Happy Birthday, David Bowie! The ultra-flamboyant king of glam rock turns 65 today, if you can believe it. Though he’s known for his avant-garde attitude, ever-changing persona and incredible style no matter what his incarnation of choice (can you think of anyone else who looks as good in a sharp suit as he does in glitter face paint? We can’t either), he’s also just a normal guy. Sure, we have to try really hard to think about Bowie without conjuring images of the boy from Mars crawling around on the stage, but believe it or not, he is actually a person who has to do his laundry and stuff. So to celebrate Bowie’s 65th birthday and show that we love him no matter what he’s doing, click through to check out our gallery of Bowie doing ordinary things — riding the subway, making coffee, checking his email. You’ll see that even the great David Bowie is mortal, just like us. Except, wait, way better. Sigh.
He rides the subway. [via]
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Happy birthday, David.
that’s a great pictorial!
Actually writing lyrics at a Cafe on Hampstead Heath 1966
Happy B-day to my favorite performer!!!
Scary trousers. Super flares.
Happy Brithday David Bowie!You changed my life!Thank you for great pictioral!
I thank you for a sudden rose to a little girl in Helsinki.
He is the best !!!!
Happy b-day David Jones.
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He pretends to be a beatle
Oh baby!Bowie is adorable.
Original Mod…Happy Birthday DB…X
Guys D. Bowie isn’t actually looking at this.
well you never know that GuySimile! Happy Birthday David, I luv u! <3
I have a man-crush on you!
And another Happy Birthday to Mr. Bowie. I’m so glad he’s still doing his weird and delightful thing!
Happy Birthday — lookin good…
That’s a Pram, not a stroller!
Beautiful chamelion; as ageless as ever. I bow
Happy belated birthday to a highly talented gentleman whose music is mind-blowingly enchanting. Elvis may have been the King, but David Bowie is the Emperor of the musical universe
Meow!
Not that he looks it but I thought he was already older that 65 and… he may CHOOSE to but i really doubt that he HAS do his laundry and dishes
gets hotter as he ages. damn.
this is so funny! i love it! and i love david
This is an amazing picture. I thought/think David has a fear of flying. I read in an interview he takes a ship between London and the USA.
Don’t get me wrong, always been a Bowie fan, but here I think Flavorpill is just reaching.
The writer said ‘whomever’ instead of ‘whoever’! I’m sparkly-happy now.
Top Bowie pop culture references from a few birthday’s ago: http://alisonsboomstick.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-dont-know-where-im-going-from-here.html
Cool! Now I wish I could see Prince doing normal stuff:]
Always loved Bowie and these photos sealed the deal. I’m still smiling from reading this post ;)
As a Bowie nut, I’ve seen most of these..but always worth seeing again.
And a cute way to commemorate his 65th. Happy Birthday to the Dame. x
Yeah, but he is riding in first class when he eats airline food so he gets actual food, not a bag of pretzels.
Still a very god looking man!!
Is that Tom Cruise in the second photo bowling with him?
David Bowie was my first musical crush, and he is still the coolest…love him :)
Ha ha ha.
My favorite flavorpill list ever.
I love his grin on the plane when he’s about to tuck into his airline meal.
Love this site. We love him whatever he’s doing. I love the way us Bowie fans can adore him without ending up being ridiculous nutters who think he walks on water or something. I have been suffering from Bowie loss in my life since 2004, when he went to ground. Checking in on Fan web sites has really brought back an important part of me to me.
I will always love him…..
David, happy birthday and please give us more of your voice on recording…it can be ambient, mumbling, la la la, talking…whatever…just sing us something more…well, or not…anyway, music is Outside and on Mars he he…happy…
What a brilliant set of pics. I’ve not seen more than half of these. Thank you very much.
He looks like he could use the calories.
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