David Bowie has died
11 January 2016, 08:08 AM
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Can't believe it - it reminds you that geniuses don't live forever. RIP
It shows how influential his music was when 'Life on Mars' used it as its main theme in 2007 and still sounded brilliant.
It shows how influential his music was when 'Life on Mars' used it as its main theme in 2007 and still sounded brilliant.
11 January 2016, 08:11 AM
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Sound and vision
RIP
RIP
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11 January 2016, 08:57 AM
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Very sad news, I heard it while driving at the top of the Shaun Keavey breakfast show on 6 Music.
Bizarre how cancer got both him and Lemmy so soon after their birthdays and born only a year apart. RIP
Bizarre how cancer got both him and Lemmy so soon after their birthdays and born only a year apart. RIP
11 January 2016, 11:07 AM
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Pontificating
I think we can use the word Legend without criticism for the man, the artiste, the musician, the wordsmith, the showman that was David Bowie
As a spotty 13 year old buying Scarey Monsters and Super Creeps opened up a whole back catalogue of genius work for me and buying whole load of vinyl followed
I felt he became all commercialised with Lets Dance and we never saw the true innovative David Bowie again after that release.
A sad day in my musical life
RIP
As a spotty 13 year old buying Scarey Monsters and Super Creeps opened up a whole back catalogue of genius work for me and buying whole load of vinyl followed
I felt he became all commercialised with Lets Dance and we never saw the true innovative David Bowie again after that release.
A sad day in my musical life
RIP
11 January 2016, 11:15 AM
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Heard it on the car radio on the way to work this morning and I was truly shocked. Didn't know he was that ill. Great loss to the music industry.
Rest in Peace, David Bowie.
Rest in Peace, David Bowie.
11 January 2016, 12:22 PM
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I went to see him - on the Serious Moonlight tour
in 1983 - I think, at the Milton Keynes bowl (Eddie Grant was the support)
my memory was of perfecting going to the toilet amongst the 30 odd thousand people in a orange juice carton (we were quite near the front)
not a skill I have had to use that often - thank god
wiki says either 1/2/3 July 1983
in 1983 - I think, at the Milton Keynes bowl (Eddie Grant was the support)
my memory was of perfecting going to the toilet amongst the 30 odd thousand people in a orange juice carton (we were quite near the front)
not a skill I have had to use that often - thank god
wiki says either 1/2/3 July 1983
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11 January 2016, 03:37 PM
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thanks for merging 
his ability to adapt and change was incredible and sets him apart from most artists
and over such a long period of time too
Heroes is another brilliant song and deffo a fav of mine
his ability to adapt and change was incredible and sets him apart from most artists
and over such a long period of time too
Heroes is another brilliant song and deffo a fav of mine
11 January 2016, 06:28 PM
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That's what I loved about him: many of his songs are so varied and different and it wasn't just being different for the sakes of it either. Take Adele as a contrast with her no.1s and record breaking sales but the majority of her songs are the same; same theme, same genre, even similar lyrics (usually about love or some dude she once knew). This is where Bowie is a legendary artist and Adele is just a good singer that can scribble some lyrics together (btw I'm not saying Adele is crap, just contrasting Bowie to a current popular singer).
11 January 2016, 06:42 PM
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Watching all the tributes coming in today, one thing puzzles me. Where was the knighthood (Sir Bob, Sir Mick, Sir Paul, Sir Elton...)?
I don't know if he even got an OBE or similar.
I don't know if he even got an OBE or similar.
11 January 2016, 07:02 PM
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11 January 2016, 07:13 PM
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11 January 2016, 09:49 PM
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That's what I loved about him: many of his songs are so varied and different and it wasn't just being different for the sakes of it either. Take Adele as a contrast with her no.1s and record breaking sales butgf the majority of her songs are the same; same theme, same genre, even similar lyrics (usually about love or some dude she once knew). This is where Bowie is a legendary artist and Adele is just a good singer that can scribble some lyrics together (btw I'm not saying Adele is crap, just contrasting Bowie to a current popular singer).
He went from glam rock to the first white artist to top the American black soul charts, with Young Americans in 5 odd years
Astounding
(Luther Vandross, another fave of mine on backing vocals)