Scotland’s First Minister, @NicolaSturgeon, wrote: “What terrible news about David Bowie”.
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Inventive to the end, Bowie, who died on Sunday aged 69, mixed rock and jazz on an album for which the famously private star gave no interviews and whose cover was a simple black star on a white background.
Like all of us at The Daily, the planet is mourning music and fashion icon and master of reinvention David Bowie, who died yesterday at his home in NY. “While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief”, said a statement posted on his official social media accounts.
His son, film director Duncan Jones, confirmed his father’s passing just before 11 p.m. on Sunday.
On Tunstall Road in Brixton, the once working-class, immigrant-heavy neighborhood in London where David Bowie was born, a mural depicts one of his alter egos, Ziggy Stardust, encircled by electric planets, a lightning bolt across his face, write Dan Bilefsky and Madeleine Kruhly.
Since his breakthrough with 1972’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, Bowie’s reach was electric: “glam rock, prog rock, pop rock, electronic rock.
Few knew when David Bowie released “Blackstar” on Friday that it would be his final album – but it is a mysterious and sombre testament which critics hailed as his best work in years.
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He even had some uncredited writing jobs on the TV hit series “American Horror Story”, according to IMDB.com. He later referred to himself as David Bowie in order to not be confused with Davey Jones of “The Monkees”. One of the late musician’s most famous songs, “Space Oddity”, chronicles the launch of fictional astronaut Major Tom.
