David Bowie has died

[seedy]

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[MJKT2014]

I have never heard him sing, I could not even name any of his songs, but he was obviously a big star, so may he rest in peace.

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David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U16Xg_rQZkA

David Bowie - The Jean Genie

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

David Bowie – Suffragette City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnPd7lzT4g

Edited January 12, 2016 by seedy
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[seedy]

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[balo]

I have never heard him sing, I could not even name any of his songs, but he was obviously a big star, so may he rest in peace.

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David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U16Xg_rQZkA

David Bowie - The Jean Genie

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

David Bowie – Suffragette City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnPd7lzT4g

It depends on which generation you belong to , for us around 50 we will remember his newer songs best .

The point is there is a classic hit for everyone in any decade since the 60's. That is unique . Even Sir Paul would be proud with that achievement.

[Ace of Pop]

Too puffy for me in those days or now

[MiKT]

MiKt. Just what is your problem?? I never knocked David Bowie, I said that I would have difficulty naming any of his songs, the same would be said about Elton John.

I have never been into that sort of music, I even said RIP in my post about Bowie.

I would think an apology would be in order.

I most certainly don’t want anything to do with all the ugly crap that is flying around this thread about a great man who just died in tragic circumstances and deprived the world of a huge talent. But Possum 1931you have posted a direct insult to me and I believe I should be allowed to answer it.

I understand that you are a marvellous man, a wonderful mother, finger f.. good; and I just bet that you can fry eggs so sunny that the BMA could use them to replace the “bring back happiness or else” light show at a fraction of the cost; but I also presume that you have been sipping the good ol boy mounnnn duw and (true to form) simply can’t remember what you posted yesterday. So here’s a reminder -

You said “I was brought up with real singers like Elvis and Roy Orbison, although I don't remember when they first came out”.

“I would bet that David Bowie was not in the same class as any of these two”.

“Besides I wasn't into that sort of music, I started off professionally with a showband, then into American country music”

And now you have the temerity to claim you were not knocking Bowie.

Well, I love Elvis and Roy Orbison and I can remember when they first came out and I consider your comments to be a direct insult to them as well as to Bowie, they are, as somebody has very nicely pointed out, as incomparable a Mozart and Beethoven.

But the real point is that last week such a comment would only have elicited a stupid debate about different types of music and singers and your strange lack of musical knowledge; but yesterday we heard that David Bowie died and that make your comments totally insensitive and inappropriate.

So unless your name really is Scuzzy Twittly, I still consider that you are the C in Country and that YOU now owe ME an apology.

[SoiBiker]

Rather unfortunate article in yesterday's New York Times -

[geriatrickid]

Had every album (LP) up to and including Diamond Dogs, wonderous music.

Me too and I still have them. I was lucky enough to see him 3 times in concert and in each one, he was a transformation from the previous persona. RIP David

David Bowie also played the small venues for his fans, managed to get tickets when he played The Leeds and Country Club in 1995. Sadly I don't have the albums any more.

He would also tour (unannounced) as a band member after producing albums for other performers.

Saw him in 1977 when Iggy Pop was touring "The Idiot" album which Bowie produced. Bowie played keyboards and did backing vocals.

Glad you mentioned Iggy. He gives Bowie full props for his help and support. That's why so many of his peers respected him. A reportedly shy and retiring guy. I saw him at Heathrow once whilst waiting for my driver. The Virgin Airlines escorts were over the moon about him, but the little frail guy was very reticent. He just waited for his driver. No fuss, no muss. A very English man like so many of his era. Polite and well mannered. I was shocked by how small a guy he was. And yes, the term thin sure applied to the fellow.

[Jip99]

I quite liked this one:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/why-those-who-were-teenagers-in-the-70s-will-feel-the-loss-of-da/

[mpa]

He was my favorite fascist sympathiser. Funny to see how the British left are glossing over that part of him....

Maybe you should try to interpret his knighthood refusal:

I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don’t know what it’s for.

[Tywais]

From the International Space Station

[KarenBravo]

He would also tour (unannounced) as a band member after producing albums for other performers.

Saw him in 1977 when Iggy Pop was touring "The Idiot" album which Bowie produced. Bowie played keyboards and did backing vocals.

Glad you mentioned Iggy. He gives Bowie full props for his help and support. That's why so many of his peers respected him. A reportedly shy and retiring guy. I saw him at Heathrow once whilst waiting for my driver. The Virgin Airlines escorts were over the moon about him, but the little frail guy was very reticent. He just waited for his driver. No fuss, no muss. A very English man like so many of his era. Polite and well mannered. I was shocked by how small a guy he was. And yes, the term thin sure applied to the fellow.

You do know that Iggy Pop isn't English, right? He's American.

[SoiBiker]

He would also tour (unannounced) as a band member after producing albums for other performers.

Saw him in 1977 when Iggy Pop was touring "The Idiot" album which Bowie produced. Bowie played keyboards and did backing vocals.

Glad you mentioned Iggy. He gives Bowie full props for his help and support. That's why so many of his peers respected him. A reportedly shy and retiring guy. I saw him at Heathrow once whilst waiting for my driver. The Virgin Airlines escorts were over the moon about him, but the little frail guy was very reticent. He just waited for his driver. No fuss, no muss. A very English man like so many of his era. Polite and well mannered. I was shocked by how small a guy he was. And yes, the term thin sure applied to the fellow.

You do know that Iggy Pop isn't English, right? He's American.

I think they're describing Bowie, you know.

[KarenBravo]

Sorry, sounded like he was talking about Iggy.

[SiSePuede419]

"David Bowie invented the Punk before we knew the word"

Not really.

Jerry Lott's 1958 record "Love Me" (recorded under "The Phantom") can be seen as a precursor to the punk sound.

But he did represent the dreary, pessimistic intellectual mindset of his country at that time. I prefer more optimistic music myself.

Not into the SUPER DREARY Smiths either, although there's a whole subculture down in Mexico that loves him.

I think for that era, Patti Smith and The New York Dolls best captured the proto-punk spirit.

That would later emerge on Jonathan Richman's 1976 album "The Modern Lovers" -- the first true punk album.

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Edited January 12, 2016 by SiSePuede419

[SoiBiker]

I'd call Raw Power a punk album, and that dates from 1973 - and was produced by Mr Bowie.

But nobody invented punk. It's an attitude that's always been around in some form or other.

[MrTee]

MiKt. Just what is your problem?? I never knocked David Bowie,

Just as well, you would probably be stoned by the culturally intolerant on here if you did

I already have been stoned for just saying that I would be hard pushed to name any of Bowies songs.

I just cannot get some people to understand that ie, if anyone was not a jazz fan, they would probably

be hard pushed to name any famous jazz singer or musicians songs.

I know Possum personally, he is a music guy like me and I can confirm there was no malice in his post.........Lets move on.....

so where do you guys drink? I'd love to hook-up..

[SoiBiker]

[MiKT]

He was my favorite fascist sympathiser. Funny to see how the British left are glossing over that part of him....

Huge loss to the World of Music.

Bowie was no more a fascist sympathiser than was Churchill, you need to look a tiny fraction of a millimeter beyond the obvious. He just thrived on controversy of all kinds. But he was married to a black woman which aught to point you in the right direction if you care to look a little deeper.

[BadBouy]

Rest peacefully David. A toast to a legendary artist, musician, and showman. Cheers!

[NoshowJones]

Mr Tee, why don't you send a PM? Transam lives in Ubon.

I live in Phichit. Possum.

[jacky54]

He was my favorite fascist sympathiser. Funny to see how the British left are glossing over that part of him....

Huge loss to the World of Music.

Bowie was no more a fascist sympathiser than was Churchill, you need to look a tiny fraction of a millimeter beyond the obvious. He just thrived on controversy of all kinds. But he was married to a black woman which aught to point you in the right direction if you care to look a little deeper.

Churchill did not describe Hitler as the first rock star but Bowie did, but then he could be forgiven anything it seems including reckless sex and cocaine use, because he was a musician.

[casualbiker]

He was my favorite fascist sympathiser. Funny to see how the British left are glossing over that part of him....

Huge loss to the World of Music.

Bowie was no more a fascist sympathiser than was Churchill, you need to look a tiny fraction of a millimeter beyond the obvious. He just thrived on controversy of all kinds. But he was married to a black woman which aught to point you in the right direction if you care to look a little deeper.

Churchill did not describe Hitler as the first rock star but Bowie did, but then he could be forgiven anything it seems including reckless sex and cocaine use, because he was a musician.

Bowie described Hitler as the first Rock star! When, where?

[MiKT]

He was my favorite fascist sympathiser. Funny to see how the British left are glossing over that part of him....

Huge loss to the World of Music.

Bowie was no more a fascist sympathiser than was Churchill, you need to look a tiny fraction of a millimeter beyond the obvious. He just thrived on controversy of all kinds. But he was married to a black woman which aught to point you in the right direction if you care to look a little deeper.

Churchill did not describe Hitler as the first rock star but Bowie did, but then he could be forgiven anything it seems including reckless sex and cocaine use, because he was a musician.

What are you a priest? What has forgivness got to do with it?

I never have anything to do with drugs but I love all types of music and what the musicians do to themselves has to be ignored otherwise I doubt that we would be listening to anything besides a Sally Army brass band - and even they have been known to ask "Is Their Life on Mars".

There are musicians I positively dislike and some I've met who I would not touch with a barge pole, but still appreciate their music.

The lives of some/most of the best classical masters certainly don't stand up to close scrutiny and you can say the same for painters, authors, etc. Even the great Churchill.

Check out the real reasons behind Bowies Nazi references before you condemn him for that.

PS If you never had any reckless sex, it probably explains why you are so up tight.

[Scott]

I very strongly suggest that some members stop trolling and baiting others. Continue, and you may receive a suspension.

The thread is about the death of David Bowie.

[mcfish]

Mick, his blond haired lead guitarist that shaped the sound of early stuff like major tom also died of cancer but at just 45

[MrTee]

And in his death, as his corpse lays rotting, he became even more enigmatic..

Blackstar.

What a thing to do - it feels like it has deeper meaning than anything he did before.

[MrTee]

Here is something special

Rick Wakeman's Tribute To David Bowie - Life On Mars

[Skeptic7]

Moonage Daydream- brilliant.

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Truly brilliant...though most of what Bowie did was brilliant

[Skeptic7]

The world has lost a musical Jean-genius and legendary performing artist. The original Glam Rocker. A true STAR MAN

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