This is a very sad surprise. While he was making his way into a new genre, he had what I can remember a private life.

What man wears his hair like that and the shirt is simply unthinkable.

His new sound was effortless for him. It wasn't messy needing some kind of professional hand. Bowie was unique. I don't recall anyone able to mimic his style.

January 11, 2016

It is obvious enough (click here) that David Bowie brought the techniques of the theatre to pop music. But he did something more profound than that: he brought the idea that lies behind theatre, not just into music, but into contemporary culture as a whole.

That idea is simply stated: character isn’t something you have, it is something you invent. The actor is a protean figure, a shapeshifter. And the better the actor, the more scary this figure becomes.

The great actors disturb something that is central to our existence - the idea of the self. By putting on and taking off selves, they make us question whether the self really exists at all. Bowie was disturbing because he took this idea to its most extreme conclusions....

For his outrageous theater, he was sane and safe. He was so 'out there' it placed him on a shelf by himself and that exclusion allowed young hearts and minds plenty of room to entertain his sound.

If there is a parallel universe in 2016, it would be Gaga.

David Bowie was much to young to leave us all behind. I am so sorry to hear he lost his life to cancer. Wow. It sort of falls into the same feeling when I heard about Jim Henson. Somehow it is just not fair.