David Bowie RIP

[Pabmusic]

Definitely worth a mention in the history of our great art.

RIP, David.



I shall watch Labyrinth later.

[teamsaint]

I was very taken aback when I heard this news.

a great talent, and a wonderful body of work.
more than anything though, he simply was the soundtrack of the lives of so many people , especially in the 70's.

THe first Bowie I heard ( and saw)was Starman, when I was 10 years old in 1972. A revelatory piece of music and film for me, and even now those first few chords still stop me in my tracks. Fabulous.

Going to be a lot of sad people out there with this news.

[Anna]

When I heard, on Radio 4, just now I admit I was absolutely knocked sideways at the news and thought it really cannot be true. It's difficult to know exactly what to say at the moment. So sad, and only just 69. He's been there all my life, constantly reinventing himself and somehow always getting it right. Sheer genius

[pastoralguy]

Very sad news indeed. Part of my life from before I knew anything about classical music.

Thanks for the music, Mr. Bowie.

[teamsaint]

""Heroes""

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be Heroes, just for one day

And you, you can be mean
And I, I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that

Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time,
just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d'you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing,
nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes,
just for one day

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be Heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns shot above our heads
(over our heads)
And we kissed,
as though nothing could fall
(nothing could fall)
And the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes,
just for one day

We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes

We're nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying,
then you better not stay
But we could be safer,
just for one day

Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh,
just for one day

[johncorrigan]

Very shocked to hear this. There was new music due out and that was the news I expected. For me, 'Space Oddity' when I was a paperboy walking about with my radio - never heard anything like it before or since...and 'Modern Love' when me and the Mrs C were courting. Mrs C a big fan. This news will upset her as it will many people who love lots of different types of music. Never stood still.

[verismissimo]

He's been with me since the 1970s, but only on this morning's news did I pick up that he had initially modelled his vocal style on Anthony Newley. So obvious, really.

An innovator partly because he conceived his work as performance art, not just singing. (As Lady Gaga has most recently.)

[HighlandDougie]

Empire Theatre Edinburgh, 1972 (?), Ziggy Stardust tour. Never had I imagined that music could be performed like this. First Pierre Boulez, now David Bowie. Terribly sad.

[Bryn]

[Conchis]

One of the great twentieth century lives (well, largely) has ended.

After the Beatles, the most important rock artist Britain has produced; after Bob Dylan, the THIRD most important rock artist the world has produced.

A mind-boggling array of music, the vast majority of it great and/or worthwhile.

Tempting to say we won't look on his like again but, of course, he'll continue to have his imitators.

[Nevilevelis]

He's been with me since the 1970s, but only on this morning's news did I pick up that he had initially modelled his vocal style on Anthony Newley. So obvious, really.

An innovator partly because he conceived his work as performance art, not just singing. (As Lady Gaga has most recently.)

One of my opera chums, a bass, does the most extraordinary impersonation (physical and vocal) of Bowie. He told me about the Newley influence.

[zola]

I was the DJ at Friars in Aylesbury in the early seventies and my perch was adjacent to the dressing rooms at the side of the stage and so I met him a couple of times. There were many memorable nights there but the stand outs have to be the two gigs done by David Bowie. The first a tentative workout with Mick Ronson of the Hunky Dory material when the club management had taken a real punt on even booking him. But it went down a storm and in gratitude more than anything else, he subsequently returned in full Ziggy Stardust mode to play what was by then an inappropriately small venue. The most important figure in his field.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Completely unexpected news - someone who caught the mood of the early '70s for so many people and who managed to remain a formidable presence in the cruelly fickle world of the Pop Music "business". Far too young.

[visualnickmos]

A genius of his unique genre. Even the most familiar 'tracks' listened to thousands of times are always fresh, new, and brilliant. And such a nice chap.

[Beef Oven!]

I am so shocked, devastated.
Can't get the words. Fighting back the tears, mustn't cry.
RIP, David