1983 - Serious Moonlight Tour - Western Springs, Auckland, NZ . . . 80,000 people gathered on a beautiful November evening to see David Bowie - white doves were released at sunset as The Thin White Duke took to the stage.

I was 23, just returned from 18 months overseas, and it was the perfect welcome home . . . so memorable.

Standard Bowie mysteriousness that he kept his illness private until the end but left an amazing final album for his fans to celebrate his memory.

I never saw him play but did she him in Elephant man.

The words your write say so much more then the obvious
We here mostly close to age grew with him Elton the Beatles
and on memories
Just memories
I right behind the
Two things for certain
Life and Death
Goodbye

It sure seems like it.

The New York Times responded that way as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/th...fans.html?_r=0
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My brother private messaged me this link on Facebook:
David Bowie - Absolute Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8NZa9wYZ_U

To all his friends, my brother is recommending Jehnny Beth and the Savages.
Here are two links:
~~Jehnny Beth: The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBdJpTlH64g

~~Savages - "F0ckers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkz6qKCYjDM

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Thanks for the thread, Dave.

I will always remember him via astronaut Chris Hadfields rendition of Space Oddity sung from the International Space Station. Here is an interview and clips

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PReeq-Q0ig8

That song had always been haunting to me because the astronaut dies and Bowie somehow captures the solitude, eerieness and fear of dying in space. I remember the first time I heard it I cried and I hadn't even caught the lyrics, the music alone is so haunting. I think he also wrote it as a tribute to the amazing courage it takes to be an astronaut and exploring the unknown.

Full video of Chris Hadfield singing SO....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=poZCINzxzrQ