David Bowie

David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name of David Bowie, was a singer/songwriter from Earth.

Bowie's song "Starman" was played by one of Rose Tyler's neighbours on the Powell Estate. (DW: Aliens of London)

"Starman" was also played just after Eugene Jones had explained how he acquired the Dogon Sixth Eye. (TW: Random Shoes)

In 1974, the Eighth Doctor mentioned Bowie as one of the great musicians of the period to Lucie Miller. (BFA: Horror of Glam Rock)

Bowie and his song "Life on Mars" were presumably the influence for the name of Mars station Bowie Base One. (DW: The Waters of Mars)

Evelyn Smythe spoke of her experience in a space suit as "like that David Bowie song". (BFA: The Feast of Axos)

Behind the scenes

 * In 1983, Bowie was offered the role of Sharaz Jek but the dates clashed with his Serious Moonlight tour.
 * In 1973, Bowie and his band mingled with the cast of Planet of the Daleks at BBC Television Centre, leading a passer-by to ask if they were playing aliens in the show.
 * The Doctor Who Confidential episode Is There Life on Mars? is titled in reference to Bowie's song "Life on Mars."
 * The novel PDA: Loving the Alien shares the title of a Bowie song.
 * The comic strip The Woman Who Sold the World is a reference to the Bowie song The Man Who Sold the World.