To start the day …. “Lady Gaga’s Tribute …. David Bowie”!!


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~~February 18, 2016~~ 

LADY GAG’S TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE

I finally watched the Grammy’s which I had DVR’d. I think it was an amazing show in so many ways. Many different genres were represented. I saw people that I didn’t even know.

Kinda sad to sad that most of those mentioned in the “In Memoriam” section I knew

(that tells me a lot!)

Glad to see new talent recognized.

One of the performances that impressed me was Lady Gaga’s tribut to David Bowie.

Indeed, who else could have channeled this awesome talent lost early this year?

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Lady Gaga’s David Bowie Tribute at the Grammy’s Was Fabulously, Perfectly Weird

Kevin Fallon

Could anyone else have paid homage to David Bowie?

Channeling Ziggy Stardust, Lady Gaga saluted the icon at the Grammy’s the only way that fit: with unapologetic weirdness and glee.

How can there be a successor to someone so singular, so unique, so impossible to pinpoint and unabashedly weird  – all the while so undeniably genius.

Lady Gaga may not be the next David Bowie.

But if anyone can approximate the mood, the message, the spirit, and the stirring camp as the recently deceased icon, it’s the human and the alien in our Mother Monster, Lady Gaga.

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It’s a testament to how fiercely we possess our affection for David Bowie that Gaga’s big, ambitious tribute at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, February 15, was met with such polarizing reaction on Twitter. For everyone 140-character fawning over Gaga’s tenacity and extraterrestrial talent in the loving salute, others found her drag and kitsch to border on blasphemous.

Of course, poking and prodding outrage and testing our tolerance for performance was a habit of Bowie’s. It’s fitting that such a raucous homage to his legacy at the Grammy Awards by the pop star with the most experience in the realm of instigating and provoking would elicit the same kind of reaction.

Let’s be clear, though. No one but Lady Gaga could have performed this tribute.
For sheer significance, there is no other artist today who engages with such glee the orchestration of new personas and the reinvention of identity.

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She started with a stirring, technically precise few bars of “Space Oddity,” lighting effects washing some of the most iconic Bowie images over her face.

She then sped through a dizzying medley of Bowie’s hits. “Changes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” “Suffragette City,” “Let’s Dance,” “Heroes,” and more: each one stoking an eruption of giddy applause from the audience, each one fading to the next hit all-too-quickly – Gaga barely had time to get into the groove before it was on to the next.

She peacocked and pranced and strutted and boogied. Her vocals were flawless. Her wardrobe channeled Ziggy Stardust, the performance styled to the Aladdin Sane album. There were robotic legs, a dancing mechanical keyboard, and psychedelic lights.

And there was Bowie.

There was Bowie’s joy. His exuberant weirdness. There was scale and spectrum and ambition, all of it at once scattershot and meticulous.

It was queer and cheesy and 100 percent committed by Gaga. 

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/15/lady-gaga-s-perfect-david-bowie-tribute.html

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~WATCH THE LADY GAGA + INTEL PERFORMANCE~

~Published on Feb 15, 2016~

See the innovative collaboration from music’s biggest night.

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To start the day .… “Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity …. “!!


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~~January 12, 2016~~ 

HONORING DAVID BOWIE

Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born 29 August 1959) is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space.

An engineer and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield

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This video was published on YouTube on May 12, 2013.

We’re republishing it today to honor the inimitable David Bowie.

It’s a version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Yes, it’s actually Hadfield on guitar and vocals …

Commander Chris Hadfield aboard ISS singing David Bowie’s Space Oddity, republished today to honor Bowie, who died Sunday, January 10, 2016, at age 69.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity

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Chris Hadfield’s Cover Of ‘Space Oddity’ From The International Space Station Is The Best David Bowie Tribute Ever

By: Lisa Winter

“I’m floating in a most peculiar way.”

The entertainment world was shattered when it was announced that David Bowie passed away at the age of 69 after an 18-month battle with liver cancer.

Since the news broke, the Internet has been flooded with tributes from artists and fans about the incredible legacy that Bowie leaves behind. Of course, the most incredible tribute to Bowie didn’t come out after his death.

In 2013, Commander Chris Hadfield uploaded his cover Bowie’s 1969 hit “Space Oddity,” bringing something to the song that nobody else possibly could: it was actually recorded on-board the International Space Station.

Hadfield updated the lyrics to reflect his time in space as he was about to hand over control of the ISS before his descent back to Earth. While the song already features haunting lyrics about the adventure of space exploration, very few actually understand the sensation as Hadfield does.

His perspective gives the song an incredible new meaning.

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~~Space Oddity~~

~~Published on May 12, 2013~~

Rest in peace, Starman.

A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Composition: “SPACE ODDITY”
Written by David Bowie
Published by Onward Music Limited

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At the end of the day …. “David Bowie …. Blackstar”!!


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~~January 11, 2016~~ 

DAVID BOWIE

Musician and Actor Dies at Age 69 From Cancer, Publicist Says
Bowie died Sunday, his representative confirmed.

He won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in multiple musical genres, and starred in several films, including “Labyrinth.”

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David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was considered by critics and other musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970’s. His androgynous appearance was an iconic element of his image, principally in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

Born and raised in Brixton, south London, Bowie developed an early interest in music although his attempts to succeed as a pop star during much of the 1960’s were frustrating. “Space Oddity” became his first top five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a three-year period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

The character was spearheaded by his single “Starman” and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie’s impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, “challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day” and “created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture”. The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved to be one facet of a career marked by reinvention, musical innovation and visual presentation.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the album Young Americans, which the singer characterized as “plastic soul”.

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NOIR ARTIST COMPLETES BOWIE ★ BILLBOARD

“Everybody knows me now …”

We geo-targeted this story to our Belgian FB members yesterday, but now the work is completed it’s only fair to share it FB wide.

The picture here is of NOIR Artist having completed a mural commissioned by Sony Music Belgium for David Bowie’s ★ album.

The work was created in the Toison D’ Or shopping mall in Brussels on Friday and Saturday, and the time it took to complete was used as part of a contest to win a citytrip to the David Bowie Is expo in Holland.

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TIMELAPSE OF BOWIE BELGIAN ★ BILLBOARD

~~Published on Jan 11, 2016~~

Watch NOIR Artist create and complete a mural commissioned by Sony Music Belgium for David Bowie’s ★ album.

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