David Bowie died at the young age of 69 yesterday, taken far too young by cancer. Frequent collaborator Tony Visconti says that his final album, Blackstar, was Bowie’s way of saying goodbye. From Visconti’s Facebook page:
He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life – a work of Art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn’t, however, prepared for it. He was an extraordinary man, full of love and life. He will always be with us. For now, it is appropriate to cry.
This article appears in Jan 7-13, 2016.
A Great Talent of my, or any , Generation!!! I will not elaborate on what we smoked to the Tunes of David. My…My…have things changed; the tunes and the smoke!!!!!
RIP David.
“And the paper wants to know whose shirt you wear…”
The lyric is “whose shirt you wear”. In England, asking someone “whose shirt do you wear” is equivalent to asking which football (soccer) club they support. Celebrities, which Major Tom would certainly be after landing on the moon, are frequently asked this question.
In regards to the interpretation of “whose shirt you wear” in England, it may as well refer to the Space Race competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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