A true legend. RIP Sir David.

 

So sad, and a huge loss. Always appreciated his adventures in style and his confidence in dressing. What a talent...he will be greatly missed.

 

Crocs tweeted a tribute to him: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/127426/crocs-bad-shoes-bad-tweet

He was a great visual and musical talent, and, to judge from interviews, genuinely charming, witty, and likable.

 

An original. He will be sorely missed. And, yes, I LOVED his clothes. One of my greatest concert regrets is missing the 1976 Station to Station tour show in Vancouver in 1976. Apparently, many people wore suits to the show and the ladies wore dresses.

 

RIP David Bowie. He was a great talent. He stayed part of my music most of my life.

 

The thin white duke will be quite missed.

 

A friend shared a link to David Bowie's last photo shoot and it just made me sad because you can tell how ill he was but he put on a brave face all the same.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-poses-time-Star-beams-final-photo-shoot-promotional-shots-Blackstar-album.html

As much as I thought of myself as a punk, first in the spirit of the Clash and later the DC hardcore scene, David Bowie had a huge impact on my creative life. His passing is a giant punctuation mark on an important era in my life.

 

As much as I thought of myself as a punk, first in the spirit of the Clash and later the DC hardcore scene, David Bowie had a huge impact on my creative life. His passing is a giant punctuation mark on an important era in my life.

I'm sure Bowie inspired many a young punk, and his later work certainly took inspiration from that movement as well. I mean, listen to late-Bowie and late-Fugazi and there's definitely some common elements.

 

A friend shared a link to David Bowie's last photo shoot and it just made me sad because you can tell how ill he was but he put on a brave face all the same.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-poses-time-Star-beams-final-photo-shoot-promotional-shots-Blackstar-album.html

As much as I thought of myself as a punk, first in the spirit of the Clash and later the DC hardcore scene, David Bowie had a huge impact on my creative life. His passing is a giant punctuation mark on an important era in my life.

Who knew that last image would be his way of saying goodbye.

 

I enjoyed his music during the early 80's.

 

He had some good looks, and some not.

 

this is very sad news. I really admired his work and will miss his contributions.

 

Very sad and shocking, as I was listening to some of his new music just a couple of days before the news. I grew up in the 80s as a child intrigued by his music and was lucky enough to see him in concert, although well past his prime, during the 90s.

 

This has been going around, so many of you may have already seen it, but this 1983 interview with Bowie and Mark Goodman is fascinating. For context, this was at the height of Bowie's "Let's Dance," so he certainly didn't need to call out MTV's refusal to play black artists. Some of Goodman's rationalizations are sort of jaw-dropping.

 

This has been going around, so many of you may have already seen it, but this 1983 interview with Bowie and Mark Goodman is fascinating. For context, this was at the height of Bowie's "Let's Dance," so he certainly didn't need to call out MTV's refusal to play black artists. Some of Goodman's rationalizations are sort of jaw-dropping.

very interesting.

 

This has been going around, so many of you may have already seen it, but this 1983 interview with Bowie and Mark Goodman is fascinating. For context, this was at the height of Bowie's "Let's Dance," so he certainly didn't need to call out MTV's refusal to play black artists. Some of Goodman's rationalizations are sort of jaw-dropping.

Thanks for this, very interesting on so many levels. I didn't realise the depth of unconscious racism in the early 1980's.

 

Thanks for this, very interesting on so many levels. I didn't realise the depth of unconscious racism in the early 1980's.

I hope that comment extends to the world writ large and not just the United States.

 

I didn't realise the depth of unconscious racism in the early 1980's.

I'm not sure how unconscious it was. Judging by Goodman's comments it seemed like a very conscious decision. It's still fascinating to me as I was too young to pick up on any of that at the time.

 

What is everyone's favorite song by him? (70's and 80's)

 

What is everyone's favorite song by him? (70's and 80's)

I'd heard his music on the radio growing up, but it wasn't until I saw him perform on Saturday Night Live in 1979 that I really came to appreciate him. Probably didn't hurt that I was entering my teen years I guess. Anyway, his performance of 'The Man Who Sold The World' with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias during his appearance has stuck with me ever since, and I have actually had it playing in my head for the last week.

In addition to that, maybe 'Look Back In Anger' and a few songs off of Scary Monster, including the title track

 

I grew up with him in the 80's so it would definitely be "Let's Dance", China Girl and Modern Love.

 

RIP Thin White Duck, you are and will be always a legend