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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.

best comment - today he has become Stardust

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Since 1410 most Welsh people most of the time have abandoned any idea of independence as unthinkable. But since 1410 most Welsh people, at some time or another, if only in some secret corner of the mind, have been "out with Owain and his barefoot scrubs." For the Welsh mind is still haunted by it's lightning-flash vision of a people that was free.

Gwyn A. Williams,

What the??? He just released a highly acclaimed literally days ago!!

http://www.metacritic.com/music/blackstar/david-bowie

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I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists

It's almost like I forgot he was a mortal.

The man's gone. The music lives on.

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When you can do nothing what can you do?

I know. That makes it all the more shocking, especially given that he died from cancer that he'd been battling for 18 months.

Wow.

It was just his birthday, too.

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Wow, I'm speechless. One of the greatest.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

This upset me more than I thought possible, I couldn't focus at all yesterday

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Since 1410 most Welsh people most of the time have abandoned any idea of independence as unthinkable. But since 1410 most Welsh people, at some time or another, if only in some secret corner of the mind, have been "out with Owain and his barefoot scrubs." For the Welsh mind is still haunted by it's lightning-flash vision of a people that was free.

Gwyn A. Williams,

I'm the same; I'm very unsettled and upset, moreso than with the death of other admired public figures in recent memory.

Mandela, Iyengar, Robyn Williams...I was saddened and honoured them, but David Bowie's death rocked me.

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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.

the third single that I bought was Starman, and the first LP Ziggy Stardust

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Since 1410 most Welsh people most of the time have abandoned any idea of independence as unthinkable. But since 1410 most Welsh people, at some time or another, if only in some secret corner of the mind, have been "out with Owain and his barefoot scrubs." For the Welsh mind is still haunted by it's lightning-flash vision of a people that was free.

Gwyn A. Williams,

The Blackstar album is incredible. A requiem he wrote for himself, it seems.


Street party in Brixton (where he was born), in memoriam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTBAwVmDUU

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"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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This is probably pretty widely known, but for those who haven't seen it: David Bowie/Bing Crosby Little Drummer Boy