RIPs

[Ghost MacRoth]

Fucking broken.

The light of another great goes out.....and I suspect this is going to get worse before it gets better.  The pioneers of music that we have left are getting old.....and inevitably they begin to leave us.....to be replaced by...????  Cowell's insipid puppets.  Can't even write a half coherent rant the now...get the Bowie on, turn it up full, sing him back to his own planet folks.

[Arkwright99]

David Bowie was my musical hero from the time I was old enough to have musical heroes and having woken up to the shocking news this morning I'm still trying to parse the information that on Friday we had a new David Bowie album to listen to and then 72 hours later we have to come to terms with the fact that there (probably) won't be any new Bowie songs now, like, forever. Always knew this day would come, of course, but didn't think it would come so soon. 

[ThryllSeekyr]

2000AD post that on Facebook;

Vaguely recall seeing that one only once when I was much younger.

Other films he was  in.....

Merry Christmas Mr Laurence

Redbeard (The Shark)

Christine F. (Not sure If Got the name right there, but I think it was set in Berlin and this young girl and boy friend went to David Bowie. So he might have actually appeared on camera there singing one his sings, I guess.

Zoo-Lander.

Labrynth, trying to recall one of the lines spoken in his sing song voice. Without looking it upon the net, it was taken from another film, but he really immortalised this phrase.

There's chance he might have guest starred on the [bb]Muppets[/b] as well. Like, who wasn't on that show?

Was he in more films that just weren't elaborate music videos?

I like the duets he did with Freddie Mercury....

Under-Pressure.

and Mick Jagger

Dancing in the Streets.

I have fond memories of yelling what I recalled of the lyrics from China-Girl while wandering around the parklands in Sydney one night.

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Glass Spiders

[Heath C Ackley]

I was absolutely gutted to hear the news this morning. I could not believe it. Bowie was the most influential musician since the Beatles. You would be hard pressed to name a band or act that has not been influenced by the man, his music or performances. Bowie' s music was like it's creator; protean and forever evolving. He transformed popular music into art. The world of music has been left a poorer, less colourful place with the loss of such a great artist and creator.

[ThryllSeekyr]

The film about the pirate was actually called Yellow-Beard where David Bowie briefly appears as the shark wearing fin on his back. Good times.

He was in a lot of films I see.....

David Bowie's Filmography

I don't remember the last time he toured Australia. I would have like to have seen him in tour just once.

[ZenArcade]

Real bad news about Bowe, a musical icon and creative genius....I haven't the words. Z

[Colin YNWA]

In many ways I've had an amazing day for one reason and another. But I will always remember it as the day i came down stars and learnt David Bowie died. The day that to go on and some really good stuff has come my way. But it will be the day I learnt David Bowie died. I'm sat here tonight and thinking about all sorts of stuff, but mainly the fact that David Bowie died.

One of the genuine greats, an absolute icon of modern music and I didn't like half his work. Which is kinda the point. He's continual ability to change and morph, to reinvent and innovate is unparalleled. I know quite a few people who are massive Bowie fans and I never quite get that. His body of work is so straggling and stides so many forms and modes, so many corners and ideas that I don't see his as a sinlge body of work. I see it as the work of a true genius so divergent and inspiring as much for the stuff I didn't engage with as for the stuff I did and adore.

I won't say sadly missed as he will undoubted be with us forever and driving others forward long time after we've gone.

An inspirational figure and a loss to creativity in all forms.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Oh and I forgot Major Tom

Some Ziggy Stardust

Never purchased any of his music, but that doesn't mean I never wanted to.

[Bat King]

David Bowie's death is such a big thing. He touched so many lives.

I've written an article about how even shared loss is in fact personal. I'll not link to it here as it feels like seeking reads. You know how to find it if you want to read it.

To mention a couple of shared things though.

Nicholas Briggs, one of the Daleks from Doctor Who, was the first person I thought of. He has mentioned Bowie a lot in his Tweets.

Then there is the time I harmonised my voice with that of my Nephew while he played bass guitar (unplugged). Soace Oddity was the song.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Sample lyrics..... They do it over there, but not over here....

Was thinking about this song a few days earlier this week.

[sheridan]

Labrynth, trying to recall one of the lines spoken in his sing song voice. Without looking it upon the net, it was taken from another film, but he really immortalised this phrase.

Well done - most people (even friends of mine who are massive fans of the film, of which I have many) don't know about that reference.  The song you're thinking of is Magic Dance.  The lines you're thinking of are the following:

You remind me of the babe
What babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The power of voodoo
Who do?
You do
Do what?
Remind me of the babe

And the film that it references is The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant and Shirley Temple, which has the following dialogue:
Richard Nugent: Hey, you remind me of a man.
Susan Turner: What man?
Richard Nugent: Man with the power.
Susan Turner: What power?
Richard Nugent: Power of hoodoo.
Susan Turner: Hoodoo?
Richard Nugent: You do.
Susan Turner: Do what?
Richard Nugent: Remind me of a man...Strangely enough some friends of mine released a single at the weekend which combines the songs Magic Dance and Safety Dance.

The Memepunks - Magic Safety Dance

[ThryllSeekyr]

Labrynth, trying to recall one of the lines spoken in his sing song voice. Without looking it upon the net, it was taken from another film, but he really immortalised this phrase.

Well done - most people (even friends of mine who are massive fans of the film, of which I have many) don't know about that reference.  The song you're thinking of is Magic Dance.  The lines you're thinking of are the following:

You remind me of the babe
What babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The power of voodoo
Who do?
You do
Do what?
Remind me of the babe

And the film that it references is The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant and Shirley Temple, which has the following dialogue:
Richard Nugent: Hey, you remind me of a man.
Susan Turner: What man?
Richard Nugent: Man with the power.
Susan Turner: What power?
Richard Nugent: Power of hoodoo.
Susan Turner: Hoodoo?
Richard Nugent: You do.
Susan Turner: Do what?
Richard Nugent: Remind me of a man...Strangely enough some friends of mine released a single at the weekend which combines the songs Magic Dance and Safety Dance.

The Memepunks - Magic Safety Dance

I never knew that was another song called Magic Dance or was that the name of the song Bowie did in that film. The latter may make more sense. You didn't really say so, but I think I noticed that that as the title of the video I just put up earlier in the music thread.

Yeah, there's a topic I put up in the music thread called Bowie Trivia. It's basically asking the same question again with those lyrics taken from that music sequence in Labryinth. No ones either not noticed or it's been ignored like a lot of the stuff I post here.

That song being combined with Safety-Dance interesting. Obviously that's the well known synth-hit by Men-Without-Hats. I always admired that one, even if it's bit embarrassing to admit it. I think it was also redone on Glee which I never watched, but you'll find all that on You-Tube where I did when was trying out what ever became of those people.

[Goaty]

Alan Rickman

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Alan Rickman of Harry Potter and Die Hard fame has died.


https://youtu.be/kgv7U3GYlDY

[shaolin_monkey]

Alan Rickman of Harry Potter and Die Hard fame has died.


https://youtu.be/kgv7U3GYlDY

Oh man, what a shame!  The man who gave us these great lines:

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