David Bowie was a singer from Earth.
Bowie's song "Starman" was played by one of Rose Tyler's neighbours on the Powell Estate. (TV: Aliens of London)
"Starman" was also played just after Eugene Jones had explained how he acquired the Dogon sixth eye. (TV: Random Shoes)
In 1974, the Eighth Doctor mentioned Bowie as one of the great musicians of the period to Lucie Miller. (AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock)
Bowie and his song "Life on Mars" were presumably the influence for the name of Mars station Bowie Base One. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
Evelyn Smythe spoke of her experience in a space suit as "like that David Bowie song." (AUDIO: 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, The Spiders From Mars, 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 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.
- The character John Jones was heavily inspired by Bowie.