Early this morning I learned that David Bowie had died after a battle with cancer. I had known that Bowie was not in the best of health for several years now from an apparent heart condition but his passing was still a shock. On January 8 David had reached his 69th birthday and released a well received album of new music of which I saw the video for  “Blackstar” the other night. David obviously still had it right up until the end as the video was as mesmerizing as any of his best 80’s MTV inspired work.

David Bowie was always a favorite of mine but I only saw him in concert a few times. The Station to Station tour, which the Stages live album came about from, and the Glass Spiders  stadium tour was the other. My wife and I also saw David Bowie on Broadway starring in The Elephant Man play.

If anyone ever asked I would always say that my three favorite artists were Neil Young, Lou Reed, and David Bowie. True artists challenge their audiences and take them along on their adventurous sonic ride. Bowie was that type of artist. In an era when album cover art actually meant something, and all you knew of your favorite artists was what you could find in the rock music magazines, Bowie was an enigma; an other worldly renaissance man who rocked. Rest in Peace David Jones. 

Let’s Dance

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