David Bowie

[s(k)aturation]

I hope I get three threads when I snuff it.

 

Wasn't their 3 threads for your birthday one year, Johnny?

 

Malahide Royalty, you.

[stringvest]

Next to McCartney, he was the most important rock star alive. And now he's gone.

 

Like LFC, he was such an important part of my life growing up.  I'm weeping because a part of my soul has gone and died.  

[Byrnie]

Heard it on the radio in the car on the way to work this morning and got a knot in my stomach. Didn't even think the news would affect me like that.

 

Possibly the best British solo artist ever. Genius.

[VladimirIlyich]

Im one of the few,it seems,who simply wasnt in to his Music at all and found it pretty boring to be honest.

Its a shame to lose yet another musical icon so soon after a previous musical icon too.

How old was Bowie? Had he hit 70 yet?

[Paulie Dangerously]

Never been a big fan of any music but I enjoyed a lot of his tracks 

[redheart]

David Bowie released this when he was 24. He wrote it a few years earlier.

 

Yep by 24 he did something more meaningful and profound than most of us will do in the totality of our lives

 

 

https://youtu.be/v--IqqusnNQ

[magicrat]

Was listening to his new album the other day and reflecting on his career.

Loved a lot of his stuff and regret never getting to see him.

Shocked when I heard the news on the 7 o'clock news .  

News just washes over you most of the time but i got a real jolt when that came out of the blue.

Legend is an over used word but not in Bowie's case. RIP

[Mook]

Sore one today, they don't come an awful lot more important than him.

[Kant]

Im one of the few,it seems,who simply wasnt in to his Music at all and found it pretty boring to be honest.Its a shame to lose yet another musical icon so soon after a previous musical icon too.How old was Bowie? Had he hit 70 yet?

69 last Friday I think.

I was never fussed on Bowie either. I never got it.

Although strangely, I didn't dislike him which is unusual: growing up, I always found music quite polarising. I guess I'm a love 'em or hate 'em kinda guy.

I did, however, always respect him hugely as an innovator and a human being.

[El Rojo]

Where Are We Now? holds a huge new poignancy in the light of this. Absolutely beautiful song.

 

He was a genius magpie, always taking influence from everywhere and blending it into his own inimitable sound.

 

He was remarkable.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Saw him headline Glastonbury around 15 years ago. Been a great weekend, sun blazing but just starting to dim as Bowie drifted on to the stage for his opener, Wild Is The Wind, and he just captivated over 100000 of us for around 2 hours.

 

Hit, after hit, after hit, just so many to choose from.

 

I went to see a brilliant tribute band called Ultimate Bowie a few weeks ago, what a great night that was. Took a load of friends with me, most of whom thought they didn't know too many Bowie tunes. Thought they didn't. We were all rolling drunk, dancing and singing, what a brilliant night.

 

I saw the ad for Bowie's new album Black Star on the telly a few days ago and I was shocked, genuinely upset by how frail and gaunt he looked; posted over on the Dead Pool thread, but still shocked by the news this morning.

 

A few days after Lemmy died too, and both of them within only a couple of days of their birthdays. A bit weird and very sad, the world is a much poorer and less colourful place without them both. Horns up fellas.

[Pidge]

Going to buy merry Christmas Mr Lawrence to watch later in the week.

 

Hard to believe he was actually just 69, he was just an axiom for as long as I can remember. Timeless, a cultural monolith.

[Carvalho Diablo]

[Stu Monty]

69 is no fucking age at all to be going.

[Bjornebye]

He was a better musician than Phil Collins. 

[Mook]

Phil Collins was better at divorcing his wife by fax though.

[Arl arse]

[Trumo]

Whenever a musician/singer passes away, the BBC are guaranteed to wheel out Gambaccini and have him spout some eulogy that makes no sense.

[Dr Nowt]

 

No celebration of David Bowie's life and times is complete without the Artist Taxi Driver shouting into his dashboard cam like a cockney foghorn.

[stringvest]

No celebration of David Bowie's life and times is complete without the Artist Taxi Driver shouting into his dashboard cam like a cockney foghorn.

 

He's enduring what very few artists manage to avoid; i.e. the 'La Vegas cabaret' years.  

Bowie was one of the very few.  

[Paul]

The Sarcastialist has done Bowie proud today on the Twitter.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

[easytoslip]

Cant say I was one of his fans as such but he was part of growing up at school and had a few singles at that time, sagging on the ralla with radio playing Starman, also watched him on the Old Grey doing Queen Bitch withy Mick Ronson which was great as was Heroes.Sad news of the passing of someone who was always there over the years in some shape or form.

RIP Starman.

[kalasoma]

Rest with the stars, Ziggy.

[G Richards]

Sad news this one. Grew up listening to a lot of his music. 

 

I haven't heard his recent stuff, but I am impressed by his drive to keep going and keep creating, right to the very end.