David Bowie passes away, aged 69
 

David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief," read a statement posted on the artist's official social media accounts.

The influential singer-songwriter and producer dabbled in glam rock, art rock, soul, hard rock, dance pop, punk and electronica during his eclectic 40-plus-year career.

Bowie’s artistic breakthrough came with 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, an album that fostered the notion of rock star as space alien. Fusing British mod with Japanese kabuki styles and rock with theater, Bowie created the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

Three years later, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the No. 1 single “Fame” off the Top 10 album Young Americans, then followed with the 1976 avant-garde art-rock LP Station to Station, which made it to No. 3 on the charts and featured Top 10 hit “Golden Years.”

Other memorable songs included 1983’s “Let’s Dance” — his only other No. 1 U.S. hit — “Space Oddity,” “Heroes,” “Changes,” “Under Pressure,” “China Girl,” “Modern Love,” “Rebel, Rebel,” “All the Young Dudes,” “Panic in Detroit,” “Fashion,” “Life on Mars” “Suffragette City” and a 1977 Christmas medley with Bing Crosby.



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:( RIP, a great and sad loss

Holy ****. This is heart breaking. I hope Shaun doesn't take this too badly :(

Yes on SkyNewsHD first

sad day


Yes the Cancer was kept off the news
18months he suffered

This is what I was thinking :(

Why the feck
does bbc breakfast get it last
4mins AFTER ALL OTHERS

Wow. One of my music heroes. RIP :sad:

..what..?...

I am utterly shocked and immensely saddened by this bombshell. R.I.P. to a true music legend. I feel like I did with the passing of Elvis and Lennon.

But Shaun will know its was due

Oh no so shocked, how heart breaking :( RIP

Thats because you never knew of his 18months
battle of cancer

..Jake, a site says this is a hoax, is it real..?.../it can't be real...

I'm genuinely in so much shock, I didn't even know he was ill :sad:

Who are you saying that to?

it's been confirmed by his son/official FB page :(

Shocked! Another musical legend taken too soon. One our best ever artists. So many of them leave us far too early. R.I.P.

Rhetorical.

It's on sky Ammi, his publicist has confirmed it :(

Its on Every News



His manager confirmed it

Really sad. His song Lazarus seems so much more poignant now.

Yes Good One Bob

It's not a fake site. I believe it initially was being said on Twitter and Facebook and no official source at that time was reporting it. Thus an article was made.

I just had the radio on and they were playing his hits and talking about his life and I jokingly thought "god imagine this was a tribute and he had died.." I thought they were about to announce a new album

I am shocked at this, truly shocked

DB was part of my life musically. Such sad, sad news

Omg, so sad to hear this. A true legend. RIP David x