David Zowie

DJ and producer David Zowie, a native of Kent, England, was indeed named after David Bowie. His performing surname is among the several Bowie-referencing middle names he was given -- Zowie also being the middle name of Bowie's son Duncan. (Curiously enough, his real surname, Batt, is the same as that of David Sylvian, whose early work was heavily inspired by Bowie.) Zowie's own music career, however, was not the least bit patterned after the Thin White Duke. He started making music electronically as a young teenager, bounced between dance music, reggae, and R&B, and he was als...