Legendary Artist David Bowie Dies at 69

[tishaLA]

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Source: Hollywood Reporter

David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief," read a statement posted on the artist's official social media accounts.

The influential singer-songwriter and producer dabbled in glam rock, art rock, soul, hard rock, dance pop, punk and electronica during his eclectic 40-plus-year career.

Bowie’s artistic breakthrough came with 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, an album that fostered the notion of rock star as space alien. Fusing British mod with Japanese kabuki styles and rock with theater, Bowie created the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

Three years later, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the No. 1 single “Fame” off the Top 10 album Young Americans, then followed with the 1976 avant-garde art-rock LP Station to Station, which made it to No. 3 on the charts and featured Top 10 hit “Golden Years.”

Other memorable songs included 1983’s “Let’s Dance” — his only other No. 1 U.S. hit — “Space Oddity,” “Heroes,” “Changes,” “Under Pressure,” “China Girl,” “Modern Love,” “Rebel, Rebel,” “All the Young Dudes,” “Panic in Detroit,” “Fashion,” “Life on Mars” “Suffragette City” and a 1977 Christmas medley with Bing Crosby.

Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-bowie-dead-legendary-artist-854364

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RIP. Mr Bowie

Is there life on Mars?

And, while we remember his many contributions to music--obviously the most significant contributions he made to world cultures--I'd also like to remember what a fine, sensitive actor he was. A real renaissance man.

[CBGLuthier]

1. Hollywood Reporter too

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-bowie-dead-legendary-artist-854364


Fuck. What else can you say but fuck.

[roguevalley]

23. wow. this was startling. even my mom loved david bowie

[crim son]

2. Fuck.

Just read this on FB and came here to verify. Goddamn.

[Beaverhausen]

3. Looks like it's not a hoax.

Damn.

[awoke_in_2003]

96. Jimmy Page acknowledged it on FB

it is a sucky day.

[Half-Century Man]

4. Damn it

I guess Major Tom has started on his journey.

[Art_from_Ark]

56. I'm listening to "Space Oddity" right now

Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing he can do...

[joshcryer]

81. I've listened a dozen or two times now.

My favorite song of his.

[TommyCelt]

92. Check ignition...

...and may God's love be with you.

[840high]

5. ...

[joshcryer]

6. OMG no.

[JI7]

7. i didn't know he had cancer, i really hope this is fake

[tishaLA]

9. his representation has confirmed it unfortunately

a visionary voice is gone

[JI7]

10. too sad

i don't think i have been as shocked by a celeb loss for a while now. probably because i didn't know he was ill and thought he was just fine.

[tishaLA]

11. I'm ashamed to say I saw his wife on HSN selling clothing just a week and a half ago

and she never let on. Like you, I had no idea either.

[JI7]

21. i think even he was doing things through the last year

i wonder if it took a bad turn just in the last few days . just saw it reported on local news.

[Rhythm]

52. Yeah... "Blackstar" just came out, and it is BRILLIANT.

[YOHABLO]

140. Do you think Iman would announce her husband has cancer on HSN?

[Recursion]

32. There was a good "last concert" article in I think Rolling Stone a bit ago

When the cancer's aggression started to get obvious.

I'll see if I can find it; unfortunately it's all too real.

[countryjake]

46. Is this the article?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-david-bowie-sings-changes-at-his-final-public-performance-20140826

[Recursion]

49. Yes, that was it.

Thanks!

[Warren DeMontague]

41. It's for real.

[shenmue]

8. No no no no no no no no no no

Dang!! This better not be true!

[Starry Messenger]

12. Fuck.

[milestogo]

13. Remember him Dancing in the Streets with Mick

[tishaLA]

17. my first memory of him, I'm ashamed to say, is when I was a kid

and Cat People came out--Putting Out Fire with Gasoline. And then I saw him with Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

127. Thanks for that. Hadn't seen or heard it before. nt

[zappaman]

14. Awful news.

The new album is outstanding.
A musical genius.

[mimi85]

36. Absolutely...

David going through yet another of his many Changes. I'll really miss him.

[awoke_in_2003]

97. I haven't bought a CD in over a decade

I know what I am buying to break that streak

[Nye Bevan]

15. There's a Starman Waiting in the Sky.....

RIP

[trillion]

26. Thanks for posting it. So appropriate!

I listened to the whole ziggy star dust album so many times as a teen this son and Life on mars got me though the worst times in highschool.

[uppityperson]

16. Oh, no. RIP

[romanic]

18. I'm shocked!

I didn't even know he had cancer. The music world just suffered a great loss. RIP Bowie.

[NBachers]

19. Holy Shit- I get smacked again with a frying pan. His last two albums were excellent.

Man, this came out of nowhere. shitshitshti

[OnyxCollie]

22. RIP, David Bowie.

[countryjake]

24. It's breaking news on CNN right now!

I was so hoping that this was the same hoax that came out last week.

[2naSalit]

25. OH Nooooooooooooo!

He supposedly just made a new album. So bummed!!

[leftynyc]

88. Newest dropped last Friday

on his 69th birthday. It was his 25th album.

[2naSalit]

109. Thanks. I'll be acquiring that one too.

[Jamastiene]

27. RIP

[Ron Obvious]

28. I just can't take it in...

I didn't even know he was ill.

Damn, just damn. Space Oddity was the first record I ever bought out of my pocket money.

RIP David.

[gvstn]

63. His death makes me very sad as well.

I have to say I am impressed that you can remember the very first album you bought. I have so many that I can barely remember the decade they were produced.

David was a great artist and I wish I could thank him for all the times listening to his music made me feel better or worse.

[7962]

91. I'm a bit younger; my first was "Boston". But loved Bowie too,

mainly because my brother, who was 5 yrs older, had his albums

[Hassin Bin Sober]

29. Wow.

RIP

[totodeinhere]

30. This is devastating news. This news makes me feel like I have just been kicked in the gut.

RIP Major Tom.

[Recursion]

31. Damn (nt)

[Out of Time Man]

33. Goodnight, Ziggy Stardust.

During my highs or lows, his music always seemed to fit. I've been listening to his work all of my life, and it never got stale.

He was always one step ahead of the curve. He'll be missed deeply by many.

[gvstn]

65. Exactly right. Always one step ahead of the curve. Fearless! Thank you.

[freeplessinseattle]

34. I'm shocked, whoa, I really thought I might even

get to see him in concert again

[Fearless]

35. .

[Miles Archer]

37. Lemmy, then Bowie within days...it's too damned much

It's waiting for us all but damn. Just damn.

[Hissyspit]

38. "And the shame was on the other side..."

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be Heroes, just for one day

And you, you can be mean
And I, I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that

Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time,
just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d'you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing,
nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes,
just for one day

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be Heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns shot above our heads
(over our heads)
And we kissed,
as though nothing could fall
(nothing could fall)
And the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes,
just for one day

We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes

We're nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying,
then you better not stay
But we could be safer,
just for one day

Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh,
just for one day

[Blue_In_AK]

135. That's one of my favorite songs,

not just favorite Bowie but favorite over all. I just feel so sad today.

[Bad Dog]

39. A real loss

A great musician, and a modest man. He honestly didn't think he was talented enough to be a jazz musician which is why he went into rock.

I saw him at the Milton Keynes Bowl, brilliant showman.

[Little Tich]

40. I'm sad. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

42. The man was a giant. A titan. Not adjectives used lightly.

That sucks.

What a huge loss.

[Marksman_91]

43. So long to a legend. RIP, Ziggy. The man who fell to Earth has now left it.

[senz]

44. I can't believe he won't be here any more.

So many things about him, he meant so much. I'm going to miss him so badly. Thank you, David. Thank you for sharing this earth while I was here. You made everything more bearable. I love you. May your passage be as rich and beautiful as you were and are.

[longship]

45. The Man Who Fell to Earth.

A great flick.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Here's the trailer:

[Spitfire of ATJ]

47. The Bush Years were so bad we blacked them out creating a lost decade....

I have to keep reminding myself movies from the 90s were +/- 20 years ago.

People who were in their mid-30s during the Miami Vice era seem to all suddenly be in their mid 60s.

[Enthusiast]

58. What you say is true.

[BumRushDaShow]

69. "The Bush Years were so bad we blacked them out creating a lost decade...."

SO damn true! I have been saying that to myself for some time. I lost 10 years after 2000.

[cascadiance]

134. I suspect Bush didn't like this movie that Bowie was instrumental in the theme song for...

From "The Falcon and the Snowman" earlier…

A live version from him earlier…

Perhaps in the coming year if we fix this country, he can record a "This IS America" up there in the sky we can all listen to when we get to that point of leaving earth…

(Still also mourning my mom's passing two days after I visited her this last Thanksgiving. She also passed about a week after her birthday too (her 89th) Hoping she and David are in a better place now!)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

136. I remember someone claiming Dubya was high on cocaine when he visited his dad at the White House....

[w0nderer]

48. too many in too short a time

pratchett
kilmister
bowie and so many more

[daleanime]

105. Damn, you had to remind me about Terry......

[w0nderer]

146. he's in the clacks

www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

[IcyPeas]

50. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

I loved this song. it was like nothing I'd ever heard before. He was so ahead of his time (I know that's a cliche -- but he was)

[greyl]

51. "We should be on by now" David Bowie nt

[DUbeornot2be]

53. What awful news!

RIP David Bowie!

So sad to hear of his struggle. He was an amazing human being!

His music was influential in my own life.

One of my favorites...

[senz]

120. From my favorite Bowie album --

Thanks for playing this.

[DUbeornot2be]

149. Yep, great album!

[NobodyHere]

54. .

[Dr. Xavier]

57. Just caught the news, its 1am and this is the

40th anniversary of my high school graduation. His playlist is part of the playlist of my youth. Wow, oh wow, RIP, man, I suddenly feel very old...

[Duckfan]

59. Damn What a shocker

Was not a follower of his but I did have an appreciation when he did this tune written by the Pat Metheny Group. Still like it. From soundtrack of "Falcon & The Snowman."

On Edit: I forgot. Liked "Lets Dance" too.

[mdbl]

60. RIP

Your music will live forever.

[tblue37]

61. I guess a long battle with cancer explains why he had become so reclusive

in recent years. I was wondering about that and thought maybe it was just a natural effect of getting older.

[Lazy Daisy]

62. R.I.P.

[BumRushDaShow]

64. Wow. Just heard

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The music world has truly lost an innovator who could cross genres. Condolences to his family (including wife Iman) and you will be missed.

Edit to add this as a fave when I was a kid -

[GreydeeThos]

66. RIP David Bowie

You took music into uncharted territory.

[montana_hazeleyes]

67. Such a huge loss.

Since I heard, I've just been feeling this stunned feeling. Sending my condolences to his family and sadness for all his fans.

[muriel_volestrangler]

68. David Bowie returns home

David Bowie has returned to his home after an all too brief sojourn amongst humanity.

The departure means that sadly it is the world that looks very different today.

He leaves behind a substantial body of work, including several autobiographical albums about the experience of being something more than human amongst mere mortals.
...
In response to the news, people worldwide are politely requesting that Tom Waits and David Attenborough go to bed early and take care of themselves, as there’s only so much of this we can stand.

http://newsthump.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-returns-home/

[gvstn]

70. If Tom Waits dies, I will cry for him as well.

[saltpoint]

71. I have a lot of respect for Bowie's

acting.

In particular, he is quite chilling as Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.

[oberliner]

72. ChangesBowie

A "greatest hits" compilation from 1990 that meant a lot to me.

Thanks for everything, David Bowie.

[underpants]

73. The Earth is a bitch. We've finished our news. Homosapiens have outgrown their use.

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Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes,
shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky
and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're
here to stay
What are we coming to
No room for me,
no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found
by the Golden ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though
they're here to stay

[CHORUS:]
Oh You Pretty Things
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and Papas insane
Oh You Pretty Things
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and Papas insane
Let me make it plain
([second time:] Let me say it again)
You gotta make way
for the Homo Superior

Look at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don't kid yourself they belong to you
They're the start of a coming race
The earth is a bitch
We've finished our news
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

[CHORUS]

[FSogol]

85. +1. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

74. Much respect for Bowie as Musician, Artist, Person, and Businessman.

As the OP says, a real renaissance man.

[Botany]

75. All the young dudes carry the news ....

Damn this one hurts.

[Docreed2003]

76. Damn...such a loss

[liberal N proud]

77. Here's to you Major Tom

RIP

[AllyCat]

78. One of my favorites. A man truly ahead of his time.

[callous taoboy]

79. Bowie was a giant of an artist.

His music made so much sense to me, especially when I could find nothing else in my life that did.

[Android3.14]

80. And I'm floating in a most peculiar way.

Thank you, Mr. Bowie.

[CentralMass]

82. I saw him during the Glass Spider Tour

In the mid 80's at the old outdoor Sullivan stadium where the New England Patriots played. It was an amazing performance and concert.

There was a documentary done about him.
If you get can a chance to watch it you will appreciate how brilliant he was even more.
He selected some very gifted musicians to play with him , a classic guitarist, pianist, etc. During their interviews it was obvious that they in awe if him. He pushed their musically boundaries beyond what the thought possible or their comfort zone.

[vkkv]

126. Same here, Peter Frampton and Carlos Alomar were the guitartists on that tour.

San Jose State, soccer field.

[Raster]

148. Also saw Glass Spider....

...Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX, fifth row, dead center.

Fabulous show. Fabulous artist.

[gademocrat7]

83. David Bowie was a very remarkable human being.

I shall miss him very much.

[BooScout]

84. A true Rock Legend.

[leftynyc]

86. RIP Mr Bowie

I had a long haired gray cat I named Ziggy Stardust while in college. He was a real artist.

[m-lekktor]

87. what fucking horrible news to wake up to. nt

[Paladin]

89. RIP to a genuine artist.

[Bluenorthwest]

90. Dreadful news. A great artist. I got to see him perform serveral times and met him once in a

passing sort of way. An amazing person.

[blackspade]

93. Fucking hell.

RIP Ziggy Stardust.

[bullwinkle428]

94. Devastating news to wake up to this morning. He was such an accomplished artist.

[logosoco]

95. This is such a shock! First thing I saw when I got on the internet this

morning! Just the other day...his birthday, Jan. 8. the DJ on the car radio was saying he has a new album coming out and he was probably, at that moment, in some tropical location with Iman! And now this!

I think he was a great influence, not just in music, but for this young girl growing up in the 1970s. Somehow a dude wearing make up made me see that is just a choice! Just because I was a woman did not mean I was forced to put on a mask if I did not want to. I am not quite sure how he made me this comfortable, but it did.

RIP Mr. Bowie! Thanks for sharing your talents with us!

[myrna minx]

98. I'm just crushed. He was my inspiration. I was just marveling about Darkstar, and now this...

[Zoonart]

99. Rally Song for Bernie

I always thought Bowie's- I DEMAND A BETTER FUTURE" would be the best rally song for Bernie!

LOVE YOU DAVID> RIP


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[raouldukelives]

100. RIP Bowie and thank you. nt

[Cal Carpenter]

101. One of the all time greatest

musical artists of any genre. Ever.

Songwriting, recording, performing, and telling generations of kids that it is okay to let your freak flag fly.

RIP sir.

[SoapBox]

102. RIP

Another loss.

More Changes.

[beam me up scottie]

103. David Bowie and Annie Lennox at the 1992 Tribute to Freddy Mercury concert:

[senz]

113. Nice.

Those two.

Your little green cthulhu kitty danced as their song played.

[beam me up scottie]

122. Yes, a wonderful tribute, I love Annie too.

So many gone too soon.

[LongTomH]

131. What a fantastic pair! Two great artists, and the chemistry between them was fantastic!!!!

[Gemini Cat]

104. One of my favourites.

RIP

[Initech]

106. David Bowie is gone, Lemmy is gone... sad time for music.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

107. I made a birthday thread for him on Friday.

I'm in my cubicle, and I have tears in my eyes.

It's Elvis Presley's, David Bowie's, and Kim Jong-un's Birthday.

From this morning:

Queen Bitch

"Queen Bitch" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory.

Bowie was a great Velvet Underground fan and wrote the song in tribute to the band and Lou Reed. He recorded a studio cover of Reed's "I'm Waiting for the Man" in 1967 (which remains unissued), as well as live versions, which may be heard on Bowie at the Beeb and on Live Nassau Coliseum '76 (in the 2010 special edition and deluxe edition re-issues of Station to Station).

"Queen Bitch" starts with Bowie counting down to his acoustic guitar before Mick Ronson's thrashy guitar riff enters. The song's arrangement, featuring a melodic bass line, a tight drum pattern, choppy distorted guitar chords, and an understated vocal performance by Bowie, provided the template for the glam rock style that features prominently on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, his seminal 1972 follow-up to Hunky Dory. While the main riff is similar to The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", it is actually lifted from Eddie Cochran's "Three Steps to Heaven". (a posthumous #1 hit single in the UK in 1960).

Guitar chords, Queen Bitch, from Hunky Dory

[turbinetree]

108. Ziggy a musical genius .................................

[BarbaRosa]

110. RIP Thin White Duke.

[Gawdless Pinko Lib]

111. One of a Kind

[retrowire]

112. NOOOOO!

Ziggy Stardust! you're with us forever.

[vkkv]

114. David Bowie is immortal now. So much great music will live on.

I'm extremely sad about this news.

I'm going to go put the Space Oddity LP Record on right now. It's a bit scratched up from over the years...

[Myrddin]

115. RIP ZIGGY

RIP Ziggy

[Kali]

116. damn

I had just heard a story about the new album on NPR the other day and this morning there was some Bowie on the radio when I got it streaming, so I went to tease my sister about old age and him putting out a new record at 69. She told me the news.

[charlespercydemocrat]

141. till the end.

He was rocking till the end.

[Oilwellian]

117. Oh no, I feel like I just lost a piece of me

I was a teen who listened to Ziggy Stardust and adored David Bowie from the beginning of his career.

Ground control to Major Tom, can you hear me Major Tom? RIP, you were beloved by millions.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

124. I definitely feel like a part of me is missing. I just wasn't prepared for this.

[tabasco]

118. David Bowie was a rare gem.

Legendary is an apt adjective. Bowie made the world a better place with his courage and art.

[Griefbird]

119. "Dabbled"?

The Hollywood Reporter article used "excelled in". Much better.

[Glimmer of Hope]

121. So many songs to chose from but I think this is my favorite:

[AwakeAtLast]

143. Mine, too

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

123. A True Rock 'n Roll STAR!!

Johnny went to fight in Belfast
Rudi stayed at home to starve
I could make it all worthwhile
As a rock & roll star
Bevan tried to change the nation
Sonny wants to turn the world, well he can tell you that
He tried
I could make a transformation as a rock & roll star

So inviting, so enticing to play the part
I could play the wild mutation
As a rock & roll star
I could do with the money
I'm so wiped out with things as they are
I'd send my photograph to my honey - and I'd c'mon like
A regular superstar

I could make a transformation as a rock & roll star
So inviting - so enticing to play the part
I could play the wild mutation
As a rock & roll star
I could do with the money
I'm so wiped out with things as they are
I'd send my photograph to my honey - and I'd c'mon like
A regular superstar

I could fall asleep at night
As a rock & roll star
I could fall in love all right
As a rock & roll star
Rock & roll star
Rock & roll star

[chowder66]

125. Devastating. We are all Stardust. nt

[cascadiance]

128. And it wasn't that long ago we celebrated A Space Oddity from our space station...

… with Commander Hatfield playing a cover of it which a video was done of that then… Maybe the space station could do another tribute too, in Russian and Chinese and other languages as a symbol of the global peace this world needs so much now.

and their videos together in tandem…

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022835857

David… Your coming home… And we're sad you're leaving the stage!

Perhaps we could get Peter Schilling to do a cover of the original to go along with his sequel to Bowie's song… Here's his comments today on David's passing…

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6836522/david-bowie-death-peter-schilling

And a video for the space station as well to go along with Space Oddity then...

[LongTomH]

132. Thank you for posting this!!!

Edited to add: Here's a response from David himself to Chris' version:

[brett_jv]

129. Man ... the first song I ever played, w/my first band, in front of a decent size group ...

Was Ziggy Stardust.

FUCK man, this is god-awful news to wake up to. I'm happy though he at least got to see the rave reviews of his last album before passing, they were pretty universally great. NONE of them I saw mentioned 'cancer' let alone 'imminent demise' so I gotta think this was a well-kept secret.

What a Sad, sad day. Lemmy, now Bowie ... a couple rock legends gone within weeks, both to the Big C. F*** Cancer, man.

RIP, Ziggy, Thin White Duke, Man who Fell To Earth, et al ... thanks for the amazing music. Ye will be missed.

[cascadiance]

138. Madonna just tweeted that Bowie was the first concert she went to as well...

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From:
http://www.newsusauk.com/news/217182-madonna-kayne-west-and-beckham-lead-twitter-tributes-to-david-bowie.html



Other notable tweets:





























I think we know what will be the last if not one of the last tributes for those who have passed shown at the Oscars in a few weeks!

And for those who think as a noted musician he wouldn't get the noted tribute at the end, check out his imdb page, and it's hard to find things he hasn't done rather than what he has done in both the music and film industries…

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000309/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

And for those doing the SyFy series "The Expanse" which is based on a series of sci fi books that documents what the future could be in 200 years from now with divisions of humans occupying the outer asteroid belts and Mars in addition to Earth, it would seem very nice if you could find a way to edit a tribute to Bowie in some fashion in a future episode, especially in the segments on the colonies in Mars in that series. Don't know if the series episodes are all in the can at this point, but it would be nice.

[lunasun]

150. Not my first concert but one of my top best both times. His tours were beyond my imagination. I am

glad Bowie had a great imagination and shared it with the world ! What an artist of all sorts.

[Runningdawg]

130. The Starman

has returned to the stars. RIP we will never forget.

[robbob]

133. RIP David

One of my favorites from Hunky Dory, such a melancholy song, a good eulogy for one of my first rock and roll heroes:

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjUvM-pxaLKAhUINT4KHWuuBwwQyCkIHjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8a82arE0JSQ&usg=AFQjCNEb_Zfxew_lDgBjPKdjEvmRW_CklA&sig2=Ioogxf62VoorUN1W6uhReg:

"The Bewlay Brothers"

And so the story goes
they wore the clothes
They said the things
to make it seem improbable
The whale of a lie
like they hope it was
And the Goodmen of Tomorrow
Had their feet in the wallow
And their heads of Brawn
were nicer shorn
And how they bought their positions with saccharin and trust
And the world was asleep
to our latent fuss
Sighing, the swirl through the streets
Like the crust of the sun
The Bewlay Brothers
In our Wings that Bark
Flashing teeth of Brass
Standing tall in the dark
Oh, And we were Gone
Hanging out with your Dwarf Men
We were so turned on
By your lack of conclusions

I was Stone and he was Wax
So he could scream,
and still relax, unbelievable
And we frightened the small children away
And our talk was old
and dust would flow
Thru our veins and Lo!
it was midnight
Back o' the kitchen door
Like the grim face
on the Cathedral floor
And the solid book we wrote
Cannot be found today

And it was Stalking time
for the Moonboys
The Bewlay Brothers
With our backs on the arch
In the Devil-may-be-here
But He can't sing about that
Oh, And we were Gone
Real Cool Traders
We were so Turned On
You thought we were Fakers

Now the dress is hung,
the ticket pawned
The Factor Max that proved the fact
Is melted down
And woven on the edging of my pillow
Now my Brother lays upon the Rocks
He could be dead, He could be not
He could be You
He's Camelian, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature
"Shooting-up Pie-in-the-Sky"
The Bewlay Brothers
In the feeble and the Bad
The Bewlay Brothers
In the Blessed and Cold
In the Crutch-hungry Dark
Was where we flayed our Mark
Oh, and we were Gone
Kings of Oblivion
We were so Turned On
In the Mind-Warp Pavilion

Lay me place and bake me Pie
I'm starving for me Gravy
Leave my shoes, and door unlocked
I might just slip away
Just for the Day, Hey!
Please come Away, Hey! [repeat ad inf.]


<on edit> Listening to this song I was always struck by the serious and somber mood created, the lyrics seem to be speaking to something of great import. And so the story goes; when Bowie submitted this song to his agent he said something along the lines of "These lyrics should leave all those American critics scratching their heads...". Gotta love a genius who can have a sense of humor about his own work!

[LongTomH]

137. Remember this movie: "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/

[denem]

139. I have the same feeling today as I did when John Lennon died

the circumstanstences are completely different but the emotion is appalling.

[ronnykmarshall]

142. My favorite David Bowie song

check out who's singing back up!

[Beartracks]

144. The stars look very different today.

Check ignition and may God's love be with you.




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[rhett o rick]

145. One of my favorites. RIP Major Tom. nm

[Beacool]

147. I was sad to hear the news.

I didn't know that he had been ill. My condolences to his family.

May he rest in peace.