11 Comments

  1. Jason330
    January 11, 2016,

    This sucks. The world is now a little bit less wonderful.

  3. puck
    January 11, 2016,

    I have to admit I was never a Bowie fan. That said, some of his singles are fist-pumping anthems and I am happy to turn up the radio when they come on. And a few lines here and there are just breathtakingly lyrical and stick in my memory all these years.

  4. Mitch Crane
    January 11, 2016,

    Thank you for sharing that video, El Som. It is haunting. The lyrics are a great bookend to those other haunting lyrics- “Ground control to Major Tom….”.

    Bowie was born the same year I was. He is one of so many who have been taken from us before their time by Cancer. When I was young most people I remember passing away in middle age were taken by heart attacks. We seem to have lessened that while Cancer is increasingly the cause of death. This fight should not be a Republican vs Democrat battle; so why can’t we increase funding to find the cures?

  5. Jason330
    January 11, 2016,

    Mitch – True. All of John Carney’s heroic bipartisanship goes down a one way street to nowhere. When will he get a clue?

  6. ben
    January 11, 2016,

    oh, let’s not even obliquely blame Carney for Ziggy going home to Mars. He (Carney) isn’t that important or significant.

  8. ben
    January 11, 2016,

    The Walrus was Paul

  9. Bill Dunn
    January 11, 2016,

    Quite a loss. The wife and I use to have this debate about which was his better era, she was a Ziggy fan and I was more the Thin White Duke fan. Now, becoming much more a Blues fan, I have a huge appreciation for the contribution he made towards Stevie Ray Vaughan’s career and having him play on three or four tracks of Let’s Dance.
    We saw him three times together and the wife once or twice before that.
    Bowie wasn’t just a singer or writer, he was an Artist!

  10. mouse
    January 11, 2016,

    That was in the Glass Onion

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