David Bowie passes.

[Whitwabit]

We have lost a great Rock and Roll performer .. who reinvented himself over the years staying on top a very cut throat industry ..

Ground Control and Fame probably my two favorites by him but there are many more !!

 

[walkin jack]

Bowie had genuine talent. I never cared much for his type of music but his style had it's place. I saw him perform with Tina Turner once and they really rocked. I also saw him in the vampire movie, The Hunger with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. I was impressed with his performance.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Unlike most artists, Bowie was also an astute businessman. RIP

 

[bmc5733946]

Enigmatic is a great way to describe him. I got to see him during the Ziggy Stardust tour. My two favorite albums of his are " Man Who Sold The World" and "Ziggy Stardust" they are on my regular playlist. Personal favorite is "All The Madmen" great description of how best to relate to our current world of "sanity". I never listened with regularity to much of his music beyond those two albums but liked what I heard of it.
RIP Starman

Brian

 

[roadrunnerh]

R.I.P. David Bowie - My favorite album was "David Live" recorded in Philly in 1974.

 

[DeathGrip]

There's some great talent in heaven.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOmJa1Q3-4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOmJa1Q3-4[/ame]

 

[pharmer]

"We can beat them
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
Just for one day"

RIP. Getting where those that have "gone ahead" are my age. Joe

 

[dmar]

Always liked Bowie's music, s/he had some incredible talent! Very creative and unique person. Brings back a lot of good memories. RIP.

 

[CCantu357]

I saw this on my news app in the wee hours of the morning. One of the few times I had to do a double take, as I thought it was a hoax. Since he was only 69, and just put a brand new album out the other day, it really was an unpleasent suprise. While not everyone's cup of tea, David Bowie had immense talent with both his music and lyrics, as well as in acting and in business. Unlike many other celebrities he was a true entertainer. His latest album is quite a goodbye letter, and I respect the dignity with which he seemed to handle his last years. You do not see much of that among anymore among famous men.

 

[bdGreen]

It's been a great ride my friend.
Goodbye to you, and thank you for the decades of You.

 

[jdlii]

My wife and I saw the Bowie exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago last year over Christmas. I liked and grew to love much of Bowie's music but, the exhibition opened my eyes to just what a magnificent artist, writer, composer and designer he truly was for his and all time.

To say that he was "ahead" of his time, would not be truly correct. He was right on time!

 

[Philadelphia Patriot]

His "Lazarus" song and music video from his newest album is very, very dark.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8[/ame]

 

[Bugkiller99]

Like LVSteve, I had a very good buddy who was a Bowie fan in the '70s. Sorta looked like him.
Sadly both are gone. My buddy will be first in line for Bowie's next performance......

 

[jhcii]

The Actor

in "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" that came out in the 80's.

He is a prisoner of war and his actor performance was not mentioned in the news.

I was disappointed.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...=yhs-mozilla-002&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002

I was in Seminary with New Testament Professor Herman Waetjen. He suggested us 4 year seminarians to see the movie.

He was our classical Greek New Testament professor; Robert S. Dollar chair to the Seminary at San Francisco Theological Seminary.

He took my bible in New American Standard and placed it on the floor in room Geneva at SFTS and said it was the paper pope and we had to translate the original greek ourselves to understand the New Testament. We did after that.

In seminary you jump about 10 to 20 years ahead of most rural or suburban or metro churches.

Herman Waetjen, Robert S. Dollar Professor of the New Testament suggested we see the prisoner of war in the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.

I watched it alone to myself when it came out and it reminded me of Mishima of Japan that came out earlier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishima:_A_Life_in_Four_Chapters

Which reminded me of having read Shogun by Clavell.

Bowie was an excellent actor in the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. He had conversation with his captor guards in a Japanese Pacific Island and ended up winning his guard's approval for being a human being and a human being who didn't care about pain just the human foe imprisoning him.

I call that a free spirit to do such a thing.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Changesonebowie was his first compilation album. That was a good one. That and Heroes and Diamond Dogs were in high rotation back in my high school days (late '70's). Turned a number of ex-girlfriends into Bowie fans. Car cassette deck, long "drives" in the country. Bowie and I drifted apart when he went Disco. But, hey, we'll always have Young Americans and Rebel, Rebel.