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Post by lucy on Nov 5, 2013 10:02:37 GMT -5
There's something to be said about him holding an image of "his former self" .....I wouldn't say that he looks like his "80's self".....he had a very thin face....he now has a wider face...and not due to gaining weight. As someone gains weight, the fat around the lower portion makes it appear bigger, but this is a different man playing the part. But I'm of the opinion that the 80's version was a replacement of the Bowie who was in the 70's as Ziggy Stardust....
Some would think that this character was indeed from another planet...that Ziggy...but whatever it is known as David Bowie today....from another mold
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Post by emerald on Jan 11, 2016 4:46:59 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Jan 11, 2016 8:02:37 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/articles/news/6836505/david-bowie-death-reactions"....David Bowie was known as the Thin White Duke to some. Or Ziggy Stardust, the Starman, or simply “Bowie.” Though the multi-talented artist’s various nicknames were always coupled with the word “legend”. David Bowie on the Charts: From 'Changes' to 'Fame' and Beyond Bowie, who has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer, was one of the music influential artists of the past 50 years. His shock passing has been noted by many artists and celebrities (and even world leaders) who took to social media to share their sadness and recall his impact on contemporary music." There was virtually nothing in the media about him having "a battle cancer" before the "shock" announcement of his death today. But wait, it was a "SECRET" battle with cancer, lasting eighteen months, during which he somehow managed to release an album, "blackstar"..... And just last month attend the opening of a new Off-Broadway musical based on his music, "Lazarus"....The New Testament figure who was raised from the dead. nypost.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-dies-after-battle-with-cancer/"New York Post NEWS FacebookTwitterGoogleWhatsAppEmailCopy David Bowie dies after secret battle with cancer By Joe Tacopino January 11, 2016 | 2:13am David Bowie Photo: Getty Images Rock-and-roll legend David Bowie died Sunday after a secret battle against cancer, his publicist confirmed early Monday. He had turned 69 on Friday. The singer-songwriter, whose decades of hits redefined rock music and whose gender-bending alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, became a pop-culture icon, passed away at his London home, his loved ones at his bedside. “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer,” read a statement on his Web site. “While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.” Bowie had just released an album, “Blackstar,” and was in New York last month for the opening of an Off-Broadway show based on his music, “Lazarus.”
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Post by emerald on Jan 11, 2016 8:48:13 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/articles/news/6836505/david-bowie-death-reactions"....David Bowie was known as the Thin White Duke to some. Or Ziggy Stardust, the Starman, or simply “Bowie.” Though the multi-talented artist’s various nicknames were always coupled with the word “legend”. David Bowie on the Charts: From 'Changes' to 'Fame' and Beyond Bowie, who has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer, was one of the music influential artists of the past 50 years. His shock passing has been noted by many artists and celebrities (and even world leaders) who took to social media to share their sadness and recall his impact on contemporary music." There was virtually nothing in the media about him having "a battle cancer" before the "shock" announcement of his death today. But wait, it was a "SECRET" battle with cancer, lasting eighteen months, during which he somehow managed to release an album, "blackstar"..... And just last month attend the opening of a new Off-Broadway musical based on his music, "Lazarus"....The New Testament figure who was raised from the dead. nypost.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-dies-after-battle-with-cancer/"New York Post NEWS FacebookTwitterGoogleWhatsAppEmailCopy David Bowie dies after secret battle with cancer By Joe Tacopino January 11, 2016 | 2:13am David Bowie Photo: Getty Images Rock-and-roll legend David Bowie died Sunday after a secret battle against cancer, his publicist confirmed early Monday. He had turned 69 on Friday. The singer-songwriter, whose decades of hits redefined rock music and whose gender-bending alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, became a pop-culture icon, passed away at his London home, his loved ones at his bedside. “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer,” read a statement on his Web site. “While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.” Bowie had just released an album, “Blackstar,” and was in New York last month for the opening of an Off-Broadway show based on his music, “Lazarus.”...." And? |
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Post by beatlies on Jan 11, 2016 13:11:37 GMT -5
This is from a January 2013 "Daily Mirror" article. It reports rumors of Davie Bowie having lung cancer, and being "at death's door," and having had a heart attack "ten years ago." There were no such rumors or facts about Bowie's health reported in 2014/15/16 until today, with his death coming as a total out-of-left-field surprise to the public: www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/going-out/music/tony-parsons-on-david-bowie-health-1527186"...But I don’t think anyone really knows Bowie apart from his wife, supermodel Iman, and their 12-year-old daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones – Lexi. He had a major heart attack 10 years ago, that is a matter of record. But all the rest – rumours of lung cancer and even dementia – are just wild speculation. And wild speculation is all they can be because Bowie, for once in his life, isn’t talking. This is strange because Bowie was always the easiest rock star in the world to talk to: open, engaging, hiding nothing. Endlessly curious about the world, and about himself. But that was long ago. The new single was released without any promotion, without any interviews. And the nature of Where Are We Now? will do nothing to stop the world fretting about David Bowie. WireImage Marriage: With supermodel wife Iman His classic hymn to the young lovers at the Berlin Wall, Heroes, haunted last summer’s Olympics. But that was made half a lifetime ago. Where Are We Now? is music that is made by a man at the other end of his life – the far end. It has the quality of a late Philip Roth novel, or Sinatra doing My Way, or Picasso’s self-portraits in old age. It is the sound of a man who has most of his life behind him. Inevitably, it is full of memory, regret and sadness. It is poignant, bitter-sweet, touched by grief. As Bowie reflects on the cafes and the streets that he knew in Berlin before the Wall came down, the overwhelming feeling is of a man looking back. But how could it be any other way? We are the first generation who have had to deal with rock stars living to their twilight years." |
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Post by emerald on Jan 11, 2016 14:52:11 GMT -5
Lets see how this story evolves....
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Post by emerald on Jan 12, 2016 5:29:53 GMT -5
Interesting pieces of info found:
"This is Angela Barnett Crypto Jew Mossad Agenda Sayanim of who lived in NYC, CA, Switzerland all before she was 17. She was kicked out of a Jesuit Catholic School at 15 for being a Lesbian Predator. I this interview she, this NY sleazbag, admits her sleazebag mother encouraged her at 17 to sleep with then 33 year old zionist Jew Lou Reizner executive & head of Mercury Records Europe (who she lies & says was 28.) Then after fellow predator zio Reizner hired & dated her he told her to help him “close the deal” with Bowie & sign him by seducing him. Bowie wasn’t too attracted to her. She usually dressed like a butch & had a big Jewish nose. Anyway Reizner told her to date Bowie. Made he screwed her or something. But When he broke up with a girlfriend they really sicked this little demon on him. I would guess she gave him lots of drugs, keep him in a stuper for a few weeks until they managed to fully controll him by breaking up his band & making him dependent of Reizner, Barnett & contracts they had him under. She jokes about him naively being into Tabetin Budism & how much more sophisticated she was than Bowie…though only 17! Her mother & the Crypto Jew Jesuits & zionist Jewa had already corrupted & trained her well how to takeover, manipulate & control men. Remember she was already a publicist & promoter at 17! Promoters & publicist all all white acts & most black acts are always jews. The record companies & music & comedy tour companies & book publishing companies don’t hire non jews for this particular jobs. And they always try their best to marry entertainers to Jewish sayanim, reguardless if they are black, white or Jewish they want to control them in all ways possible for the zionist agendas, so they want them married to sayanims like Angela Barnett".
"He was a tool for the jewish elites. Also this death is a HOAX. Funny how his autobiography and new album all ready to go. Also angie bowie just happens to be in big brother house, so now they get attention. fixed up before for sure. David Bowie has not died, he has just retired an is being used for more sales/propaganda.”
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Post by beatlies on Jan 13, 2016 13:54:07 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Jan 13, 2016 14:13:11 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Jan 14, 2016 7:17:33 GMT -5
Good job, Beatlies! Now here's more: "Cashing in on Death: The David Bowie Commemorative Extravaganza “Look up here, I’m in Heaven! I’ve got scars that can’t be seen…” – David Bowie, “Lazarus” (2015) Each age values its own species of celebrity. But each age also brings with it the phenomenon of reflected adulation. Cashing in on death, in other words, remains the business of business itself, the celebrity machine that draws out its replicas, its snivelling types, and its more rapacious breeds. David Bowie’s passing presented a glowing opportunity, not to be missed. The first use of the Bowie aura, and a fitting one at that, was by the man himself. Gordon Rayner and Hannah Furness of The Telegraph decided to see him as a cunning being, one who managed to redefine his own death artistically, and by keeping his impending demise at the hands of ravaging cancer under wraps. “David Bowie,” opened the article, “spent his entire career defining the art of popular music and on Sunday he pulled off perhaps his greatest ever coup when he turned his own death into one last spellbinding performance.”[1] The release of his final album, Blackstar, was a performance “bordering on the supernatural”. It constituted a requiem of sorts, with various “pointers to his demise,” prophetically fulfilled two days later. There is much talk about morbidity and x-rays. The video of one of the first tracks, Lazarus, features the singer in a hospital bed, concluding with him vanishing into a wardrobe. Tony Visconti, Bowie’s long-time producer, added some fuel to the mix. “His death was no different from his life – a work of art.” Bowie, however, was not to be left alone to his own bit of selling. Once dead, the adulation brigade would come out grabbing at every grain of the Bowie phenomenon with rampant enthusiasm. Such antics at times verged on the grotesque. They revealed the comingling of celebrity worship, political tribute, “reality” television and the desperation on the part of the entertainment complex to get the quick, financial fix. Such matters are all fair game. Arguably the most notable political narcissist in the modern era, Britain’s former prime minister, Tony Blair, certainly thought so. Having turned No. 10 into a celebrity processing factory during his stewardship seeded by spin, Blair could not help expressing his views in The Times on Bowie, of which he was “a huge fan.” Just as he did in office, Blair found skewing the account hard to avoid, continuing that ever disingenuous tendency he made famous with New Labour’s “Cool Britannia” project. “From the time I saw his Ziggy Stardust concert as a student I thought he was a brilliant artist and an exciting and interesting human being.”[2] The Mail Online was more sceptical about Blair’s university-Ziggy Stardust experience, though it did concede that Blair probably saw a Bowie concert at some point. “Blair was 19 when the Ziggy Stardust tour first visited Oxford for concerts in May and June 1972 – although Blair would not have been at the university yet.”[3] He only matriculated at St. John’s College in October that year. Bowie’s own views of “Cool Britannia” – Blair’s vain effort to gather popularity from the pop and entertainment fraternity – dripped with scorn. In 1999, he would tell Jeremy Paxman that such a project was “so clichéd and silly and ineffective”. His response was to meet Blair in high heels and a vicar’s dog collar, neither of which the then fawning prime minister noticed. In Britain, UK Celebrity Big Brother also found the Bowie cash cow irresistible, making hay by cornering the singer’s ex-wife, Angie, on national television with news that the star had snuffed it. This, in turn, created a domino effect of Bowie publicity, stormily condemning Big Brother for its purportedly insensitive policies. The entire revelation was broadcast from the habitually obscene “diary room camera”. Initially, Angie says that she had not seen Bowie “in so many years” and could not “make a big drama about it, but… feel an era has ended”. The frontal calm dissipates, leaving those Big Brother irritants known as “house guests” to comfort the distraught Angie. “The stardust has gone.” A true spectacle! Irrespective of the authentic emotional state of Bowie’s former partner, the entire grotesquery was part and parcel of an industrial entertainment complex, one of collusion and collaboration. Those at Channel Five, which received a dozen complaints after the airing, would have felt it worth it. The Bowie name was too good to avoid streaming through the popular unconsciousness of the program, and reality television was there to make a killing. After all, Angie was largely there as a link to Bowie’s name, a vicarious “celebrity” herself. And she was not, to the consternation of some Big Brother watchers, going anywhere. Besides, suggested Angie’s manager, Ray Santilli, the former model “had plenty of time to consider her position off-camera to process the news.” The ambush, in other words, hardly counted as such. Big Brother had already readied her for a simulated emotional collapse. “She made the decision to go back into the house, she made the decision to be interviewed afterwards.”[4] It was time for Angie to take advantage of the Bowie name for another round. Television, even in its reality format, is ever an enemy of reality, a stimulant for dissimulation. Bowie would have understood that." www.globalresearch.ca/cashing-in-on-death-the-david-bowie-commemorative-extravaganza/5501091 |
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Post by emerald on Jan 14, 2016 7:20:05 GMT -5
Read between the lines, all was staged/pre-planned: "Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney Join Lineup at David Bowie Memorial Concert Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney are among those who will perform at a previously scheduled tribute event that has turned into a memorial for David Bowie. The concert, dubbed The Music of David Bowie, was set to take place on March 31 at Carnegie Hall. Then Bowie died on Sunday (Jan. 10) after an 18-month battle with cancer. “The unexpected death of David Bowie has turned this tribute, which we have worked on for the past seven months, into a memorial concert,” organizers say, via the Music of David Bowie official web site. “This year’s concert will certainly be remembered as a poignant celebration of his music by his friends, peers and fans.” Bowie made his debut at Carnegie Hall in September 1972, in one of the first stops on his initial U.S. tour with the Spiders from Mars. Bowie had just released Blackstar, his 25th studio album, on the Friday before his death. The cancer prognosis was kept so private that members of the band who worked on the project say they didn’t know. Elton John, Ann Wilson of Heart, Bob Dylan‘s son Jakob and Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction are also among who are expected to perform at the instantly sold-out March memorial show. “It’s all kind of a very bittersweet success in the sense that it’s now a tribute to someone who’s passed,” presenter Michael Dorf tells Pollstar, “versus a tribute to someone who was probably going to be in attendance.” ultimateclassicrock.com/mick-jagger-paul-mccartney-david-bowie-memorial/ |
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Post by emerald on Jan 14, 2016 7:26:33 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Jan 14, 2016 7:38:07 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Jan 18, 2016 5:36:18 GMT -5
How fishy is that? Who's fooling who?
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Post by emerald on Jan 25, 2016 6:15:58 GMT -5
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