David Bowie: legendary rock star dead aged 69

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• David Bowie dies at the age of 69
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The contributions are coming in on our Guardian Witness page for your thoughts and memories about Bowie.

Brixton memorial

Memorial forming at the mural in Brixton. Had to stop by and lay my tribute. What a genius he was . So unbearably sad today.

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By Trumansdad

11 January 2016, 10:19

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2m ago10:28

These are being shared a fair bit on Twitter – the isolated vocal tracks to two of Bowie’s most celebrated songs, Space Oddity and Ziggy Stardust. A fantastic listen, both of them.

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5m ago10:25

Our obituary is now up. You can read it in full here. This is an extract:

Until the last, David Bowie, who has died of cancer, was still capable of springing surprises. His latest album Blackstar appeared on his 69th birthday on 8 January, and proved that his gift for making dramatic statements as well as challenging, disturbing music hadn’t deserted him.
Throughout the 1970s, Bowie was a trailblazer of musical trends and pop fashion. Having been a late-60s mime and cabaret entertainer, he evolved into a singer-songwriter, a pioneer of glam-rock, then veered into what he called “plastic soul”, before moving to Berlin to create innovative electronic music.
In subsequent decades his influence became less pervasive, but he remained creatively restless and constantly innovative across a variety of media. His capacity for mixing brilliant changes of sound and image underpinned by a genuine intellectual curiosity is rivalled by few in pop history. Blackstar was proof that this curiosity had not diminished in his later career.