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RIP David Bowie

just come across this - a really quite wonderful - and very moving - version IMHO. (apols if its already been posted)


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Exactly the same mouth.:eek:

Clearly you lot have been duped. He's been alive all this time, leading the Cowboy Junkies. ;) All that sorrow and pain :facepalm::oops:
 
Have been listening to Bowie today. Some footage from Glasto 2000 when I was smashed on lsd right at the front of the massive crowd. Such an impressive artist and human being. I started collecting Bowie vinyl, programmes and memorabilia when I was about 8-10 (80s) after hearing Space Oddity at Thorpe Park when I was a lad :)

Remember when I heard he had died. Was facing Brixton tube and could not breath for a while. Had only seen him live once but he was the only artist that I really obsessed over.

Got to see the artist doing the mural in Brixton and took a seat to watch while I listened to 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' :cool: Watched people walking past and pitied them for not 'knowing' :hmm: Told my boss I had serious things to deal with :)

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Is there Life on Mars?
 
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Will the generation below us ever have artists who's music exists past their own deaths?

Music (mainstream at least) has reached a level of Blandular Fever) that I can't fathom. Adele, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran are 'not terrible' but I can't understand how they can fill stadiums?
 
Think that Bowie was the first artist/celebrity who's death really (made me cry in public) shook me up.

The next (and last) one will be David Attenborough.

After these two the rest of the human race are oxygen stealing wankers who we are better off without frankly.
 
The guy will never really die because his music will last forever.
Willy suggested (seriously paraphrased) while ever ears can hear and men can breath, so lives his music, and that gives life to him.
Bowie isn't dead, just his body stopped working.
 
Great article here:

1979 “Boys Keep Swinging” [2017 Remix] (David Bowie): This song goes back to the swagger element. I really liked David when he was being a real rock & roller, and ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ is swaggering rock & roll. It can’t be any more obvious about that, in fact, if you listen to the lyrics.

One thing I loved about recording that song was that we all swapped instruments, and honestly that was the best everyone could play on the swapped instruments. George Murray, the bass player, was playing the organ. Carlos Alomar, the guitarist, of course, on that is the drummer! On the new mix I’ve really beefed up his drumming, to make the song all that it could be. I mean, if you’re going to remix a song, you might as well pull out all the stops. Also, when they swapped instruments, Dennis Davis ended up on bass, but he’s left-handed! So we never ended up using his part. I ended up playing it when we were mixing the record later in New York at the Hit Factory.

David felt bad, so he credited Dennis, though. And Adrian Belew put the solo on in New York, as well. It was fun and memorable, too, because we did an experiment for ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ and ‘Fantastic Voyage.’ They have the exact same chord changes in the exact same key, but with totally different lyrics, so a completely different feel.

There was actually a third track, because we wanted to do three with the same sequence, but completely changing the character of each song with the approach. We succeeded on the two, but I don’t even remember what the third track was. But there were definitely no lyrics, so even if someone were to find it, it would be one take that was just miserable. But we were able to accomplish what we set out to do. I remember, when we finished, we said to each other, ‘We’ve done it! Fantastic!’

Tony Visconti Counts Down His Favorite Tracks
 
Do you know what statutory rape is?
From what I gather, he had sex with one underage groupie who was a well known part of the band scene in the 70s. Quite awful of course and something that he should be rightly be condemned for. Feel free to start a thread about it if you like, but don't you dare fucking tell me that I shouldn't enjoy any of his work.
 
From what I gather, he had sex with one underage groupie who was a well known part of the band scene in the 70s. Quite awful of course and something that he should be rightly be condemned for. Feel free to start a thread about it if you like, but don't you dare fucking tell me that I shouldn't enjoy any of his work.
According to Lori Mattix, the night she lost her virginity to Bowie, she was involved in a threesome with another 15 year old girl, Sable Starr.
Enjoy whatever you like. I didn't say you couldn't. I'm just surprised that people are celebrating a rapist nonce.
 
Start a "David Bowie is a rapist nonce" thread and leave this one to us who want to celebrate the man.

Stinking up joyful threads with pointless negativity really is the act of a snide.

Really, editor - I know it's not the u75 way but I wish you could delete these posts. This is a thread for us fans to talk about our memories and thoughts about the man.

People pissing all over really is fucking Low, pardon the pun
 
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