David Bowie died.

CaptainNemo

This one hurts. This one hurts bad. It was cancer, apparently he'd been fighting it for eighteen months. He went peacefully.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/11/entertainment/david-bowie-death/index.html

autono-wally, erotibot300

OH SHIT. I didn't even know he was sick. What a loss

DarkPrimus

:bigfrown:

I legitimately thought he was going to live for decades more.

ElJeffe

Oh goddammit.

:bigfrown:

skyknyt

I'm really broken up about this.

CaptainNemo

My friend and I were grooving to Lazarus in the car, talking about how cool his new sound was just yesterday.

Fuck this one hurts.

Gaddez

Bogart

Well, this is awful. I am making a list of people on Earth I'd rather have died and it comes to about seven billion people.

Emissary42

Seen elsewhere, on the topic of Blackstar's release on Friday:

https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/686444294534750208

Blameless Cleric

Bogart

This is a scene from the movie Frances Ha, and uses one of my favourite Bowie songs, Modern Love, as the soundtrack to someone running and dancing for the sheer joy of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73z_w-wbz_Q

They're playing this song on the radio right now and, absurdly, I can feel myself welling up.

Incenjucar

Geeze. He was such an integral part of long-term pop culture. I have a friend who dressed up as him basically every chance they got who is going to be hit really hard by this.

Bogart

https://twitter.com/psmith/status/686466552816910336

Zampanov

slick and cool even when being arrested



and my favorite Nicola Tesla

21stCentury

i finally understand why people still report Elvis sightings now...

Kipling217

Shit, this was gutpunch.

MrVyngaard

DarkPrimus wrote: »

:bigfrown:

I legitimately thought he was going to live for decades more.

He will, just not in the way we had initially hoped. We'll never forget him, and through his art in our hearts we'll toast him for the brilliant cool mad delightful genius man who sold the world his voice and form for so many years.

Time to dance the blues, then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA

PLA

I kind of assumed that he was already dead.

OldSlacker

God damn it.

OldSlacker

This really makes Lazarus haunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

Spaffy

How sad I was never a huge fan of his wider body of work (although I adored specific songs of his) but I admire the enormous impact he had on music and wider pop culture. A true icon.

Trace

so I wake up this morning and Ziggy Stardust is dead.

what the fuck universe?

Local H Jay

In the year of the scavenger, the season of the bitch
Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the Ditch
Just another future song, lonely little kitsch
(There's gonna be sorrow) try and wake up tomorrow

Kipling217

There are people to whom even the word Legend is not enough.

There was only one David Bowie, there will never be another.

He was one of a kind, even back in the 70s.

Operative21

Man, this past year and a half or so has been bad for losing celebrities that are actually worth admiring and respecting. I'm genuinely surprised and saddened by David Bowie's passing. He was a true artist, a generally classy gentleman and arguably the best Sovereign the Guild of Calamitous Intent ever had. He will be sorely missed, but never forgotten.

Shadowhope

Read a review for Blackstar this morning.

How wonderful if all of this actually represents an entirely new phase in Bowie's extraordinary career. How fantastic to have an album as rich and strange as Blackstar that refuses to yield in a few listens. It suggests that, like a modern-day Lazarus of pop, Bowie is well and truly back from beyond.

Bogart

I liked Bowie's excuse for saying silly things about fascism and Hitler way back in the day.

"I was out of my mind, totally, completely crazed."

syndalis

I am glad that, before he passed away, he got to see his music performed in the stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

He tweeted his love and support of this, but I cannot find that tweet.

He will be missed and loved.

Trace

Bogart wrote: »

I liked Bowie's excuse for saying silly things about fascism and Hitler way back in the day.

"I was out of my mind, totally, completely crazed."

he was doing so much cocaine in the mid 70s he was seeing hallucinations of the characters he played and shit.

man gets a pass there.

syndalis

Shadowhope wrote: »

Read a review for Blackstar this morning.

How wonderful if all of this actually represents an entirely new phase in Bowie's extraordinary career. How fantastic to have an album as rich and strange as Blackstar that refuses to yield in a few listens. It suggests that, like a modern-day Lazarus of pop, Bowie is well and truly back from beyond.

He lives, he dies, he lives again (though his music)

Darkewolfe

Like many people I'm sure, I'd been rocking out to Blackstar the last few days.

Cancer sucks.

Librarian

Librarian

Bubs

I don't know where I'm going from here,

But I promise it won't be boring.

Aegis

Oh man

silence1186

As a young person, the first time I was really aware who David Bowie was, was in 2001 when he was the first musical performer at the Concert for New York City after the 9/11 attacks. He came out to a dark stage, sat cross-legged in the center of the spotlight, and played a tiny children's piano and sang Simon and Garfunkel's "America" with calliope music in the background. It's stuck with me until this day. It always seemed like such a subdued and humble way to start such a special concert. He was a part of my healing.

E: It's apparently not on Youtube anymore, but if you Google "David Bowie America" it does come up still.

It didn't even dawn to me until after this concert when I was re-watching the movie that David Bowie was the guy in Labyrinth.

He was also the best part in Zoolander.

E: Also, also the greatest bass riff ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I

nexuscrawler

man generational differences are weird man

like i remember seeing Labyrinth as a kid and knowing immediately he was like one of the biggest musicians in the world at the time.

Drez

This is so sad.

Drez

Bowie was even awesome in Omikron (yes, the David Cage game) where he was in a virtual band that virtually performed New Angels of Promise (from Hours) with slightly modified lyrics.

He is so iconic.

Mazzyx

Yeah heard this on my way to pick up bagels this morning.

I am now listening to a giant Bowie list on Spotify. Going to be my work music today.

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