David Bowie Passed Away

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The Omega Man said:
According to his producer:

David Bowie's last release, Lazarus, was 'parting gift' for fans in carefully planned finale

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I think that's very noble of him, to even use his death as a performance. Many people just pull away from stardom and fame, but Bowie, being the weird guy he was, he used it in a way to do unique things.

In a way, it makes his death less sad and actually intresting. We all die as organisms, and dissolution is the nature of reality, but at least he played that stream at a meta level, in a sense.
 
I cried when I read this.

He's one of the greatest artists of all time. Ride the cosmic waves of the galaxy forever Ziggy Stardust.
 
I'll always regret not naming my cat, Ziggy. He has the stripe over the eye almost down, but it occurred to me too late.

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Listening to random tracks from Low-Lodger-Heroes. Look Back In Anger is such a great tune.
Bowie - Look Back In Anger

Also, is it wrong for such a big Bowie fan to never have seen Labyrinth? I really should attempt to correct that.
 
injurai said:
An interview on David Bowie's Earthling Album (1997) on the song's themes of belief and death.

David Bowie: "I guess the common ground with all the songs is this abiding need in me to vacillate between atheism or a kind of gnosticism. I keep going backwards and forwards between the two things, because they mean a lot in my life. I mean, the church doesn't enter into my writing, or my thoughts; I have no empathy with any organized religions. What I need is to find a balance, spiritually, with the way I live and my demise. And that period of time -- from today until my demise --- is the only thing that fascinates me."

Interviewer: "You're already thinking about your death?"

DB: "I don't think there's been a time when I haven't. It was ennobled with a romantic, cavalier attitude when I was much younger, but it was still there. Now it's measured with rationality. I know that this life is finite and I have to accept that."

I: "What's stopping you from believing in an afterlife?"

DB: "I didn't say I didn't. I believe in a continuation, kind of a dream-state without the dreams. Oh I don't know. I'll come back and tell you."
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Here's another piece about his views.

Like so many aspects of this man, Bowie is difficult to pin down–even to himself. By his own account, he’s tried about every religion in the book, saying:
"I was young, fancy free, and Tibetan Buddhism appealed to me at that time. I thought, ‘There’s salvation.’ It didn’t really work. Then I went through Nietzsche, Satanism, Christianity… pottery, and ended up singing. It’s been a long road."

In his advanced years, he said:
"I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months."
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Came across this - such a fascinating man.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...to-prousts-famous-questionnaire-a6806156.html

David Bowie's brilliant answers to Marcel Proust's famous questionnaire in 2009:

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Reading.

What is your most marked characteristic?

Getting a word in edgewise.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Discovering morning.

What is your greatest fear?

Converting kilometers to miles.

What historical figure do you most identify with?

Santa Claus.

Which living person do you most admire?

Elvis.

Who are your heroes in real life?

The consumer.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

While in New York, tolerance.

Outside New York, intolerance.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Talent.

What is your favorite journey?

The road of artistic excess.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Sympathy and originality.

Which word or phrases do you most overuse?

“Chthonic,” “miasma.”

What is your greatest regret?

That I never wore bellbottoms.

What is your current state of mind?

Pregnant.

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?

My fear of them (wife and son excluded).

What is your most treasured possession?

A photograph held together by cellophane tape of Little Richard that I bought in 1958, and a pressed and dried chrysanthemum picked on my honeymoon in Kyoto.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Living in fear.

Where would you like to live?

Northeast Bali or south Java.

What is your favorite occupation?

Squishing paint on a senseless canvas.

What is the quality you most like in a man?

The ability to return books.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?

The ability to burp on command.

What are your favorite names?

Sears & Roebuck.

What is your motto?

“What” is my motto.
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One of the sections of "Blackstar" sounds extremely familiar. Is it sampling/a nod to "The Day The Music Died"/"American Pie"? I can't place it.
 
The earliest memory I have regarding music is when my dad gave me his Ziggy Stardust tape to play in my handheld Fisher Price tape player.
Glad I got to see him in person.

I've decided to go buy two copies of Blackstar at lunch and bring one to my Dad on the way home. We'll probably cry a lot.

Damn.
 
Slowdive said:
Damn Brian Eno said he and David were emailing recently talking about Outside and how they should do some more, then seven days ago he sent him an email saying goodbye.
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Guess he knew the time was coming. Apparently he hid his cancer from like everyone besides his wife/family and manager.

Sucks, though. Dude was pretty consistent with his musical changes.
 
I can't process this at all.

Obviously I didn't know the man. I never met him. But he has always been there. I'm sure it's the same for anyone born in the 70s who grew up in the UK but he was always there. On the TV, on the radio. In the newspapers. In popular culture. I guess that's why it hurts?

I heard the news from my wife on my way to work this morning. She texted me to say sorry about the sad news of his passing before I had found out about it myself. She doesn't know the first thing about David Bowie but I'd been raving about how good Blackstar is all weekend.

RIP.
 
I woke up this morning had some bacon and eggs for breakfast with the wife, go on the internet to read the news and Bowie's death is the first thing that I saw. Fuck cancer, 18 month battle man... god damn I wished he would of won...

So many childhood memories of the Goblin King and his music... Seriously fuck cancer.
 
Blackstar and its calculated release kind of make me feel better about Bowie's death. It really seems like he had accepted death and had time to prepare for it (and even make a full farewell album with two full music videos and everything!). He had come in terms with the whole thing and decided to turn the inevitable into art.

It feels like he got to complete his journey and say goodbye.
 
I don't know what to say, I listened to Blackstar when it was released, it was a great album, I thought Bowie would be alive for the Grammys because I feel he would be nominated for best album and now he dies a couple days later after release, I'm feeling he wanted to release this one before he parted away, for his fans.

RIP David Bowie
 
GCX said:
Blackstar and its calculated release kind of make me feel better about Bowie's death. It really seems like he had accepted death and had time to prepare for it (and even make a full farewell album with two full music videos and everything!). He had come in terms with the whole thing and decided to turn the inevitable into art.

It feels like he got to complete his journey.
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Assuming he made Buddhism a core aspect of his life - he's mentioned in the past it's resonated deeply with him - accepting death and dissolution is one of the more profound states from that philosophy.

He turned death into more of what it really is; the fading of an echo, a pattern that resonated in nature. If only more people saw death as that and less of a void of nothingness, an "evil" thing that takes things away, failing to realize things fading away allows you to even exist, then we could accept it with compassion and respect.
 
One of my biggest regrets is I still haven't really begun to dig into his catalog outside of the known hits.... I need to fix this :(

Gonna watch Labrynth tonight with my wife and kids...
 
Man, I was in shock when I saw the new this morning. I couldn't believe it. His new record is outstanding and a true, final goodbye for his fans. David Bowie is a legend, no one comes close. Some of my favorite Bowie moments are when he was on tour with Nine Inch Nails, which led to a few collaborations in the 90s, including one of my favorite Bowie songs, I'm Afraid of Americans. I remember watching the Closure tapes and seeing the footage of Trent and Bowie just hanging out brought a smile to my face.

Of course anyone can list the classics, but I think of these gems as just as important in tribute.

His version of Hurt live is heart breaking now.
https://youtu.be/c7_Te7iDojA

And his performance in Labrynth is something I will always have fond memories of.
https://youtu.be/dDkp7GysvbY

And one of my favorite remixes of a David Bowie song, A Better Future remixed by Air.
https://youtu.be/SMRECNuKqAE
 
I watched his Blackstar vid on Friday and thought something looked off about him, but I just chalked it up to makeup and the video's look. Sad news to see. RIP to one of the greats.
 
Woke up and saw someone posting about it on another thread and I was like "yeah, sure..." then I searched for it and it turned out to be true. Goddamn what a loss. RIP.
 
https://www.facebook.com/defleppard/posts/10153672296015660

I heard the news today oh boy .... And I can't believe what I've heard .... David Bowie is dead. He's been a massive part of my life since I first heard Starman in 1972. So many of us came in at that moment, myself, Bono, Boy George, Morrissey, Gary Kemp, Jim Kerr, Brett Anderson, Pete Murphy, Gary Numan, millions of fans, all very different from each other but all with one thing in common, the belief that a true rock & roll alien had landed on earth & he was ours. I own every record he ever made, he was plastered all over my bedroom wall as a kid, he was my very first bootleg, his CDs take up 2 whole shelves in my collection. I have personally recorded over 25 of his songs either on my own, with Leppard or with the Cybernauts. I met him 2 or 3 times & always found him charming & engaging. It is said, never meet your heroes, they will let you down. Bullshit. He was open, funny, a good listener !! & when myself & Phil joined David on stage with Queen, Mick Ronson & Ian Hunter at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Gig in 1992 it became one of the most memorable musical moments of my life. I can't believe he's gone. A huge hole has opened up in my heart & it feels like my youth has been further ripped away from me. At least I have a lifetime of his music to comfort me, as we all have, as he left behind one hell of a legacy. The Starman waiting in the sky waits no longer. Rest in Peace David Bowie and thank you for giving us believers something to believe in.
Joe Elliott.
Jan 11th 2016
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