David Bowie RIP

A true original. I was always hoping in his later years he might do a residency. Only saw him once in '87 at the old CNE grandstand. Wish I would have have seen him more.

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An article in the Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3393470/David-Bowie-dies-18-month-battle-cancer.html

Funny, he was born Davy Jones and changed it to Bowie so as not to have the same name as the singer for the Monkee's. I think David Cameron's comment was spot on: "he was a master of reinvention, who kept getting it right."

 

Ziggy Played Guitar-arr...

RIP

 

Yesterday - I was just watching the documentary film "Ziggy And The Spiders From Mars."
What a coincidence ?
It was shot by D.A. Pennebaker ( he did Dylan, and some other stuff ).
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My older sister bought me that album when it came out in 1970 (?)
NO ONE in my H.S. was even aware of THAT album.
I thought it was decent R'n'Roll -- but the "concept" was "WTF is this ?"
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In the film -- Bowie had his own dressing room -- and painstaking makeup session.
Both, very "telling" about him.
"Angie" stopped into his dressing room before the show. ( Was that a #1 hit for Rolling Stones ?)
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Cancer .......ugh.......it's been all around my world, lately.
He never looked healthy , to me, anyway.
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You could buy stock in Bowie, at one point, --
I never heard much about that after an IPO ?

 

Major Tom,

R.I.P.

 

RIP
http://youtu.be/wjNToRlUen8

 

He did what lady gaga does but 40 years ago.

 

In 1997, he sold 10 year bonds backed by whatever his royalties ended up being.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond#Bowie_Bonds

 

I was a big Bowie fan when I was younger, especially the stuff he did with Eno. I had the chance to meet him when I worked at a recording studio when he was working on his album "Earthling". One day he was in the studio lounge and I went in and introduced myself and told him that he was a huge influence, sort of "You're the reason I got into the music business". He was very nice to me and he was telling me that he thought there was a ghost in the studio. I've met a number of stars but I was a big fan so I was very star struck. Afterwards I was telling the receptionist at the studio about talking to Bowie and I was giddy about it. Like I said, he was nice to me and I remember he had a very blue sweater on, odd thing to remember.

Anyway, I feel bad for his family, death is tough and it is tough to watch loved ones suffer.

 

Normally I feel nothing when the rich and famous die, but this is actually getting to me. I was a super fan in high school, about when Modern Love came out. I actually tried to look like him - I got his haircut, wore skinny ties, and failed miserably at dyeing my hair blonde. I remember we had some dumb writing assignment and we had to list our heroes. Bowie was the only person I could think of, although at the time I couldn't put it into words, so I probably just made something up that the teacher would like.

For fans who are in Vegas tomorrow, the Golden Tiki on Spring Mountain Road is doing a tribute night, starts at 9pm.

 

Rich and famous have feelings and loved ones like anybody else. That's a hell of a thing to say.

 

I think she meant that she doesn't normally feel a connection with the rich and famous who are strangers to her, but in the case of David Bowie, even though he was a stranger, she felt the loss personally. I don't think she meant she doesn't feel bad for the rich and famous who die, just that this time it felt personal.

 

I'm kinda hoping that just didn't come out exactly the way the poster intended....otherwise, pretty harsh.

 

This

 

Hope your right.

 

That's how I read it.

 

I remember David Bowie from my high school days but never paid much attention to his music. Space Oddity is the only song of his I can remember at the moment.

 

I was on Fremont Street the night Bowie's death was announced. It was pretty cool to hear different bands up and down the street play tributes to him throughout the night.

Bill

 

Boss tribute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgmhF0XV8uA