YoungWillz 19,096 Posted January 11, 2016 "I never did anything out of the blue". David Bowie (1947-2016). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted January 11, 2016 Sad news. The word legend seems so overused these days, especially since we'd have folk going "Russell Howard, what a legend" or whatever rubbish modern celebrity no one will remember in a decade you can name, but Bowie was, is, and transcends legendary status. RIP 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 599 Posted January 11, 2016 How about a poll on what type of cancer it was. Possible: bowel, lung Unlikely: pancreatic, brain, throat I have a gut feeling he had stomach Cancer. Most likely lung cancer via passive smoking exposure whilst singing his utmost in gigs and clubs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fergie86 358 Posted January 11, 2016 We have lost a legend, really shocked, didn't think he was going anywhere any time soon, just shows none of us last forever unless your name is Zsa Zsa Gabor. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth in Asia 1,023 Posted January 11, 2016 How about a poll on what type of cancer it was. Possible: bowel, lung Unlikely: pancreatic, brain, throat I have a gut feeling he had stomach Cancer. Most likely lung cancer via passive smoking exposure whilst singing his utmost in gigs and clubs. I think he partook in slightly more cancer-causing activities over the years than Roy Frigging Castle 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,469 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". I reemmber when I worked at an internet provider. David Bowie had decided to launch his own internet service called Bowienet. Which claimed provided users with a faster connection than many competitors were offering at the time, In reality it was being run off the backbone of Global Internet (an independent internet provider owned by former PC World founder Jan Murray) and unless you had a high speed modem, you would have got the same speed as everyone else. We used to have Bowie's manager calling us up at various times to the customer services or tech support desk to make sure people were pronouncing Bowie correctly. I think I might still have my CD somewhere from the launch of Bowienet. Farewell Starman. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,847 Posted January 11, 2016 Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing we can do Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,096 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ra Ra Rasputin 99 Posted January 11, 2016 And that reminds me that Iggy Pop surely doesn't have much time left. 68 now, so maybe 1-2 years? Touring well into 2016 and judging by the recent Paco Rabanne photos with the divine Debbie Harry, in absolute fine fettle. His heavy days of this and that are well behind him; he could live for aeons yet and I've certainly not heard of any ill health. Whenever anyone "disappears" (retirement, illness, unexplained reasons), I am far less surprised when news of their death is announced than otherwise. This is why I was so shocked at the death of Lemmy - played Berlin on 11th December, 17 days later - dead. I'm more shocked by Bowie's death perhaps because "Blackstar" was released only a couple of days ago than I would otherwise have been. Still shocked though. Obviously, once someone hit the age(s) of late 60s/70s it's natural that they don't have as long left as they've had before them. However, Iggy is still very much in the publicity arena, David Bowie wasn't. And it's not uncommon for people to die once they are approaching or hit 70 (unfortunately for most of my heroes these days). I think the only person of a similar age - in fact considerably older - we could lament "Oooh, they died so young" would be Yoko Ono. ;-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,469 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Are you thinking I'll do a clean sweep of them? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,096 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Are you thinking I'll do a clean sweep of them? Having checked the listing, I'd get only five hits I think, surprisingly - Jon Anderson, Bryan Ferry, Bruce Foxton, Peter Gabriel and Chris "Merrick" Hughes. But that's 5 more than I got last year or even expect this year! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,469 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Are you thinking I'll do a clean sweep of them? Having checked the listing, I'd get only five hits I think, surprisingly - Jon Anderson, Bryan Ferry, Bruce Foxton, Peter Gabriel and Chris "Merrick" Hughes. But that's 5 more than I got last year or even expect this year! But I don't want any of them to die. Fuck! it's bad enough that I got Motorhead's last album for Christmas and then Lemmy drops dead a few days later. I still haven't played it yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,687 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Yeh and while you're at it, anything by Daniel Bedingfield, Shania Twain or Anthea Turner. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Are you thinking I'll do a clean sweep of them? Having checked the listing, I'd get only five hits I think, surprisingly - Jon Anderson, Bryan Ferry, Bruce Foxton, Peter Gabriel and Chris "Merrick" Hughes. But that's 5 more than I got last year or even expect this year! But I don't want any of them to die. Fuck! it's bad enough that I got Motorhead's last album for Christmas and then Lemmy drops dead a few days later. I still haven't played it yet. Please do not buy any Ozzy Osbourne albums any time soon then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EvenDeathMayDie 0 Posted January 11, 2016 The third celebrity death I have actually shed tears for. First being Robin Williams, second only a couple of weeks ago with Lemmy and now Bowie. Awful news. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,469 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Yeh and while you're at it, anything by Daniel Bedingfield, Shania Twain or Anthea Turner. No, no no, it doesn't work like that. I get a shedload of albums on a monthly basis. It rarely happens, in fact the last time anything like that happened was in December 2000 when for a joke I bought my dad an album by Allan "The Singing Postman" Smethurst. My dad took it in to play at work, and that morning it was announced on the radio that Smethurst passed away a couple of days before. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,847 Posted January 11, 2016 He's got a new DVD coming out next week. If I'd seen this photo before, I might not have been so surprised. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,469 Posted January 11, 2016 “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." – Simon Pegg 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,091 Posted January 11, 2016 According to Wikipedia its liver cancer that got him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,091 Posted January 11, 2016 Shocking death even though I never liked his music. No. The death itself isn't shocking, it's more people are shocked by the event. There's a difference.. And why am I not surprised you don't/didn't like Bowie's music? Don't worry, we'll all hold a minute of silence for your loss when Bieber dies. I don't like biebers music but whatever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth in Asia 1,023 Posted January 11, 2016 The reason I didn't include him on this year's list is that I heard that when he got his terminal diagnosis his doctor told him "5 years, that's all you've got" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted January 11, 2016 According to Wikipedia its liver cancer that got him. Hmm, indeed, if I had to guess, I'd say the rumours back in 2010 were right and he had it before. Then, when it returned, it was terminal and so he made this last album as a final statement, full of allusions to death. The liver can still work at 10% functionality, wasn't it? So it makes sense that he could keep going for quite a while with cancer, and then basically collapsed within a couple of days as the liver function abruptly stopped. They say he had already collapsed at the premiere of his Lazarus video. And the director of the video Ivo van Hove said that "I knew that it was the last time I'd seen Bowie alive". http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/01/shock-and-condolences-as-netherlands-reacts-to-david-bowies-death Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,933 Posted January 11, 2016 Wow. This really bites. Saturday I was watching th episode of "Flight of The Conchords" where Brett is visited by David Bowie is his dreams. Yesterday, I was out shopping and on a whim decided to get the new album. Then this morning I wake up to "Music Legend David Bowie dies". *snip* Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Are you thinking I'll do a clean sweep of them? Having checked the listing, I'd get only five hits I think, surprisingly - Jon Anderson, Bryan Ferry, Bruce Foxton, Peter Gabriel and Chris "Merrick" Hughes. But that's 5 more than I got last year or even expect this year! But I don't want any of them to die. Fuck! it's bad enough that I got Motorhead's last album for Christmas and then Lemmy drops dead a few days later. I still haven't played it yet. Could you buy whatever shit the rolling stones are flogging now as it's about time Kieth Richards carked it. Am I only one who finds the sudden sycophantic reaction of the media disturbing. Personally think there should be laws that news organisations. There's something uneasily like wallowing/celebrating in his death to the BBC's current coverage. The last time I can remember anything like this was Michael Jacksons death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
