David Bowie, 69, has died of cancer, Jan 2016
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kimlynn
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Hard to think of his being 69. So many great songs.
Rebel Rebel
Changes
Young Americans
Under Pressure w/ Queen
His version of Across the Universe
Heroes
and from the Station to Station album
Wild is the Wind
[video=youtube;WezuFTlF9e8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WezuFTlF9e8[/video]
R.I.P. David Bowie
Rebel Rebel
Changes
Young Americans
Under Pressure w/ Queen
His version of Across the Universe
Heroes
and from the Station to Station album
Wild is the Wind
[video=youtube;WezuFTlF9e8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WezuFTlF9e8[/video]
R.I.P. David Bowie
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves...
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves...
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To all of my fellow WSers posting videos and links here, as well as your memories - don't stop!
It warms the heart as much as it is making tears fall from my eyes. His music has and will continue to transcend.
May the love that we feel here make its way to Sir David's family.
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It warms the heart as much as it is making tears fall from my eyes. His music has and will continue to transcend.
May the love that we feel here make its way to Sir David's family.
:candle:
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Three great albums produced by David Bowie:
Raw Power.....Iggy & the Stooges
All the Young Dudes.....Mott the Hoople
Transformer.....Lou Reed
Raw Power.....Iggy & the Stooges
All the Young Dudes.....Mott the Hoople
Transformer.....Lou Reed
I saw David Bowie live in Kansas City at an outside venue around 2002-03 during the summer. By comparison a very small venue. Someone from the crowd would scream the name of a song and they would do it. It was amazing. It went on for hours. The chemistry was magic. He was one of the Legends I had ALWAYS wanted to see live. Each song was a surprise in that we had forgotten that we knew that song but hadn't heard it in such a long time. He got a standing ovation on nearly every song, and the show only concluded hours later when the city and the Police said wrap it up (after midnight). I took a co-worker much younger than myself to the concert who was unaware of even who David Bowie really was. He was transformed. As a DJ in the dance club that I co-owned he began playing cuts from David Bowie's library after the fact. It was interesting the way the crowd reacted as though it was new music.
That was the same summer that I also was lucky enough to see B.B. King at a "boat" Casino. As I said before...JUST MAGIC.
JMO's
That was the same summer that I also was lucky enough to see B.B. King at a "boat" Casino. As I said before...JUST MAGIC.
JMO's
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I was fortunate enough to see Bowie during the Young Americans tour in the mid 80's but my love of his music goes way beyond that. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust was so influential in my college days in the early 70s. While most of my student cohorts were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers I and a small group of students from the art department and the theatre department were totally into David Bowie. His music influenced our lives well beyond our musical tastes.
I'm really struggling to find words to convey my sorrow and am failing miserably.
My heart goes out to his family.
Rest in peace dear David.
I'm really struggling to find words to convey my sorrow and am failing miserably.
My heart goes out to his family.
Rest in peace dear David.
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My oldest daughter texted me, saying she remembered sifting through my LP's (!) when she was little and being fascinated by the androgynous-looking man with the colored hair.
I saw Bowie at the Fisher Theater in Detroit and my daughter saw him at the Orange Bowl in Gainesville. Two generations united by a brilliant musician.
And brilliant to the end:
[video=youtube;kszLwBaC4Sw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw[/video]
One thing that struck reviewers who were grappling with Blackstar, David Bowies final album, was how tricky it was to interpret lyrically. Kitty Empire, writing in the Observer, described it as elliptical, while the Guardians Alexis Petridis wrote that the album seems to offer those attempting to unravel his lyrics a wry best of luck with that.
What the critics didnt know, however, was that the man behind it had been diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago, and that he knew his life was coming to an end. If this had been common knowledge, they would all no doubt have looked at Blackstar in a different light. Was David Bowie saying goodbye on it? And does it seem obvious now that he has died?
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jan/11/was-david-bowie-saying-goodbye-on-blackstar
I saw Bowie at the Fisher Theater in Detroit and my daughter saw him at the Orange Bowl in Gainesville. Two generations united by a brilliant musician.
And brilliant to the end:
[video=youtube;kszLwBaC4Sw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw[/video]
One thing that struck reviewers who were grappling with Blackstar, David Bowies final album, was how tricky it was to interpret lyrically. Kitty Empire, writing in the Observer, described it as elliptical, while the Guardians Alexis Petridis wrote that the album seems to offer those attempting to unravel his lyrics a wry best of luck with that.
What the critics didnt know, however, was that the man behind it had been diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago, and that he knew his life was coming to an end. If this had been common knowledge, they would all no doubt have looked at Blackstar in a different light. Was David Bowie saying goodbye on it? And does it seem obvious now that he has died?
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jan/11/was-david-bowie-saying-goodbye-on-blackstar
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"David’s death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now. We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud. Over the last few years - with him living in New York and me in London - our connection was by email. We signed off with invented names: some of his were Mr Showbiz, Milton Keynes, Rhoda Borrocks and the Duke of Ear.
About a year ago we started talking about Outside - the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that. I received an email from him seven days ago.
It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot and it was signed dawn I realise now he was saying goodbye."
About a year ago we started talking about Outside - the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that. I received an email from him seven days ago.
It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot and it was signed dawn I realise now he was saying goodbye."
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Besides his musical career, Bowie also dabbled in film from time to time.
One of my faves is Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/
And of course The Man Who Fell To Earth
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0074851/
One of my faves is Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/
And of course The Man Who Fell To Earth
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0074851/
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Heroes, live from Glastonbury Festival in 2000
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZUr5cFqqxw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZUr5cFqqxw