Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Thin White Duke...a giant gone

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Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Thin White Duke...a giant gone

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best comment - today he has become Stardust
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What the??? He just released a highly acclaimed literally days ago!!

http://www.metacritic.com/music/blackstar/david-bowie
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It's almost like I forgot he was a mortal.

The man's gone. The music lives on.
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yovargas wrote:What the??? He just released a highly acclaimed literally days ago!!

http://www.metacritic.com/music/blackstar/david-bowie
I know. That makes it all the more shocking, especially given that he died from cancer that he'd been battling for 18 months.

Wow. :(

It was just his birthday, too.
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Wow, I'm speechless. One of the greatest.
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This upset me more than I thought possible, I couldn't focus at all yesterday
Since 1410 most Welsh people most of the time have abandoned any idea of independence as unthinkable. But since 1410 most Welsh people, at some time or another, if only in some secret corner of the mind, have been "out with Owain and his barefoot scrubs." For the Welsh mind is still haunted by it's lightning-flash vision of a people that was free.

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I'm the same; I'm very unsettled and upset, moreso than with the death of other admired public figures in recent memory.

Mandela, Iyengar, Robyn Williams...I was saddened and honoured them, but David Bowie's death rocked me.
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the third single that I bought was Starman, and the first LP Ziggy Stardust
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The Blackstar album is incredible. A requiem he wrote for himself, it seems.


Street party in Brixton (where he was born), in memoriam. :love:

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This is probably pretty widely known, but for those who haven't seen it: David Bowie/Bing Crosby Little Drummer Boy
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