David Bowie has died

[Eichhörnchen]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35278872

[danasan]

R.I.P. my friend!

[Buddahaid]

Oh crap. He was one of my all time favorites.
R.I.P. David

[u crank]

Sad news. R.I.P. Ziggy.

[Rhodes]

R.I.P. Zyggy! One of my favourites also!

[BossMark]

RIP David

[HunterICX]

R.I.P David :(

4 Days prior to his passing he released this music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

Look up here, I'm in heaven
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be stolen
Everybody knows me now

What a powerful note to leave behind, sir :salute:

[Jimbuna]

To say I'm absolutely devastated is an understatement. In the early seventies I served a four year apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer and my peer group called me by the name 'Ziggy' because that was painted on the back of my motorbike helmet along with a portrait of him on the cover of my haversack.

RIP Ziggy.....Probably freaking out on some moonage daydream right about now :rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkrGyRupneM

[Oberon]

Well, that's a real kick in the guts, I grew up with his music, my Mum is a big fan, back in the day she even had the whole orange hair and lightning stripe make-up.

RIP David and thank you, thank you for everything.

[limkol]

The passing of a great performer. I saw him live at Wembley Arena on the 'Serious Moonlight Tour' back in '83. There were rumors that that would be his last tour!!
There's not many of the 'Greats' left now.
R.I.P. to one of the biggest influences in music ever.

[Torplexed]

Planet Earth is Blue,
and there's nothing I can do.

RIP David Bowie.

[Cybermat47]

I never conciously listened to his music, and only saw part of a film he was in, but I'm still saddened to learn of his death.

Rest in peace, sir.

[Catfish]

:(
R.I.P. Have always liked him and his music.
Mr. Bowie, we will miss you!

[Eichhörnchen]

The Thin White Duke is gone.

His saxophone sound (along with that of contemporary Andy Mackay, of Roxy Music) is what inspired me to take up the instrument.

[Commander Wallace]

Saddened to learn of his loss . I remember reading a piece where David Bowie asked a young unknown guitarist by the name of Stevie Ray Vaughan to join his band . Stevie said no as he would have had to leave his band of Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton ( double trouble ) behind.

Stevie agreed however to lend his considerable guitar talents on David Bowie's song " Let's Dance " which was also the name of his 1983 album.


Rip

[ReallyDedPoet]

RIP....

[Rockin Robbins]

From Diamond Dogs

Oh caress yourself, my juicy
For my hands have all but withered
Oh dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs
Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said

We are the dead
We are the dead
We are the dead

[Magic1111]

R.I.P. David Bowie :wah:

[Rockin Robbins]

Bowie didn't have the finest voice in the land. It wasn't in the top 40% even. But he was always 110% of what he could do, while the vastly more talented voices were always coasting at 40%. Or 80%. It was always the "Shark Tank's" perennial question, "Would you rather have 50% of a vast fortune or 100% of a very small pot?"

Bowie said "I'll take 100%. And he corralled that into a vast fortune of a life's work as a perpetual innovator in art, music and drama, following no one but followed by all.

[Aktungbby]

I particularly liked him in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence which I saw in the theatre. He will be missed. From his latest album Black Star:
'Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar' :hmmm:

[Wolferz]

Major Tom.
Look at him go.

RIP David,

Ground Control.

[HW3]

R.I.P. David Bowie.:(

[Betonov]

Did you know he played Nikola Tesla once

http://aguayoki.cl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tumblr_l6d5bzFRxe1qcm455o1_500.jpg

RIP

http://i.imgur.com/xK8T8Ok.jpg

[Rhodes]

Did you know he played Nikola Tesla once

RIP



And the goblin king also!
http://www.acmi.net.au/media/1924921/kf-labyrinth-film-hero.jpg

[Wolferz]

get out of this labyrinth?:timeout:

[Jimbuna]

He also turned down the role of Max Zorin for the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), citing his lack of enthusiasm for recent Bond villains.

[mapuc]

RIP Bowie One of the Greatest

He were not one of my favorite, but he had so many great songs I loved to listen to.

Markus

[Bilge_Rat]

RIP, one of the great artists of our times.

[GT182]

R.I.P. David Bowie. You did good, and you will live on with your music.

[u crank]

Not every musical artist has their music recorded in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

[KrazyDimondRX]

Heard the news this morning when i switched on the wireless. Stunned , disapointed, i must of looked like a possum in the headlights.
I grew up watching labyrinth, and grew into a classic rock loving guitar player, so obviously Bowie featured a lot.

I know he'll now be jamming good with Wierd and Gilly
RIP you talented crazy mofo

KDRX

[Dmitry Markov]

Ground Control to Major Tom...

He has made so much and so different music and other works. Incredible creativity!

My kids like to watch Labyrinth from time to time.

I prefer "Serious Moonlight" concert video - just fantastic musically, technically, Earl Slick is at his best there too...

I had one strange and scary episode related to his music. One evening I was going home listening to "Best of Bowie" casette in my walkman. Space Oddity was playing while I was entering the door to my flat. Then I go to the kitchen, turn TV on and I've got goosebumps all over - they were showing the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. For a moment I thought it was some plane or else, but then I saw subtitles... And I still had my earphones on with Space Oddity still playing... It was February 01 2003
Coincidence?

In Russia we say "Земля ему пухом" "Let the Earth be like Puff for Him"

RIP

[vienna]

Bowie came to a rock club where I worked; it was about 1974 or '75. It was during his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane period. IIRC, he came down twice, the second time with his then wife, Angie. They didn't stay long, just more of a "hello/goodbye" sort of appearance. The club had three owners, one who was the money man and seldom came down to the club, one who the club was named after and had a lot of music business connections, but had little to do with the actual operation of the club; the third was a man named Tom who was totally involved in all phases of the club and was the guy from whom I directly took orders. Tom was the final arbiter of all that happened in the club or about it. Tom was from Louisiana and had a very laid back style and spoke with a bit of a lazy drawl, both of which belied a very sharp mind and a very high degree of physical strength, which was quite useful for ejecting miscreants form the club. When Bowie visited the first time, he embraced Tom as an old friend, which, given the disparity between the imposing former resident of Oil City, LA and the rather androgynous English rock star, was a bit surprising. After the club closed, we asked Tom about his friendship with Bowie. Tom old us of how he had worked for various record companies in Hollywood. One of the companies was RCA, who had signed Bowie for distribution in the US. Tom had heard of Bowie, but had only seen headshots of him. Tom was assigned the task of meeting Bowie at LAX and guiding him on his first trip to Los Angeles. Tom was used to working with a varied lot of artists, including the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Gene Vincent. Imagine his surprise when Bowie exited the plane dressed pretty much as he was on this album cover:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/610V%2B0qBQrL.jpg

I remember Tom describing what it was like to take Bowie to the various radio stations and record stores wearing, as Tom put it, "a [expletive] dress". Tom was not really at all hostile to Bowie's choice of style; working for so long in the record industry with such a wide variety of artists and styles made him pretty much open to anything. His main concern was how to make Bowie's talents more obvious to the music industry people than his appearance. It was a tough row to hoe. Tom found himself defending Bowie to some rather hostile reactions. When Bowie's trip to LA ended and as Tom escorted Bowie to the airport, Bowie turned to Tom and apologized if he had made Tom's job harder than usual. Tom replied he had no problems with Bowie or what he did or looked like and, if the others in the industry did, well, it was their problem, not Bowie's or Tom's. Bowie very much appreciated Tom's attitude; Tom had further contact with Bowie afterwards and they were good friends...

I was not a really big fan of Bowie and I pretty much lost interest after he went into his Jean Genie/Thin White Duke period. Any interest I had in Bowie's work after that was due mainly to the very high quality guitarists he attracted for his recordings (it is a failing of those who play a particular instrument to focus on those who play the same instrument). However, there is no doubt whatsoever Bowie was one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years and will remain so. I think it is fair to say if there was no Bowie, there would have never been a "New Wave" in the eighties and his influence on singers is indeed wide. Without him, performers like Brian Ferry and Morrissey might never have had the acceptance they received (I once outraged a Morrissey fan by describing Morrissey as Bowie off his depression meds). In a world of various "Idols" and auto-tuning, of prefab boy bands and hip hop tedium, the loss of Bowie is indeed great; it is sad we may never see his like again...

RIP, David Bowie, thank you for all the great music and all the great influence you have had on entertainment world...



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[Jimbuna]

^ I thank you for the above post :cool: