The concert will be the first rock gig at the Covent Garden venue, which is home to the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet.
During the last decade Bowie became one of the first rock artists to embrace the internet, setting up Bowienet, in part as a showcase for emerging visual artists.
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He was the first rock star to tap the inner rebel in America's (and much of the world's) teenagers, an image that still resonates with the young crowd today.
The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, century-old American Academy of Arts and Letters, where artists range from Philip Roth to Jasper Johns and categories include music, literature and visual arts.
The first Afghan rock band, played in public last fall for the first time, and since then, have become a force in the Kabul youth scene.
When he walked out after recording "I Love You Because, " "Blue Moon of Kentucky", and "That's all Right, " he was days from becoming the first true rock star.
The Teds were the first British rock'n'roll fans.
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Using the services of a company called Work4 Labs, Hard Rock first created a unique Facebook page for the restaurant.
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First, the rock creases up into long slabs of concertinaed cliff before opening out into a huge granite-grey gorge, which takes any sound and echoes it into a feedback loop: shouts fade and return seconds later in irregular jumps.
And at 13, he recorded his first album with his rock band, Radish.
This image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover's drill.
My first day at Little Rock, I was met by the colonel who was in charge of the National Guard there.
It's one of the most ancient tools in our arsenal--our ancestors chipped the first ones out of rock more than two million years ago.
Aqua, like America's Backstreet Boys and Denmark's Michael Learns to Rock, first hit it big in Asia where there is less competition and where a little touring goes a long way.
Elvis was one of the 20th century's biggest cultural forces--the first white, mainstream rock star whose slick hair and shaking hips unleashed the pent-up dance fever and sexual energy of 1950s teenagers.
The musician, who is the first member of the rock band to receive the pavement plaque, will be honoured at a ceremony in front of the Hard Rock Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard on 10 July.
When I commissioned a reconstruction of the first version of "Rock Drill, " for a 1974 exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery surveying the radical achievements of Vorticism and its allies, the result impressed many of the show's visitors.
They star ex-models, ex-sports stars, would-be Marilyns, future Presidents (and First Ladies), dead rock stars, and has-beens of all types.
First is a core of rock, then clay and lastly soil, topped with grass seed that will withstand being walked on.
The youth culture of the 1960s may have promoted sexual license, but glam rock was the first mainstream pop movement to trade on androgyny and sexual ambiguity.
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Over the weekend, Spirit drilled its first artificial hole in a rock - the football-sized Adirondack - and took readings from it using the science instruments on its robotic arm.
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Rock was the first West Coast venture capitalist.
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It was Mr Brown who, at the start of his decade-long tenure as chancellor, insisted on stripping the Bank of England of its role in supervising banks, a reform that failed its first real test with Northern Rock.
It was relaxing, and very much in line with the prog-rock feel of the first Mass Effect.
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The Sohn conference is a little surreal for a first-time attendee, a rock concert for amped-up guys in tight-fitting suits.
Halle Tecco founded Rock Health, the first incubator for digital health start-ups right out of Harvard biz school.
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The former glam rock star is the first person to be arrested in connection with the Metropolitan Police's Savile abuse investigation.
His first big concert was the Australian rock band INXS in 1991.
One of the reasons why so much first- and second-generation rock 'n' roll has aged so badly is that most of it was created by young people for consumption by even younger people.
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