He was brilliant and sharp and dark and amusing. That would be “Heroes”, which he famously sang next to the Berlin Wall in 1987. In fact, don’t. It’d be weird for me. “I can’t make a big drama out of it. I just feel like an era has ended with his passing. But we should all celebrate him for all the fantastic work he’s done”.
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Yoko Ono and her late husband John Lennon became friends with Bowie and she has praised him on a human level for his involvement in their son Sean’s life following The Beatles star’s assassination in December 1980.
“I’m so very sad”, she added.
David Bowie Vevo The haunting “Blackstar”, released Friday, is rife with morbid, mortality-obsessed imagery in both its lyrics and its music videos.
Speaking after news broke of Bowie’s sudden death of cancer yesterday, Mr Scott said: “The Riot Squad seemed to be a band that changed members more often than they changed their socks”. He was just mind-blowingly talented.
“In my experience he was also an incredibly nice person, he was fun, he was always amusing”, O’Brien said before launching a series of clips from his interviews with the Thin White Duke over the years. I send my deepest sympathies to his family and will always remember the great laughs we had through the years. Just two days earlier, he’d turned 69 years old and released his 26th album, “Blackstar”. It will be hard for him, I know.
“In one image, where a young Bowie’s embracing Tina Turner, she writes: “I will love you til I die, I will see you in the sky #tonight” happy birthday Mr. Bowie”. “Here it is, your moment of zen”.
On his show, Fallon also showed a freeze-frame shot of David Bowie holding up the notebook with writings that read, “For Jimmy – Help Me!”
The very literal cover of David Bowie’s “Blackstar”, released by Columbia Records in the U.S.
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“They said “why do you do what you do”.
