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Title: Legendary Singer David Bowie Dies at 69 Years-old
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw ... id-bowie-dies-at-69-years-old/
Published: Jan 11, 2016
Author: Breitbart News
Post Date: 2016-01-11 08:34:16 by cranky
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Views: 3271
Comments: 26
From Mike Barnes writing at the Hollywood Reporter: David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 69. “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief,” read a statement posted on the artist’s official social media accounts. The influential singer-songwriter and producer dabbled in glam rock, art rock, soul, hard rock, dance pop, punk and electronica during his eclectic 40-plus-year career. He just released his 25th album, Blackstar, Jan. 8, which was his birthday. Bowie’s artistic breakthrough came with 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, an album that fostered the notion of rock star as space alien. Fusing British mod with Japanese kabuki styles and rock with theater, Bowie created the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
I see Wiki offered a tidbit I didn't know.
Whenever I heard that bass line in the Ice Ice Baby song, I always thought I was going to hear "Under Pressure" - a song I really liked (it was my "motto song" during Plebe Summer back in 1981). Then I'd hear "Ice, Ice, Baby..." and I figured they much have been paying royalties to use that base line. Turns out they just used it without royalties. Which was insane. That line was so obviously original to "Under Pressure" that it was impossible for anybody to think that it wasn't a full-on steal. Pieces of one musician's music are incorporated into others' music all the time. When you do that, you pay a royalty for it.
I thought it an obscure footnote but apparently it really is a Thing if someone here at our small forum was aware of it. I can't really recall any other David Bowie songs. Most of them seemed like atonal nonsense, sung in a nasal Brit accent. I do think Bowie was a big cultural trendsetter in style and presentation in some ways, as Warhol was. Like the Beach Boys with their Pet Sounds album. Never chart-topping sales but they had an enormous influence on other musicians for many years to come.
#9. To: TooConservative (#7)
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest In 1990, Queen and Bowie filed a lawsuit against American rapper Vanilla Ice for copying the bass line of "Under Pressure" with only minor modifications in his song "Ice Ice Baby".[228][229] The dispute was later resolved with an undisclosed out-of-court settlement.[228]
#3. To: TooConservative (#1)
#7. To: Vicomte13 (#3)
Turns out they just used it without royalties. Which was insane. That line was so obviously original to "Under Pressure" that it was impossible for anybody to think that it wasn't a full-on steal.
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