RIP Ziggy Stardust

[maccol]

Not only a great artist ,writer and performer in his own right but so influential on so many artists who followed.
R.I.P.

[TightEnd]

Bowie's isolated vocal track for Starman

https://soundcloud.com/studebaker/david-bowie-starman-single?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter

[TightEnd]

Bowie is currently at 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11,17,18, 22, 23, 25, and 30 on the iTunes Top 30.

[Doobs]

Bowie is currently at 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11,17,18, 22, 23, 25, and 30 on the iTunes Top 30.

Where do we find this? 

[bobby1]

http://www.mindblowingvideos.com/how-under-pressure-sounds-without-music-freddie-mercury-and-david-bowie-a-cappella.html

never heard this version before

reunited in heaven

What a terrible day.  Many thanks for posting this link Dave.

Think the guy made 5 of the 10 best songs I've ever heard.

What a loss

RIP

[RED-DOG]

One less star in the universe.

RIP.

[ripple11]

To say he was legendary is to understate him.

RIP

Very much this.

A true icon.

[TightEnd]

lol

[teddybloat]

the world really was a better place for having bowie in it.

uncompromising and popular, not an easy marriage.

he was never a tourist either. when he dabbled with drum and bass it wasnt because he was trying to appeal to yoof or appear relevant, it was because he was properly into the scene. he was attending the seminal metalheadz sessions in a pokey london club long before the music gained traction in popular culture. indeed even the promoters of the night were unaware that bowie was an atendee at the club until one of the dj's spotted him sat in the middle of the dance floor. [contrast that witj today's pop-idols who appropriated another wildly innovative london musical movement in having dubstep as a standard backing track, most without having any clue on the musics origins]

and what a vocal performer. for me he'll be epitomised by the following track:

phillip glass, bowie and aphex twin are radical in their fields. well glass rinsed bowies heroes album. he essentially covered bowies songs in his unique repetitious brooding manner.

aphex twin sourced the accapella version of bowies heros and laid it over glass' interpretation adding some distortion, but essentially letting the vocal stand. jesus what a vocal.

i'm sure bowie would have approved of the result.




that tracks holds some special memories i had the pleasure of DJing at magic mushroom parties back when they were legal. liverpool had a home delviery service and a pub in the city centre held magic mushroom sundays where they served hallucinogen soup, tea and the twisted fungus itself. they were a bit pf liverpool phenomenon for a while. i used to mix the bowie/glass/ahx track into bruce sprigsteens ghost of tom joad. bosssss.

[Kev B]

That is dreadful news, I was unaware that David had been ill.

Oh my, what a shock that is.

So many memories, so much music, & so original in so many ways.

RIP David.

 

Exactly this just no idea he was poorly.
Landed in Phuket ordered a beer, opened wifi and just shocked by the news. Grew up with Bowie from early 70's. RIP the amazing David Bowie.

[TightEnd]

https://chartmkr.shinyapps.io/DavidBowieSingles

[TightEnd]

twitter

1) Go to @DavidBowieReal's account. 2) Click 'following'. 3) Look at who he followed last. 4) Laugh and cry.

[tikay]

Last night on Channel 4 @ 10.35pm there was a wonderful tribute to Bowie entitled "Starman". I have no idea if you can find that on Catch Up or whatever, but it was just splendid.

They'd play a Bowie track, & I'd think "oh yeah, forgot that one, one of his best ever". Then another, & another, & another, & this was over several decades.

I suppose we are all guilty of waiting until someone passes on before we realise how much we appreciated them. I may be a bit dewy-eyed, but on reflection, there can have been few better or more deserving talents.

Good looking boy, with the sort of frame that carries clothes well, & few dressed better. Always, or mostly, polite & deferential, & managed to re-invent himself over & over, unlike so many rock stars who are too scared to change for fear their popularity will decline.

And his lyrics - I read so many of them yesterday. Simple, but just so perfect.

Very shrewd guy, too, I believe he owned the back catalogues to several artistes. I may have misread the situation, but I'd guess he was immensely wealthy, & will have invested his earnings wisely.

It was such a shock yesterday to read the news, though it seems he had been unwell for some time.

A class act in every way.



Here he is, just one month ago.


   

[TightEnd]

BBC2 last night at 11.15 was "sound and vision" the story of bowie's five albums from 71- to 80 and how the songs were made, his various images developed etc

fascinating documentary

[tikay]

BBC2 last night at 11.15 was "sound and vision" the story of bowie's five albums from 71- to 80 and how the songs were made, his various images developed etc

fascinating documentary

I watched that, too, but I thought the Channel 4 version at 10.35 was much the better.