MUSIC, MISFORRTUNE, and TWEETS

The Man Who Sold the World, the late David Bowie’s third album, was released on November 4, 1970 in the United States, and by the following June had sold only 1,395 copies. After a reissue in 1972 sparked by the success of his 5th album, it struggled to stay on the U.S. charts for 23 weeks, topping out at 105, after which it sank into the background of his career, at least for a while. The range of Bowie’s talents, of course, was extraordinary, as he was able to sing, write music and lyrics, play a dozen or so instruments, and act. His acting was not just limited to his film or stage roles either. As a character in the public eye, he also portrayed various versions of himself, from Ziggy Stardust to The Thin White Dude, to the Blind Prophet, who was the last character to appear in his videos before he died on January 10, 2016.

Though various times and various sources for them are listed for Bowie in , information from family sources (parents, and first wife) given in biographies are consistent in saying that he was born at home on January 8, 1947, at 9:00 a.m. GMT in the Brixton area of Lambeth, Surrey, England. His Sun is tightly conjunct Mars at 17 Capricorn, and loosely square Neptune in Libra at 10 degrees. This energetic triple play marks