We Can Be Heroes

Filed in National by on January 11, 2016

David Bowie has died. Out of all the musicians I listened to, Bowie was my first and lasting love. I’ll leave you with my favorite Bowie song.

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  1. Jason330 says:
    January 11, 2016 at 8:23 am

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

  2. El Somnambulo says:
    January 11, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Certainly explains this video from his new album. Song’s called ‘Lazarus’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

  3. puck says:
    January 11, 2016 at 9:09 am

    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 says:
    January 11, 2016 at 9:17 am

    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 says:
    January 11, 2016 at 9:32 am

    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 says:
    January 11, 2016 at 10:43 am

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

  7. jason330 says:
    January 11, 2016 at 10:54 am

    John Carney is the Walrus.

  8. ben says:
    January 11, 2016 at 11:07 am

    The Walrus was Paul

  9. Bill Dunn says:
    January 11, 2016 at 11:10 am

    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 says:
    January 11, 2016 at 11:26 am

    That was in the Glass Onion

  11. Liberal Elite says:
    January 11, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VppuD1St8Ec

    …and it looks like he had some fun with this, years earlier.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfccDapMA14

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