I want to talk a little bit about David Bowie and most of you know the news came out this morning that David Bowie had passed away after an 18 month battle with cancer.

Bowie has always been a very special musician and artist to me and I have a background of music and I remember the first time I ever heard David boy was probably Ziggi star dust to space oddity and I remember as we rolled into the 1980s as a kid and the whole MTV generation that was going on,

you know, they had that little clip of David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing the little drummer boy.

And as the 80s got into full swing, albums like Blue Jean and Let's Dance.

You know, looking back now, I think a lot of that part of the 80s

had a real sugar-coated quality to a lot of the music and art

that was being produced at that time, and Bowie was able to operate in that context. and crowd and I think Bowie's always done that. I remember by the time I got into high school

I had kind of gone back in Bowie's catalog and it was really into the Berlin

trilogy of albums that he had produced with Brian Eno and even in the 90s and

2000s albums like Outside and Heaton were just really special.

I think the music was was it always fit the time but there was always that extra

special something of interest to it that kind of put it in its own class and I think also very

respectable is Bowie was one of those musicians who always forged ahead and

did new things he didn't kind of sit in one style or retire become a cover band of

himself and I have the utmost respect for David Bowie. Obviously image was a huge

part of what Bowie did as well having come out of what is known as the art rock scene but I think

all through his career image played a big role in that and there were two

photographers that were associated primarily with David Bowie. There's Japanese

born Masayoshi Sakita who is probably best known for the cover that he did for the third in the Berlin trilogy called Heroes.

Heroes came out in 1977 and the photograph on the front of that,

Sakita had based around a painting from 1917

from German painter Eric Hekel, which

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