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Skippy wrote:

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Amazing scenes

That is an amazing tribute and sight

I often feel with David Bowie how people sometimes feel when they look at things like Star Trek or Doctor Who, and how I felt with Terry Pratchett until a few years ago: I know I'll like it, but it's difficult to get into such a large body of work without getting lost very quickly. I haven't listened to any of the classic Bowie albums all the way through, but everything I've heard of his I've liked (or loved in the case of Space Oddity), and there's so much stuff I want to listen to now just in this thread!

I had no idea he'd done a drum and bass album until I read the obituary on Arseblog, and after searching it out for one or two songs I've just listened to the entire album . Moral of the story: just dive in and enjoy it! I also hope someone shows The Man Who Fell to Earth again as well, I think the Beeb have the rights...

RIP, and thank you in advance for all of your music I'm about to experience.

Obviously nothing beats the original, but I love this version of The Man Who Sold the World:

Terrible News

Clapham Picturehouse is showing Labyrinth on the big screen on Sunday 12pm if you want to revisit this classic.

Dowbocop wrote:I often feel with David Bowie how people sometimes feel when they look at things like Star Trek or Doctor Who, and how I felt with Terry Pratchett until a few years ago: I know I'll like it, but it's difficult to get into such a large body of work without getting lost very quickly. I haven't listened to any of the classic Bowie albums all the way through, but everything I've heard of his I've liked (or loved in the case of Space Oddity), and there's so much stuff I want to listen to now just in this thread!

I had no idea he'd done a drum and bass album until I read the obituary on Arseblog, and after searching it out for one or two songs I've just listened to the entire album . Moral of the story: just dive in and enjoy it! I also hope someone shows The Man Who Fell to Earth again as well, I think the Beeb have the rights...

RIP, and thank you in advance for all of your music I'm about to experience.

quite indeed, just dive right in really. The thing with Bowie is that he changed his musical style so many times that it was always fresh and interesting. For his modern albums which still have a mix of sound to his older stuff try 'Hours and also 'Heathen'

These are from Hours



and this one actually became a bit of a popular goth/electronica anthem

What's really astonishing me is the volume of work posted in this thread so far, and we STILL haven't managed to hit just all the really catchy ones.

Can't get the album version as apparently it's unavailable in the UK.

TigaSefi wrote:Clapham Picturehouse is showing Labyrinth on the big screen on Sunday 12pm if you want to revisit this classic.

I saw my baby, cryin hard as babes could cry
What could I do?
My baby's love had gone, and left my baby blue!
Nobody knew

Great film.

My old work used to play this one in the shop quite regularly. Love it.

Memento Mori wrote:Shoutout to the intro he did for The Snowman.

I may have just watched that whole thing.

Floex wrote:

Skippy wrote:

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Amazing scenes

That clip has been all over the news today

I must admit I'm taking Bowie's death as badly as I took Freddie's. The world feels strange to me somehow, just knowing he's no longer in it.

Death. I'm not scared of it myself, but I detest what it does to the living. Watching the Bowie Reality Tour from 2003 in Dublin on Sky Arts tonight. One last great live tour from the man before he fell victim to a heart attack and massive heart operation which I believe set him down the path towards his inevitable end. Just 13 years ago. I could rage.

It wasn't a massive operation was it?



This every time.

Turboman wrote:This every time.

Preach

Spindash wrote:

Turboman wrote:This every time.

Preach

You introduced me to this one

Turboman wrote:It wasn't a massive operation was it?

It was an emergency angioplasty. It inflates blocked ventricles leading into the heart. I don't know how extensive the operation is, but Bowie was clearly knocked for six and I don't think he ever recovered from it.

I always thought he looked changed physically from that moment on, like he was drifting away, really, over the succeeding years. Okay, I know he was going into his 60s, so hardly a spring chicken any more, but the comparison between how he looked in 2003 (during the aborted Reality Tour) prior to the heart attack and how he looked afterwards was quite marked.

Cal wrote:

Turboman wrote:It wasn't a massive operation was it?

It was an emergency angioplasty. It inflates blocked ventricles leading into the heart. I don't know how extensive the operation is, but Bowie was clearly knocked for six and I don't think he ever recovered from it.

I always thought he looked changed physically from that moment on, like he was drifting away, really, over the succeeding years. Okay, I know he was going into his 60s, so hardly a spring chicken any more, but the comparison between how he looked in 2003 (during the aborted Reality Tour) prior to the heart attack and how he looked afterwards was quite marked.

I guess it depends how well he was prior to needing the op, but at least nowadays it's not too risky.

Yeah you've got a point about his appearance. I imagine 40 odd shows a tour takes it's toll at that age and must be difficult

Still in shock at the news tbh

some live bowie

Someone mentioned "the man who fell to earth". Seems like it's on the Horror Channel at 1am.