David Bowie 1947 - 2016, farewell & RIP Ziggy Stardust

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   wildrides

   11 January 2016, 02:23

   A fine artist with a magnificent body of work . Quite a shock .

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   FailedQS

   11 January 2016, 03:15

   Bowie – a Legend – A true giant of the music industry.

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   alcira16247

   11 January 2016, 03:52

   A true legend – immense talent – a worldwide phenomenon.

   Rest in peace, David.

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   Charles

   11 January 2016, 08:13

   Yes, TW, thank you for your thoughtful post. I
   was in 7th (13yrs) grade here in God’s country, Texas, when “Fame” came out – we really didn’t know what to make of it. 5 years later at Louisiana St. University, we got into more of the, ahem, creative aspects, dig? And, pound for pound, “Major Tom” was in my opinion the best of the “go to the moon” inspired songs. “Children of the Sun” by Billy Thorpe is a close second in case some of you haven’t heard it in a while. Nice memories, everybody have a triptastic day and fly on Ziggy, Charles, Houston, TX.

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   Bywel

   11 January 2016, 08:43

   Saw him many times, a different persona every time, a true artiste, the Moonage daydream is over far too soon.

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   J P Spaghetti

   12 January 2016, 10:56

   A shock indeed and a great loss. I remember the day of Sinatra’s death and singing New York, New York that night after last orders was called in a Birmingham boozer, along with scores of other drunken punters (perhaps it’s just an urban myth that Bowie declined the offer to play him in a film of his life story on the grounds he wasn’t very good with horses’ heads!). As much as I liked and admired him, however, and find it hard to believe certain stories about his being ‘difficult’, Bowie’s demise seems to have resonated more strongly not just with me but many others. Perhaps that’s unfair and simply largely reflects the earlier time in which Ol’ Blue Eyes rose to fame and his having been quite a bit older (and maybe it was widely known he’d been ill).

   Caught Bowie in the late 80s, and he rendered my sister dizzy for a month or so after merely waving to her during a Tin Machine gig at a small venue in the 90s. Birds, eh?! As a slight aside, I also caught Nic Roeg after a special screening of The Man Who Fell To Earth at that tiny, artsy cinema just off (or perhaps on) The Mall. Maybe it’s Carlton House Terrace (the Royal Society is practically next door). He praised his professionalism and overall portrayal of Thomas Newton – the stranded alien of the title. I commented in a review elsewhere that I thought it was the very fact he wasn’t primarily an actor that was responsible for the slight awkwardness he brought to the role, a trait that would seem entirely authentic in an entity mimicking human behaviour based solely on what he had seen from afar, and that had the role gone to an actor of the calibre of a John Hurt, for instance, I’m sure it would have been more polished and ‘accomplished’ but I suspect it would have seemed – well – almost sterile. No offence intended to Mr Hurt there (a fine treader of the boards indeed, and – of course – that underpins the whole point I’m trying to make). Like a CD rather than an LP (perhaps even a slightly scratched one).

   Anyway, I had a proper session yesterday in his memory and played a few of his classics on various boxes of juke. Off now to play Lady Grinning Soul – sounds sublime with a hangover and a curry.

   RIP Jonesy (from a step-Bewlay-brother)