Family, Friends & Fans Honor David Bowie

As reported, iconic musician and artist David Bowie died on yesterday, January 10 after an 18-month battle with cancer after having turned 69 on January 8. It’s been revealed a previously planned tribute concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City featuring The Roots, Cyndi Lauper, the Mountain Goats, Jakob Dylan, Bettye LaVette, Ann Wilson and Perry Farrell will still take place, but will now be a memorial event held on March 31. Since word of his death, a nearly countless stream of tributes, expressions of disbelief and condolences shared in honor of the irreplaceable musician have been flooding social media.

Bowie’s son Duncan Jones, British Prime Minister David Cameron, longtime collaborator and ★ producer Tony Visconti, Paul McCartney, Geen Ween, The Roots drummer Questlove, Yoko Ono, Jimmy Page, Brian Eno, Ricky Gervais, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop, Florence Welch, Ryan Adams and Jason Isbell are just few of the many who have shared message for David Bowie. Several of those expressions of sadness and disbelief along with words of gratitude and respect are rounded up below. The post will continue to be updated as more tributes are shared.

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Brian Eno issued a statement:

David’s death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now.

We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud. Over the last few years – with him living in New York and me in London – our connection was by email. We signed off with invented names: some of his were mr showbiz, milton keynes, rhoda borrocks and the duke of ear.

About a year ago we started talking about Outside – the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that.

I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: ‘Thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot’. And it was signed ‘Dawn’.

I realise now he was saying goodbye.

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