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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 7:41:02 GMT
Absolutely shocked beyond belief that this true music legend has gone. Made some genuinely great music in the 70s.
RIP David.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 7:44:23 GMT
A real shock, apparently he had been battling cancer for 18 months.
Another tree has fallen.
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Post by jno on Jan 11, 2016 7:59:13 GMT
Sad sad news this. Incredible. RIP David.
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Post by daz on Jan 11, 2016 8:17:26 GMT
Sad, sad news. You always thought of Bowie as living forever, he seemed to look younger as the years went on.
Cancer is a ******* of a disease.
RIP David and thanks for the music.
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Post by ace5150 on Jan 11, 2016 9:30:52 GMT
A huge shock, Bowie, at times, was untouchable. Even sadder is his mad ex-wife is flogging her book detailing their time together, now watch that shoot up the charts. RIP David, and thanks for the music
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Post by plasticpenguin on Jan 11, 2016 9:41:34 GMT
Quite simply the saddest day since Lennon. I feel devastated.
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Post by dscarter1975 on Jan 11, 2016 10:49:47 GMT
Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust, Good Old Major Tom's A Junkie...
So long, David. RIP Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 11:42:09 GMT
Been dreading this day forever.
Best of the best.
Listening to Blackstar on rotation today.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 12:03:34 GMT
Just heard 'Golden 'Years' on the radio. What a truly great song.
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Post by ace5150 on Jan 11, 2016 12:41:01 GMT
I have a fine CD of David rehearsing his 1983 tour in Dallas with none other than Stevie Ray Vaughan as his guitarist. What a shame that tour never happened. SRV quit on the eve of the tour, Damned shame.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 14:50:05 GMT
Sad news. Won't feel like dancing in the street for a long while now
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 15:12:26 GMT
Feel bloody old today. RIP ziggy.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 15:47:59 GMT
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Post by daz on Jan 11, 2016 19:23:48 GMT
I had Bowie on tonight as soon as I got home from work and the Wife asked me to turn it up.
Still cannot believe the great man has gone.
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Post by dscarter1975 on Jan 11, 2016 19:26:50 GMT
He was the same age as my mum.
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Post by minderfan84 on Jan 11, 2016 19:32:40 GMT
RIP to a musical icon
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Post by dscarter1975 on Jan 11, 2016 20:10:26 GMT
What did you think of Tin Machine, David's late '80s/early '90s band? I remember seeing them on TOTP in 1991.
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Post by plasticpenguin on Jan 11, 2016 21:50:01 GMT
What did you think of Tin Machine, David's late '80s/early '90s band? I remember seeing them on TOTP in 1991. Their first album was really interesting. IMO he is the only artist who I'd struggle to place in a certain genre. Every album was different and Tin Machine was no different. The album Darkstar is apparently his own obituary. Somehow I don't want to hear it. What other artist would do that? Don't think I'm overstating when I say he was a genuine genius, both musically and artistically.
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Post by mybodyguard on Jan 11, 2016 23:48:20 GMT
I was actually just listening to samples of his new album last night and had no idea he'd be gone within hours. Very sad. I've got Station to Station playing now.
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Post by Portland Road on Jan 12, 2016 6:57:51 GMT
It is a shock indeed. He had not faded from the scene, and AFAIK there was no noticeable decline in health. E.g. as there was with Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett, which was picked up on by the media.
I hadn't followed his music so much in the last 20 years (indeed he did little at all from 2003-13). But from the early 70s through to the mid 80s he was always potent.
Whatever the musical style or fashion, he was amongst it, invigorating it, instigating it. His own man, but within it all. There was a positivity around him.
He shone a light, showing that creativity could be borne from pragmatism. Other popular stars appeal to a certain audience, as if they are there to fulfil a requirement. But Bowie had something for everyone.
BBC 6Music played virtually nothing but Bowie yesterday.
RIP David Bowie.
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Post by dscarter1975 on Jan 12, 2016 10:19:42 GMT
It's true, he was a musical chameleon handling whatever genre he could find. I remember back in the late '90s I was looking around Our Price and they were playing a Greatest Hits selection of his and most of these tracks I'd never heard before sounded very good.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 13, 2016 14:37:09 GMT
I am a bowie fan too, not hardcore, but have most of his albums and saw him live at the isle of wight festival 2004 got a few books about him and a few dvds too and always buy his new album, was going to get the new one in HMV in oxford street on Saturday, after seeing the show but was soaked so went straight home....
his best song was UNCLE ARTHUR
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Post by ace5150 on Jan 15, 2016 21:20:57 GMT
When I was at Poly, I was ACHING to date Mimi, a gorgeous Chinese student two years older than me but in the same class, a REAL Asian babe (before that term was invented) She was class, real class. I tried to be cool but she wasn't having it, so I'd not long discovered Aladdin Sane by Bowie and was writing snippets of the lyrics of Lady Grinning Soul. She read some of them and asked if I enjoyed writing poetry, so I LIED and said yes, and that I was thinking of her as I wrote them! When your 18, you will try ANYTHING! I got a date out of it, went to see American Gigolo followed by cocktails at the Excelsior Hotel. I LOVED Bowie for that song! Whenever I hear that song I think of Mimi. Funningly enough, NOT China Girl. Happy days!
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Post by dscarter1975 on Jan 16, 2016 0:03:03 GMT
I remember watching the 1980 instalment of The Rock & Roll Years with my brother back in 1988 and when David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes video came on, he said that he remembered it very well, including the song itself. He also remembered Split Enz's I got You which was played as an excerpt.
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Post by daz on Jan 16, 2016 9:42:34 GMT
The Ashes to Ashes song/video was probably my very first introduction to Bowie.
10 albums in the top forty with his new album at number 1. I don't think I remember a music star passing away and attracting this much attention, the closest I can remember was Freddie Mercury back and 91, but Bowies passing has surpassed that.
Even his passing has had a bit of mystique and style surrounding it.
A truly class act who will be sorely missed.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 16, 2016 10:16:41 GMT
After getting soaked in london last Saturday evening and not being able to buy his new album in HMV oxford street, as I had gone straight home, I felt well enough to go into town after work yesterday and look in my local HMV, they said the album sold out in 3 days!
I felt like a "just add water fan" jumping on the band wagon, as I always buy his new studio album when it comes out, even if I did have a bloody long wait between REALITY in 2003 and THE NEXT DAY in 2013!
The funny thing was, once upon a time, not that long ago, we had an HMV, MVC, BOOTS, WOOLWORTHS, JOHN MENZIES,2 branches of OUR PRICE (later VIRGIN)WH SMITH and a couple of independent music shops, now all that's left that sells Albums is HMV
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Post by daz on Jan 16, 2016 10:26:37 GMT
The funny thing was, once upon a time, not that long ago, we had an HMV, MVC, BOOTS, WOOLWORTHS, JOHN MENZIES,2 branches of OUR PRICE (later VIRGIN)WH SMITH and a couple of independent music shops, now all that's left that sells Albums is HMV The same in Aberdeen, all the music shops have closed down leaving us with an HMV and other shops stopped selling music, I refuse on principle to buy music from supermarkets, just wrong IMO. I have most of Bowies albums and want to complete my collection, but think I will wait a little while to get them. I discovered last year I am missing a box of around 100 cds from when we moved house a few years ago. I had a few Bowie albums in it, including Ziggy, which my Wife kindly bought me again this past Xmas.
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Post by Terry on Jan 16, 2016 10:30:02 GMT
Great loss, may he RIP....
Got out my CD Platinum Collection after I heard about his death. Altho, hopefully not speaking ill of the dead, I don't like his last single Blackstar...
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 16, 2016 10:32:12 GMT
I know what you mean about the supermarket, but i saw the lastest james bond novel was £15 in waterstones or £9 in sainsburys, so what do you do?
There used to a be a very good bowie tribute act called CHANGES BOWIE, i saw them about 3 times in the mid 00s. The singer, Tony Perry had been on STARS IN THEIR EYES. He always came out after the show and would talk to people, a really nice bloke! shame thwy stopped
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 16, 2016 10:33:10 GMT
Great loss, may he RIP.... Got out my CD Platinum Collection after I heard about his death. Altho, hopefully not speaking ill of the dead, I don't like his last single Blackstar... De weiss WIR KINDER VOM BAHNHOFF ZOO spiel film?
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