<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of the <i>New York Times</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/arts/music/david-bowie-dies-at-69.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/arts/music/david-bowie-dies-at-69.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><h1 itemprop="headline" id="story-heading" class="story-heading" style="font-size: 2.125rem; line-height: 2.375rem; font-style: italic; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">David Bowie Dies at 69; He Transcended Music, Art and Fashion</h1></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Bowie, the infinitely changeable, fiercely forward-looking songwriter who taught generations of musicians about the power of drama, images and personas, died on Sunday, two days after his 69th birthday.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Bowie’s death was confirmed by his publicist, Steve Martin, on Monday morning.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He died after having cancer for 18 months, according to a statement on Mr. Bowie’s social-media accounts.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family,” a post on his Facebook page read.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His last album, “</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/arts/music/review-blackstar-david-bowies-emotive-and-cryptic-new-album.html" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blackstar</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">,” a collaboration with a jazz quartet that was typically enigmatic and exploratory, was released on Friday — his birthday. He was to be honored with a concert at Carnegie Hall on March 31 featuring the Roots, Cyndi Lauper and the Mountain Goats.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He had also collaborated on an Off Broadway musical, “</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/theater/review-david-bowie-songs-and-a-familiar-alien-in-lazarus.html" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lazarus</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">,” that was a surreal sequel to his definitive 1976 film role, “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Bowie wrote songs, above all, about being an outsider: an alien, a misfit, a sexual adventurer, a faraway astronaut. His music was always a mutable blend: rock, cabaret, jazz and what he called “plastic soul,” but it was suffused with genuine soul. He also captured the drama and longing of everyday life, enough to give him No. 1 pop hits like “Let’s Dance.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If he had an anthem, it was “Changes,” from his 1971 album “Hunky Dory,” which proclaimed:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Turn and face the strange / Ch-ch-changes / Oh look out now you rock and rollers / Pretty soon now you’re gonna get older.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Bowie earned admiration and emulation across the musical spectrum — from rockers, balladeers, punks, hip-hop acts, creators of pop spectacles and even classical composers like Philip Glass, who based two symphonies on Mr. Bowie’s albums “Low” and “ ‘</span><a title="The YouTube video." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Heroes</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.’ ”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Bowie’s constantly morphing persona was a touchstone for performers like Madonna and Lady Gaga; his determination to stay contemporary introduced his fans to Philadelphia funk, Japanese fashion, German electronica and drum-and-bass dance music.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nirvana chose to sing “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Man Who Sold the World</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">,” the title song of Mr. Bowie’s 1970 album, in its brief set for the 1993 “MTV Unplugged in New York.” “Under Pressure,” a collaboration with the glam-rock group Queen, supplied a bass line for the 1990 Vanilla Ice hit “</span><a title="The YouTube video." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ice Ice Baby</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet throughout Mr. Bowie’s metamorphoses, he was always recognizable. His voice was widely imitated but always his own; his message was that there was always empathy beyond difference.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Angst and apocalypse, media and paranoia, distance and yearning were among Mr. Bowie’s lifelong themes. So was a penchant for transgression coupled with a determination to push cult tastes toward the mainstream. Mr. Bowie produced albums and wrote songs for some of his idols — Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Mott the Hoople — that gave them pop hits without causing them to abandon their individuality. And he collaborated with musicians like Brian Eno in the Berlin years and, in his final recordings, with the jazz musicians Maria Schneider and Donny McCaslin, introducing them to many new listeners.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Bowie was a person of relentless reinvention. He emerged in the late 1960s with the voice of a rock belter but with the sensibility of a cabaret singer, steeped in the dynamics of stage musicals. He was Major Tom, the lost astronaut in his career-making 1969 hit “Space Oddity.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was Ziggy Stardust, the otherworldly pop star at the center of his 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was the self-destructive Thin White Duke and the minimalist but heartfelt voice of the three albums he recorded in Berlin in the ’70s.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The arrival of MTV in the 1980s was the perfect complement to Mr. Bowie’s sense of theatricality and fashion. “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ashes to Ashes</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">,” the “Space Oddity” sequel that revealed, “We know Major Tom’s a junkie,” and “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let’s Dance</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">,” which offered, “Put on your red shoes and dance the blues,” gave him worldwide popularity.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Bowie was his generation’s standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could. With a voice that dipped down to baritone and leapt into falsetto, he was complexly androgynous, an explorer of human impulses that could not be quantified.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also pushed the limits of “Fashion” and “Fame,” writing songs with those titles and also thinking deeply about the possibilities and strictures of pop renown.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Bowie was married for more than 20 years to the international model Iman, with whom he had a daughter, Alexandria Jones.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/686441083648212992" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">post</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> on Twitter, Duncan Jones, the musician’s son from an earlier marriage, with Angela Bowie, said: “Very sorry and sad to say it’s true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all.”</span></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>"Changes" by David Bowie</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/David_Bowie/Changes.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/David_Bowie/Changes.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>"Fame" by David Bowie</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/David_Bowie/Fame.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/David_Bowie/Fame.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>"Golden Years" by David Bowie</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/David_Bowie/Golden_Years.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/David_Bowie/Golden_Years.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Rest well, Mr. Bowie.<br><div><div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>