David Bowie RIP

[Bubbles]

 

 

[Bubbles]

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Just heard it 

[Rhiannon]

Noooooo.   

[Leonard James]

The moving finger writes ....

[Humph Warden Bennett]

RIP to my school's most famous old boy

[Aruntraveller]

The moving finger writes ....

Yes but does it have to write so harshly and with such haste?

[Nearly Sane]

Friend of mine wrote this blog, 3 years ago, just before he died at a ridiculously early age. Covers my feelings better than I could.

http://kennyharrisblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/ziggy-stardust-changed-my-life.html?m=1

[Gonnagle]

Rest in Peace Mr Bowie.

[wigginhall]

He seemed like Peter Pan, like he would go on for ever.  Thanks for all the music, Mr Oddity.  He said a while ago that he wrote about the highlights of his life - loneliness, anxiety, abandonment, and he helped generations of people process those things.  Thanks, thanks,  thanks.

[Hope]

Yes but does it have to write so harshly and with such haste?

I'm not sure that 18 months of cancer is 'with such haste', Trent.

DB was never one of my favourite musicians - at least not so that I bought any of his records, but pretty well evey album contained what, to me, were jewels.  I've heard people say that he was on a par with Elvis (did Elvis ever write his own stuff?), Lennon et al, but I'm not sure that that is even the right approach.  He broke ground on a regular basis, which was then developed and sharpened by others, whilst the likes of Lennon and co seemed to hone one or two particular genres.

He will be greatly missed.

[L.A.]

Terrible shock - and just after the new album.When you hear it, it's as if he wrote his own requiem.

RIP David

[Shaker]

Noooooo.   

My reaction exactly, especially as I hadn't known he'd been ill - I don't know if he'd made it public or not but if he did, I missed it.

Lemmy and Bowie within a few days of each other. Gutted ... absolutely gutted 

[Leonard James]

Yes but does it have to write so harshly and with such haste?

No matter how much we try to control our lives, Trent, events move us inexorably towards our death.

It's sad, but that's the way it is. Enjoy the journey as much as you can.

[Gonnagle]

Dear Forum,

Jeremy Vine radio 2, 12.00 hrs will be paying tribute to Bowie.

Gonnagle.

[Nearly Sane]

Dear Forum,

Jeremy Vine radio 2, 12.00 hrs will be paying tribute to Bowie.

Gonnagle.

Nicky Campbell was brilliant this morning on 5 Live - the appreciation of a true fan.

[Gonnagle]

Dear Sane,

Listening to Vine at the moment, you can hear it in his voice, his good wife advised him not to cycle to work this morning as he was in no fit state after hearing about the great man's death.

Gonnagle.

[Aruntraveller]

I'm not sure that 18 months of cancer is 'with such haste', Trent

I merely meant that the grim reaper was in a hurry to take him away from us far too soon. I was not referring to the length of his illness.

[Nearly Sane]

Dear Sane,

Listening to Vine at the moment, you can hear it in his voice, his good wife advised him not to cycle to work this morning as he was in no fit state after hearing about the great man's death.

Gonnagle.

Pondering a post about Bowie and your question on cultural Christianity, given that I could describe the day I was converted to Bowieism, and was just listening to the new album this weekend with the single Lazarus, with the lyrics

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'


But that will take a little thought, till then here is a blog from Chris Difford


http://chrisdifford.com/blog/david-bowie/

[Shaker]

I merely meant that the grim reaper was in a hurry to take him away from us far too soon. I was not referring to the length of his illness.

Indeed. Who knows, he may have retired when he got to 70 - but on the other hand, he could have carried on making music and doing other things for another decade at least.

We'll never know.

[Rhiannon]

With some people it feels like too soon whatever age they were.

[Shaker]

With some people it feels like too soon whatever age they were.

Sadly, yes. I think it was David Baddiel (may be wrong) who said that he seemed to have assumed that Bowie was immortal - he'd been around for so long that it just seemed as though he'd keep going on and on into the future. And at huge risk of cliche, 69 is no age now, with life expectancy as it is.

Still, as with poor old Lemmy, there's a case to be made that given his lifestyle years ago (though not recently) it's amazing that he got to the age he did.

[Rhiannon]

There's also the legacy that such an artist leaves, and not just their own work. My cousin, a passionate Bowie fan, once argued that without Bowie artists like Jarvis Cocker wouldn't have become the performers that they have.

[Shaker]

Not just Jarvis and Pulp; a vast swathe of what was known at the time as the Britpop phenomenon in the 90s (I was there, man, I was there) wouldn't have existed with Bowie's influence. Just think of Suede, for example.

[wigginhall]

It's not just about influences in pop though, I would call him one of the great English artists of all time. 

[Rhiannon]

Oh goodness, if ever anyone was influenced by Bowie it's Brett Anderson.