David Bowie has died

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Think I will watch the film 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence' this weekend. It, in my opinion, was his best film and scores 7.3 on IMDB.

RIP David. Another Icon lost.
 
RIP. Can't say I grew up or liked his music as a teen but he's fantastic and I certainly listen to most of his tracks regularly.

Depp to play Bowie within a few years. You heard it here first!
 
Watching the Labyrinth as I write this.

Modern love is one of my all time favourite songs

RIP
You will be missed
 
Watching the Labyrinth as I write this.

Modern love is one of my all time favourite songs

RIP
You will be missed

One of if not the first film I have a memory of (and my ~7 year old self didn't at all have a thing for Jennifer Connelly) - not a big fan of the middle section that most people love but at a young age was impressed by the concept and the escher-esque scene near the end.
 
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Indeed.
His influence was strong also. For instance, one of my favourite bands, Placebo, wouldn't exist if it wasn't for him.

https://youtu.be/c14qMbmP9eg

Same Im a big placebo fan but funny thing is the 1st single I brought myself was bowies Let Dance. Cant say I am a massive fan of all his music but I do like some of it a lot.

Placebo were big fans of bowie but unbeknown to them he was a fan of thiers and he found out they were in New York at the same time and phoned thier management team as he really wanted to do something with them. The above was the result. This song Is one of my all time favorites due to personel reasons and I do like this version the best.

R.I.P
 
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Same Im a big placebo fan but funny thing is the 1st single I brought myself was bowies Let Dance. Cant say I am a massive fan of all his music but I do like some of it a lot.

Placebo were big fans of bowie but unbeknown to them he was a fan of thiers and he found out they were in New York at the same time and phoned thier management team as he really wanted to do something with them. The above was the result. This song Is one of my all time favorites due to personel reasons and I do like this version the best.

R.I.P

I think he had something for everyone - I'm not a fan of a lot of his music but there are some tunes of his that I really like.
 
https://youtu.be/c14qMbmP9eg

Same Im a big placebo fan but funny thing is the 1st single I brought myself was bowies Let Dance. Cant say I am a massive fan of all his music but I do like some of it a lot.

Placebo were big fans of bowie but unbeknown to them he was a fan of thiers and he found out they were in New York at the same time and phoned thier management team as he really wanted to do something with them. The above was the result. This song Is one of my all time favorites due to personel reasons and I do like this version the best.

R.I.P

:)


 
Never a fan, didn't hit me in anyway really and seemed to be surrounded by people who were his biggest fans all day, though suspect none of his music was in many of their collections. Having said all that still sad to hear as there is no question of the importance of his body of work and he was too young to die so respect where it's due.

RIP David Bowie.
 
RIP very sad. Although I wasn't a fan of his music, I had huge respect for him for daring to be different. He was an iconic figure who was unique and ahead of his time and he will be missed!
 
This clip is doing the rounds at the minute, his Paxman interview in 2000 where he is just absolutely on point predicting the impact the internet will have, not only on society as a whole, but to music in particular. I think it's brilliant.

Bowie: "I like to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. There is a breakdown, personified by the rave culture.... where the audience is at least as important as whoever is playing at the rave. It's almost like the artist is to accompany the audience and what the audience are doing, and that feeling is very much permeating music, and permeating the internet."

JUMP TO 6:18 FOR THE RELEVANT PART IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WATCH THE WHOLE THING.



I particularly liked one users comment:

"**** mate. seeing paxman frown dubiously as bowie is talking about how audience-content interaction will be super emphasised via the internet, whilst little does paxman know he's currently stuck inside a little box on the internet 15 years in the future, placed above a ******* audience rating system of 'likes', 'views', and 'shares'... that's priceless."
 
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