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A real, real shocker.
Its no understatement to say he was such an icon, and in recent years, he was really regarded as a music great, and then when 'The Next Day' was released, this really cemented this.
RIP, David Robert Jones.
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He was always there in my musical consciousness, even as a very young kid, from the time of Ziggy onwards, who/which I didn't much care for, but was still fascinated by. Young Americans was the first time I liked him but then Station to Station through to Scary Monsters, what a run of albums that was, more appreciated by me in retrospect than at the time though I had mates who were obsessed.
Even at the last, with Blackstar, he still had the capacity to unnerve.
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Sad, sad news.
After years of relative silence and rumours about his health, his renewed activity in the last year makes this all the more shocking. Returning to the public eye on his own terms may even have enabled him, and his family, to face his final illness privately. A genius to the end.
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tee rex wrote: I thought he would go on forever. Old stars dying rarely shocks, but this really does.
Maybe explains the recent surge of creativity, in similar fashion to Johnny Cash and Freddie Mercury before they died. I suppose that also adds to the shock, the feeling that there was still more to come at an age when most artists are doing greatest hits tours and Vegas.
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Also there was never a more appropriate use of the term artist for a musician. Not only at the very summit of the music industry, when you see the garbage (literally sometimes) presented as potential Turner prize winners, you realise that what Bowie created was far superior. True art.
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I was listening to Blackstar all over the weekend.
I guess he knew it was coming given some of the lyrics. (Seems obvious in hindsight.)
Lazarus
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
Look up here, man, I’m in danger
I’ve got nothing left to lose
I’m so high it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cell phone down below
Ain’t that just like me
By the time I got to New York
I was living like a king
Then I used up all my money
I was looking for your ass
This way or no way
You know, I’ll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now ain’t that just like me
Oh I’ll be free
Just like that bluebird
Oh I’ll be free
Ain’t that just like me
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hobbes wrote: There were rumours around that he was ill, but it seemed to have blown over a bit recently.
Nice to see the Daily Heil running a hit-piece on him today. Classy and perfectly timed as always.
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Miserable news, of course. But here's a game you can play to lighten your mood (oh come on, it's what he would have wanted) - watch or listen to the news reports and try to work out which presenters genuinely loved David Bowie and which ones haven't got a clue whether he recorded Ashes To Ashes or Fade To Grey.
Bill Turnbull broke the news on BBC Breakfast, he reeled off a list of Bowie albums and seemed genuinely shocked, but then he always comes across as a very genuine person. Susanna Reid on ITV affected an ersatz heartfelt tone of voice that wasn't convincing anyone, and it was left to Lorraine Kelly to save the day with a spontaneous string of Bowie recollections.
Radio 1 was priceless. But then what do you except? "69 year old rock star who was last in the charts when your mum was younger than you are now has died. Come on kids, it's sad." Nick Grimshaw resorted to regaling us with an amusing vignette about his choice of Bowie t-shirt.
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