Bowie gone now
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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- Reading, obvs
I can't say I was a huge Bowie fan, but I have an enormous respect for any musician who constantly innovated and wasn't content just to rehash his old stuff all the time.
And it's refreshing to find that for once, when someone has died, all the tributes appear to be warm and heartfelt and the worst thing that anyone has been able to say about him so far is that he could be a bit curmudgeonly.
And it's refreshing to find that for once, when someone has died, all the tributes appear to be warm and heartfelt and the worst thing that anyone has been able to say about him so far is that he could be a bit curmudgeonly.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Thank you for the reminder. I had not heard it for years until tonight. A mighty blast of nostalgia from my teenage years of Canadian Club & Coke, Afghan Black, Old Holborn and hopeless, hopeless yearnings.
A wonderful song.
Colin_P
Guru
Like many others, he has provided the soundtrack to my life.
Although his output was diminished in later years, he was always there. I remember in 2013 when the next day album came out of nowhere it was like receiving a heartfelt gift. He was always relevant and never turned into a pastiche of himself. Not got Blackstar yet but it will be with heavy heart it is listened to. Have seen the Lazarus video which caused goosebumps but not in the nice way.
In my mind he was also arguably the coolest human being to have ever lived.
Although his output was diminished in later years, he was always there. I remember in 2013 when the next day album came out of nowhere it was like receiving a heartfelt gift. He was always relevant and never turned into a pastiche of himself. Not got Blackstar yet but it will be with heavy heart it is listened to. Have seen the Lazarus video which caused goosebumps but not in the nice way.
In my mind he was also arguably the coolest human being to have ever lived.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
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- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
the world of david bowie was a brilliant album , sell me a coat, being one of my favourites
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0aMQkBWaFY
followed by this, love you till tuesday
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUzT3kepiY
I was never his biggest fan but over the past few years, attempting to educate my kids in "proper" (ie. old man's stuff) music, played his music more than I ever did in my yoof. My kids, (4, 5 & 8) love him.
Played Life On Mars in the van to work and realised just how much he had figured in the soundtrack of my life.
RIP. A uniquely British artist and a great talent.
Played Life On Mars in the van to work and realised just how much he had figured in the soundtrack of my life.
RIP. A uniquely British artist and a great talent.
I've just tracked down and listened to "Let's Dance" and confirmed that it is indeed the "Let's Dance / Put on your red shoes and dance the blues" song that lives in my head that I didn't know what it was or where it had come from. I listened to classical music almost exclusively when I was younger, a song had to be big indeed to insert itself into my brain like that.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
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- The hills of Accrington
How the heck did Keith Richards outlive him?
How the ~@#!! has Keith Richards outlived ANYONE?!!
http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/08/addiction-files-the-keith-richards-blueprint-for-recovery/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/times-keith-richards-almost-died/
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
I was thinking the same about Lemmy... for about twenty years until....How the ~@#!! has Keith Richards outlived ANYONE?!!
http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/08/addiction-files-the-keith-richards-blueprint-for-recovery/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/times-keith-richards-almost-died/
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
I think you've got the one with Ricky Gervais in the middle...
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Now if he had passed I wouldn't be sad, although I wouldn't wish it on him.
Speaking of Gervais, remember seeing this for the first time, cracked me up -
http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/506u
http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/506u
SteCenturion
I am your Father
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- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Two very special photo's there.
How the heck did Keith Richards outlive him?
Not such a big Lemmy fan but, Bowie & Keef in the same room ...
just WOW.
Agent Hilda
The Babe
I’m looking out of the office window at the slipper of a moon through the dark branches of our tree.
The window has rain on it. My hands are cold.
I am so sad
A long long time ago on a planet far far away I was at a party in a 60’s semi in Surrey. It was a boozy dopey party. I had two boyfriends who were brothers. Funnily enough, called Simon and John C. One was in the sixth form and dark, one was in my class and blonde. The fight hadn’t happened.
They put a record on the record player. It was Ch ch ch changes, by David Bowie. One of the boys had monster flares. I was wearing pin stripped trousers and a waist coat that my mum made for me from a pattern, copied from some Oxford Bags in Chelsea Girl.
We kissed. Someone opened a giant can of beer and it exploded onto the ceiling. We put asprin in bottles of cider.
When I heard Bowie was dead, I was stunned. I sent a text. ‘Have a coffee. On bike! Bowie died ’. I was on the trainer crying, cycling, being flimsy. How odd. He never knew me, never met me, never read a facebook post, or a tweet.
I don’t want David Bowie to rest in peace, I want him to be here, being cool. There isn’t anyone else .
And no piece of music ever took me back so fast to one moment, to one particular feeling as that. That’s why we are so sad and put out flowers and sing his songs in wet squares and put up pictures of him.
For me it’s a loss and I am sorry for us all.
The window has rain on it. My hands are cold.
I am so sad
A long long time ago on a planet far far away I was at a party in a 60’s semi in Surrey. It was a boozy dopey party. I had two boyfriends who were brothers. Funnily enough, called Simon and John C. One was in the sixth form and dark, one was in my class and blonde. The fight hadn’t happened.
They put a record on the record player. It was Ch ch ch changes, by David Bowie. One of the boys had monster flares. I was wearing pin stripped trousers and a waist coat that my mum made for me from a pattern, copied from some Oxford Bags in Chelsea Girl.
We kissed. Someone opened a giant can of beer and it exploded onto the ceiling. We put asprin in bottles of cider.
When I heard Bowie was dead, I was stunned. I sent a text. ‘Have a coffee. On bike! Bowie died ’. I was on the trainer crying, cycling, being flimsy. How odd. He never knew me, never met me, never read a facebook post, or a tweet.
I don’t want David Bowie to rest in peace, I want him to be here, being cool. There isn’t anyone else .
And no piece of music ever took me back so fast to one moment, to one particular feeling as that. That’s why we are so sad and put out flowers and sing his songs in wet squares and put up pictures of him.
For me it’s a loss and I am sorry for us all.
