RIP David Bowie.

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Owenk

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Very sad.

Normally I get very short tempered and snippy with people claiming they are "mourning" a celebrity they don''t know that has died. I mean how can you have real profound affection for someone you don;t know.

Therefore I am quite suprised and taken aback and the sense of loss and real sadness I am feeling this morning. I guess for people of my age his music is so inextricably tied up in our personal histories.

Gutted. :(
 

FlakeNoir

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Very sad.

Normally I get very short tempered and snippy with people claiming they are "mourning" a celebrity they don''t know that has died. I mean how can you have real profound affection for someone you don;t know.

Therefore I am quite suprised and taken aback and the sense of loss and real sadness I am feeling this morning. I guess for people of my age his music is so inextricably tied up in our personal histories.

Gutted. :(
I understand what you're saying. I think I have only ever felt this depth of loss (of a celebrity) once before and that would be Robin Williams.

David was my first crush, (that lasted for yeeeears) I had (only) his posters on my walls and ceiling, collected everything, watched every movie... dressed like him, filed my eye teeth so they were pointy like his :blush: listened to his music on my turntable by day and every night on my walkman (yeah, I'm old) as I fell to sleep.

My first concert was his 1987 Glass Spider Tour... I can still hear the music now and see his face, first when I threw the black rose at him onto the stage (he smiled and nodded at me!) and second when his limo nearly ran me over after the concert.

I still can't believe he is gone... I loved this man, his singing (& speaking) voice, his song writing, his music, his acting... and he was a very nice guy too, off stage.
You will be sooooo missed David Bowie, I am so sorry to see you go. :sorrow: R.I. P my old friend. ♥
 

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When I first read he had passed away, the words didn't seem to make sense to me. It was like a different language. I thought that maybe it was a different David Bowie. How could David Bowie be gone? He just seemed like he would always be there.

Alas not, nothing is forever. Rest In Peace.
 

Owenk

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I understand what you're saying. I think I have only ever felt this depth of loss (of a celebrity) once before and that would be Robin Williams.

David was my first crush, (that lasted for yeeeears) I had (only) his posters on my walls and ceiling, collected everything, watched every movie... dressed like him, filed my eye teeth so they were pointy like his :blush: listened to his music on my turntable by day and every night on my walkman (yeah, I'm old) as I fell to sleep.

My first concert was his 1987 Glass Spider Tour... I can still hear the music now and see his face, first when I threw the black rose at him onto the stage (he smiled and nodded at me!) and second when his limo nearly ran me over after the concert.

I still can't believe he is gone... I loved this man, his singing (& speaking) voice, his song writing, his music, his acting... and he was a very nice guy too, off stage.
You will be sooooo missed David Bowie, I am so sorry to see you go. :sorrow: R.I. P my old friend. ♥

I can get Robin Williams I think that touched a number of people from the perspective that they understood and shared what he had sufferred and how that led ultimately to his death.

I am completely with you on Bowie as he was my first and most enduring musical love. One of my oldest freinds, Alan, who I was talking to on Facebook this morning introduced me to his music when we were in our last year of primary school and I didn;t look back from there. I remember my first Saturday job working on a fruit stall in the covered market in Oxford and rushing off to use the £5 note I had earned to buy Aladdin Sane. Each part of my life seems to have a particular Bowie album or song associated with it. I guess being 54 he has just been there performing, in a unique way my whole concious life.

I only got to see him 3 times sadly, but once was in a pretty small venue when I was very young courtesy of haveing lovely older siblings, so that's a special memory.
 

Owenk

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What a shock. I had no idea he had been battling cancer. He just released a new album and I thought everything was good. He had had a heart attack years ago that sidelined him for a while but he seemed to be doing ok. Sad news.

His long term collaborator Tony Visconti seems to suggest the final album was conciously a kind of gift.

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Becks19

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First thing I heard on the news this morning. It does not seem real. May he finally be at peace and free from the evil "C" . Will hold the memories of his music close .

R.I.P. David Bowie. Reading of someone passing from Cancer (again) makes me so mad. I pray that some day we find a cure. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.