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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Christian Reflects On The Death Of Bowie

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Christian finishes our wrap of the decade, as he reflects on the death of Bowie, bin Laden and return of Star Wars. We're back next wee...

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0:00.0

The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, Melbourne's Gold 104.3.

0:04.3

So me, Jack and Bats, we've been going through some of our personal moments that we think of the big moments of the last decade, because you might not be aware of it.

0:10.5

It is the end of the decade at the end of this year.

0:13.0

Next year, we start a brand new decade, but just in two and a bit months, it's the end of this decade.

0:18.6

And how are we going to be remembering it? What are we going to tell ourselves about the last 10 years?

0:23.0

For me personally, I'm going to have to take you back to January the 10th, 2016.

0:27.9

I was starting my old breakfast show.

0:29.7

It was a wet.

0:30.3

January for us is not summertime.

0:32.2

It's the worst month of the year.

0:33.6

It's cold.

0:34.5

It's gray.

0:35.2

It's cold, it's gray, it's dark. And around about quarter to seven in the morning, I was doing my breakfast show, and I saw, I was just looking on social media, and I saw that there were rumors coming out that David Bowie had died. And it was a huge shock. And I realized we played a lot of David Bowie. We do hear, we play way more on that station. He was a huge icon for my audience and a lot of people

0:55.0

right people loved david bowie and suddenly was aware that i was going to be given people going

0:58.9

be waking up turn the radio on and being really really upset no one knew he was ill he didn't make a

1:03.5

big deal of it hardly any people he even worked with and recording his last album black star didn't

1:07.7

realize he was dying of cancer and And Black Star is about him transforming

1:11.6

into a Black Star, which is a return into the cosmos as the infinite. And for someone who was a star man,

1:16.9

I think there's something very profound about that. So it wasn't just his last album. It was him

1:20.6

talking about what he hoped for himself in the beyond, which is pretty cool for someone like David Bowie.

1:25.1

But the reason why so many, me included love David Bowie,

1:30.6

David Bowie changed music, art and fashion.

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