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David Bowie, Pop Star Who Transcended Music, Art and Fashion, Has Died at 69

David Bowie, the infinitely changeable, fiercely forward-looking songwriter who taught generations of musicians about the power of drama, images and personae, died on Sunday, two days after his 69th birthday.

Mr. Bowie's death was confirmed by his publicist, Steve Martin, on Monday morning.

He died after an 18-month battle with cancer, according to a statement on Mr. Bowie's social-media accounts.

"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family," a post on his Facebook page read.

His last album, "Blackstar," a collaboration with a jazz quintet that was typically enigmatic and exploratory, was released on Friday — on his birthday. He was to be honored with a concert at Carnegie Hall on March 31 featuring the Roots, Cyndi Lauper and the Mountain Goats.

He had also collaborated on an Off Broadway musical, "Lazarus," that was a surreal sequel to his definitive 1976 film role, "The Man Who Fell to Earth."

Mr. Bowie wrote songs, above all, about being an outsider: an alien, a misfit, a sexual adventurer, a faraway astronaut. His music was always a mutable blend: rock, cabaret, jazz and what he called "plastic soul," but it was suffused with genuine soul. He also captured the drama and longing of everyday life, enough to give him No.1 pop hits like "Let's Dance."

If he had an anthem, it was "Changes," from his 1971 album "Hunky Dory," which proclaimed:

"Turn and face the strange / Ch-ch-changes / Oh look out now you rock and rollers / Pretty soon now you're gonna get older." 



© Leonhard Foeger/Reuters David Bowie performing at a concert in Vienna in 1996.

Mr. Bowie earned admiration and emulation across the musical spectrum: from rockers, balladeers, punks, hip-hop acts, creators of pop spectacles and even classical composers like Philip Glass, who based two symphonies on Mr. Bowie's albums "Low" and " 'Heroes'."

Mr. Bowie's constant visual reinvention was a touchstone for performers like Madonna and Lady Gaga; his determination to stay contemporary introduced his fans to Philadelphia funk, Japanese fashion, German electronica and drum-and-bass dance music.

Nirvana chose to sing "The Man Who Sold the World," the title song of Mr. Bowie's 1970 album, in its brief set for the 1993 "MTV Unplugged in New York."

"Under Pressure," a collaboration with the glam-rock group Queen, supplied a bass line for the 1990 Vanilla Ice hit "Ice Ice Baby."

Yet, throughout Mr. Bowie's metamorphoses, he was always recognizable. His voice was widely imitated but always his own; his message was that there was always empathy beyond difference.

Born David Robert Jones on Jan. 8, 1947, Mr. Bowie constantly reinvented himself. He emerged in the late 1960s with the voice of a rock belter but with the sensibility of a cabaret singer, steeped in the dynamics of stage musicals. He was Major Tom, the lost astronaut in his career-making 1969 hit "Space Oddity."

He was Ziggy Stardust, the otherworldly pop star at the center of his 1972 album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars."

He was the self-destructive Thin White Duke and the minimalist but heartfelt voice of the three albums he recorded in Berlin in the '70s, often considered his greatest work: "Low," " 'Heroes' " and "Lodger."

The arrival of MTV in the 1980s was the perfect complement to Mr. Bowie's sense of theatricality and fashion. "Ashes to Ashes," his sequel to "Space Oddity" that revealed "we know Major Tom's a junkie," and "Let's Dance," which offered, "Put on your red shoes and dance the blues," gave him worldwide popularity.

Mr. Bowie was his generation's standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could. With a voice that dipped down to baritone and leaped into falsetto, he was complexly androgynous, an explorer of human impulses that could not be quantified.

He also pushed the limits of "Fashion" and "Fame," writing songs with those titles and also thinking deeply about the possibilities and strictures of pop renown.

Mr. Bowie was married for more than 20 years to the international model Iman, with whom he had a daughter, Alexandria Jones.

In a post on Twitter, the musician's son from an earlier marriage, Duncan Jones, said, "Very sorry and sad to say it's true. I'll be offline for a while. Love to all."

Mr. Bowie largely left the spotlight after a heart attack in 2004 brought to an abrupt end a tour supporting his album "Reality." The singer experienced pain during a performance at a German festival and sought treatment for what he believed was a shoulder injury; doctors then discovered a blocked artery.

The following year, he performed with Arcade Fire, a band he had championed. In 2006, he performed three songs in public for what would be the final time, at the charity Keep a Child Alive's Black Ball fund-raiser at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.


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By JON PARELES
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'Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven': David Bowie's Last Music Video Hauntingly Refers to Death and Rebirth


Just days before his death, David Bowie released his final album and music video.


"Lazarus," a track described by well-reviewed as a "gorgeous song-Frankenstein strung together," features the late music legend confined to a hospital bed with dirty gauze covering his eyes.

Bowie's passing was revealed on Sunday in a message to fans on social media which read, in part, "David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer."

Backstair, his 25th studio album – which features "Lazarus"– was released on Friday, Bowie's 69th birthday.

In the tune, Bowie croons lyrics like "Look up here/ I'm in heaven/ I've got scars that can't be seen."

Throughout the clip he appears distraught and shakes as he wrestles around in the drab bed sheets. He levitates briefly just after a disembodied hand creeps toward him from beneath the bed frame.



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"This way or no way," he sings. "You know, I'll be free.

The video ends with a different Bowie, clad in a white striped ensemble, retreating into a wardrobe and closing the doors.

Lazarus is the name of a biblical figure that was reborn after death. The term is also often used to denote the restoration of life.

Bowie's album received mostly praise from critics, including the New York Times which noted that "thoughts of death" hovered throughout Blackstar.

The singer has been mourned by many celebrities in the wake of his death, including stars like Kanye West who called him "fearless," and noted that Bowie "gave us magic for a lifetime."


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http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/watch-clips-from-david-bowies-unaired-60-minutes-interview-w161474

January 12, 2016 @ 01:37 PM / By Will Mendelson

Watch Clips From David Bowie's Unaired 60 Minutes Interview

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Billboard
Colin Stutz
1 day ago

David Bowie Gets His Own 'Starman' Constellation

David Bowie has gotten his own constellation, honored to him by Belgian radio station Studio Brussel and MIRA Public Observatory.

The constellation is constructed by seven stars fittingly in the direction of Mars shaped like the lightning bolt that cover's Bowie's face on his iconic Aladdin Sane album art from 1973, DDB Brussels reports.

Bowie died Sunday following a private 18-month bout with cancer.

As well, Studio Brussels and MIRA have created an interactive website called Stardust for Bowie where fans can add their favorite Bowie songs with a short note to a Google Sky mapping of the constellation.

"It was not easy to determine the appropriate stars," Philippe Mollet from MIRA told DDB Brussels. "Studio Brussels asked us to give Bowie a unique place in the galaxy. Referring to his various albums, we chose seven stars -- Sigma Librae, Spica, Alpha Virginis, Zeta Centauri, SAA 204 132, and the Beta Sigma Octantis Trianguli Australis -- in the vicinity of Mars. The constellation is a copy of the iconic Bowie lightning and was recorded at the exact time of his death."

Meanwhile, one man in the United Kingdom has launched a petition to rename Mars after Bowie. So far he has gained nearly 5,000 supporters.

And in another petition that's gaining greater traction, more than 25,000 people have signed on to support a campaign to put Bowie on the upcoming £20 British banknote, replacing Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith, who has been on the bill since 2010.

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David Bowie Honored With Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation
The perfect tribute for the "Starman."


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The night sky is shining bright for David Bowie, who's been given his own constellation.

When linked together, the collection of seven stars near Mars form the lightning bolt painted on the legendary late rocker's face on the cover of his 1973 album "Aladdin Sane."

The MIRA Public Observatory in Brussels teamed up with local radio station Studio Brussel to register the fitting intergalactic accolade.





MIRA Public Observatory

The constellation is linked to Google Sky's "Stardust for Bowie" initiative, which lets fans pay tribute by naming their favorite songs or leaving messages.


MIRA Observatory employee Philippe Mollet said it was tricky finding the perfect spot in the galaxy to pay tribute to Bowie.

"It was not easy to determine the appropriate stars," Mollet said in a statement. Referring to the rocker's various albums, they chose seven stars -- Sigma Librae, Spica, Zeta Centauri, SAO 204132, Sigma Octantis, Beta Trianguli Australis and SAO 241641 -- in the vicinity of Mars.

"The constellation is a copy of the iconic Bowie lightning and was recorded at the exact time of his death," he added.
The homage is linked to Google Sky's virtual "Stardust for Bowie" initiative, which lets fans create personal tributes inside the constellation's borders by naming their favorite song or leaving a message.

Each star-shaped memorial brightens the overall formation, thus making it easier to spot when stargazing in the Google Sky galaxy.



MIRA Public Observatory

Astronomers found it difficult to find the perfect spot in the galaxy to pay tribute to David Bowie.


Bowie died at the age of 69 on Jan. 10, following an 18-month battle with cancer.

Multiple tributes have been paid to the rocker, who often used the universe as his inspiration, either through his alter ego Ziggy Stardust or via songs such as "Life on Mars" and "Starman."

An Austin street sign was "vandalized" in his honor, a huge street party broke out near his birthplace in Brixton, London, and Arcade Fire shut down New Orleans on Saturday with a "Bowie Memorial Parade."



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