RIP David Bowie

[Dr. Furface]

I managed to somehow managed to miss out on this wonderfully camp/Noo Yoik take on Springsteen's Saint In The City. And I fucking love it.

Never heard that before either. Always one of my fave Bruce songs and that's a great version, makes it feel like it could've been one of his own.

 

[editor]

Never heard that before either. Always one of my fave Bruce songs and that's a great version, makes it feel like it could've been one of his own.

I love the stylised vocals!

 

[Dr. Furface]

I love the stylised vocals!

It's so hard to be a saint when you're just a BOWEYEEE out on the street!

 

[editor]

In photos: Brixton’s David Bowie shrine – tributes left during August 2016

 

[Kaka Tim]

For those of us still struggling to come to terms with the loss - help is at hand -

Sting's new album tackles the deaths of Prince and Bowie

 

[editor]

For those of us still struggling to come to terms with the loss - help is at hand -

Sting's new album tackles the deaths of Prince and Bowie

I saw the headline earlier and couldn't bear to click on it.

 

[pesh]

i struggled to get to the fourth word of the headline.

 

[terrythomas]

Can't remember if I posted this or not already, who cares anyway, it's good enough to hear twice:

 

[Sea Star]

For those of us still struggling to come to terms with the loss - help is at hand -

Sting's new album tackles the deaths of Prince and Bowie

OMG

 

[editor]

I just got to see the V&A exhibition on Bowie in Bologna. It was unbelievably good.

 

[editor]

Ooh! Final Bowie recordings on Lazarus Cast Album - Michael C. Hall to perform at 2016 Mercury Prize - David Bowie Official Blog

 

[ViolentPanda]

For those of us still struggling to come to terms with the loss - help is at hand -

Sting's new album tackles the deaths of Prince and Bowie

To quote dubversion;

"Oh Sting, where is thy death?"

 

[editor]

Bowie is odds-on favourite to scoop the Mercury Prize tonight.

Mercury Prize: David Bowie tipped for posthumous win - BBC News

Good feature here too:
Deconstructing the iconography of David Bowie

 

[editor]

The Bowie exhibition in Bologna was so good (and so free of massive London style queues), I'd honestly say it would be worth grabbing a flight out there. It was bloody fantastic. Really inspirational.

 

[editor]

Another good interview. He was one smart cookie.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I was never been quite sure of the correct pronounciation of the name Bowie. The other day I watched an old interview with him where he said he had that problem himself and pronounced it in two different ways without coming to a conclusion.

 

[D'wards]

I was never been quite sure of the correct pronounciation of the name Bowie. The other day I watched an old interview with him where he said he had that problem himself and pronounced it in two different ways without coming to a conclusion.

Bow (as in arrow) ee - he always normally referred to himself as that

 

[editor]

Love his Jagger impression at 6.50 mins.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Losing to Skepta in the Mercuries is a good place to be if you're beyond the grave i think.

 

[editor]

Brixton’s David Bowie shrine: Photos of tributes left during September 2016

 

[terrythomas]

Five Years was the song that started it all for me, can't read that line on the wall without putting it to the music in my head. What a gift ​

 

[editor]

Ooh, they just played a new song on BBC6: "When I Met You" - it's from the Lazarus production. First listen, and it's pretty good too.

The final new song, When I Met You, comes from the end of the play, and offers a welcome sense of solace and relief. It is an off kilter pop ditty, the jaunty melody of a Sixties beat jingle run through a sonic wringer, a rising and descending bass figure and Bowie strumming an out-of-rhythm acoustic guitar.

The song is a loving dedication to someone who has saved the singer from himself: “I was the walking dead/ I was kicked in the head/ I was too insane/ Could not trust the game/ Before I met you.”

Whether directed to his beloved wife Iman or Newton’s love interest in the Lazarus musical, the sentiment remains the same. It is a tribute to the power of love to save and heal yet delivered in a manner that evokes the very mad exuberance from which he needed saving, the track gaining impetus whilst simultaneously almost disintegrating into chaos. “It was such a time,” Bowie sings, contemplating his dizzy past. “Such a time.”

A last message from a lost icon: three more David Bowie tracks released – review

 

[Mation]

I've been steering clear of all this. Basically, I'm sulking. 2016 is too hard and where is he, the fucker. Where was he for the last 10 years? In that fucking country and not here.

(No answers required. I'm just in a mood.)

 

[editor]

Here, there's no music here
I'm lost in streams of sound
Here, am I nowhere now?
No plan

Wherever I may go
Just where
Just there
I am

All of the things that are my life
My desires
My beliefs
My moods
Here is my place without a plan

Here
Second Avenue
Just out of view
Here
Is no traffic here?
No plan

All the things that are my life
My moods
My beliefs
My desires
Me alone
Nothing to regret
This is no place, but here I am
This is not quite yet

Every interview with people he was working with at the end say that he was still bursting full of ideas and very, very funny and charming.

 

[editor]

I staggered through this criminal reign
I'm not in love, no phony pain
Creeping through this tidal wave
No warm embrace, just a lover's grain
This symphony
This rage in me
I've got a handful of songs to sing
To sting your soul
To fuck you over
This furious reign

I'm falling, man
I'm choking, man
I'm fading, man
And broke and blind
I'm falling, man
I'm choking, man
I'm fading, man
Just killing a little time
I love the sound of an empty room
The screams of night, the end of love
Two beating hearts, one labored scarred
One open wound, wasted and drowned
No sympathy
This furious reign

I lay in bed
The monster fed, the body bled
I turned and said
"I get some of you all the time
All of you some other time"
This rage in me
Get away from me

I'm falling, man
I'm choking, man
I'm fading, man
And broke and blind
I'm falling, man
I'm choking, man
I'm fading, man
Just killing a little time

This symphony
Get away from me

 

[editor]

This is great:

What was your first impression of David Bowie, and in retrospect are you pleased with what he and Mick Ronson did with your second solo album, Transformer?

How can I remember my first impression of David Bowie? That’s really… [smiles] Okay… I mean, David and I are friends to this day. He’s very smart and very, very talented, and I met him in New York and thought, ‘This guy would be a fun guy to work with; we could really bring something to the dance.’

And Mick Ronson’s arrangements?

Mick Ronson’s arrangements were killer. The thing about Ronno was that I could never understand a word that he said; it’s, like, he’s from Hull. You had to ask him eight times to say something, and he was like, ‘Ouzibuzziwoozy…’ Absolutely incomprehensible… I mean, sweet guy, but incomprehensible. Completely. But listen to that arrangement of Perfect Day. That’s Ronson. But David is no slouch. We were rehearsing for our little show, and we’re doing Satellite Of Love and we were doing the real background part at the end, and the guys were really admiring David and going, “Holy shit, what a part that is.” He outdid himself.

Interview: Lou Reed on the Velvets, Bowie... and his love of heavy metal

 

[editor]

Brixton Bowie shrine, Oct 2016

In Photos: Brixton’s David Bowie shrine – tributes left during October 2016

 

[terrythomas]

Insightful videos via Sothebys. Oh for some huge chunks of cash, I could buy so much of his art, he really knew his stuff.

Working with Bowie: An Insight into an Incredible Mind on Sotheby's Blog

 

[editor]

FFS:

Brixton’s David Bowie mural defaced by ‘fans’

 

[hash tag]

The tribute to prince was very clear during London's fireworks, but, I must have blinked at the wrong time because I missed the Bowie tribute which it is said was in there.