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  • stotty
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 6630

    #1

    David Bowie

    David Bowie died today. Believe me the world over my side of the pond will stand still for the week. The man was an icon over here like you wouldn't believe. He was the "coolest" man on earth:

    Stotty
  • don_budge
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 6993

    #2
    The Diamond Dog...

    Originally posted by licensedcoach
    David Bowie died today. Believe me the world over my side of the pond will stand still for the week. The man was an icon over here like you wouldn't believe. He was the "coolest" man on earth:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g
    I named my Siberian Husky after David. Bowie has one blue eye and one brown. My wife just told me this very second. David Bowie was from an era that was cool…in every sense of the world. I hitch hiked to California in 1971 and I swear that I saw him down in Haight Ashbury.
    don_budge
    Performance Analysthttps://www.tennisplayer.net/bulleti...ilies/cool.png

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    • klacr
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 2900

      #3
      I just found out the news. Front page of my internet search engine. What an Icon! The world lost a great one. Very sad.

      Kyle LaCroix USPTA
      Boca Raton

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      • stotty
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2009
        • 6630

        #4
        Lazarus

        How's this for creativity from a man reaching the end of his life. Stunning...

        Last edited by stotty; 01-11-2016, 05:29 AM.
        Stotty

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        • klacr
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 2900

          #5
          This thread is not tennis related...and I don't care. David Bowie's talents and accomplishments transcend what we normally come on to discuss, tennis. Thanks Stotty for starting this thread.

          Bowie influenced and inspired so many artists and made an indelible impact on music and culture. An incredible person whose talents go beyond singing a few catchy songs. He will be dearly missed. I'm still in shock. I heard he was battling some health issues, but I did not know the specifics or severity or that it was cancer. Thoughts and prayers to his family as well as to the world of music.

          Kyle LaCroix USPTA
          Boca Raton

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          • John Yandell
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2005
            • 6883

            #6
            I admire that he kept his medical issues and prognosis private. He released a new album just recently.

            This may sound strange but I saw him as a role model. People thought he was crazy as a lad insane and didn't understand him or what he was trying to do.

            Through persistance he became part of the woodwork--and accepted in the mainstream--he was on Broadway at the end.

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            • stotty
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2009
              • 6630

              #7
              Originally posted by johnyandell
              I admire that he kept his medical issues and prognosis private. He released a new album just recently.
              Yes that was extraordinary. Few knew of his terminal illness. No one knows yet even what type of cancer he had. Tony Visconti and a handful of others knew the details, but no one else.

              Lazarus, it has been revealed, was his passing song...his goodbye. Watch the video, it's amazing.

              He is the most talented artist we have ever produced, a quite exceptional man.
              Stotty

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              • klacr
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 2900

                #8
                Originally posted by johnyandell
                I admire that he kept his medical issues and prognosis private. He released a new album just recently.

                This may sound strange but I saw him as a role model. People thought he was crazy as a lad insane and didn't understand him or what he was trying to do.

                Through persistance he became part of the woodwork--and accepted in the mainstream--he was on Broadway at the end.
                Originally posted by licensedcoach
                Yes that was extraordinary. Few knew of his terminal illness. No one knows yet even what type of cancer he had. Tony Visconti and a handful of others knew the details, but no one else.

                Lazarus, it has been revealed, was his passing song...his goodbye. Watch the video, it's amazing.

                He is the most talented artist we have ever produced, a quite exceptional man.
                Agree. I had no idea of the seriousness of his illness. I commend him for keeping it out of public knowledge

                They are saying it was Liver Cancer. He was battling it for 18 months.

                Kyle LaCroix USPTA
                Boca Raton

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                • bottle
                  Guest
                  • Mar 2005
                  • 6472

                  #9
                  A Link

                  Jaffe writes: Philosopher Simon Critchley finds something important in Bowie's costumes and alien characters: permission to do something other than grow up in suburbia and get a 9-to-5 job.

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                  • stotty
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2009
                    • 6630

                    #10
                    "I don't know where I am going from here but I promise it won't be boring" - David Bowie
                    Stotty

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