A section of a 1983 interview David Bowie gave to MTV in which he blasted the music channel for the lack of diversity among musicians played is quickly spreading across social media.
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I send my deepest sympathies to his family and will always remember the great laughs we had through the years.
For reasons undisclosed, Bowie kept his illness a secret, but he did, however, release his latest album, Blackstar, on January 8 with seven tracks that threw hints to his fans about the “terminal nature of his condition”.
Nicholas Freestone performed Bowie’s Life on Mars at St Albans Cathedral in England soon after hearing the singer had died following an 18 month battle with cancer. And the fact that David Bowie’s new album Blackstar was on course for number one this week, even before today’s awful news says everything about his continuing relevance – over 40 years since his first hit records.
“Naturally, we wish to honour his extraordinary life and work at the forthcoming Brit Awards and pay a fitting tribute to one of our greatest icons”, Lousada said.
Meanwhile, a friend of Bowie’s wife Iman said the grief-stricken supermodel is “holding up” following David’s death.
In a brief slot speaking to camera, she said: “I haven’t seen him in so many years, I can’t make a big drama out of it. It just feels like an era has ended with his passing”. “I wasn’t, however, prepared for it”, continued Visconti.
Billboard suggests Bowie could sell some 130,000 albums in the US this week. “And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them”.
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Just prior to David Bowie’s death yesterday at the age of 69, the New York Times reported that the music legend was to be honored at Carnegie Hall with an all-star concert.
