has been responsible for setting trends and standards that
haveinfluenced musical stars and audiences around the world.
Since his first major hit single, Space Oddity, in 1969, andhis
album The Man Who Sold The World, the following year,
Bowie'smany successful albums have included Hunky Dory, The Rise
and Fallof Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (which also
launchedthe hit single Starman) Aladdin Sane, Station to Station,"Heroes,
Let's Dance and Tonight."
Bowie made his motion picture debut in 1975 as the star
ofNicholas Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth and his films since
thenhave included Just A Gigolo, The Hunger, Merry Christmas
Mr.Lawrence, Into The Night (a brief guest role), and
AbsoluteBeginners. In 1980, he starred in the title role of The
ElephantMan on the Broadway stage and, during 1983, undertook
his successfulSerious Moonlight Tour, covering Europe, the
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