David Bowie RIP

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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,103
    edited January 2016
    Polkie2009 wrote: »
    I remember him singing with Bing Crosby on a Christmas show.

    Karl - That's my all-time favorite Christmas song - Bowie & Bing's rendition of the Little Drummer Boy. Great lyrics and arrangement.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ
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  • WagnerRC
    WagnerRC Posts: 2,160
    RIP
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    So sad.
    I was listening to Aladdin Sane just last week.
    A peculiar man and artist.
    Had a great musical influence on me in my deformative years.

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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,200
    A true poet ... floating around up there with Major Tom
    Alea jacta est!
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  • Jazzhead
    Jazzhead Posts: 533
    I've observed over the years that eccentricity and creativity often go hand in hand. Bowie was a musical pioneer in so many ways and like Miles Davis he surrounded himself with, and collaborated with some of the greatest talent of the day (Brian Eno, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Fripp etc.)
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    The Man Who Fell to Earth! RIP! You're free now!
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2016
    My daughter broke the news to me as I was leaving for class. I can't express my reaction on this site, BECAUSE IT WOULD/WILL BE CENSORED!

    RIP! Diamond Dog! Alladin Sane, Ziggy Stardust, and ALL the OTHERS!
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

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  • Gatecrasher
    Gatecrasher Posts: 1,550
    It makes you wonder if his final album really was his "farewell" to the world?

    It's pretty-ironic that he would release it on his 69th birthday and then would die two days later. When I was watching the Bowie special on Palladia over the weekend I wasn't aware it was his birthday.
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    edited January 2016
    Listen to the song and the video Lazarus. Too me he sees his impending death and is saying goodbye
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • Gatecrasher
    Gatecrasher Posts: 1,550
    edited January 2016
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    Listen to the Song and watch the video Lazarus. Too me it is pretty apparent he is saying goodbye.

    You know, I saw the vid several days before his death and thought it was kind of "dark" (but still good). Now that we know a little more about what was going on in his life it makes more sense.
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    I still have my copy of station to station I used to play in 1976 before going to school, no record cleaners, alignment tools for the tonearm or needle, would not have been helpful anyway since it was made into the top of my western auto stereo.

    Carlos Alomars guitar still does it for me after all these years.
    humpty dumpty was pushed
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited January 2016
    Heros today is till one of my faves. He will be missed.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,649
    So, the original thread started by BlueFox at 2:34 AM in the Clubhouse gets moved here to a thread started afterwards by someone else? That's just wrong and besides this thread belongs in the Clubhouse, please move it back and in the proper order.

    On another note, on the Steve Hoffman Forum there are 1200 posts about Bowie's passing with 72,000 views......72,000!!!
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • Gatecrasher
    Gatecrasher Posts: 1,550
    edited January 2016
    Have they said what form of cancer David was fighting yet?

    The last I heard they hadn't said what type he had. Seeing that he smoked cigarettes up to at least a couple years ago and the fact that the cancer seemed to be pretty-aggressive (18 months from the time he was diagnosed until his death) I wouldn't be surprised if it was lung cancer.

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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    I heard liver.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • slbenz
    slbenz Posts: 97
    RIP. You will be missed.
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    deeply saddened :-( rip David
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  • Gatecrasher
    Gatecrasher Posts: 1,550
    I saw today that his new album is rocketing to #1 and will be the only #1 album of his career.

    Funny how that works especially with the body of work Bowie had.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    Title track, Black Star is not of this earth. Deep, dark, macabre; like staring Death in the Face and realizing it is YOUR face that is staring back! Definitely not for "everyone", some will find it disturbing, some will wonder how it is even possible!
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    edited January 2016
    So would you say he turned his dying into art. I need to get this album.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    So would you say he turned his dying into art. I need to get this album.

    Without a doubt! I've only heard a handful of tracks but at least THREE of them are this!
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,305
    So I sat down with The Black Star album tonight, lots of irony in the song Lazarus, creepy as the album was released 2 days before his death. Obviously written after he found out about cancer, and assume his release date was planned around his last days.

    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 ****

    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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