R I P David Bowie

News breaking that David Bowie has sadly passed away following an 18 month battle against cancer. Grew up listening to Bowie as he was my uncles favourite performer. Sad times

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3393470/David-Bowie-dies-18-month-battle-cancer.html

 

Sad news indeed.....just saw your post on FB mate. Like you, grew up with listening to Bowie and saw him once in London on the glass spider tour.

 

Another iconic legend of music (and in this case, every cliché actually applies) departs.

This man shaped music for decades, massive shock for anyone who grew up listening to it. My and my mate used to listen to Diamond Dogs (and a bit of Led Zep) night after night in my early teens....

 

He was an acquired taste I thought, loved some of it, disliked some.. no doubting his star quality though.

Shame.. RIP DB.

 

Bowie was totally unique, like him or loathe him he was very very special. From the 60's he's appealed to every generation right up to now. His latest album seems haunting - did he plan it right to the end ? - typical of Bowie that will keep us guessing.

 

Another sad loss from the era of music that got me hooked on it in the first place.

Someone else who was totally unique and irreplaceable is now gone

RIP David Jones

 

Sadly the big c has taken another icon, along with more and more folk being taken by the horrible
Disease.

R-I-P David Bowie

 

Absolutely irreplaceable – I could never call myself a massive fan, but I could appreciate his genius.
I just hope Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy can hang on in there until June – I bought tickets to see ELO in Birmingham on 23rd !!!

 

Like many, I was not a massive fan of his style of music but he was iconic in his day, very sad.

 

the most creative musician of the last forty years- a true true great, the first time I saw him at the colston hall on the Ziggy stardust tour, I knew I"d seen something very special, and still making music that was relevant at the very last, rip, the prettiest star.

 

I'm seeing them on Friday 22nd at the O2...with 'special guests' Am hoping that both will still be around for many years to come and that the special guests are someone like Tom Petty or Roy Wood, although the latter is probably unlikely.

 

.. or Dylan maybe?

 

That would be uber cool...!

 

Cheers Wiz - yes I have heard it, but I am currently listening to Eldorado - I'd forgotten how good that LP is and a mate gave me a copy CD last week (my old tape album copy bit the dust a long time ago!)

Back to Bowie - as I said I wasn't a massive fan, but 3 songs in particular I do really love (and do sing/play if bribed with enough alcohol at parties and a guitar is shoved into my hand!); Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust and Starman.

 

Cheers Wiz

A hero of mine since I first heard Showdown.....

Also have the album which I think is more Jeff Lynne than classic ELO sound, but very listenable

 

A "STAR MAN WAITING IN THE SKY"! R I P David Bowie.

 

This news shook me and I have to say that I drove along St.John's Lane today with tears
in my eyes. As a teenager in the 60s there was Rock 'n Roll at the start with Little Richard,
Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent et al......then the British replies in Billy Fury moving into the
Rolling Stones, Beatles etc and the eye-opening exposure to American Blues and R'nB
culminating in Detroit Motown and Stax, Atlantic and Philly.
And then, right at the end of the 60s, along came this Eastender David Jones and his shattering
creations of Ziggy and the Space Oddity.
A loss on a par with Lennon and Elvis.
David Bowie. R.I.P.