Music legend David Bowie dies of cancer aged 69

[size=2][b]His son, film director Duncan Jones, confirmed the news and a statement was issued on his social media accounts.

“David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer,” it said, asking for privacy for his family.

Tributes have been paid to Bowie, one of the most influential musicians of his era, from around the world.

Bowie’s hits include Let’s Dance, Space Oddity, Starman, Modern Love, Heroes, Under Pressure, Rebel, Rebel and Life on Mars.

He was also well known for creating his flamboyant alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

The singer only released his latest album Blackstar on his birthday on Friday. The album, which includes just seven songs, has been well received by critics.

His son wrote on Twitter: “Very sorry and sad to say it’s true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all.”

Bowie’s long-time friend and producer Tony Visconti wrote on Facebook: “His death was no different from his life – a work of art.

“He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift.

“I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn’t, however, prepared for it. He was an extraordinary man, full of love and life. He will always be with us.”

Friend and collaborator Iggy Pop wrote on Twitter: “David’s friendship was the light of my life. I never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is.”

Madonna said she was “devastated” and that Bowie had “changed her life”. Shewrote on Twitter: “Talented . Unique. Genius. Game Changer. The Man who Fell to Earth. Your Spirit Lives on Forever!”

Rapper Kanye West said: “David Bowie was one of my most important inspirations, so fearless, so creative, he gave us magic for a lifetime.”

omedian and actor Ricky Gervais, who convinced Bowie to star as himself and ridicule Gervais in an episode of 2006 sitcom Extras, simply wrote: “I just lost a hero. RIP David Bowie.”

Scottish musician Midge Ure, who helped organised the Live Aid concert in 1985 – at which Bowie performed – told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “He wasn’t just a brilliant songwriter and an amazing creator, he excelled at everything.

“He gave us the point to run towards, we are all still trying to run towards that, everyone.”

Actor Simon Pegg wrote on Instagram: “If you’re sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.”

Comedian and writer Eddie Izzard said: “Very sad to hear about the death of David Bowie but through his music he will live forever.”[/b][/size]
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[b][size=4][color=Black] My David Bowie, alive forever[/color][/size][/b]
[b][size=3]By Suzanne Moore[/size][/b]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/11/my-david-bowie-alive-forever[/url]

[size=2]My David Bowie is not dead. Nor ever can be. What he gave to me is forever mine because he formed me. I have absolute clarity about that, I need no lamentations from politicians or TV presenters with their dim memories of his “hits”. I need no ranking of whether he was up there with Dylan or Lennon because I just know that is a dumb question. I simply know. He was my lodestar: in the years when I was trying to become myself, he showed me the endless possibilities. He extended out into the new spaces, metaphorically and physically. That man could move.

Those possibilities never end though of course he knew they would. He has gone “just like that bluebird” as he soars and sings on his latest single Lazarus. Well he knew things we didn’t, as he had all his life. He departs with Blackstar which I found terrifying without knowing why. What can I do now but listen and weep?

Or find your own Bowie. You will have it somewhere. That first play of Ziggy. That time you put food colouring in your hair. The night when lust became utterly confused with a different kind of longing. A longing to be in one of the worlds he told us about.

It is still with me. Taking Station to Station around to a mate’s flat. He had to hear it. We treated these albums as religious artefacts. We worked hard studying the sleeve notes. We wanted to know some of what Bowie knew. He was our university. He was the one who could open up the world.

From a small town and what my teachers called “a broken home” Bowie would guide us. We could give up trying to be normal now that we entrusted ourselves to him. He sang of space and drugs and floating above the world. He could be so tender (Letter to Hermione) and then swagger like a brute. He was tapped right into something mystical that we recognised but could not grasp as we were too busy preening and dancing and wanting.
‘My mum and grandad ruined Top of the Pops by staging shouting matches when he appeared.’

But all the time he was passing on secret knowledge. I would learn about Burroughs, Kemp, Crowley, Berlin, Sakamoto, Roeg and so many others through him. I would have my first proper boyfriend because of him – working-class lads started wearing eyeliner and nail varnish because he did, which made them vaguely interesting.

This was a time when tabloid headlines screamed “gender bender” though I had never even heard the word gender before. My mum and grandad ruined Top of the Pops by staging shouting matches when he appeared “Is it a man or a woman?” How could they be so stupid? How did they not get it? I have not changed my mind since then about that actually.

Because we knew what he was. There was never a doubt. He deconstructed fame before anyone had ever really come to grips with the concept. He was thinking, not only dancing. Pulling us through the genres on a diet of cocaine and milk. He looked like an alien. But the funk man, the funk, it was so real.
A moment that changed me – listening to David Bowie’s Hunky Dory
Peter Ormerod
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When I sat next to him in some dark basement of a club in the early 80s in New York he did seem human. I pretended not to know who he was because I was just overwhelmed that he was an actual person. I did the same thing years later at a party. There he was, immaculate in the flesh, all I ever dreamed but still he belonged to my imagination. I did not want an actual conversation with him because I have always been having one. In human blokeish form he was charming but my love was pure.
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Only last week I was obsessively playing Hunky Dory because someone on the internet annoyed me by ranking the tracks in order of greatness. And they got it wrong. This incensed me because I care.

I never grew out of Bowie. He was never past. Always present. And Blackstar? This most sublime of English artists hankering for the “evergreens” even at the end. Still dislocated. Still embodied in the music.

“Lay me place and bake me pie I’m starving for me gravy
Leave my shoes, and door unlocked I might just slip away.”

He has slipped away.

That door. He unlocked it. For me, for you. For us. He gave us everything. He gave us ideas, ideas above our station. All THE ideas and a specific one. Of life. The stellar idea that we can create ourselves whoever we are. He let us be more than we ever knew possible. There is nothing greater. Nothing.
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[b][size=3][color=Black]That door. He unlocked it. For me, for you. For us. He gave us everything. He gave us ideas, ideas above our station. All THE ideas and a specific one. Of life. The stellar idea that we can create ourselves whoever we are. He let us be more than we ever knew possible. There is nothing greater. Nothing.[/color][/size][/b]

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[b][size=3]Iman Abdulmajid posts sad tweets in the days leading up to husband David Bowie’s death

One of the tweets posted by Iman included the message: 'Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.'

Another said:  'The struggle is real, but so is God,' along with the caption 'Rise'.[/size][/b]


[b][size=3][color=Black]Iman Abdulmajid and husband David Bowie[/color][/size][/b]

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[b][size=5][color=Black]Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
--By Iman

2012 [/color][/size][/b]
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[b][size=3]English rocker + Somalian supermodel = these amazing photos! Having married in 1992 after meeting two years earlier on a blind date set up by their hairdresser, David Bowie and Iman celebrated their 20th anniversary earlier this year, with Ziggy and the beauty a total testament to making love last.

In an interview two years ago Iman said; “My marriage is exactly as fabulous as you all would think. He’s fun, he’s a really very curious man and so I really learn a lot from him.” [/size][/b]
[url]http://hellomay.com.au/article/hey-day-david-bowie-iman/[/url]

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[b][size=4][color=Black]1992[/color][/size][/b]

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[b][size=3]Bowie moved to New York in 1993, a year after he married the Somali-born supermodel Iman and in 2000 they had a daughter, Alexandria, also known as Lexi [/size][/b]

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[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394835/The-daughter-David-Bowie-yearn-live.html[/url]

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唉！！
May he rest in peace!!!!!

[b][size=4][color=Black]David Bowie's style will always be a huge inspiration for the fashion world, another world he influenced forever.[/color][/size][/b]


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[b][size=4][color=Black]時裝先鋒！David Bowie給我們留下的難忘時裝形象[/color][/size][/b]
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[b][size=3]一代搖滾巨星David Bowie因病離世，享年69歲。1969年，以一首《Space Oddity》打進音樂世界，其後以華麗和雌雄同體的Ziggy Stardust前衛形象，開創先河，從此奠定華麗搖滾風格，亦令他成為帶領潮流的fashion icon。過去半個世紀，他的音樂創作從未間斷，而同樣地，這位潮流先鋒也不停帶來大膽、又具實驗性的形象。樣子俊俏，天生擁有高佻身形的他，能駕馭種類非常廣泛的時裝造型，由官仔骨骨的西裝造型到闊袍大袖的日式和服，高跟鞋、珠片緊身衣、Punk頭、閃電圖案化妝……David Bowie留下數之不盡、流傳至今的經典造型。2013年，英國Victoria & Albert Museum更為他舉行了一次服裝巡迴展《David Bowie is》，回顧歷年經典造型。再見了，David Bowie！感謝你過去半世紀給這個世界帶來不一樣的音樂和時裝風景，就讓我們透過回味你那些打破常規的造型，來提醒自己：世界就是需要敢作敢為的創意和靈魂。[/size][/b]

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[b][size=4][color=Purple]David Bowie 的經典作品〈Heroes〉
這也是David Bowie本人最喜歡的一首作品.:victory: :handshake

我最喜歡的是這個版本::kiss:
沒有前衛與破格的舞台,  也沒有華麗浮誇的服裝,  更沒有妖艶炫目的化妝.
有的是一顆無比真誠的心和世上最美妙的音樂:victory: :hug: :kiss:[/color][/size][/b]

[b][size=4][color=Black]David Bowie playing "Heroes," live, October 1996.
With Reeves Gabrels on guitar and Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, and a bottlecap taped to the bottom of Bowie's shoe for percussion.[/color][/size][/b]

[b][size=3][color=Black]I, I will be king / And you, you will be queen / Though nothing will drive them away / We can beat them, just for one day / We can be Heroes, just for one day
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[b][size=3][color=Black]David Bowie - Under Pressure
Gail Ann Dorsey:victory: :victory: :victory: [/color][/size][/b]

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[b][size=4][color=Black]David Bowie - Space Oddity
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[b][size=3]David Bowie, Mick Ronson (lead guitar), Trevor Bolder (bass), Mike Garson (keyboards),
Mark Carr Pritchard (guitar), Aynsley Dunbar (drums)

from the 1980 Floor Show, filmed at the Marquee Club in London, October 19-20, 1973[/size][/b]

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[b][size=4][color=Black]David Bowie - Jean Genie
1973[/color][/size][/b]

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[b][size=4][color=Black]David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Broadcast date: 1974-03-02[/color][/size][/b]

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[color=Black][b][size=4]David Bowie / Sorrow [/size][/b][/color]

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[b][size=4][color=Black]David Bowie - Modern Love
1983
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[b][size=4][color=Black]David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street[/color][/size][/b]

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[size=4][color=Black][b]David Bowie - Blue Jean[/b][/color][/size]

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[color=Black][b][size=4]David Bowie - The Drowned Girl[/size][/b][/color]

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[color=Black][b][size=4]David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes[/size][/b][/color]

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[color=Black][b][size=4]David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind [/size][/b][/color]

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[color=Black][b][size=4]David Bowie - Let's Dance [/size][/b][/color]

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