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[cupcake_goth]

The RealHusband called last night (he was in CA for an event) to break the news about David Bowie to me. He didn't want me to randomly run across a Tumblr post. How well he knows me.

I'm ... I'm numb. David Bowie looms large in my personal pantheon. I remember buying CHANGESONEBOWIE when I was fourteen, because I wanted to know more about the song that inspired Major Tom. And I was transfixed. "Changes" put its hooks into my young teen brain and didn't let go. And then I got The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, heard Ziggy Stardust and Rock n' Roll Suicide, and that was it. I was a fan for life

I'm very fortunate. I saw Bowie in concert five times. I was able to go to the Bowie Is exhibit at the V&A.

I can't believe he's gone.

Comments

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

I am also still too numb to process this.

[-dante-sparda-.livejournal.com]

Same. I expected him to be creating music well into his 80s, at least, not to lose him to something so...mortal.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

My first exposure to Bowie was Ziggy Stardust, courtesy of my now-evil sister. It's funny: despite being queer with Goth tendencies, I never saw myself in him even if his talent was obvious to me.