Oh yeah, all the extras on there are sublime, that included. I mean - John, I'm Only Dancing, Velvet Goldmine, Sweet Head are all top notch & I liked the acoustic title track quite well too.

Keep going. ;)

It's a legitimately good (great?) song to me too. It's unabashedly polished but it sort of works for it imo.

Slight understatement at the end there.

His smirk/smile at the end of delivering that was epic. I didn't even watch a recent clip, I still recall it.

This might be an understatement actually. It makes one almost wish it could last forever when in the midst of it.

Oh, that first picture at the top. Absolutely divine.

Yup, that was so, so fitting.

Yes! Unmistakably singular & so British.

The funky-funky eye patch..

Nevertheless..

Hear hear.

If I wasn't at work I would take the plunge. I was somewhat unexpectedly confronted with Bowie's music an hour or so ago when leaving the office for lunch . I came in part of the way through a live performance of Starman from Japan in the early 1990s (I did well up when hearing Bowie's voice over those glorious…

I haven't listened to it yet. Definitely not ready.

Ben & McKinley 4eva

I almost wish that's how I would have received the news as I didn't find out until I arrived at work. If I had checked my tablet before the kids woke up around 6:50 AM or so, the news about Bowie would still have been an undoubted sucker punch but I would have had to forge ahead with the morning routine for, to…

All of this is perfect (& achingly true). Very sad.

That's what I was alluding to earlier to my wife via email. I won't be able to listen to Bowie today almost assuredly (too raw/near the bone at this point) but his influence is inescapable in just about any subsequent artist I might put on.

I remember this story! Thanks so much for re-posting.

Jesus, this is well put.