Indeed, mv10. Things like this usually pass with a few nostalgic thoughts, but when I heard the news, I put on Is There Life on Mars and shed a good many tears.
Einen Stern der deinen Namen trägt
Hoch am Himmelszelt
Den schenk’ ich dir heut’ Nacht
Einen Stern der deinen Namen trägt
Alle Zeiten überlebt
Und über uns’re Liebe wacht
Nik P.
Not quite appropriate perhaps, but if the only tool you have is a hammer, then the whole world looks like a nail.
I got to see him live way back in 1974. Transition period from Glam to Thin White Duke.
And around that same time, "Diamond Dogs" messed with me enough that it became one of the stranger influences on my life. I will miss David Bowie.
Had just opened a bottle of Moet for my partner's birthday when heard the news. Promptly needed to pop another cork (less exotic) and spent the rest of the evening bouncing around the lounge with the stereo up quite loud, looking through smeary eyeglasses.....