Posted on 01/11/2016 11:53:11 AM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: It was a shocking, somewhat sad day for many in the music world today. And that's the surprise death of David Bowie, who succumbed to cancer after 18 months. Many did not know that he had cancer. I have to admit there are only a couple of David Bowie songs that I like.
I was not one of these dyed-in-the-wool David Bowie fans but he had a couple of tunes I really like, and the first one is this one, ChiCom Girl. And there's one other. No question, he was a supremely talented rock 'n' roll crooner. (playing China Girl) That wasn't nine seconds, I can tell you that. You see, remember the video to this? (song continues) I first even saw this on MTV. (song continues) David Bowie. How old was he? (interruption) Sixty-nine.
My generation. I just never... The Ziggy Stardust days? I never got into it. (interruption) No, I didn't see the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. This is it. This and the other song. (Cut to Let's Dance) These are the only two David Bowie things that I know. That's it. This is Let's Dance. These are both from the 1980s, I believe, during my absence from radio. It's when I worked for the Kansas City Royals. (interruption) Yeah, I remember playing this. Oh, yeah. (song continues)
Anyway, what was he, about five nine and a hundred pounds? I mean, he was a string bean, but he had this amazing voice. And to people that were big in the music business, he was incredibly innovative and talented, and I wanted to acknowledge his passing. But those are the only two songs. Well, that and the Major Tom thing, "Ground control to Major Tom," which I guess is Space Oddity, which he was. There's no question about it.
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Uh, okay.
Kevin D. Williams has a great little read on Bowie in the NRO Corner today.
It’s funny that Bowie was so big that even people who can’t name 5 of his songs are feeling the need to eulogize him today. I’ve read at least 2 other articles like this today, and a couple of my coworkers who are NOT Bowie fans made similar statements today too.
You’re going to all the Bowie threads just to make sure everybody knows you’re shallow and pathetic. Quite a bit of work there.
I read on another forum that Bowie was a staunch conservative. I enjoyed his music over the years and I liked his acting. I am sorry he’s gone. I hope he learned to put his hope in Jesus.
For more than half the day every time I tried to talk to my wife she cried. (for the record that is unusual)
She seems better now.
Family Guy: Gayest Music Video ever? Jagger and Bowie “Dancin in the streets”
I remember seeing him on the cover of a magazine in the grocery store back in 1977. Right next to a huge display of two-liter bottles of Tab.
At the time, I thought “whoever he is, he’s trying to raise the level of rock weirdness to a new level.”
This was in the era of Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed.”
David Bowie was a true talent and seemed to work hard at producing a good product, that being music to divert the mind ,observe the soul,and restore the spirits.
Bowie was one of the few big rockers who did not get ‘taken to the cleaners’ by a crooked agent. Not like what happened to Doris Day, where her 3rd husband, Martin Melcher is said to have skimmed over $66. Million dollars from her earnings for his own private swiss bank accounts.
A close second behind Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go."
While I wasn't a fan by any stretch of Bowie, I think many, my self included, are just feeling the end of an era is coming to an end.
It's the reality that we are getting older and everything that was in our time is passing away.
I preferred him as an actor. Apart from The Man Who Fell To Earth, he was in that creepy movie with Catherine Deneuve, The Hunger.
I keep reading today about his “musical genius”. I never saw genius in his music. But maybe I’m just not outre’ enough.
Rest in Peace
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence was really good.
There were so many phases of his music, it’s hard to like everything he did. I’m sure “Let’s Dance” turned off a lot of his older fans when it came out.
How about Edgar Winter?
Talk about stretching weirdness!
What is that all about? Dying from cancer is a lousy way to go - I watched my mother, father and brother succumb to it and it was awful. Get bent.
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