Music Jan 10, 2016 at 10:40 pm

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Yes, it has come thru on our evening news. How can icons die.. A cool guy.
Crazy wild wonderful musician.
Good husband. Good father.
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I was 9 years old when "Fame" hit the radio. Ever since, I have been mesmerized. What a mind-bending genius the man was. Long live the music and memory of David Bowie.
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Man. A world without Bowie. Just think about that. A world without Bowie.
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2016 is off to a depressing start. Peace and love to his family and friends.
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If he never recorded a note I'd still be stricken today. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a great film that stabs me in the heart every time I see it. Gotta watch it again.
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Oh nooo, I'm sad. What a creative force.
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So sad.
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I was too young for his hay day in the late 70s, but he made my childhood extraordinary as the goblin king in labrinth.
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I feel sorry for Iman and their 15 year old daughter. No teenager should have to deal with the death of their parent, especially at the age of 15.
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RIP spaceman.
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I can't wait to see Nelson's article about why Bowie was shit in a few weeks.
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Bowie was one of the few self-consciously "cool" musicians that I could still embrace, if not relate to, because... well, because he was so damn good. He earned it.

Farewell David.
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Thanks for the great Spiders from Mars clip, Dan.

R.I.P. David.
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Ashes to ashes RIP Bowie
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I haven't been this upset since my dog died 8 years ago. Hard to work today.

When you rock 'n' roll with me, No one else I'd rather be. Nobody here can do it for me. I'm in tears again, When you rock 'n' roll with me.
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This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
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I always loved the ch-ch-channges number.
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Sexy vampire does it for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=888bgz64…
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I'm numb.
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RIP, a Kaddish to Ziggy Mars..
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I've had my head spun around by this guy from the age of about 12. I recall my first glimpse - seeing that now iconic Aladin Sane lightning strike photo which was perplexing and strange and crazy-alluring. Will never forget seeing him on SNL (I think it was '77) - one of THE weirdest things ever, to this day - he and Klaus Nomi in a dress, with some weird blinking robot in the foreground the whole time. I remember later hearing that "the girls" of SNL (Jane Curtain, Gilda, Lorraine) were so ecstatic when they heard who their upcoming guest was to be that they literally screamed and jumped up and down in place together. I remember too, catching a clip of him doing the "DJ" video and "Heroes" videos on some news report - the style, the androgyny were just mind blowing - and that back of the hand lipstick swipe while dressed as Betty Davis was like ... shit! I have a very strong recollection of cutting thru the record department at Lechmere's in Cambridge and hearing the extraordinary and still so eerie and weird "Sound + Vision". "I will sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision". It was unforgettable - that riff, the scary place his voice came from at the start of the song. I'd never heard anything like it in my life. I still find it chilling. First year in high school I picked up a KMart compilation and remained mesmerized/frightened/enthralled. I saw the Ziggy film when it was released to theaters shortly thereafter - went to it by myself as no one my age cared to go - then saw him - my very first live concert - at age 18. Unfortunately it was the Let's Dance tour and he was now playing 55k stadiums so he was miles away while I was nearly crushed on the grass of a ginormous football stadium.

It's been surprisingly hard news to swallow and in fact I've been teary eyed a few times today just in perusing twitter and reading the articles and tributes. There will truly never be another one like him. Such a mindblowing creative force, in all directions. Not to mention the single handed rescuer of the careers of both Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. RIP David. It sucks that you're gone.

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Also, now having seen the Starman video, it has to be said that Bowie and his blonde guitarist/collaborator Mick Ronson in that gold lame catsuit were about the two most beautiful men going.

Long live glam.

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Bought his last CD/ record today.. I'll chill a bottle of champagne, drink, listen and toast this evening to a good man gone down.

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