David Bowie’s wealth of hits will be his musical legacy, but when remembering the likes of “Starman” and “Space Oddity”, it is important not to forget some of his most brilliant collaborations.
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Winchester was delivering the latest news for Heart FM on Monday morning, when she accidentally announced Cameron had died, instead of music icon David Bowie, who an 18-month battle with cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
Madonna is “devastated” by the shock death of David Bowie.
Gervais tweeted about the death of his “hero” shortly after the news broke. “I knew for a year this was the way it would be”, said Visconti.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described himself as a huge fan, said Bowie would be “deeply mourned”.
The music legend first achieved fame in the early 70s. His debut solo single, The Laughing Gnome, sank without trace, and his debut album, David Bowie, met a similar fate.
It’s one thing to say that Bowie made it all right to be weird, but there was much more to his dissidence than walking to a different beat for the sake of defying the beat because he never really acknowledged the presence of an established beat in the first place. His classics and eras are legendary: the influential hard rock of “The Man Who Sold the World”, the complete sci-fi glam immersion of “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, the coke-driven wildness of “Station to Station”, the experimental angst of “Low”.
“David was a great star and I treasure the moments we had together”.
Bowie also had a successful acting career, including his role as an alien trying to help his dying planet in the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film The Man Who Fell to Earth.
He’s survived by his wife, Iman, their daughter Alexandria and his son Duncan Jones, the director of “Moon”.
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Although he left school with just one qualification, an “O-level” in art, he went on to sell an estimated 140 million records worldwide, with his biggest-selling album, Let’s Dance, selling 7 million copies.
