RIP David Bowie

[Kaka Tim]

the oft over-looked "cobbler bob" period.

 

[killer b]

Love this:
'David Bowie played one of my records a lot' - Lincolnshire musician's claim to fame

that's quite something.

 

[planetgeli]

Love this:
'David Bowie played one of my records a lot' - Lincolnshire musician's claim to fame

'Lincolnshire musician'?? That's Robert Fucking Wyatt they're talking about. Ex-Soft Machine and a brilliant solo career. Ignorant fuckwits.

"Woodrow Wyatt's nephew stated..."

 

[youngian]

that's quite something.

Phenomenonal stuff. The BBC found a fan who grew up in the Norfolk Broads and also lived in Ibiza.

 

[belboid]

Ha, we, in Sheffield got Anna Soubry missing a gig (actually, she missed five, seeing as he played five times here on the Ziggy tour!!!, in just fifteen months), and a drummer who once played with him. Pretty poor show, really.

 

[May Kasahara]

This is quite a weird feeling. I'm actually grieving, for someone I've never met. I've been sad at sleb deaths before but this is the first time I feel like I've lost something. I hadn't realised how much a part of my inner life he was.

From hearing him on the radio as a kid, to properly 'discovering' Ziggy Stardust with my mum aged 11, to obsessively rewatching the live Ziggy Stardust film over and over, imagining myself there, locking eyes with him...playing Aladdin Sane on the walk to a from school to keep me sane when I felt like I was cracking up...dancing around the living room to Modern Love...and yes, swooning over Jareth...all the way up to the wonderful jolt of seeing him walk out of the lightning in The Prestige. I think I thought he'd always be there.

Sorry if the thread's moved on. Mr K isn't a fan so I can't really talk to him about it.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Phenomenonal stuff. The BBC found a fan who grew up in the Norfolk Broads and also lived in Ibiza.

That sounds supiciously like someone at the BBC has known this person for ages and has been dying for the opportunity to use it

 

[Orang Utan]

I was talking to my sister last night, and while she wasn't a fan of his music, she still felt his loss keenly. She said that he made it a littke more acceptable to be different, to be the odd one out. She also mentioned the fact that he married a black woman, helping to normalise interracial relationships.

 

[Sprocket.]

I found that clip from Extras - it's brilliant.

I always thought I had seen Gervais' David Brent somewhere before and earlier I think I rediscovered him as 'Vic' in Julien Temple's Jazzin For Blue Jean starring Bowie. No wonder Gervais let Bowie have a go back at him in Extras.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Sorry if the thread's moved on. Mr K isn't a fan so I can't really talk to him about it.

Let it out, the strength of feeling towards him has shocked many people.

 

[skyscraper101]

Love this:
'David Bowie played one of my records a lot' - Lincolnshire musician's claim to fame

I love one of the other links below that story

David Bowie dead: Lincolnshire fans left devastated as musician dies from cancer aged 69

Standard short biog, and cause of death, and stock photo summed up in one paragraph, then the tenuous Lincolnshire link being...

The news has left many of his fans across Lincolnshire devastated.

Must be piss easy working on a local rag sometimes.

 

[malatesta32]

You're very clever! I've never seen "Christiane F" - read the book, of course, but it might be good to see the film. And it even has subtitles.

i think the film is incredibly bold in its depiction of intravenous drug use, teen sex, teen prostitution etc. there are 2 very poignant scenes where she tries injecting for the 1st time (in a public toilet) and when she hesitates to get in a car with her first 'john.' heavy but truly ground breaking movie. still hard to watch tho and it aint 1st date stuff!

 

[Pickman's model]

i think the film is incredibly bold in its depiction of intravenous drug use, teen sex, teen prostitution etc. there are 2 very poignant scenes where she tries injecting for the 1st time (in a public toilet) and when she hesitates to get in a car with her first 'john.' heavy but truly ground breaking movie. still hard to watch tho and it aint 1st date stuff!

i suppose you found that out the hard way

 

[malatesta32]

ha ha yeah i saw it when it 1st came out off me nut on speed and only just revisited it and its still a wee bit shocking.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Must be piss easy working on a local rag sometimes.

There's a certain genius to this one...

 

[skyscraper101]

^^ amazing

 

[skyscraper101]

 

[billy_bob]

There's a certain genius to this one...

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Tomorrow, we ask dog walkers wearing engagement rings how they feel about David Bowie's death.

 

[editor]

I love the fact that the last Twitter account David Bowie followed before he died on Sunday was God.

The last person David Bowie followed on Twitter was God - or a play about God

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I love the fact that the last Twitter account David Bowie followed before he died on Sunday was God.

The last person David Bowie followed on Twitter was God - or a play about God

Even rank outsider bets need hedging.

 

[editor]

Even rank outsider bets need hedging.

Well, it was a parody account

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

(I know!)


God still uses bebo.

 

[hipipol]

 

[editor]

The Fail reported that he visited London one last time before he died:

David Bowie made a secret final trip to London to show his wife and daughter the sights and pay an emotional farewell to his home city after being diagnosed with cancer, it has emerged.

The iconic rock star, whose death this week shook the world, lived out his final years in New York, with his wife Iman and daughter Lexi, 15, where he lived the life of a family man.

But shortly after being diagnosed with cancer, he took his family to see the city that made him a star, visiting the Tower of London, the London Eye, and the house where he was born in Brixton.

It is thought that he overcame his fear of flying to say his final farewell to the city, where they stayed in the five-star Jumeirah Carlton Tower in Knightsbridge.

However, the trip was kept completely secret from the public - and the star even managed to avoid being recognised while visiting popular tourist sites, despite his and his wife's global fame.

During the trip 18 months ago, Bowie and his family visited the house where he was born, just minutes away from where thousands gathered to pay tribute to 'Brixton's Own Boy' after news of his death.

The Jones family moved to Plaistow Grove in Bromley, South-East London when he was six, which was also on the itinerary during the 2014 trip of the spots that shaped Bowie's early life.

They then visited Foxgrove Road, in Beckenham, where David lived in March 1969 before releasing Space Oddity. Daughter Alexandria, known as Lexi, who was 13 at the time, took a picture of Bowie outside the Beckenham house.

dailymail.co. uk /news/article-3397050/David-Bowie-secret-trip-London-say-goodbye-city-loved-summer-diagnosed-terminal-cancer.html

 

[William of Walworth]

oh, and in case you aint seen it, christianna f link:

very gritty and hard to watch.

Thanks for posting that, I keep forgetting that some full length films are on YouTube.

But I'm wondering whether I can bear to watch that again, after a near-35 year gap

I've never seen "Christiane F" - read the book, of course, but it might be good to see the film. And it even has subtitles.

Not read the book, only seen the film ...

i think the film is incredibly bold in its depiction of intravenous drug use, teen sex, teen prostitution etc. there are 2 very poignant scenes where she tries injecting for the 1st time (in a public toilet) and when she hesitates to get in a car with her first 'john.' heavy but truly ground breaking movie. still hard to watch tho and it aint 1st date stuff!

I was 17 or 18 when I saw the film and the harrowing no-holds-barred stuff REALLY shocked me ...

I don't suppose I was ever really likely to (or capable of) getting into heroin anyway, but thoroughly offputting at that age is good ...

Even after so long, I expect I would I remember plenty of it </wonders whether to give it a go or not >

 

[belboid]

Blimey, apparently David was killed by his doctors! Liver Radiation Beads and Toxic Poison Chemicals.

Capitals obligatory, and not just poison chemicals, but toxic poison chemicals.

 

[Poi E]

And what a fucking head of hair he had. Lucky bastard.

 

[Voley]

Grit in the eye moment with this one tonight:



Fucking hell.

RIP David.

You were fucking amazing.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

That is an amazing performance

 

[Voley]

Always loved that one. My Mum bought me the 12" of it for Xmas when I was a kid. Great song.