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David Bowie RIP
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Michael Barnes wrote: Very clearly he was coping with mortality.
Mercury's late lyrics were the same way.
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I don't expect anyone to be as affected as I am. I expect that most people, the vast overwhelming majority out there are not. There are likely people that are MORE affected than me, let alone his family, friends and collaborators.
But I have moved toward more of the celebration/appreciation stage...we played Rock Band last night and went through all of the Bowie songs. There we were in the living room, my son (turned 6 yesterday) and I singing "Ziggy Stardust" while my 4-year old daughter banged on the drums. I played guitar and sang "Space Oddity" and I'm not ashamed that I was choking up the whole time and it felt GOOD to sing that crescendoing "can you hear me, Major Tom?" We get in the car and it's all Bowie, non stop, every track available on Spotify randomly sorted. I watched "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and "Labyrinth" this week and will probably watch "The Prestige" tonight. I've had the DVD video collection on almost non-stop while I'm working. I'm wearing the custom "Low" t-shirt that I had made at one of those T-shirt transfer places like 15 years ago, almost every day. Any time I see a tribute or memorial thing I read it/look at it. Pitchfork had an EXCELLENT article about Bowie's sci-fi connection today- Anthems for the Moon.
Lee isn't necessarily wrong about his assessment- blunt but honest, and I respect that. It's just not my experience with it.
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I'll say this, I'm definitely enjoying working through Bowies catalogue, I've only really listened to the more famous stuff before so a lot of is new and cool. I never really followed him directly (though have always loved the more famous songs, I mean, some of those are up there on the top shelf) but I really remember his cameo spot on Ricky Gervais extras. I actually have not only been playing Bowie continually on spotify the last few days but keep coming out with stuff like "poor little fat guy, chubby little loser, noones bloody laughing".
Then I saw a youtube clip of him very very early on in the 70s maybe on an american chat show, he had a cane, and looked like he weighed about 6 and a half kilos. Fuck me I'm even more amazed he lived another 50 years and managed to keep belting out music and nobbing a supermodel in his spare time. Definitely a legend if that ever means anything.
Whats cool about Bowie to me is a lot of people gave him stick for being all about the hype and show, but for someone with his status it felt like he kept his face out of most of the crap that the proper glory hogs seem to do, like he had a bit of a mysterious unknown quality, but maybe that was part the era he came up in, and partly me not really being someone who notices that kind of shit until it gets outrageously OTT and unavoidable.
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rock god!
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Today is being declared David Bowie Day in NYC, awesome.
I really loved the tribute that Arcade Fire did in New Orleans- they held a big parade with all of these jazz bands playing Bowie songs. Win Butler declared over a megaphone "David Bowie is alive".
Springsteen is doing "Rebel Rebel" on his shows and telling anecdotes of being a broke-ass Jersey kid taking the bus to meet Bowie in Philadelphia.
Pitchfork had a neat article about some of the Bowie nobody ever listens to...all of the pre-Space Oddity stuff he did with Davey Jones and the Lower Third/Riot Squad etc. Some of it is actually quite good, Kinks-y pop. "The Laughing Gnome", I dunno. Maybe not so much that one. But it is worth hearing his formative stuff, he was actually, come to find out, one of the first (if not THE first) to cover Velvet Underground.
Vice had a thing about Mick Rock, Bowie's photographer during the Ziggy years and beyond. Very cool stuff. I want that Taschen book.
I was listening to "Queen Bitch" yesterday and it struck me what an important track that is- not just for Bowie, but for rock n' roll. It is kind of the point at which Bowie really brought forward that Lou Reed/Velvet Underground influence. It reads and sounds like a Lou Reed song, and it's pretty clear that's what he was going for. I almost view that song as a kind of bridge between VU and the whole NYC proto-punk thing and English rock.
Also, I just want to post this picture because I think it is one of the very best rock photographs ever taken. This image just blows me away every time I see it. There's Bowie, looking like a fucking deity chiseled out of marble and in a satin jumpsuit. Iggy, the quintessential wild child- does he need Bowie and Lou to help him stand up? Couldn't he be arsed to put those cigarettes down? And he's wearing a T-Rex shirt, putting Marc Bolan into that photo by proxy. And then there's Lou, the picture of NYC cool- and wearing nail polish. Looking at it, you'd think that Iggy would be the first of the gang to die, so to speak. But now he's the last man standing.
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anyway, as a Yorkshireman myself (or "me sen" as we'd say), I quite liked this clip, I forgot that Bowies family come from a stones throw down the road from where I woh born and bred
www.facebook.com/paul.rooney.90813/videos/10153415211905847/
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A codicil to Bowie’s 2004 will also left shares of stock in a company called Opossum Inc. to Schwab. It’s unclear what Opossum does, and Bowie’s New York-based lawyer did not return a call seeking comment on the issue.
I can't find any evidence of such a company existing...and what do opossums do?
Play dead.
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