{"id":7146,"date":"2016-01-11T00:13:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T07:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2016-01-11T00:44:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T07:44:57","slug":"tragedy-bowie-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/11\/tragedy-bowie-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAGEDY. Bowie is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Legendary Artist David Bowie Dies at 69<\/h1>\n

by Mike Barnes, THR Staff<\/em><\/p>\n

\"David
\nDavid Bowie<\/strong> \/ by\u00a0 Jimmy King<\/p>\n

The 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.<\/h2>\n
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David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“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\u2019s privacy during their time of grief,” read a statement posted on the artist’s official social media accounts.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Bowie\u2019s artistic breakthrough came with 1972\u2019s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the<\/em> Spiders From Mars<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n

Three years later, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the No. 1 single \u201cFame\u201d off the top 10 album Young Americans<\/em>, then followed with the 1976 avant-garde art rock LP Station to Station<\/em>, which made it to No. 3 on the charts and featured top 10 hit \u201cGolden Years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other memorable songs included 1983\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Dance\u201d \u2014 his only other No. 1 U.S. hit \u2014 \u201cSpace Oddity,\u201d \u201cHeroes,\u201d \u201cChanges,\u201d \u201cUnder Pressure,\u201d \u201cChina Girl,\u201d \u201cModern Love,\u201d \u201cRebel, Rebel,\u201d \u201cAll the Young Dudes,\u201d \u201cPanic in Detroit,\u201d \u201cFashion,\u201d \u201cLife on Mars,\u201d \u201cSuffragette City\u201d and a 1977 Christmas medley with Bing Crosby.<\/p>\n

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from The Hollywood Reporter Legendary Artist David Bowie Dies at 69 by Mike Barnes, THR Staff David Bowie \/ by\u00a0 Jimmy King The 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. David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}