David Robert Jones - 1947 - 2016

It was Elvis' birthday last Friday January 8 which means it was also David Bowie's. So imagine my surprise when I turned to my Instagram feed today (my typical first app of the day) only to see it blowing up with more than a birthday's level of his album covers (I follow a lot of other collectors). I posted the above 12" cover after I posted Diamond Dogs LP because that's how we do.

My favorite Bowie record is Ziggy Stardust - not for the depth and breadth of it's sheer genius but for the simple fact that my favorite song is there: Hang On To Yourself. I was in an original band in college that also played an eclectic set of covers - that song included. So much fun to play.

There have been times in my life that I feel like I understood David Bowie and what his music meant - and then there were times like Tin Machine when I had no freaking idea what he was doing (though I do love the Sales Brothers - you know them for this). In any case he was a legend on many levels and the world is short one creative and charismatic and enigmatic genius.

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