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The "God who walked among us", David Bowie would have been seventy-five years old today.
No-one, no thing could ever replace him...
I'm not a prophet or a stone age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it
On the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release
Ah!
Ah!
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release
Ah!
Ah!
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones, 8th January 1947)
More Bowie:
Read my week-long series of "Bowie Tracks of the Day" following his untimely death six years ago:
- Wild is the Wind
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Life on Mars?
- Golden Years
- Rock'n'Roll Suicide
- Queen Bitch
Read my two-part magnum opus in tribute to the great man on his 65th birthday:
He had something special. He was something special.Still is something special.
ReplyDeleteEternal. Jx
DeleteSo many lovely memories of this man and his music. He truly graced our lives in the most alien of ways. Hard to pick a single song, his body of work was so vast and of such high quality. Thanks for remembering him today. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteI have a "Bowie shrine" of various photos, together with the programme from the only time I saw him live in 1983, framed, above my desk as we speak... Jx
DeleteNeither he nor his legacy will be or could ever be forgotten.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what time of day or night, even as we speak, somewhere in the world there will be a Bowie track playing... Jx
DeleteWhere do the years go? I can scarcely believe it's been six years.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite is "The Man Who Sold the World"
Ah, but whose version - Lulu, Nirvana, Midge Ure, or the man himself..? Jx
DeleteOh, the man himself, of course!
DeleteBien sûr. Jx
Delete"No-one, no thing could ever replace him." You said it all, Jon.
ReplyDeleteAn entire era of creativity died with him six years ago. I see no artist nowadays that would even be worthy of kissing his feet. Jx
DeleteGreat clip of Bowie and Robert Smith - I've never seen it before, so thank you.
ReplyDeleteIs the original version of this song on Hunky Dory? - I seem to remember singing along, and I used to play that album a lot.
I always enjoy Bowie duets - especially Under Pressure with Freddie Mercury.
Sx
It is a good duet, isn't it? However, Robert Smith was twelve years old when Hunky Dory was released, no not the original... Jx
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