RIP Bowie

thought that a local newspaper headline this morning said it well, " planet earth is blue ". great muso and song writer.
'ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars' is definately in my top 10 albums.
 
My parents were both Bowie fans, so I grew up with him regularly being played on the vinyl.

Added to that my sister and I grew up on the movie Labyrinth and that soundtrack. He had a total mastery of music. I haven't heard all of his twenty something albums but he, along with Queen, are the only two acts that I've never said that I've disliked a song of theirs that I've heard.

Even Metallica, my favourite band, has songs I cannot stand.
 
Cool dude to the end… Not bound by societies boundaries RIP thanks for the memories ..Ziggy stardust on the 8 track in the panel van at the drivin reversed park if this van is rocking don't bother knocking ..those were the days .
 
@Snake said:
Cool dude to the end… Not bound by societies boundaries RIP thanks for the memories ..Ziggy stardust on the 8 track in the panel van at the drivin reversed park if this van is rocking don't bother knocking ..those were the days .
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Snake you old romantic. I had an 8track in my Mazda rx4 must have come stock as I bought it in an auction. Only problem I had no discs! LOL
 
Unique and influential up to the very end. Pioneer to a lot of today's stars.

There will only be one David Bowie.

I bet Heaven is rocking out to Bowie and Mercury at the moment.

RIP Space Man.
 
On JJJ this morning talk about Bowie's latest album is no.1 in Oz,US and Europe.
Also that there are 17 of Bowie's albums in the current selling top 50.
 
Like an artist (painter, etc) -
There work goes up in price when they die.

/Not a fan of Bowie's music.
Labyrinth is a great movie of the childhood tho.
 
@sheer64 said:
@Snake said:
Cool dude to the end… Not bound by societies boundaries RIP thanks for the memories ..Ziggy stardust on the 8 track in the panel van at the drivin reversed park if this van is rocking don't bother knocking ..those were the days .

Snake you old romantic. I had an 8track in my Mazda rx4 must have come stock as I bought it in an auction. Only problem I had no discs! LOL
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8 Tracks didn't take a disc, they took a cartridge that was about the side of a Betamax video tape.
 
On the radio when I drove him on Saturday they were talking about the song Under Pressure that we all know he did with Freddie Mercury

They actually played the song with just Freddie and David Bowie just singing , nothing else

It was absolutely amazing , their voices were mind blowing
 
@happy tiger said:
On the radio when I drove him on Saturday they were talking about the song Under Pressure that we all know he did with Freddie Mercury

They actually played the song with just Freddie and David Bowie just singing , nothing else

It was absolutely amazing , their voices were mind blowing
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You can hear heaps of voice demos of famous songs. That one is pretty good. One of the best I've heard is Man in the box by Alice in chains. Layne Staley had one of the greatest ever rock voices.
 
@Byron Bay Fan said:
I never took to Bowie's weakish-sounding voice - wasn't a serious rocker but very creative of course. He reminds me too much of JT.
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He wasn't your run of the mill rockstar, that's why he had appeal. Broke down barriers and questioned convention in his work.
 
What I found ironic was that it took another 47 years after Bowie's Space Oddity for a British astronaut to walk in space - and just about 2 days after Bowie's death. He obviously wasn't destined to witness such.
 
@innsaneink said:
Who has a strong voice Byron?
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Joe Cocker in _The Letter_ and _With a Little Help from my Friends_ the original recorded versions. Oz Leon Berger had that heavy Russian voice that came out occasionally - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAzlVwlETg
 
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