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RIP David Bowie

Started by Popeye the Sailor, January 10, 2016, 11:39:21 PM

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krolik

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January 11, 2016, 07:02:19 PM
One of my favorite Bowie songs is Pretty Pink Rose he did with Adrian Belew.
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January 11, 2016, 10:21:05 PM Last Edit: January 11, 2016, 10:26:50 PM by OT
Quote from: ducpainter on January 11, 2016, 05:43:22 PM
Soooo...

don't take this wrong. the world has lost a great one.

David was the Rocketman...but Elton wrote the song?

Just sayin'
Not sure if this is what you're driving at, but it seems that most VIP Tweeters, etc., in their "first to tweet" frenzy, usually don't bother to check facts and likely weren't actively involved when it all happened, anyway.

'Rocketman' was just one song, anyway, that was released five years after Bowie's Space Oddity and, besides, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics and EJ wrote the music. I don't think Elton John ever referred to himself as the rocketman - as the song was, I believe, inspired by how 'ordinary' space/moon travel had become by then...but there was nothing ordinary about either Bowie or Elton John.


For me, Bowie was an acquired taste - not so much the music but the edgy characters he put on the stage, and I'll admit I never warmed to the Ziggy stuff.  But, then again, Bowie was just a kid (20 years old) when his real success began. Space Oddity was released just two years after Sargent Pepper and three years after Pet Sounds...quite a contrast in styles.

I enjoyed Bowie's mid-1970s work much more.

FWIW - the band whose popularity I'll never understand is Kiss..... [evil]

Howie

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January 11, 2016, 10:28:39 PM
David Bowie was a great musician and vocalist, but an even better performance artist. 

ducpainter

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January 12, 2016, 03:18:57 AM
I wasn't really 'driving' at anything OT. It was just an observation.

I'm with you. I never really warmed up to either of the on stage personas o9f Bowie or Elton John until either they, or I, got older.
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January 12, 2016, 11:48:05 AM
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January 19, 2016, 05:36:53 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on January 12, 2016, 03:18:57 AM
I wasn't really 'driving' at anything OT. It was just an observation.

I'm with you. I never really warmed up to either of the on stage personas o9f Bowie or Elton John until either they, or I, got older.

I was listening exclusively to the Doors until about my junior year in high school when I discovered Bowie -- I had heard him before, but that was when someone really sat me down and got me thru Ziggy Stardust and Man Who Sold the World and Diamond Dogs etc... 

So much chemistry with Low.

I was a weird amalgam of Jim Morrison and Ziggy Stardust thru college.   Helped my sex life immensely.
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