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RIP David Bowie

I met David Bowie back in 2007. He was performing in Manchester and staying at the Lowry Hotel, and I was running room service at said establishment. He ordered breakfast and I insisted on delivering it to his suite. We were banned from fawning over superstar guests but I had every intention of telling him he was my hero. As it turned out, once I was in his bedroom serving his eggs and toast, I was somewhat distracted from this endeavour - not only by the voice in my head screaming "That is DAVID FUCKING BOWIE!!" but also by the fact that he was wearing shortie pyjamas and his little knees were showing.

I have always regretted not telling him how much I loved him, but now I am just happy to know I once breathed the same air as he... and made him breakfast on a tray.
 
Personally i LOVE Lets Dance and Dancing in the Street. Oh....is hating Dancing in the Street an Urban thing (well nothing could compare to Urban's greatest ever embarassment: digging Girls Aloud??) Wow....that was an embarassment...:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:) Please feel free to dig your own graves/ admit involvement/ i was on drugs at the timi needed friends/i was desperate/i did not know anything about music/ listen, whatever happened at the time, its alright there is no need to feel embarassed!! Forget about having crap taste. Shoot the breeze, baby. We love you :cool::)
 
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These tunes have been haunting me every day for years......the one i think about at the bus stop every day (for all humanity) has always been FASHION. I dont understand why that is not worshipped as much as i have always done (its the only song in history that i think about every time i am at a bus stop). Anyone who lived with me in 2006 knows the obsession 24/7 i had with these songs every waking minute of every day at the time, proper rinsed it.....

 
Although i saw Bowie live in 2000, and was blown away by the performance, i only started listening to him seriously in 2006. Me and my crew are Prince nuts and one pal said 'You must check out David Bowie.' So I did, and fell head over heels in love asap. Bowie to me, is hypnotic, mesmerising music. God help my old flatmates

 
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Cheesypoof said:
Personally i LOVE Lets Dance and Dancing in the Street. Oh....is hating Dancing in the Street an Urban thing (well nothing could compare to Urban's greatest ever embarassment: digging Girls Aloud??) Wow....that was an embarassment...:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:) Please feel free to dig your own graves/ admit involvement/ i was on drugs at the timi needed friends/i was desperate/i did not know anything about music/ listen, whatever happened at the time, its alright there is no need to feel embarassed!! Forget about having crap taste. Shoot the breeze, baby. We love you :cool::)
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Who are you arguing with here?
 
Wookey said:
I met David Bowie back in 2007. He was performing in Manchester and staying at the Lowry Hotel, and I was running room service at said establishment. He ordered breakfast and I insisted on delivering it to his suite. We were banned from fawning over superstar guests but I had every intention of telling him he was my hero. As it turned out, once I was in his bedroom serving his eggs and toast, I was somewhat distracted from this endeavour - not only by the voice in my head screaming "That is DAVID FUCKING BOWIE!!" but also by the fact that he was wearing shortie pyjamas and his little knees were showing.

I have always regretted not telling him how much I loved him, but now I am just happy to know I once breathed the same air as he... and made him breakfast on a tray.
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Nice story but are you sure about the date or what he was doing there? - his last public performance was in 2006
 
Right, I've decided -- I'm going to buy the Berlin albums (x 3) today -- have got 'Lodger' on an ancient cassette tape ( :oops: ), and I've heard the other two a few times in the past as well, but they're well overdue a relisten in full ...
 
Was 80s Bowie that bad really?

Genuine question - it's usually seen as the decade where his talents deserted him, but I'm listening to this now, and it's really not that bad:

 
It's arguably his best decade, surely?
It's the decade I was introduced to him anyway.
Fashion, Ashes To Ashes, Under Pressure, Putting Out The Fire, Modern Love, This Is Not America, China Girls, Let's Dance. All stone cold classics.
 
Orang Utan said:
It's arguably his best decade, surely?
It's the decade I was introduced to him anyway.
Fashion, Ashes To Ashes, Under Pressure, Putting Out The Fire, Modern Love, This Is Not America, China Girls, Let's Dance. All stone cold classics.
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All amazing stuff, but he was unstoppable in the 70s:

1970 The Man Who Sold the World
1971 Hunky Dory
1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
1973 Aladdin Sane
1974 Diamond Dogs
1975 Young Americans
1976 Station to Station
1977 Low
1977 "Heroes"
 
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All amazing stuff, but he was unstoppable in the 70s:

1970 The Man Who Sold the World
1971 Hunky Dory
1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
1973 Aladdin Sane
1974 Diamond Dogs
1975 Young Americans
1976 Station to Station
1977 Low
1977 "Heroes"
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I'm slowly making my way through the albums as I've not really listened to them before but wasn't that impressed by the Ziggy Stardust line up albums. Not keen on the Ronson guitar sound.
Only up to Aladdin Sane/Pin Ups so far though. The latter half of the 70s output looks more up my street tbh
 
Orang Utan said:
I'm slowly making my way through the albums as I've not really listened to them before but wasn't that impressed by the Ziggy Stardust line up albums. Not keen on the Ronson guitar sound.
Only up to Aladdin Sane/Pin Ups so far though. The latter half of the 70s output looks more up my street tbh
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It's just the sheer scope and range of the material that is so breathtaking. From Ziggy to Heroes in five years with Young Americans inbetween. Amazing.
 
I'm with OU I'm just not that into the glam/Ronson guitar sound, which is why I preferred the Let's Dance era. More dancey/air drums/big production etc. Just more my thing.
 
My favourite Bowie album is different every time you ask me.

I can only say it is never David Bowie 1 or David Bowie 2 or TMWSTW, or Pin Ups, or anything between 1981 and 1991.
 
Orang Utan said:
It's arguably his best decade, surely?
It's the decade I was introduced to him anyway.
Fashion, Ashes To Ashes, Under Pressure, Putting Out The Fire, Modern Love, This Is Not America, China Girls, Let's Dance. All stone cold classics.
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the problem is, you've named nothing from after 1983 - and if you consider the 80s as a whole it is not good. Not at all good.
 
I saw Little Wonder on a tribute programme last night. I actually quite liked it having previously thought it was a bit too out there when it was released.
 
AuntiStella said:
My favourite Bowie album is different every time you ask me.

I can only say it is never David Bowie 1 or David Bowie 2 or TMWSTW, or Pin Ups, or anything between 1981 and 1991.
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Similar for me. I don't think of a preferred Bowie song or LP so much as the song or LP that I want to hear today.

My internal jukebox kind of flips the right track on and away I go, til such time as I can get to a machine and access the physical music.

Actually, a few years ago the jukebox in my head started playing stuff from the 80s (by whIch I mean post 84), and although I was surprised, I was pleased to hear it, and I found that I liked it better than I thought I did (I'd thought I'd hated it). I didn't realise I knew it well enough for it to just play in my head (I suppose I listen to his music more closely than anyone else...?). So I went back and listened to it, and while Heathen and Earthling and so forth are never going to mean as much to me as the 70's stuff, I'm glad he made it. Still struggle with Tin Machine though....



ETA Anticipating the correction that others might flag up here: I realise that Heathen and Earthling are 90s LPs. I somehow think of everything between Ashes to Ashes and The Next Day as part of the same clump.
 
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