just got home from my part-time job (at a doggy daycare). three.... THREE different customers walked into the store and said 'hey did you hear about david bowie?' ... in a PET SHOP. that tells you what an impression he has made over here.

the very first person to walk in today told me she felt so lucky she got to see him play at the orpheum theater (!!) in boston in 2002. and her dog's name is... ziggy.

Usually instrumentals are just musical pieces. Bowie was always mysterious and distant to a degree, but songs like these just embrace you with life, love, and spirit.



Sounds like love

kalas, I've merged your thread with this thread. Hope you don't mind it.



I am going to visit the exhibition with my better half in the end of month.
I purchased the entree ticket with date and time.
It was just on 6 PM news about exhibition and the peole who visited there today. Groninger Museum is normally closed on Monday, but they opened their door today for all the people who want to come to show their respect and love to this legend and say farewell to him.

I've been listening to Blackstar again and again today.
It's very sad and we're all shocked, but like carryusall said, it was the gift from the man, the last wonderful gift to his fans.

I'm still quite shocked and I'm not making a fun of this sad news, but how could anybody say such a farwell to the world? Nobody, but David Bowie.

Thanks for your music, Mr. Bowie. What you left behind us, will live forever.

never been a massive fan of david bowie but Im still totally gutted, I think this whole last album has made it the more haunting but also impressive in a way, I was only listening to lazarus last night and while I liked it I didnt understand it but today it just made total sense and blew me away, much like michael jackson Im glad he was back doing what we loved him for before he died because we got to experience it again even only for a short time, big respect to the guy for deciding to make music up to the end instead of just letting it beat him.

he was one of the last if not the last massive superstar of music, end of an era.

thankyou for the music DB xx

I listened to Lazarus for the first time today...

Wow.

Rest in Peace Ziggy. One of the all time greats!

I'm too heartbroken about the loss of David Bowie, that a single comment is not enough pay him enough respect.

His music has always ben present from day one in our family - from the first album I witnessed as a child: 'hours..."

A star is out tonight. Stars they live forever!
   

Had to take a long drive today with my Dad, a lifelong Bowie fan. Listened to various Bowie records the whole ways and swapped stories about the first time we heard whatever songs or records were playing at the time. I was surprised to find how many stories I had.

One of my Dad's stories trumped all of mine though. My Dad's worked in TV news for at least half his life now, and every once and a while mentions various famous people he's met. He'd never told me this before, because he doesn't really like to mention this sort of thing, but he told me about a time he briefly met Bowie. It was in the 90s and him and his colleagues were set to film an interview with Bowie's wife Iman at their home. When they arrived Bowie answered the door and asked if they'd come to 'interview the missus.' They didn't speak for long, because David didn't want to steal the spotlight from his wife, but apparently he was charming, funny and very down to earth. He even made my dad coffee!

I'm not a super fan or anything but he wrote some tremendous stuff, had an amazing chameleonic quality to him and produced perhaps Lou Reed's finest album. Cut up about this one, especially after losing Lemmy only a couple of weeks back.

Amazingly put.

Wonderfully put. Bravo, Matt.

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Last night's news left me completely deflated. There's so much that's already been said about David Bowie's passing. That it felt like such a surprise. That he was the kind of person you never imagined dying because what he gave the world felt beyond the scope of a normal person. His music meant a great deal to me, as it did to countless people, but he also meant a great deal to me as a person. As one of the highest example of what a person can do with music and what music can do for people. His life will serve as a constant reminder that creativity is not reserved for the young, that the way music can make us feel is the closest thing to real magic I might ever know.
I've been watching the reactions roll in and I feel some things very strongly: How beautiful it is that everyone has a different idea of this one man that means something to them. Some people posting pictures of Ziggy, or of themselves with the familiar lightning bolt painted across their face. Pictures of Bowie with unnaturally glowing red hair and pallid face, or the carefully posed cover of "Heroes". It's true that there are any number of versions of David Bowie to be attracted to, any number of characters that helped propel his music beyond anything that could be described as ordinary. But for me it was always the human that mattered, never the alien.
By the time David Bowie was my age, he had released 8 albums. Albums that included some of the most potent work he would ever create. The thought alone of course confuses and saddens me in relation to what I've accomplished, but it also makes me want to laugh out loud. I feel truly lucky to have been witness to the kind of human creativity David Bowie had. He wasn't the first and he won't be the last, but what he had was very special and that will always exist. It's hard to imagine a more productive life. To have given so much and been so loved. I believe it's impossible for his music to die. I'd say goodbye, but truthfully I'm not sure that I need to.