In 1987 he refused an offer to play Frank Sinatra in a movie.

La La La Human Steps (an artistic dance group) appeared with Bowie twice in 1988. They included Bowie's song Look Back In Anger in these performances.

In 1989 Bowie formed Tin Machine with guitarist Reeves Gabrels and Hunt and Tony Sales. That was a big surprise because Bowie announced many times in the past he would never form a band because 'One man cannot break up'.

His 1990 greatest hits tour (Sound & Vision) was a great success. Before the tour actually started Bowie announced: 'This will be the last time ever for the old material'. Bowie only played a few songs from his old repertoire in the 1995 tour. Songs that he had never performed in a concert before (Teenage Wildlife, The Man Who Sold The World are examples).

Before his 1990 tour he opened a fans' phone line. It was used to vote for what songs the fans wanted to hear on his tour. The profits of the organization went to charity. In 1992 Tin Machine's second album, Tin Machine II, was released. A more melodic album than their first one. Critics were diverged in their opinions. Five producers refused to produce Tin Machine II.

The cover shows four naked male statues. This enraged many American organizations, that demanded to ban the record. The statues' genitals were then airbrushed (on the U.S. cover).

At the same time, a live Tin Machine album was released (Oh Vey, Baby)

In 1993 Bowie married Somalian supermodel Iman, in Switzerland. Bowie gave her a 3.5 million dollars worth castle in Ireland as a wedding gift. David's got a step-daughter through his marriage to Iman (from her previous marriage). Bowie currently owns houses in Ireland, Africa, Switzerland, London, New-York, Los-Angeles and the Mastic Islands in the Carribeans.

In 1993 Bowie resumed his solo career with album Black Tie, White Noise (produced by Nile Rodgers), which has a jazzy atmosphere to it. It includes songs written for his wedding with Iman (The Wedding, The Wedding Song), and a song dedicated to his half brother who killed himself (Jump They Say).

One of the artists participating in the album is called Lester Bowie (who isn't a relative of Bowie). In one interview Bowie made a humourous remark about the 'reunion' of the 'Bowie brothers' for the first time. Mick Ronson and Mike Garson participated in the making of the album.

Bowie wrote the score for The Buddha Of Suburbia, a TV series based on Hanif Kureishi's autobiographic book by the same name, published by Faber and Faber. Since Bowie and Kureishi are friends from the seventies it is very probable that one of the main characters (the rock star wannabe) is based on David Bowie.

Rumour: Iman is now carrying Bowie's 2nd child.

In 1995 Bowie held a painting exhibition in Kate Chertavian Gallery, a retrospective of his last twenty years of painting. The exhibition included painting, sculpture and various installations, including a number of recent works made in collaboration with South African artists. Bowie also presented a new line of wallpaper manufactured by Laura Ashley. One of the details in the wallpaper is a minotaur whose genitals were censored by the Laura Ashley company.

In 1995, Bowie was sued by the American photographer Dona Ann McAdams. Bowie did a computer-generated print of performance artist Ron Athey, that appeared in the January 1995 of Q Magazine. The print was based on a photograph by McAdams that accompanied a review of Athey's performance appearing in The New York Times, 1994. McAdams was granted exclusive photographic access to the performance. Bowie used the print base on the McAdams' photograph in connection with his fiction/non-fiction story. McAdams did not participate in or approve of Bowie's print. They've reached an agreement on May, 1995. Under the settlement Bowie publicly acknowledged McAdams' photograph as the source on which the computer-generated print was based.

1995. Bowie releases his concept album Outside, co-written and produced by old friend-collaborator Brian Eno. Most critics LOVE this album.

Bowie invited Brain Eno to his wedding with Iman, in 1992. They talked, and discovered they're working on similar projects. That's how the album started.

Many musicians who've worked with him in the past are participating: Mike Garson, the pianist (Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs), Carlos Alomar, the guitarist (Station To Station through Scary Monsters), Reeves Gabrels, the guitarist (Tin Machine), Sterling Campbell, the drummer (Black Tie White Noise) - now works with Soul Asylum, and Erdal Kizilcay, multi-instrumentalist (Never Let Me Down, Glass Spider Tour, Buddha Of Suburbia). (Side note: Yossi Fine, the bass player, is Israeli).

Bowie: '...it was important to choose those who were not weighed down with musical cliche, who had terrific control over their abilities yet were a bit loony'.

The music is influenced by modern styles and combines elements from his own previous albums: funk, rock, disco, ambient, techno, jungle and jazz.

Bowie also used the computer equivalent of William Burroughs' cut-up technique, when writing the lyrics.

The album is based on a short story written by Bowie himself, titled The Diary of Nathan Adler. It lasts from 1977 to the last day of the 20th century. The subtitle on the cover is The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle. Inside the slick digi-pak, the subtitle reads The Diary Of Nathan Adler Or The Art-Ritual Murder Of Baby Grace Blue. A Non-Linear Gothic Drama Hyper-Cycle. Q-magazine had wanted Bowie to write what he was doing the last few days but instead he wrote the story.

The story is about Nathan Adler's investigation of the Art-murder of the 14-year old Baby Grace Blue. Part of the story is based on the S&M performance artist Ron Athey with AIDS who pierces and ritually mutilates himself and others onstage, then hangs the bloody pieces of cloth above the heads of the audience. He is still performing that show in Manhattan. Most of the references from the parts in the story set in '94 and before are true. He also refers to his current partner-in-art-crime Damien Hirst's work as well.

This is a multi-viewpoint plot. In the album itself, each song is sung by one of the seven characters (performed by Bowie). In the booklet that comes with the album you can see pictures of the characters. They're all Bowie pictures altered with computes. Each picture has the name of the character written on it.

Bowie: 'Outside is about what it is to be an outsider, not only where and how outsiders live, but how the fact of being an outsider makes them feel. As befits the multiphrenic nature of outsider art and emotions'. The first major session was on the 12th of March 1994. Brian set up his various gizmos, rhythm machines, toy pianos, clocks, samplers, radio etc. and gave each musician a flash card. On it he had written a brief character description. "You're the latest remaining survivor of a catastrophic event and you will endeavor to play in such a way as to prevent feelings of loneliness developing within yourself"; Or "You are a disgruntled ex-member of a South-African rock band. Play the notes they won't allow". I've made these up but you get the idea. Our musicians were then enjoined to play within the parameters of those roles as was humanly possible. My card informed me that I was a soothsayer and town-crier, bringing stories and news to a society where information networks had broken down. We started playing around twelve noon and didn't stop for three hours, new ideas and new rhythms being thrown in every few minutes by Brian or another of the band. I had a table in front of me covered with regular lyrics and randomized pieces from which I would improve either in song or in dialogue both as narrator and character. Out of this first day came the bedrock of what was to be Adler's diaries. Nathan Adler, Ramona A Stone and Algeria came almost fully formed from these sessions, the other characters developing over the next few days. To me it was a revelation that I could slip back into musical character after not working in that framework since 1976's Thin White Duke, let alone fragment into six or seven personae. The strange location, New Oxford Town, also hinted strongly at the disorganized psychic rubble that was Diamond Dogs'.

In the early eighties there was a TV show Fame. In the very end of one episode someone performed a cover of Fame. At the very next episode co-stared Milton Berle as a famous director, called Nathan Adler.

Outside was chosen to be the 7th best album of 1995, according to a readers survey in mid October, by Rolling Stone.

Bowie appeared two times on AOL. The first, prior to the release of Outside (with someone claiming he's Harry Maslin, the producer of Station To Station). The second, after the release of Outside. He also appeared once on Prodigy. Furthermore, he said that he and his band often check out the alt.fan.david-bowie newsgroup.

Mountain View (Silicon Graphics) hosted David Bowie, who seemed very interested in their computers.

Bowie's web page was created with the help of a Silicon Graphics employee. Bowie, in a Bowie/Eno interview in Musician magazine said: 'We stretched it to 75 [minutes]. But it was edited down, you're not going to believe this, from something like 22 hours of material. Not finished, necessarily. But something like 22 hours that we accomplished during the three weeks that Brian and I and the musicians worked. It was, I think, one of the most incredible experiences of my life in the studio'.

Outside was released in many versions: Jewel case with see-through tray; plastic jewel; cardboard case (with different artwork); Japanese version (with extra track Get Real).

On the June 1995 issue of Vogue, There's a fashion spread of Bowie and Iman together.

A young man (don't know his name) went around asking superstars to pose with a wooden sign that says 'LOVE' in red letters. He has made a book of these pictures called Love. The book includes a picture of Bowie and Iman.

Nine Inch Nails appeared with Bowie as 'very special guests' on the Outside American tour. Bowie played his new material, a few numbers from his earlier work, plus some songs by Nine Inch Nails. Other band members included guitarist Reeves Gabrels, guitarist Carlos Aloma and pianist Mike Garson.

Different signs have been hung above the stage in each show of the Outside tour. They included: Free Vulva, Strange Hand Music: Listen to the Limbs!, Street Vulcan, Ouvre Le Chein, Open The Dog.

David Bowie has invited a host of top celebrities to a warehouse in a seedy area of hollywood to celebrate the end of his North American tour, including: Bon Jovi, Keanu Reeves, Seal, Rod Stewart and Brad Pitt.

Adam Curry's Sleaze on the WWW reports that at least 1,000 fans 'stormed' out of Wembley after Bowie refused to play any of his classic hits in his Outside tour. One spectator was quoted as saying she got tired of waiting for changes and so on and was never so bored at a Bowie show.

Morrissey appears with Bowie on the Outside European tour.