Something happened on the day he died... Spirit rose a metre then stepped aside... Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried...

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Happy Birthday. We were lucky to be born into a world with you in it. You showed us misfits that not fitting in was perfectly ok.

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A singular talent, a searing intellect and the greatest artist this country has ever produced...his influence is always felt, his presence is always missed. the world salutes you.

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I fell asleep at night as a rock & roll star. I fell in love all right as a rock & roll star. I made it all worthwhile as a rock & roll star (You watched me)

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There’s no sign of life It’s just the power to charm I’m lying in the rain But I never wave bye-bye

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David Bowie as Major Jack Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

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It’s safe in the city to love in a doorway To wrangle some screams from the dawn And isn’t it me, putting pain in a stranger Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash

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See the mice in their million hordes. From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads. Rule Britannia is out of bounds. To my mother, my dog, and clowns

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Bowie in his bipperty-bopperty hat, 44 inch Oxford Bags in pink seaside gaberdine, white Turkish cotton shirt and those yellow Mary Janes (1971)

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Rebel Rebel, you’ve torn your dress. Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so!

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Tonight on BBC Two.... “Part three of Francis Whately’s Bowie trilogy, telling the story of how David Robert Jones became David Bowie, how Bowie became Ziggy Stardust and how Ziggy became immortal.” – BBC

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