RIP David Bowie

[Missy]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

Bowie now has 19 albums in the UK top 100 chart (that's 1/5 )...Quite impressive... NME

My 15 year old is listening to him non stop. I hope he becomes remembered as one of the most significant artists of his day. His music is still very apt for this era. Not a fan of everything he did but some of it was quite extraordinary. There are so many tributes it's impossible to cover them all.

Bowie had a son born 'Zowie Bowie' who is now in his 40s, goes by the ordinary name Duncan Jones and has become a successful film director. He directed the World of Warcraft movie that will be released this year. The trailer impressed many and was released in November. His wife actually battled breast cancer but is said to have beaten it.

His young daughter who I think is only 15 is perhaps being shielded from the media which is totally understandable. She is said to also be musical.

He was very competitive with some of his peers, but many have said he was also genuinely interested in and caring towards other people. Not the typical self obsessed rock star you might expect.

Sorry if this is going off the beaten track (this will be my final comment but he had such an impact on my life). I have read that he was also looked out for Marc Bolan's son Rolan. Yes Marc totally copied David by naming his son Rolan Bolan, like Zowie Bowie. Rolan later said that he was very indebted to David Bowie after he and his mother fell on hard times. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...olans-son.html

In the last decade or so Bowie quietened down his life a lot and was keeping to himself. But he stayed in contact with friends by email. The young singer Lorde has written about meeting him a few years ago. "I've never met a hero of mine and liked it. It just sucks, the pressure is too huge, you can't enjoy it. David was different." http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...bowie-20160111

Glenn A Baker has said that David would come into his music store, and once saw a kid buying his record, so he crept up behind him, leaned over his shoulder, and autographed it. When the kid realized who it was, that must have been a moment!