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SLOW MOTION:..

“BASQUIAT” – Julian Schnabel

chorus of unbelievers. I join him and celebrate David Bowie, director of his own death.

Act 1. disease. Kept secret from the general public until the official announcement of the death.
Act 2. Recording of Blackstar, 25th and final album. Made during the violence of the treatments, an anonymous studio, away from the headlines.
Act 3. Bowie embodied in Michael C. Hall, the actor Dexter and Six Feet Under. Weakened, with esvaídas forces, delivers Hall responsibility of Lazarus perform live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The US market is left to conquer, clinging to the puzzle. Where is Bowie?

Act 4. 69th birthday. David Bowie publishes a photo. He smiles. Suit and gray tie, white shirt, hat, black shoes, elegance ever. This is not a man to death.
Act 5. The release of the last album on the same day. January 8, 2016. It is an immediate sales success.
Act 6. Death. Two days after. Fans of the blood to the farthest, all caught off guard.
Final Act. Blackstar to play without interruption. In my home, in my car, at home and in millions of cars. And all intrigued with the previous six steps of the work which is the master epilogue.

The unanimous praise is reserved for geniuses. David Bowie was one of them, a rare specimen, a seminal artist, able to seduce even in the way decided to die.

No, in the end, no one died like that. There is perfect epitaphs.

The Bowie’s legacy is heavy and powerful. There is no way to choose a song, an album or a movie. Instinctively, I was reminded of this re-creation that made Andy Warhol in the film Basquiat, 1996. It is worth seeing.

Football. Because until football was on David Bowie. For this, strongly suggest reading the article by journalist João Tiago Figueiredo, “The Chameleon who tried football until the damn consider” .

There are amazing pictures and amazing stories. Bowie, David Jones baptism was a reasonable footballer and played in Burnt Ash Juniors Football Team at the time 1957/78.

PS: “Extras” – Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant
the piano to interpret Silly litlle fat man , one of the best Scenes fabulous series created by Gervais and Merchant. David Bowie, often accused of being haughty and arrogant, he knew to be popular and funny.

Gervais plays Andy Millman, one atora who makes a living doing figuration in movies, to accept the BBC to conduct and interpret one sitcom . Commercial success is immediate, product quality is very weak, but Millman lost self love and idealism.

One night, Andy out with the hilarious Maggie Jacobs, the incompetent agent Darren Lamb and Shaun Williamson, another actor fallen from grace. And are David Bowie. Then there are magic. And a good song.
David Bowie en Ricky Gervais by esthersmits1972

SOUNDCHECK:

“HEROES” – David Bowie
Music is from 1977 and is part of the homonymous album, a member of the famous trilogy of Berlin. In 2012, the epic tone was recovered and integrated into the original soundtrack of the Olympic Games in London.

The representation of Britain came into Wembley to the sound of Bowie voice and sang the memorable letter:

“I, I will be king And
you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive
Them away
We can beat Them, just for one day We can be Heroes
, just for one day. “

PS: “Blackstar” – David Bowie
only heard the disc after Bowie died. My analysis is therefore influenced by sadness by the loss. Each word must be listened to, contemplated respected. There are puzzles, codes, apocalyptic warnings.

There is an easy drive, though extraordinary moments. The tone is black, cosmopolitan and varied, as if Bowie was more interested in vent than to please.

Lazarus is the best compositions in the rich work of Bowie, Blackstar it is a marvel of almost ten minutes, but the best song may be I Can not Give Away Everything . The last.

This is where Bowie definitely breaks with all that know him. We want more and we believe that the eternal Ziggy Stardust has something prepared and well hidden.

TURNING THE PAGE:

“THE COMPLETE DAVID BOWIE” – Nicholas Pegg

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