"Hey Mick, I've outlived another one...."
Posted on 01/11/2016 5:52:17 AM PST by nuconvert
(Full Headline) 'Look up here, I'm in heaven': David Bowie's 'parting gift' to his devastated fans - a haunting last video released just three days before he lost his secret 18-month battle with cancer
David Bowie released a haunting video in which he declared 'look up here, I'm in heaven' just three days before he lost a secret 18-month battle with cancer.
The star, whose new album came out just last week, passed away from the illness in New York yesterday surrounded by his family, according to an announcement posted on his official website and Facebook page today.
His final video, Lazarus, was released on Thursday and featured chilling footage of the singer confined to a hospital bed with his eyes covered by a bandage.
His longtime producer Tony Visconti suggested that Bowie knew for a year that his cancer was incurable, and added that his final album Blackstar was 'a parting gift' to the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Detach from station and may God’s love be with you.
My generation’s stars are starting to pass on .
I liked a few of his songs. I may not have been his biggest fan, but I hate to see him go. His going means another part of my youth goes too.
He always looked so skinny and frail you really couldn’t tell he was sick from the video.
I hope so Mr. Bowie, but frankly...kinda doubt it.
Doing Christmas Carol duets with Bing Crosby in Heaven now.
RIP.
I will love you till I reach the end...Everything will be alright Tonight. RIP David.
I saw him in a stage production of The Elephant Man many years ago. He was Very good.
The video was strange - he pokes fun at himself and some of the more extravagantly misguided moments of his life (the androgynous or bisexual bits, the drug use, etc.) but there’s a sense of repentance and suffering in it and a final release into happiness. Bowie led a pretty spectacular and disorderly life for a long time, but for some reason, I always felt that he had a fundamentally ethical view of life and of other people (something you couldn’t say about Mick Jaggger, for example).
In any case, he was a great and compelling performer and artist, and I’m sorry to hear that he’s no longer with us. He had just finished a new album at the time of his death, and I’m looking forward to hearing it.
I wish it was a hoax, and that he soon emerges in South America as some new tricked out character that takes over the pop world. That would be Bowie.
RIP Mr. Bowie.
You will be missed.
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True, but I think Keith Richard is going to outlast all of us.
We went to see Frankie Valli at Winstar Casino on NY's Eve. He's still going strong at 81. It was my lucky day, as about half of his band were at one of the bars. My 13YO son was mortified when I went to talk to them, I'm so not cool...lol.
I wanted him to meet the trumpet player, because he plays trumpet in middle school. He's showing some talent and work ethic, enough to make All City band in our burb. As a proud dad, I made that comment, whereupon one of the backup singers chimed in with "I grew up in Denton, I know all about Coppell's music program."
While my wife wanted to play the slots, I had no desire that night to play blackjack. I got a beer, toasted the group with a "Prosit Neujar" (German for Happy New Year). One of the other band members starts rapping at me in German, as he lived and performed in Germany for nearly two decades. We compared stories about living there before the Wall fell, and discussed a multitude of topics for the next hour or so. I dusted off a few of my "war stories" from my tour in Germany, I was pretty crazy as a butterbar.
My son still thinks I'm not cool...lol. I'm fine with that. I was brought back to Earth the next day, as I had to babysit my 5 YO grandson. We had a great time assembling a Hot Wheels garage. The joyous look on his face when it was completed was out of this world.
Hey, it's all good.
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Nothing personal but stop with the David Bowie eulogies. Are we going to do this with every 70’s rock star. And I use that term ‘star’ loosely.
I don’t know, Jagger has a much better way of dealing with anti-semites than most.
When some Palestinian groups were protesting the Stones playing in Israel, Jagger responded by adding more shows to the Israel schedule.
Yes we will, and if you don’t like it, don’t click on it. And there’s nothing loose about the star that Bowie was. The guy helped reinvent popular music more than once. And he generally comported himself as a nice person, which puts him way up on you.
You are not forced to read this thread...If you don’t like them don’t read them! And...you obviously do not understand the impact he had on many.
He was not a good person until he got off of the Cocaine.
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