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#529 Remembering David Bowie

Sound Opinions

Sound Opinions

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sound Opinions remembers pioneering music icon David Bowie. The pop chameleon died of cancer on January 10, 2016. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot also review the singer's new album Blackstar, which came out on his 69th birthday, only two days prior to his death.

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There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. Are you ready to get your world rocked?

0:20.0

Are you ready to get your world rocked? Ready?

0:21.0

Are you ready to get your mind blown?

0:24.0

Do it!

0:25.0

One, two, three, first! He was a space-hippe, a glam-rocked ziggy stardust, a thin white Duke.

0:40.8

David Bowie was proof of the power of transformation and the power of pop.

0:45.2

I'm Greg Cot.

0:46.2

And I'm Jim Deregadis.

0:47.8

We'll remember Rock's Greatest Chameleon, David Bowie, through his career highlights, and we'll review his most recent album Black Star.

0:55.7

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

1:01.3

This is Sound Opinions and time now to remember one of music's most innovative artists.

1:07.0

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

1:12.0

I've got scars that can't be seen.

1:17.0

I've got drama can't be seen.

1:20.0

I've got drama can't be stolen.

1:25.0

Everybody knows me now. That is a little bit of the song Lazarus Greg from what is now David Bowie's last album Black Star. It was released on January 8, the day he turned 69 and

1:47.1

the iconic rock star died on January 10th, apparently after a long battle with cancer

1:52.4

that very few people knew about.

1:55.0

ICONic career, we're going to get into that throughout this show.

1:58.8

We consider him one of Rock's greats and so we're devoting the show to him.

2:02.5

Survived by his wife of 25 years, the supermodel

2:05.9

Eman.

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