Fuck, how time flies! Remarkably it is TEN YEARS today since we lost the greatest of all my icons, the god who walked amongst us, the peerless David Bowie.
As you will be more than aware, dear reader, I have paid due homage to the great man many, many times on this very blog...
Read my week-long series of "Bowie Tracks of the Day" following his untimely death:
- 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 in 2012:
I still mourn his loss, needless to say.
As does, it would seem, our "house band" here at Dolores Delargo Towers...
RIP, David. Well done, Sara, Scott Bradlee and the band.
I love your honoring of David Bowie. He and Lou Reed were my intro into a different world when I was 17.
ReplyDeleteI came late to the game where Bowie is concerned (late 70s/early 80s), but I can safely say he changed my life! Jx
DeleteMy first girlfriend at university (yeah that long ago) had a dorm room to herself with a mattress in the middle of the floor, lava lamps, incense, scarves hanging over lamp shades, pot, and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. I was transformed.
DeleteBefore I ever had any sex of any kind, still in the closet, it was David Bowie's genius lyrics ("You're not alone!") and his utter coolness that obsessed me - I tried so hard to emulate his "look" from the Scary Monsters era... Jx
DeleteWhat can I add to that. He was Extraordinary and of his own creation.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. And Sara Niemietz and PMJ did him proud. Jx
DeleteDavid Bowie and I have had a long, strange relationship. At first it was a case of people gifting me Bowie albums - and that was fine, but I was not even remotely a Bowie person back then. Still, I kept receiving them. It wasn't until the late 1980s that I began reading about the guy. I mean everything I could find. That's when I was introduced to Bowie as the artist and person. And that's when I became a fan. From the time he went to Germany until his passing, that's the stuff I love the most. If ever there was a prince of Fabulon, it's Bowie. RIP.
ReplyDeleteHe was an endlessly fascinating person, and peerless artist.
DeleteI'm inclined to agree with you about his later work once he'd left LA for Europe, and was fighting to get over his addictions - his output from Station to Station to Scary Monsters was just so brilliant, so creative, so innovative, and so influential on every style of electronic music that I hold dear, that it left an indelible mark.
Saying all that, however, I still maintain that his Hunky Dory album from 1971 to be his most complete and perfect of 'em all...
There is no artist, ever, who comes even close. Jx
...ooh, and his movies!!!!!!
ReplyDelete...particularly The Man Who Fell to Earth. Jx
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