Sad but true: David Bowie dead at 69

This shocker moved late last night. Bowie was one of the all-time greats and is the biggest rock star death since Michael Jackson. I was a big fan and can't believe he's gone. Saw the Diamond Dogs tour, an all-time spectacle, in Long Beach, CA. He also had released a new album not long ago. He's also notable for being sexually androgynous long before it was a fad.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/11/entertainment/david … index.html

By BearinFW | 01/11/2016 04:01 AM | 8 comments

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So many different songs, from Ziggy to the Thin White Duke and beyond. I think this is one of his prettiest. Quite the composition. A church organist in Scotland played this after he passed. It's on YouTube.

Ken_77 01/13/2016 09:17 PM

Brilliant musician and lyricist, never predictable, great voice and great looking. Always loved his eyes. And he had a great sense of humor. A truly gifted individual with a lot of class and style from the beginning.

Ken_77 01/13/2016 07:44 PM

He was relentless, fierce, fearless and effortlessly unique, i can't believe we are referring to him in the past tense now, i always thought he was gonna be around forever. He was an icon before it was tossed around and applied to any old hack...The world seems a little less colourful today now he's not in it, but oh what wonderful music he left us to enjoy. Play his songs today and remember how great, how essential, how cool he was...thank you, and Vale, David Bowie... (play Absolute Beginners on Youtube and try hard not to cry...)

johnmac62 01/12/2016 04:56 AM

Check out this video of "Lazarus" from Bowie's "Blackstar" album, released just three days before his death. Haunting, morbid, Bowie writing his own obituary .... all can apply, but it shows Bowie as a relevant, creative force, all the way to the very end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

BearinFW 01/12/2016 04:14 AM

We all have favorite moments of people we wish we could have known. For me it was seeing Ziggy in “The Elephant Man” on Broadway and in the movie “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.” Others could have done the parts David played… but I just can’t imagine it. He will rest well because he had to have know that he was respected as a performer and loved as the man he chose to be.

MachineToole 01/11/2016 10:31 PM

hey thanks for the post bud...R.I.P. Ziggy....i'll always have great memories!!!!

mickey51 01/11/2016 05:18 PM

RIP to a legend and inspiration to all.
Heres a youtube playlist with some of his hits.

Marc 01/11/2016 01:23 PM

Bowie had a long and prolific career in no small part because he was able to reinvent himself over the years. But this version of Bowie, the one that blew away the rock world in the early 1970s, is the one that lingers most for me. Here's a live version of "The Jean Genie" from the outstanding "Aladdin Sane" album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQo6zpVzt8

BearinFW 01/11/2016 04:22 AM