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RIP David Bowie

I had a trilogy of dreams about Bowie a few weeks back. The first was about being in a room surrounded by his records, the second was about going to a gig where he died at the end, and the third was just plain weird and cannot be explained or described.
 
tl;dr but in a recent interview he mentioned that Bowie sort of bypassed him because the first thing he remembers is 'Ashes To Ashes' and then Modern Love and he didn't think it was for him - this is exactly how I came to ignore Bowie as well, (Although I liked those records well enough) so it's nice that someone else has said it - his death made me listen to his stuff more and realise I liked it more than I would have previously admitted to be honest. Possibly because it seemed the people who were real fans (mates, an early girlfriend) bought into the whole cult of his importance and genius and frankly I wasn't having any of it. In the wave of tributes, picking a favourite song, Bobby Gillespie pointed out that there's often a distance in his vocals, I think that was another thing, someone else that they flip flopped on the genius/charlatan reading of his work even now and they called themselves a big fan. So I felt more at home with my misgivings :) helps that Blackstar is great.
that cover of Waterloo Sunset is dire though. His covers of other people's songs generally are pretty bad I think.
 
The flowers are soon to be swept away but these still fresh tributes being posted up

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The last days of the David Bowie fan tributes in Brixton
 
Blimey - that article on Buzz had had over 2,500 page views already.

I like this cover from a super beardy Michael Stipe:

 
Heard his mate being interviewed on 5 live yesterday - sounded like a really nice bloke, they were mates until recently I think, he was the one responsible for the punch in the eye.

Fun snippet, he said he left a message for him once on his answerphone that finished "I'm happy, hope your happy too".

The master curator of others ideas :)
 
terrythomas said:
Heard his mate being interviewed on 5 live yesterday - sounded like a really nice bloke, they were mates until recently I think, he was the one responsible for the punch in the eye.

Fun snippet, he said he left a message for him once on his answerphone that finished "I'm happy, hope your happy too".

The master curator of others ideas :)
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Disappointingly vague here!
Who was it and what was the punch in the eye?
 
Sorry for posting this so late. I only found out just before the deadline and have only just got round to submitting something (late). It only just occurred to me to post it here. Hopefully, if anyone wants to, they'll stil consider it... story ? AuntiStella ? terrythomas ?

Me and the Starman
 
AuntiStella said:
Damn! I didn't see this till now!
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They do say they might extend the deadline and they haven't posted up notice any received entries yet, so maybe worth doing anyway, or asking them? I was several days late with it (and haven't heard back yet, but I'm not reading anything into that.)
 
From my visit yesterday afternoon with a special close up of Hama Bead Ziggy.
 

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AuntiStella said:
I had a trilogy of dreams about Bowie a few weeks back. The first was about being in a room surrounded by his records, the second was about going to a gig where he died at the end, and the third was just plain weird and cannot be explained or described.
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I dreamt last week that I was having a balloon fight with David Bowie (yes, really!). We were stuffing large blueberry shaped balloons up each other's jumpers and were having such a good time that I woke myself up laughing and then thinking, "WTF was that all about?!"
 
Listening to World on 3 (I don't know; age I expect) and heard this and it made me think of him. (Everything does, though, tbh.)



The singing, the song and the theme, not specifically the music. I can imagine him having played it.
 
This is lovely:

That enormous black star on David Bowie’s last album looks so sombre in light of his death, but it isn’t as bleak as it first appears.

As an Imgur user discovered this week, if the vinyl gatefold is left out in the sun (N.B - not the record itself, you’ll ruin it), its star becomes a galaxy.

It’s quite a touching little secret, and a nice nod to Bowie’s immortality as a musical and cultural icon.
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Something beautiful happens when David Bowie's ‘Blackstar' vinyl is left in the sun
 
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