My favorite Bowie era is anything that involved Mick Ronson. RIP Spacemen
You really made the grade. That’s what I was looking for.
From what I’ve read from Tony Visconti, the album was done early in 2015. So the idea of waiting to release it seems to hold water.
I just watched the video of Bowie and Lennox’s 'Under Pressure ’ for the Freddie Mecury tribute concert, goosebumps and goopy eyes, but not a pain I would’ve wanted to miss.
Rhapsody put together a playlist of picks from every album, in chronological order. It’s just two or three from each and it’s still over 4 hours long. I’ll be listening for a few days on repeat.
I posted a Youtube compilation of his best songs on Facebook. With the addition of him having been a star all of my life. I’m getting old… and it saddens me to see the larger than life people who have did more than just getting their pix in the tabloids… passing on.
One of my FB friends posted this: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/1043455372414183/
(Major Tom from the ISS peeps).
I only just found out. My wife texted me to tell me he was gone.
I responded by texting her the full lyrics to Space Oddity from memory, tissue in hand.
“Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit’s dead there’s something wrong. Can you hear me Major Tom?..”
I’ll be crying over youtube videos if anyone needs me.
Well he was a non-drinking self-confirmed alcoholic and had taken mountains of coke and uppers in his time, though not recently. The damage was done many years ago.
Yeah, I don’t think any of the drugs he did is correlated with cancer. My guess is this was just bad luck.
I hope your spaceship knows which way to go.
Thai Rath, a Thai-language daily, screwed it up. In an online montage of David Bowie, they included a photo of Jon Bon Jovi along with Bowie and even praised the British star as “the singer of the well-known hit ‘It’s My Life,’ which is familiar among Thais.” They corrected their mistake but not before lots of Thai fans voiced their outrage. Oh well, all us white guys look alike.
And speaking of Bowie and Thailand, he filmed a short “documentary” in Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong in 1983 or 1984. You can see it here on YouTube. It’s less than nine minutes, but I think an extended version is out there somewhere.
Not wanting to be inappropriate in a thread of mourning but uh yes they are.
Tobacco and alcohol significantly by direct impacts for many cancers (including liver which is what media reports he had) and IV drug use and many sexual partners by way of HepC and HepB risks which increases liver cancer risks dramatically.
A very sad loss.
The only relevant meme I have.
Ages ago Dinosaur Jr. sort of re-wrote, sort of covered Quicksand. It’s the best Bowie tribute I can think of right now.
The Bangkok Post gave a very nice account of David Bowie’s time in Bangkok in 1983 during his Serious Moonlight World Tour: Serious Moonlighting. He took a loss in Bangkok, Singapore and Hong Kong, but that was okay with Bowie, because he wanted to play more places in Asia than just Japan.
And long-time English resident Roger Crutchley gave his memories of that same concert: Bowie a Starman in the Bangkok moonlight.
Both links mention the tickets in Bangkok were 250 baht. That was just US$10 at the time and not expensive even for many Thais.
Exactly. Proper working class hero: Contrast with ‘Sir’ Mick Jagger. He was charging prices ranging from 1,500 to 8,000 baht in 2003.
They ended up not playing here after all. That was 2003, and when the Sars virus broke out in Asia, they were in India at the time and canceled all concerts points east of there.
Singha beer was a sponsor, and I have an unopened can advertising the concert that would never be. Should have bought a whole six pack. Might be worth something on eBay sometime.
Just to be clear, that’s the Rolling Stones I’m talking about there, not David Bowie.