Was it known that he was ill? This was the first I'd heard.
Was it known that he was ill? This was the first I'd heard.
He had been fighting Cancer for 18 months.
Yeah a rare example of the media behaving ethically I think.No. Not made public. As Torch says, rumours that he was ill, but only his family and really close friends knew apparently.
Unless of course they didn't actually know, as has been suggested.Yeah a rare example of the media behaving ethically I think.
Was it known that he was ill? This was the first I'd heard.
BBC 6 Music are certainly doing their bit......fantastic tributes, loadsa tunes & Radcliffe has a special tribute show from 1.00pm......would not surprise me if he chokes up on air as he was a massive massive Bowie fan....every radio station across the globe should dedicate their entire programming to the songs of David Bowie for the day.
He WAS that important.
Starman, Heroes, Life on Mars, Suffragette City and Five Years are my favourites.Got into my car to go to work this morningh, and 5 Live playing Ashes to Ashes, unusual for them to play music, then they said that David Bowie had died.
Had to pull over, rare for me to get really upset over anything really, but this has genuinely it me hard.
Been a massive part of my life since my early teens, had virtually everything he'd recorded, spent years(and many, many pounds) scouring record fairs, Reddingtons Rare Records in Birmingham etc. for picture dics, white labels, first editions, imports, etc, was pretty much obsessed with his whole life and work.(I even liked Tin Machine!)
Though it's an exercise in futility trying to pick a "best" track from Bowie, I'm going to put this one up today.
There is a Starman waiting in the sky now, and his name is Bowie.
The World is a lesser and much sadder place today.
[video=youtube;4B5zmDz4vR4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B5zmDz4vR4[/video]
RIP David.
David Bowie has passed away aged 69
after an 18 month battle with Cancer.
RIP.
Starman, Heroes, Life on Mars, Suffragette City and Five Years are my favourites.
Been a big part of my life too and when I embraced punk and pretty much dissed all that had gone before it, there he still was and at gigs for the likes of the Clash and Buzzcocks and Generation X etc. etc., there his music was still being played in the background before bands would come on.
The album Heroes very much fitted in snuggily with what was going on around it and that was the same with all his albums, he always seemed to capture the mood of the latest vibe and be at the forefront of anything new and innovative, but at the same time it always felt the perfect fit.
Think that even if anyone didn't like his music they would have to admit to his importance and how groundbreaking he was.
His music will live on forever and a day.
That wasn't you on 5 Live this morning was it? A guy from Coventry who went to that gig and said it changed his life.Can't beleive this.
Saw him at Cov Theatre 3rd June 1973 on the Alladin Sane tour- life changing.
Firstly the nights down the Lanchester Polytechnic student bar (now Cov Uni) in the early mid seventies, dancing (I use the term loosely) to the likes of "suffragette city", "rebel rebel" et al. Had some great nights with good friends
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