He'd like to come back and see us, but he knows he'd blow our minds.

@@spinax22 I'd like to send a message to him saying don't worry about blowing our minds, it's fine, we could really use his help right about now ..

And now I'm depressed.

@@Dooklawz this is sadly still a valid reply

I need it!

not for long. he did nothing good after 73

@@flickdasher1775 Really? I only know ziggy stardust and David Bowie and I love them

@@mayconreyes3446 just add hunky dory album and singles up to end of 73 and then move on to someone else. bowie is one of those cult like artists that it's illegal to dislike! these people like, or pretend to like, heroes which has lyrics like 'i wish i could swim like dolphins can swim'? beam me up scotty! later on, he works with nile rodgers yikes! on the muzak album 'let's dance'. so, for me, 70-73, great. after that? forget it!

Maycon Reyes Don’t listen to him. Bowie is one of the few artists who was great throughout many decades

i met him in the mid to late 90's in NYC, but to be totally honest, it was his wife Iman that caught my eye first lol

Wow, where did you meet him? I met him, alone in an elevator at a hotel, in 1973. Was a teenager, huge fan, and had connections so I always knew where he was staying. Met up with him here and there throughout the 70's another half dozen times or so. Funniest was once when I'd gone out of town to see the show. My friends and I stayed in the same hotel he was in. Don't remember if I saw him earlier, but all my friends went to sleep and at about 3 in the morning there's a knock on our hotel door. Like an idiot, I didn't even think about looking out the peephole, I just opened the door and there was David. He was SO high on coke, asked me if I knew where his suite was! He was jittery and laughing and talking his head off but he genuinely appeared to be lost. I was 17. I really didn't know what the hell to do with him and the long hallway was deserted, both directions. I wasn't even starstruck anymore. I was in the hallway with him and he kept saying, "Show me where to go." It was fucking hilarious. I was trying to act like a responsible adult-- he was 10 years older than me and he was David Bowie, but... I started to head off down the hallway with our elbows hooked together, went around a corner and ran into Stuey, one of his bodyguards I'd met before, Herbie Flowers who was playing bass at the show (the Diamond Dogs tour), and a couple other guys I didn't know. "He doesn't know where his suite is," I told them. They were laughing their asses off. They thanked me and hauled him away and he waved goodbye and I went to bed. I was speechless the first time, in that elevator, but he was very sweet and finally shyly said, "How have you been?" I was one of the kids always at his feet and reaching up to touch his hands at shows but it was weird because, I mean, there were tons of us, we were like packs of puppies, so I kind of thought does he recognize me? Who knows but, bottom line, it got to where I was always happy to see him (and his band members and support staff) but, well, except for when he was lost at the hotel, he just was basically like a normal guy. I met a lot of those guys back then, including Freddie Mercury, and really they all were very casual and cool about everything. I'd love to hear your story, and yours itscrazyal.

@@3ScotsInk WOW Kerry, you have a great story behind your meeting. That memory & the story is amazing. i worked in Manhattan (NYC) at that time, and was outside the immediate area of Madison Square Garden on the 34th & 7th avenue side. i was just standing there talking with my co-workers and saw this very dark skinned beautiful woman, did a double take and realized it was Iman (his wife), and then saw David walking with her. i went up to him and of course did the obligatory "hey David, i'm a big fan", (yup, that was the first thing that came out lol). i am 6'5" and fall between 240-250, so i am imposing, but my attire put him at ease that i wasn't some wacko lol. David was very nice, we only spoke for a short period of time, but being such a musical icon, it goes into my memory bank. working in Manhattan, i was very lucky, i got to meet my all time favorites, The Ramones (though not Tommy), met them separately (Johnny was my favorite, very cool guy), and many others as well. But to be honest, i owe it all to Iman, that i noticed David lol

Thanks! I love hearing these stories about us meeting our idols, and almost always it seems finding out how human they are.

@@3ScotsInk and i think we are lucky. so many people are let down when they meet their idols, thankfully that didn't apply to either of us

Mirror neurons, apparently...

Great song , supposedly still playing in space on the Tesla launched into space by Elon Musk

@@tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052 Life on Mars yeah, amazing

watch the video version

Life on Mars is the most beautiful song he ever wrote. His Paris live version from 1999 is absolutely his most powerful performance of this song. It literally brings me to tears. You must find it!!

@@CA-tz2sg Glastonbury 2000, I'll never forget it.

I was here for the rise and fall...your right, Bowie was so far ahead of the curve. I knew I was hearing something special from someone special.

Danelle Covey he’s got his own emoji now 👨🏻‍🎤

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@Aaron vargas 👩🏻‍🎤⚡️💫👨🏻‍🎤⚡️💫

The Hunger and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence are other films he had roles in. He was as good an actor as a singer.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is very strange. I've seen it twice and was just as confused after the second time as I was the first.

@ShariSez1 - Just watched it Saturday night!

TheZodiacz, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence! Is a great movie.

The contact lenses might freak you out though.

Perturbed quite a few parents?!

Loved the Slider album : Ballroom of Mars, Buick Mackane, Bang a gong

Or "Lean Woman Blues" and "Planet Queen".

​@@tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052 "I'm just a man, I understand the wind and all the things that make the children cry". Burned in my brain.

Andy Fletcher great stuff indeed!

Mambo Sun ❤️

Aye lad with his band from Hull!

I've been to Hull from London AND lived to tell the tale....2nd May,1988. The day half of South London turned up to see Millwall win Promotion to the top league for the only time in our miserable 135 year existence :) Now it's 5.45am in London and I am off to bed. Goodnight Julie.....:)

1988! Well im a Yorkshire lass and an enemy of Milwall im told, Leeds!! Neve rmind i still love Bowie. Heading home from work.

Hi Julie. Funnily enough the only time I went to Leeds to see Millwall play there was exactly 2 months b4 in March,1988 and we had to sit in The Leeds End as Millwall sold out their allocation and they already had created extra space for the thousands who turned up in Yorkshire without tickets. Of course we could not react when we scored twice and won the game... We stayed at Holmfirth, which as you know, is where they made LOSWine and like the rest of The Dales and Moors it is beautiful. Problem is I lived next to 2 of the busiest roads in South East London AND over a very busy market so even moving to within half-a-mile of a London postal address in 1983 seems incredibly quiet and I'm 65.....Good Luck... lol

Serai3 Stevie Ray Vaughn played lead guitar on china girl and others including cat people

+Tiny Oh, that's right! I'd forgotten he played on that album. :)

Great film...from the 70s, one would have thought we'd have made it there by 2000, let alone nigh 2020AD...

Yes, correct. 👍🏻🙂 A great Movie.

45 years later, have we blown it?

michael cantwell • Great song as well. I can’t listen to it very often, though. The one song of his that makes me tear up. 😢

Omg I love that one