# Yesterday opened Google News to headlines of David Bowie's death. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980 "2016-01-12T23:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/61 "2016-01-15T16:40:20Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > He’s one of the most well known figures in 20th Century music. I wasn’t going to go that far, but I think if you asked most people to list the most prominent musicians who achieved stardom in the 1970s, Bowie would be comfortably in the top ten. You would have to have been studiously avoiding pop music from at least 1973 to 1980 to not know who he was. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/62 "2016-01-15T16:50:00Z")
OMG every one is dying! Well it seems once a day now that I am getting death alert email on celebrities-Dan Hagerty this time! ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/63 "2016-01-15T17:05:59Z")
Who’s Dan Hagerty? ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/64 "2016-01-15T17:06:55Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > OMG every one is dying! Yeah, there’s a lot of that going on… [John Belushi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Belushi)– One of my sisters, born 1943, was completely clueless. (I’m 8 years younger.) _Saturday Night Live_? He was in movies, too? There was talk about more serious movies? But at least she didn’t act proud that she had never heard of him. Hmm. I posted a link, just in case some of the young whippersnappers here had never heard of him. Nearly 34 years ago for his death… I knew it was a while back, but somehow I hadn’t figured on _ **over a third of a century** _… Boy, do I feel… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/65 "2016-01-15T17:12:27Z")
> [@Bruce\_Wayne](#): > > I’ve been doing that last few days myself. Nobody mentioned [Starman](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tRcPA7Fzebw), I think it was on _The Martian_ soundtrack. Read my post immediately preceding the one you quoted. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/66 "2016-01-15T17:15:44Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Who’s Dan Hagerty? He was “The Old Man” in the original “Robocop” (1987). ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/67 "2016-01-15T17:35:22Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > He was “The Old Man” in the original “Robocop” (1987). really? I dont remember that but I remember Grizzly Adams! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/68 "2016-01-15T17:42:35Z")
^ I should have known better than to think that joke would work twice. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/69 "2016-01-15T19:26:06Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > Yesterday opened Google News to headlines of David Bowie’s death. More today. I’m 77 years old and I never heard of the person. Elsewhere here is a poll about my favorite David Bowie song. None mean anything to me. Most people are less than 77 years old, and the news media caters to the masses. I am also 77, and I have “Sound and Vision” in one of my YouTube playlists. Most of the people who were important and influential to you and me are already dead. which would make relevant obituaries of celebrities extinct. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980/70 "2016-01-16T02:48:24Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > [The Man Who Sold The World](https://youtu.be/HSH--SJKVQQ) has been the track I’ve gravitated to the most over the last couple of days. This is the original. I’m actually more familiar with [Nirvana’s 1994 cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8) as I was the right age group to be exposed to that first. Bowie reworked it in the 90s, and I’ve been loving That’s similar to _Working class hero_ by Elton John/Green Day in the fact that both versions are excellent. > [@pulykamell](#): > > Read my post immediately preceding the one you quoted. 🙂 Yup, silly me, you mentioned it.:). Credit due where it is deserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-opened-google-news-to-headlines-of-david-bowies-death/742980.md?page=3)