David Bowie RIP

[Legacywr]

So, he had himself cremated shortly after dying, with no family or friends in attendance?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/david-b...

[CAPP0]

CAPP0 said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I'll be in the West End later this week. I think I'll take a stroll down Heddon St, stand in Ziggy's phone box (it's still there) and in the K West doorway.

I'll be at a client site in Green Park on Thursday, I'll take a walk round there too. Wish I had thought of it today, I was there today too.

I went there today. Actually it was quite disappointing. The usual tawdry pile of flowers still in their petrol-station cellophane, a few pictures and notes and some half-drunk bottles. Very much the same thing you see when an 18 year old has wrapped his car around a lamppost. There was no "atmosphere" at all.

Not sure what I was expecting but perhaps something a little more in keeping. But fair play, everyone is different and we all react and respond in our own way. I intended to take pictures but there was nothing worth capturing.

@Twig, where is the phone box? It's not under the lamp or the wall plaque?

[CAPP0]

I'm sorry, I genuinely didn't mean to offend anyone. As I said, I don't know what I was expecting, I was just a little disappointed in the general lack of, well, anything much.

Thanks for the info re the phone box, I walked round the "square" of Heddon St but came in from the lower side and didn't look up that way as I walked round.

[Derek Smith]

anonymous said:

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One of the greatest lyricists.

Read his lyrics as you would poetry, ignoring his likeability or otherwise. If you are not moved then there is little hope for you. Much of it is beautiful. Much of his early stuff narrated the 60s.

He's a mixed-up bloke, seemingly with a bucket list of religious belief, so he's in good company on the poetry side.

[iSore]

Derek Smith said:

One of the greatest lyricists.

Read his lyrics as you would poetry, ignoring his likeability or otherwise. If you are not moved then there is little hope for you. Much of it is beautiful. Much of his early stuff narrated the 60s.

He's a mixed-up bloke, seemingly with a bucket list of religious belief, so he's in good company on the poetry side.

Yessir. Dylan was a great writer of songs for someone else to cover - Hey Mr Tambourine Man and All along the Watchtower are just two. The thing about the likes of Bob Dylan and Hendrix was that it was only a couple of years after the appalling cheese of pre '63 stuff that was a hangover for the fifties, most of which was absolute st. Some of the stuff that even Elvis was churning out in the early sixties was criminally bad.

Lay Lady Lay is my all time favourite Dylan track - he almost sings in tune as well. Bowie was every bit as clever, albeit on a different plane.

[anonymous-user]

All Along The Watchtower, great song but better when someone other than BD is singing it.
A different plane is a good way of putting it. To me, Bowie was much more about positivity than angst or politics, Dylan not so.
That said I have just watched a video dedicated to Bowie being quite obtuse with interviewers who ask dumb questions, that was quite funny.

[iSore]

anonymous said:

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Fools, suffered gladly, not!

[RichB]

Did someone mention All Along the Watchtower ?

[Legacywr]

RichB said:

Did someone mention All Along the Watchtower ?

Not like!

[RichB]

Heathen!

[bexVN]

thelittleegg said:

Has anyone heard of any big Bowie stuff going on as a result of his untimely demise? TV or events etc?

Not sure how big you mean but I know Sky Arts are doing a tribute to him, unfortunately I can't remember when.

[Halb]

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On the net? LInk?

After watching the docs on the telly, it was amusing to see interviewers asking the same retarded questions 40 years ago. Russell Harty came across as a plum.

[Legacywr]

Halb said:

On the net? LInk?

After watching the docs on the telly, it was amusing to see interviewers asking the same retarded questions 40 years ago. Russell Harty came across as a plum.

It was linked to on the Youtube thread just last week! I thought it was dreadful!

[Murph7355]

RichB said:

Heathen!

+1

Once heard Dylan interviewed where he said Hendrix owned that song.

On topic, not listened to much Bowie for a long time. Used to listen to his stuff a lot at Uni and just after. Prompted to listen again and God most of it's good. And some of it very poignant in his passing.

RIP.

[bexVN]

Anyone heard the A capella version of Under Pressure by Bowie and Mercury. It is on Facebook. I will try and link it. It is just brilliant!

[egor110]

CAPP0 said:

I'm sorry, I genuinely didn't mean to offend anyone. As I said, I don't know what I was expecting, I was just a little disappointed in the general lack of, well, anything much.

Thanks for the info re the phone box, I walked round the "square" of Heddon St but came in from the lower side and didn't look up that way as I walked round.

Why not remember him by watching a decent bowie tribute act.

A crowd full of people remembering/celebrating him by singing his songs.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Rick Wakeman, who played piano on Life On Mars?, plays it on Radio 2 as a tribute. Just fab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jogv7tD18gs

[miniman]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Rick Wakeman, who played piano on Life On Mars?, plays it on Radio 2 as a tribute. Just fab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jogv7tD18gs

Amazing.

[MarshPhantom]

Police State said:

Eric Mc said:

If there hadn't been a Beatles, there is a good chance there wouldn't have been a Bowie. The Beatles changed the way pop music and "rock & roll" was seen. It was no longer just rhythmic dance music for kids and teenagers.

In 1965 Bowie recorded "The Laughing Gnome".

In 1969 he recorded "Space Oddity".

In between these two songs, The Bestles had released "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" and "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - and more or less changed what pop music was all about.

People with an experimental aspect to their nature, like Bowie, were, in effect, given permission to try all sorts of new ideas. And more importantly, the music industry saw that experimental music could make money for them, so they were willing to go along with strange and boundary pushing music in a way they wouldn't have been a couple of years earlier.

I think your equation is crucially missing out the first Rock Star of them all...

http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html

http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs

What about Elvis or Hank Williams? The Beatles were hugely influenced by the likes of Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

The Beatles themselves were also influenced by other 60s bands.

The Beatles turned psychedelic, they didn't invent it.

Edited by MarshPhantom on Saturday 16th January 10:05

[MarshPhantom]

miniman said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Rick Wakeman, who played piano on Life On Mars?, plays it on Radio 2 as a tribute. Just fab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jogv7tD18gs

Amazing.

Rick was on the radio the other day. When asked how it felt to have played the piano on one of the greatest records ever made, his response was "I also played on a lot of Des O'Connor records"