David Bowie

[Vincent Vega]

Just heard that Bowie has died. Fucking devastated, a true legend.

[Scott_M]

So it says on the TV in the gym.

 

I don't know enough of his songs to make a witty pun.

[lifetime fan]

Breaking news

[Dr Nowt]

First Lemmy now this. Terrible news. Looks like I picked the wrong year to give up caring about celebrities dying.

 

Saw him live in 2000, remains one of the greatest nights I've had in my life and probably the best ever gig.

 

One of the very, very best.

[Vincent Vega]

I saw him at Maine Road in 1989 on the Sound & Vision tour in what was supposed to be his final tour, a brilliant night, he just epitomised cool.

 

His early stuff with Mick Ronson was some of the most important music ever written in my opinion.

 

What a downer this news is, and as you say on top of the news of Lemmy's death.

[Dr Nowt]

You know you're a legend when you get 3 threads on the GF for dying.

 

I vote we go full I'm Spartacus on the great man and all start one; the forum equivalent of each lighting a candle in his honour.

[Ted]

A proper superstar who remained relevant in all he did up until his death.

 

One of a kind. Gutted.

[Boss]

Legend. RIP sweet prince.

[Vincent Vega]

I remember him being asked about the Ziggy Stardust stuff in an interview years ago and where he got the inspiration, and he said he was doing that many drugs at the time it all felt true. It's probably the hedonism from that era that has seen him die relatively young.

[ZonkoVille77]

Absolute legend. Don't make em like that anymore. RIP

[ZonkoVille77]

So it says on the TV in the gym.

 

I don't know enough of his songs to make a witty pun.

Any excuse to get the "gym" into a sentence...

[General Dryness]

No fucking way. Not shaping up to be a good year this.

 

One of the seminal artists of all time and inspiration to many. A loss beyond sad.

[Red Phoenix]

The matrix is taking our music legends away! Fucking insane news.

 

Am in the same situation as I was with Lemmy here. Didn't listen to hardly any of his music, but it's obvious that he was a legend without any doubt. And he's probably influenced, like Lemmy will have done, a lot of the musicians that I like and have liked over the years.

 

Weirdly enough he might have had most of an effect on me as a kid, in one of his films. Possibly The Man Who Fell To Earth (just looked at some images of that, it must have freaked me out quite a bit if so!) Sad news anyway.

[Trumo]

Can't say I was ever a fan of his work but I can understand that he was a music legend due to his longevity and influence.

[Stickman]

A proper musical genius at a time when this country used to produce them.

[Anny Road]

Never quite got Bowie but cant deny his reputation. Seemed a nice chap too.

[Dr Nowt]

Turned down a knighthood as well, obvs.

[littletedwest]

Up there with the Beatles and the stones as one of the best British artists ever.

And his duet with mick jagger on dancing in the street is probably the funniest video of all time.sad news.

[Stickman]

Ashes to Ashes???

[setreal]

Turned down a knighthood as well, obvs.

 

Good man.

[Joe Strummer]

Loved him. A sad day and yes a genius.

[Juniper]

Really sad news, I'm gutted.

[s(k)aturation]

I loved this bloke's music.

 

A couple of his tracks have underscored critical, happy, pivotal moments in my life.  Like the birth of my son, who had to undergo surgery at 2 weeks old, and was OK.  Starman.  Under Pressure.

 

I'm devastated.

 

RIP, David Bowie.

 

And thanks.

[Hand Shandy]

Arsebiscuits. Shit start to the week.

[razor]

I saw him at Maine Road in 1989 on the Sound & Vision tour in what was supposed to be his final tour, a brilliant night, he just epitomised cool.

 

I was at that.  Coming on stage with Space Oddity and that huge projection on the invisible screen over the stage.

 

I saw him on the Glass Spider tour, too.  He was a true great.

 

Gutted.  I loved the man.