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    David Bowie

    David Bowie, Pop Star Who Transcended Music, Art and Fashion, Has Died at 69
    The New York Times By JON PARELES 18 hrs ago

    David Bowie, the infinitely changeable, fiercely forward-looking songwriter who taught generations of musicians about the power of drama, images and personae, died on Sunday, two days after his 69th birthday.

    Mr. Bowie’s death was confirmed by his publicist, Steve Martin, on Monday morning. He died after an 18-month battle with cancer, according to a statement on Mr. Bowie’s social-media accounts.

    “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family,” a post on his Facebook page read.

    His last album, “Blackstar,” a collaboration with a jazz quintet that was typically enigmatic and exploratory, was released on Friday — on his birthday. He was to be honored with a concert at Carnegie Hall on March 31 featuring the Roots, Cyndi Lauper and the Mountain Goats. He had also collaborated on an Off Broadway musical, “Lazarus,” that was a surreal sequel to his definitive 1976 film role, “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”

    Mr. Bowie wrote songs, above all, about being an outsider: an alien, a misfit, a sexual adventurer, a faraway astronaut. His music was always a mutable blend: rock, cabaret, jazz and what he called “plastic soul,” but it was suffused with genuine soul. He also captured the drama and longing of everyday life, enough to give him No.1 pop hits like “Let’s Dance.”

    If he had an anthem, it was “Changes,” from his 1971 album “Hunky Dory,” which proclaimed:

    “Turn and face the strange
    Ch-ch-changes
    Oh look out now you rock and rollers
    Pretty soon now you’re gonna get older.”
    Mr. Bowie earned admiration and emulation across the musical spectrum: from rockers, balladeers, punks, hip-hop acts, creators of pop spectacles and even classical composers like Philip Glass, who based two symphonies on Mr. Bowie’s albums “Low” and “ ‘Heroes’.”

    Mr. Bowie’s constant visual reinvention was a touchstone for performers like Madonna and Lady Gaga; his determination to stay contemporary introduced his fans to Philadelphia funk, Japanese fashion, German electronica and drum-and-bass dance music.

    Nirvana chose to sing “The Man Who Sold the World,” the title song of Mr. Bowie’s 1970 album, in its brief set for the 1993 “MTV Unplugged in New York.”

    “Under Pressure,” a collaboration with the glam-rock group Queen, supplied a bass line for the 1990 Vanilla Ice hit “Ice Ice Baby.”

    Yet, throughout Mr. Bowie’s metamorphoses, he was always recognizable. His voice was widely imitated but always his own; his message was that there was always empathy beyond difference.

    Born David Robert Jones on Jan. 8, 1947, Mr. Bowie constantly reinvented himself. He emerged in the late 1960s with the voice of a rock belter but with the sensibility of a cabaret singer, steeped in the dynamics of stage musicals. He was Major Tom, the lost astronaut in his career-making 1969 hit “Space Oddity.”

    He was Ziggy Stardust, the otherworldly pop star at the center of his 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.”

    He was the self-destructive Thin White Duke and the minimalist but heartfelt voice of the three albums he recorded in Berlin in the ‘70s, often considered his greatest work: “Low,” “ ‘Heroes’ ” and “Lodger.”

    The arrival of MTV in the 1980s was the perfect complement to Mr. Bowie’s sense of theatricality and fashion. “Ashes to Ashes,” his sequel to “Space Oddity” that revealed “we know Major Tom’s a junkie,” and “Let’s Dance,” which offered, “Put on your red shoes and dance the blues,” gave him worldwide popularity.

    Mr. Bowie was his generation’s standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could. With a voice that dipped down to baritone and leaped into falsetto, he was complexly androgynous, an explorer of human impulses that could not be quantified.

    He also pushed the limits of “Fashion” and “Fame,” writing songs with those titles and also thinking deeply about the possibilities and strictures of pop renown.

    Mr. Bowie was married for more than 20 years to the international model Iman, with whom he had a daughter, Alexandria Jones.

    In a post on Twitter, the musician’s son from an earlier marriage, Duncan Jones, said, “Very sorry and sad to say it’s true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all.”

    Mr. Bowie largely left the spotlight after a heart attack in 2004 brought to an abrupt end a tour supporting his album “Reality.” The singer experienced pain during a performance at a German festival and sought treatment for what he believed was a shoulder injury; doctors then discovered a blocked artery.

    The following year, he performed with Arcade Fire, a band he had championed. In 2006, he performed three songs in public for what would be the final time, at the charity Keep a Child Alive’s Black Ball fund-raiser at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/...id=ansmsnent11


    David Bowie dead at 69: Reflections on his musical legacy

    http://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/1074939...d-songs-legacy

    Tribute to a Starman: David Bowie Mourned by Astronauts, Scientists
    The perfect tribute to David Bowie: an astronaut playing "Space Oddity" in space


    Updated by German Lopez on January 11, 2016, 2:10 p.m. ET





    Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spent five months in space — a time in which he gained international fame for his extensive use of social media while floating above Earth. But one of his most impressive accomplishments was his cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" — not only the first musical recording in space, but a cover Bowie called "possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created."

    Hadfield's cover departs from Bowie's original in a few ways. While Bowie's song is about an astronaut who is seemingly on the verge of a death far away from home, Hadfield's is about an astronaut who's on the verge of returning home. (Which makes sense, since Hadfield recorded the song right before returning from the International Space Station.)

    But it's a beautiful, inspiring cover. One day after Bowie's death at the age of 69, it's one way to pay tribute to the legendary artist.

    http://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/1075005...d-space-oddity
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    This is David Bowie.

    Taken three days ago.


    What does this say about him? Amazing things.


    I feel with his recent output, knowing the end was coming, and AMAZINGLY keeping the world at large completely unaware...he felt like he was on a mission. Like once he got this final art out to the world, and seeing its release...he could let go. So many people speak of relatives who hang on in their final days until that one loved one shows up to say goodbye before they go. Once that happens, they expire very shortly thereafter.

    I feel that this was the case with Bowie. Being such an artist to the very end, he HAD to see that his work come full circle before he could leave us. He would not have left with his vision unfinished. Look at the photo. A man riddled with cancer. Not a sign of it anywhere. His vision fulfilled. Leaving as he lived. With style, class, and on his own terms. Within his own world he created through his art. We should all be so lucky. What a fucking BAD-SS!!
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    Saddened to hear the news about David Bowie today.

    David Bowie's first public musical performance took place when he was a Scout on the Isle of Wight in 1958.

    1947 - 2016.

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    David Bowie Honored With Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation
    The perfect tribute for the "Starman."


     01/18/2016 04:18 am


    The night sky is shining bright for David Bowie, who's been given his own constellation.

    When linked together, the collection of seven stars near Mars form the lightning bolt painted on the legendary late rocker's face on the cover of his 1973 album "Aladdin Sane."

    The MIRA Public Observatory in Brussels teamed up with local radio station Studio Brussel to register the fitting intergalactic accolade.

    MIRA Observatory employee Philippe Mollet said it was tricky finding the perfect spot in the galaxy to pay tribute to Bowie.

    "It was not easy to determine the appropriate stars," Mollet said in a statement. Referring to the rocker's various albums, they chose seven stars -- Sigma Librae, Spica, Zeta Centauri, SAO 204132, Sigma Octantis, Beta Trianguli Australis and SAO 241641 -- in the vicinity of Mars. "The constellation is a copy of the iconic Bowie lightning and was recorded at the exact time of his death," he added.


    The constellation is linked to Google Sky's "Stardust for Bowie" initiative, which lets fans pay tribute by naming their favorite songs or leaving messages




    The homage is linked to Google Sky's virtual "Stardust for Bowie" initiative, which lets fans create personal tributes inside the constellation's borders by naming their favorite song or leaving a message.

    Each star-shaped memorial brightens the overall formation, thus making it easier to spot when stargazing in the Google Sky galaxy.





    Astronomers found it difficult to find the perfect spot in the galaxy to pay tribute to David Bowie.


    Bowie died at the age of 69 on Jan. 10, following an 18-month battle with cancer.

    Multiple tributes have been paid to the rocker, who often used the universe as his inspiration, either through his alter ego Ziggy Stardust or via songs such as "Life on Mars" and "Starman."

    An Austin street sign was "vandalized" in his honor, a huge street party broke out near his birthplace in Brixton, London, and Arcade Fire shut down New Orleans on Saturday with a "Bowie Memorial Parade."
    http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/90814


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    hhmmmmm ... Co-incidence? I don't think so.
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