David Bowie Passed Away

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Such a sad day.

A man so talented. RIP.

But what a way to go. The Blackstar album and the Lazarus video are like the perfect farewell. Obviously he knew where he was going and he wanted to do whatever he did best in the face of death. Make it art.
 
Gutted, this came as such a shock. My thoughts go out to his family, sleep tight Ziggy, you'll be missed and remembered long after the rest of us are cold in the grave. :(
 
Made a little tribute on my webcomic page

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EviLore said:
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky
and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're
here to stay
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I can't not express my gratitude well, for today I lost one of my biggest idols, but thank you.
 
Im still shook ...
And to think that he wrote The Next Day and Blackstar while battling cancer.

Blader said:
Well, they said it was an 18 month battle with cancer, right? So The Next Day would've been out for a year or so by the time he was diagnosed.
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You're right, but apparently he was in very bad shape for longer than 18 months.
 
It never really occurred to me just how much religious imagery Bowie uses in his music until all of these quotes started being brought up in light of his death.
 
Femmeworth said:
Remembering Bowie: The Man, The Legend, The Sexual Abuser

Please try to have some empathy for those angry and being critical.
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I personally know the author of this article and she is not a well person. She has a hard life (disabilities, disease, divorce, single mom of a big family), and I think she became a bit radicalized when it became a satisfactory outlet for some of that anger. This isn't doxxing her; her brand online is writing about these experiences. And, of course, one should come to their own conclusions about the accusations and do their due diligence, too. But frankly I would take anything Jody says with a grain of salt. At the very least, I can say she looks at the world through... a certain lens.
 
Aww man, he never got to see peace on earth. :(

He was the young dude and he got old and died

Everybody's going to die, aren't they
 
As soon as I heard the sad news this morning, I jumped straight into the car and was driving into town to one of the only record stores I knew would have the Blackstar vinyl in stock, at least I hoped so. Walked through the door a few minutes after opening to see a bunch of sombre-looking staff, all looking somewhat shell-shocked. Copies of the record were in the new releases display area, just as any recently released record would normally be... but as I picked up my copy, it suddenly felt intensely real that - barring any 'unreleased material' compilations or reissues in future - this would be the last time I could go and pick up a new David Bowie record to enjoy. For an artist that has always been there in the background of my life for as long as I can remember, it feels unreal to think he's gone. I'll forever be thankful for his music, but the world has truly lost one of the great artists of our time.

Oh, and to the random guy in the store who was loudly asking for the clear vinyl edition 'because they're going for serious money on eBay': I'm glad they didn't have any in stock for you to fuel your grubby profiteering. Disgusting behaviour.
 
I think everyone else has said what I wanted to say in better words than I could, so i'll just say that this is an absolute bummer. The man was a huge inspiration to me not only as a musician but a creative role model.

Rest In Piece Bowie. Your legacy is infinite.
 
Sapiens said:
Awful article and I don't see the point of it.
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An attempt at attention and giving "the truth" as it usually happens when famous people die.

Unless those on GAF are tricking me, aren't the claims made in the article referring to cases that either got disputed or had bullshit claims about them?

People like this always come out in droves. I hold no harm for trying to emphasize accountability and truth in this, but at least have accountability and truth in your claims, not assumptions.
 
I was sad when I woke up this morning and read that David Bowie had passed away. Today at work, I just played Bowie all day. I'm also a teacher, so I had to explain to a lot of my students who he was. Many of them seemed to enjoy his music.

I first started listening to Bowie when I was in college. A DJ at the radio station I used to have a show on was big into Bowie and got me into him. Just a great talent all around from music to acting. Truly a devastating loss, but obviously Bowie will live on forever.
 
Stefan from Placebo wrote this nice tribute for the Huffington Post. Bowie helped Placebo out a lot when they started, even appearing for a duet on their second album.

Stefan Olsdal said:
Something broke inside me this morning. Six months ago I was talking to Brian about the avant-garde jazz flavor that David was giving to his latest album Blackstar. We agreed that after almost 70 years, this man was still doing new and surprising things. Up until the end of his life, he was adamant about not allowing himself to be led along the road already taken. Instead, he focused all his energy on the question of what he was capable of creating next.

He loved telling stories, he had tons of them. His story isn't finished.
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Placebo also posted a cool video of David rehearsing with them backstage.
 
Lazarus is making the rounds pretty heavily because it was his last, but honestly, the video for Blackstar (and the song itself) is what's killing it for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw

The opening shot with Major Tom's corpse, the shot of a skeleton being sucked into a void, the "sickness tremor dance," the funeralistic rituals, and the amazing, ever-morphing 10-minute long song, just all combines into a macabre but beautiful look into the eyes of death. There's Bowie media being slung everywhere, but this to me is the apex. It's truly stunning. To think he knew how close the end was (this was released just two months ago) and produced this -- I just am amazed at the bravery and beauty and vision here.
 
DrForester said:
David Bowie aks a MTV interviewer in 1983 why they dont play more videos by black artists.

https://twitter.com/MTVNews/status/686608586194030592
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This was so true in early MTV's days. Some of this was because MTV viewed itself as a "rock n roll station" -- which the interviewer calls it in the interview. But we all benefited from the change and the efforts to integrate. You would have thought in those days that Michael Jackson was the only black person even making music.
 
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