OT - David Bowie Is Dead.

[imno1]

Wow, what a bad couple days in the rock world:

http://fake.trendolizer.com/2015/02...eractivist-ted-nugent-age-66-found-alive.html

Like his music hate his politics. (Nugget not Bowie)
btw NPR had a nice segment on Bowie yesterday.

 

[Ewekon]

I liked all his music. Saw him in Hartford in front of 15,000.
A month earlier I caught him at Toad's with Tin Machine and maybe 10 other people on a snowy night.
I don't think the guy can write a bad song.

And yes, his illness was pretty well-known.

Saw the 1983 Hartford stop as my one and only Bowie show. Really fun night. Connecticut's own Simms brothers were backing vocalists. Stevie Ray Vaughn quit the band before the tour got to CT.

 

[Phorcys]

He was an amazing talent who constantly reinvented himself, not as a follower of trends but as their leader.

Always ahead of his time, and now deceased before his time.

I don’t believe in reincarnation, but if anyone could pull it off it would be Bowie.

 

[David 76]

No call for rumor mongering about Bowie's death, He died of cancer. His sexual tastes were rumored to be androgenous witch was revolutionary in the 70s but would not raise an eyebrow today. He was a brilliant businessman in many ventures including the first internet platform allowing Yankee fans to communicate with each other. While I'm sure he used drugs, like most people back then, he did not use like all the more tragic rockers of his day, nor did he ruin concerts showing up too stoned to perform.
David Bowie was bright, pushed the envelope and did not feel restrained by social norms. None of this means he died differently from any other 69 man.

 

[intlzncster]

Sh_t, Alan Rickman just died too. He was 69 too. Loved that guy.