I was 69 years old and succumbed to cancer. She died days after launching the 25th album. Reactions, national and international, to the death of David Bowie
They multiply in Portugal and abroad, the reactions to the death of David Bowie, who fought for 18 months against cancer.
Zé Pedro said this morning the DN that “Bowie is the most important figures of contemporary music, was a highly innovative person in all aspects.” The musician recalls have begun to hear the author of Heroes in phase “of the incredible character who was Ziggy Stardust, which for me was fascinating.”
“It was a unique figure, charismatic and all the positive adjectives that we can find in relation to the work of Bowie … “One of the concerts of his life, recalls the member of Xutos & amp; Kicks, was a show in Madrid, the Glass Spider Tour, Bowie took to the Spanish capital in 1987.
“Not wanting to be too fundamentalist, I think the music died. It’s as simple as that. There I see no one in the queue to even get close to the career that Bowie had, “he said Nuno Gonçalves The Gift, the DN. “There may be bands, the Rolling Stones, U2, Queen have also had it in his time. But there is no one like David Bowie. And now minutes before turning me came an Post a friend Nuno Duarte, who told me that as Mozart, also had its Requiem . “
This Requiem have been Blackstar , published last Friday. For the Portuguese musician – for those Life on Mars “is the best song ever, the pop in his right state, pure” – the fact that Bowie had worked on that last album while facing cancer “Only reveals on the one hand a tremendous genius, a tremendous love of music and that idea fixed him of wanting to make history and be different from others. And that’s remarkable. “
” The way his death is launched fans is once again brilliant and a very beautiful and very elegant – in fact like everything he did in life, “says Paul Furtado . The musician has the DN that was last night listening to the new album of Bowie and, later, the “poke” some of the best known songs of the musician. “I had no idea he was going to die, it’s super weird,” says Tigerman. “Bowie has always belonged to another planet, never got to see the man beyond the artist.” David Bowie “is the latest in an era when pop was something risky.” The shape “as dies and how art is part of his death is quite touching,” accentuates the Tigerman
Xana , the voice of Radio Macau, said:. “Elegance talent and above average intelligence make David Bowie one of the performers most representative of pop rock music. The news and nature of his death are deeply saddened, felt as if a friend it were. The day started evil. “
Michelangelo , leader of the Dolphins, reminded the DN” one of the artists more variations introduced in his career, musical and aesthetic. I think he’ll be known as a completely revolutionary musician, it’s no accident they call it the Chameleon . “
He heard the new album Blackstar , published three days before the death of Bowie, and the fact that, knowing the cancer that the musician has faced, “the lyrics make much more sense, unfortunately.”
“During these decades all the Bowie reinvented itself several times. It will always be an inspiration, even in death, his heteronyms, from Ziggy Stardust to Major Tom will always be an inspiration for a kid who take a guitar, a piano, keyboard or computer and want to make music. “
Paulo Furtado , which in music accounts for The Legendary Tigerman, wrote this morning on his Facebook page: “Rest in peace, Mr. Bowie. You are free at last. “(” Rest in peace, Mr. Bowie. It’s finally free. “)
Alvaro Costa , broadcaster, said today the British musician David Bowie, who died on Sunday aged 69 victim of a cancer against which have struggled for 18 months, was in music, “a beacon for many people,” as told Lusa.
“I had an extraordinary career, hyper long and we have a kind of Messiah, the tracks, the ideas and references that was leaving. An artist with the giant. “Said
” The way takes leave this world also says a lot about him; It is at the highest level, with a record that is in some way premonitory – we understand now. I’ve been listening again the disc and there are there phrases that give clues. Has an almost prophetic tone “, said Alvaro Costa
David Ferreira , former director of EMI. – Valentim de Carvalho, today deplored the death of British musician David Bowie, considering that lost a “great creator of music” and a “master manipulator”.
“David Bowie, and has been a great creator of music, was also a master manipulator,” said David Ferreira Lusa , upon becoming aware today of the death of British musician, who last Friday completed 69 years and released the album “Blackstar”, the 25th of his career.
David Ferreira justified the fact that David Bowie have been a “master manipulator”, noting that the public had no idea that the British musician was fighting cancer, getting away to press the issue.
“Thinking of what must have been horrible these 18 months in which we had no idea that he fought against the disease, the latter earned him great handling it. Did not win the disease, but won the unhealthy curiosity of much press, especially in England, where the tabloid press is sick, it was almost cruel in the case of George Harrison cancer 15 years ago, “he said.
David Ferreira, who edited Bowie in Portugal, stressed that the British musician, to keep private the illness that caused her death, “won the press, he does not deserve that name.”
Louis Montez , music producer, lamented today the death of musician David Bowie, considering that the British musician was “an artist far ahead”, creative and a reference for any artist.
“He was very creative and above all had a capacity to reinvent itself constantly. For some reason it was known as the chameleon. Besides music he made in England, the United States, then to Berlin, where he had influence of electronic music, “said Lusa Luis Montez agency, which in 1995 brought the musician to Portugal as part of the Super Bock Super Rock festival.
According to the company’s director Sound of Music, David Bowie “was an artist far ahead, always pointing the ways and was a reference for all musicians.
” No there is no artist who does not know the work and who’s music has to know the David Bowie song, because it was important, “he stressed.
Luis Montez told Lusa that in 1995, when he brought David Bowie to Portugal for the second time (this worked before in Portugal in 1990), had a very circumstantial contact with the musician.
International reactions
The child more Old Bowie, director Duncan Jones confirmed on Twitter the death of the musician, as the statement that announced Bowie’s death, shared on social networks, was met with disbelief. “I’m afraid it’s true. I’ll be ‘offline’ for a while,” he wrote, sharing a childhood photograph with her father.
Brian Eno , the composer and music producer worked with Bowie, merely put on Twitter a link to the news of the death of the musician, writing only: “Words can not express: rest in peace David Bowie.”
Tony Visconti , one of the closest collaborators of Bowie, who produced Young Americans and the “Berlin trilogy” – which includes the album Low , Heroes and Lodger , wrote on his Facebook page:.. “He always did what he wanted to do and wanted to do it the best way His death was no different from his life – a work of art. It made us Blackstar , your parting gift. I knew for a year that would be. It was an extraordinary man, full of love and life. You will always be with us. For now, it is appropriate to cry “.
Madonna wrote in the social network that is” devastated “. “This great artist changed my life. It was the first concert I saw in Detroit.”
Another reaction came from Iggy Pop , close associate of Bowie. The two co-produced the album Raw Power , the Stooges, the band Iggy before producing his two solo albums. “David’s friendship was the light of my life. I’ve never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is.”
Pharrell Williams and Kanye West paid tribute to Bowie, praising him creativity, magic and innovation.
David Cameron , the British Prime Minister, revealed that grew up listening and viewing “pop genius David Bowie.” “He was the master of reinvention, which acertava ever. A huge loss.”
[News updated at 14:25]
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