How strange...for some reason, I thought he was already dead.

Goddammit. Too many great ones dying. Oh, that mellifluous voice of Alan Rickman. It was too soon to be silenced.

^^^Very nice...happy to hear not everyone in Detroit is broke. New Billboard issue is out.

I guess you haven't read through this thread, for I posted this exact same clip yesterday. Two of my favourite musicians together, sadly now deceased...David Bowie & Lou Reed. Two guys whose influence is incalculable. But at least they're together again in the afterlife...I'd like to think they're jamming together somewhere in the cosmos.

A brilliant tribute from a church in the Netherlands... From a Canadian Astronaut in outer space...

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Flowers & Stardust tributes for David Bowie in Hollywood.

Did I miss something? Was Miami some offensive juggernaut this year? Does Cincinnati really think hiring Miami's OC is the answer to their playoff meltdowns? Another puzzling move by the Bungles.

I didn't choose it...IT chose me. I love seeing the old-timers come back but I have learned not to get my hopes too high. They usually pop in briefly and vanish again.

Happy birthday to Kelly Girl! Rock out on your Celebration Day, Mademoiselle. May your birthday dreams come true. Birthday cheers to you!

Good luck on that. I went to the record store after work yesterday to get the new album and not only were they sold out of "Blackstar" but ALL the Bowie vinyl section was wiped out...not a single Bowie album was left!!! Even the Bowie CDs, new and used, were fairly depleted. Your only choice of Bowie cds left were "Pin-Ups", "Never Let Me Down", and "Tin Machine". They said hopefully the new album would be back in stock by Wednesday.

After wandering the wilderness in the 1980s (you couldn't pay me to listen to the dreck of "Tonight" or "Never Let Me Down"...but then, the 80s weren't kind to the Stones, Who, Dylan, Neil Young, etc. either), Bowie commenced on a sort of career re-birth in the 1990s and beyond. "Black Tie White Noise" was the first inkling Bowie was back, but when he hooked up again with Brian Eno for 1995's "Outside", it began a series of latter-era albums that reestablished Bowie in the musical firmament. You can't say that about any of the recent Rolling Stones or Who albums. Or Dylan or Bruce Springsteen. Neil Young? Maybe. Bowie albums circa 1995-2015 at work today.

Another album that sort of fell thru the cracks, but holds up astonishingly well 23 years later, is "Black Tie White Noise". This album also features Mick Ronson's last collaborations with Bowie before Ronson's death in 1993.

Tin Machine, David's band with the Sales brothers and Reeves Gabrels skronk guitar, is sort of the wild card in Bowie's discography. People either love it or hate it.

I'm sorry you never got to see him in concert, Wolfman. He was always an interesting performer and one of the great singers of our age. His bands and setlists weren't always topnotch ut he himself was always riveting to watch.

Shit, I would put Girlschool on there before Venom. And where the fuck is Thin Lizzy and AC/DC? "Highway to Hell" is more metal than Van Halen, which is more hard rock than heavy metal.

This song always brought me to tears...even before the sad news of Bowie's passing. Written for T. Rex, it's an underplayed gem from the Ziggy Stardust album. People stared at the makeup on his face...and he was all right, the song went on forever.

Recorded the night before at the Friday night show for FM Radio broadcast. The first show of October 20 sold out so fast they added a second show on the 21st, much to my salvation. Being in the middle of the school year, the Saturday concert was an easier sell to my parents, as well.

My first glimpse of Ziggy...Santa Monica Civic, October 21, 1972. Photos by Jon Levicke.

^^^Congratulations to the both of them. But I still think of Piazza as a Dodger.

Three more songs I never tire of playing...

Walter is in the lead after Round #1 of the playoffs...the only one to go undefeated. A few are bunched behind with one loss, and Reggie29 is the only one starting out without a victory. Walter: 4-0 jb126: 3-1 paul carruthers: 3-1 Stocksontherocks: 3-1 Walter Jr.: 3-1 ebk: 2-2 in_the_evening: 2-2 jabe: 2-2 Mrs. Walter: 2-2 redrum: 2-2 S.A.N.B.R.: 2-2 Strider: 2-2 LedZeppfan77: 1-3 zepscoda: 1-3 Reggie29: 0-4 DIVISIONAL ROUND Saturday January 16 Kansas City @ New England Green Bay @ Arizona Sunday January 17 Seattle @ Carolina (another early start cross-country for Seattle) Pittsburgh @ Denver

Second batch of Bowie albums today...I could listen to TVC15 and Heroes endlessly.

Brian Eno has shared his thoughts. A new Bowie-Eno album would have been welcome news. Sadly, it's music we will never get to hear. http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/90711

Cranking Bowie all day at work...