A Sense of Doubt blog post #3615 - David Bowie Died Nine Years Ago Today
Not a ton of content today because I have many Bowie-centric posts in the works for the entire month of January, which I consider to be David Bowie month.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/david-bowie-daughter-video-playing-piano-b2260179.html
David Bowie’s daughter shares throwback video of pair playing piano together
Lexi Jones shared the video on Instagram as tribute to her late father on the anniversary of his death
Megan GrayeDavid Bowie’s daughter has shared a poignant video of her and her late father playing the piano together, as a tribute to her father on the anniversary of his death.
Lexi Jones shared the childhood clip on Instagram, showing her as a child sitting next to Bowie at the piano.
Bowie died on 10 January 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and 18 months after being diagnosed with cancer. His illness was not made public until after his death.
“Seven years ago today. I miss you,” wrote the artist’s daughter in the early hours of Wednesday (11 January) morning.
Jones also shared an early image of the pair holding a multicoloured umbrella, with Jones wearing a lion onesie.
The 22-year-old has 128,000 followers on Instagram.
This isn’t the first time Jones has paid tribute to her father. In 2017, she shared an image of a moon tattoo with “Daddy” written within it on her Instagram.
The caption read: “Love you (heart emoji) ‘47-’16”.
The “Starman” singer is survived by two children: his first child Duncan Jones, born to Bowie and his first wife Mary Angela Barnett in 1971, and Lexi, who he had with his second wife, supermodel Iman, in 2000.
Bowie had released his album Blackstar two days before his death.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gary-oldman-reveals-close-friend-150000319.html
Gary Oldman reveals close friend David Bowie’s last words to him
It seems a fittingly rock and roll way to sign off for the last time, with an irritated expletive.
Gary Oldman has revealed that his close friend David Bowie’s last words to him were “f--- off”.
The actor didn’t take it personally. Bowie was expressing his irritation with technology at the time.
Oldman recalled how he and Bowie would have a regular Sunday catch-up on Skype in the run-up to his death from liver cancer in 2016.
During what would be their last conversation, Bowie became annoyed at not being able to disconnect the call.
Oldman, the star of Slow Horses, said: “We used to Skype on Sunday mornings and just catch up and chat and what have you.
“And the last thing he ever said to me was, and it’s really actually, so wonderfully, David. We were Skyping and you know when you want to disconnect with someone, sometimes you try and disconnect and you can’t and they keep coming back.
“So he’s pressing the button and he said, ‘alright, talk to you next week’ or whatever.
“And he went, ‘go away, go away’. And he pressed the button and he went ‘f--- off’.”
Oldman revealed that Bowie maintained his acerbic sense of humour in the months leading to his death just two days after the release of his 26th and final studio album, Blackstar, which coincided with his 69th birthday.“Let me just say first he handled the cancer, so with such dignity and grace and humor. When he told me about it, he wrote me an email and he said: ‘I’ve got some good news, I’ve got some bad news’,” said Oldman. “He wrote: ‘the bad news is I’ve got the big C’.
“And underneath he wrote: ‘the good news is I got my cheekbones back’, which I thought was just really dark and really sweet and funny of him.”
Oldman, whose acting career includes portraying both Winston Churchill and Sid Vicious, said he had been in awe of Bowie as one of rock’s greatest performers before and after meeting him backstage at a play.
Speaking on CBS’s The Drew Barrymore Show, he recalled one holiday on his yacht near Mustique.
“We were going off the boat to go into town for dinner and I walked through, down the boat and he was sitting in the living room of the boat in shorts, no shoes, socks, T-shirt, strumming the guitar, singing Space Oddity,” he said. “And he looked up at me and said, ‘I’m just messing about.’
“And it was really the first time that I went, ‘you’re David Bowie’.”
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