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Post by 4EverAdam on Jan 11, 2016 8:49:34 GMT -5
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Post by safinafirth on Jan 11, 2016 8:50:58 GMT -5
R.I.P Bowie  |
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Post by 4EverAdam on Jan 11, 2016 9:10:41 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 9:14:25 GMT -5
I can't believe it. I didn't know he was sick.
I wrote my undergrad senior thesis on thy Ziggy album & its place in the musical canon. It was such a fun paper to write. (& it got an A.)
RIP Starman
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 9:22:57 GMT -5
Shocked! Knew that Bowie was not doing well, but had no idea it was this serious! He has been practically a member of our family, as my 3 kids are almost cult followers of Labyrinth!  |
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Post by enchanted on Jan 11, 2016 9:26:42 GMT -5
RIP David, you will be missed.
So sad he died two days after his 69 birthday.
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Post by cheriemelissa on Jan 11, 2016 9:28:27 GMT -5
There was a show called the Midnight Special back in the early 70's. It was on every Friday night! I will never forget the night Bowie was on. He blew my mind with his live performance. Yes, it was live and uncensored and fabulous! That was my introduction to Bowie and I've been a fan ever since! Sorry Adam never got the chance to meet him but he is working with musicians who have. One degree of separation!!!  |
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Post by wal on Jan 11, 2016 9:32:45 GMT -5
twitter.com/outmagazine/status/686556943620673539www.out.com/entertainment/music/2013/03/12/my-bowie-adam-lambertMy Bowie: Adam Lambert Beware of the Diamond Dogs.BY ADAM LAMBERTMON, 2016-01-11 08:32 Photograph by Steve Shapiro My father is a huge Bowie fan, and about the time I first got interested in what he was listening to, he pulled out the Diamond Dogs album. The cover was just so cool and trippy and weird. At that point I was really into Halloween and costumes, and when my dad played me the album, I thought, Oh, it’s a Halloween thing. I was maybe 8 or 9, but I didn’t really start appreciating Bowie for myself until my early twenties, when I was getting into glam rock. A light bulb went off—I wasn’t into drag, I didn’t want to dress like a woman, but I wanted to express my gender and artistic identity differently than the mainstream. Bowie was a key inspiration. It was about the androgyny of mixing it up, and that was what was so incredible about his concepts -- he was one of the first rock stars to really push the idea that sexuality was not black and white but an exploration. Later, when he finally made his big American breakthrough in the ’80s working with Nile Rodgers on Let’s Dance, his image shifted to a more masculine sensibility. Considering how far he had pushed it the decade previous, however, it gave his masculinity an edgy and mysterious undercurrent. I actually love Young Americans so much because it was the album where he jumped into Philly soul and it got very funky and rhythmic; to hear someone with his sensibility going to that place is really inspiring. WATCH: David Bowie perform 'Young Americans' live on the Dick Cavett Show in 1974 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFudBQcplj4
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Post by wal on Jan 11, 2016 9:35:54 GMT -5
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Post by csquared on Jan 11, 2016 9:40:15 GMT -5
What a shock to wake up to... RIP Bowie. Such an inventive spirit.
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