# David Bowie has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2016, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794 "2016-01-11T07:02:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/1 "2016-01-11T07:02:31Z")
Confirmed in [multiple](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-bowie-dead-legendary-artist-854364) [places](https://www.facebook.com/davidbowie/posts/10153176666977665), including his son [Duncan Jones](https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/686441083648212992). > [@](#): > > January 10 2016 - David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/2 "2016-01-11T07:04:57Z")
Wow, I’m totally stunned. One of my all-time favorites, and he just released an album Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/3 "2016-01-11T07:05:57Z")
I can’t stand it. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/4 "2016-01-11T07:11:26Z")
I was never a fan of Bowie, but appreciated his contribution to the musical patchwork that we’ve all enjoyed since the early 1970’s. Vale David…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/5 "2016-01-11T07:12:18Z")
Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/6 "2016-01-11T07:13:15Z")
No. Just… no. :😭: ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/7 "2016-01-11T07:15:14Z")
Jesus Christ, first Lemmy and now Ziggy Stardust. Bad month for rock’n’roll. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/8 "2016-01-11T07:26:12Z")
What a sucky day for music. On Friday’s Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon referred to Bowie’s new video. Oddly enough, the song is called [Lazarus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8). ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/9 "2016-01-11T07:40:09Z")
Dang, when I was an independent radio DJ circa 1980-1985, Bowie was \*always \*one of the tracks I played on my show. RIP and I played your stuff long before the song came out: I’m home, lost my job, and incurably ill You think this is easy, realism I’ve got a girl out there, I suppose I think she’s dancing Feel like Dan Dare lies down I think she’s dancing, what do I know? [lyrics snipped-ITD] ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/10 "2016-01-11T07:40:50Z")
The (Goblin) King Is Dead! ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/11 "2016-01-11T07:42:10Z")
Rest in peace, Thin White Duke. A legend of my teenage years has passed. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/12 "2016-01-11T07:42:33Z")
Ashes to ashes. RIP Ziggy. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/13 "2016-01-11T07:44:23Z")
He was a very talented musician, songwriter and singer. I remember hearing an interview with Rick Wakeman, who played piano on Life on Mars, talking about how Bowie came up with the chord changes and how they weren’t anything the band was expecting. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/14 "2016-01-11T07:46:02Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > The (Goblin) King Is Dead! Funny thing; that’s one of the movies I ordered with my Christmas gift card. Pretty good actor, he was. Wouldn’t have recognized him playing Nikola Tesla except for the eyes. Only 69. Dang. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/15 "2016-01-11T07:48:20Z")
_Sigh_ ☹ Rest in Peace Major Tom. And get used to this shit, juniors. I just turned only 55 and not only are my rock idols starting to croak, high school chums are as well!!! ☹ Sorry to be a downer but, what a drag it is, getting old!!! ☹ :eek: ☹ :eek: ☹ :eek: ☹ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/16 "2016-01-11T07:48:30Z")
Holy shit, BOWIE!?!? And they kept it secret 18 months. . . This is just weird. I wasn’t even a HUGE Bowie fan, and this is really weird for me. Maybe because he had that big resurgence when I was in high school with his, “Let’s Dance” CD. You know, the background music to that important part in your life. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/17 "2016-01-11T07:49:25Z")
I just saw him in The Prestige, just last week. Same response as Rilch. Just watched a show where someone mentioned his two different colored eyes, too. Weird. He seemed timeless, very surprising to hear of his death. He was the epitome of a beautiful guy. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/18 "2016-01-11T07:50:15Z")
Jesus, this is out of left field! I wasn’t a huge Bowie fan, but damn, that’s just too young. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/19 "2016-01-11T07:52:33Z")
My heart just dropped out of my chest. His music meant so much at so many times in my life, good and bad. This one hurts bad. It feels like someone close just died. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794/20 "2016-01-11T07:53:42Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Jesus Christ, first Lemmy and now Ziggy Stardust. Bad month for rock’n’roll. ☹ My thought was: “Well, I guess Mick Jagger’s next.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-has-died/742794.md?page=2)