Just two days following his birthday and the release of his critically-acclaimed new album, BLACKSTAR, the legendary DAVID BOWIE has died. The news came in just hours ago, with a message posted by his family to his facebook and twitter at 10:30pm on Sunday night. “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer,” it read. “While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.” While the various branches of his genre-bending career in music, film and art carry different significance for different people, for me it’s always been about the music of Bowie. In fact, my very first Bowie memory is 1983’s “Let’s Dance,” the title track from an album that spawned a video that stands among my first memories of being a 7-year-old kid watching MTV…
David Bowie was just 69 years old. May he Rest in Peace…
