1967年，David出版了第一张正式专辑《David Bowie》，这是一张民谣风格的专辑，发表之后没有产生任何影响。David受到很大打击。此后整整两年，他没有参与任何音乐制作，甚至看上去准备放弃音乐，随后他很突兀地一头扎到了僧侣院，刻苦钻研佛经。紧接着David跟着Lindsay Kemp学习哑剧表演，夸张的造型服装与肢体动作深深影响了他，这是David个人风格的第一步。这段时期他参与演出了两部艺术短片，并在一部电影中扮演小角色。 与此同时，David迷上了地下丝绒乐队（The Velvet Underground）与傀儡乐队（The Stooges）的音乐，特别是地下丝绒乐队，David后来的很多歌曲都能听出他们的影子。不过，对于David本身来说，那一年更重要的，应该还是遇到了Angela，她后来成为他的第一任妻子。Angela是个活泼的美国女孩，他们在1970年结了婚，并在1971年有了一个儿子。 by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Rebound's David Bowie is essentially a straight-up reissue of the endlessly reissued David Bowie (Love You Till Tuesday) album. There are no bonus tracks, since Mercury had just issued the extensive 27-track The Deram Anthology in 1997, which contained all of Bowie's recordings for the label. This is just the album itself, containing such cult classics as "Uncle Arthur," "Rubber Band," "Sell Me a Coat," "Love You Till Tuesday," "Come and Buy My Toys," "Join the Gang" and "Please Mr. Gravedigger." Curious fans looking for a taste of these Anthony Newley-esque music hall shenanigans may be tempted by the budget price on this disc, but any fan truly interested in this material should spring for the full Deram Anthology, since it not only contains his best song of this era ("London Boys"), it also contains the notorious "Laughing Gnome," plus such unsung vaudevillian novelties as "The Gospel According to Tony Day" and an early take of "Space Oddity." If you're gonna dip your toe in water this cold, you'd be better off diving headfirst into the deep end.