As I ask you to focus on...

[tanngrisnir]

Bowie. Funny, I never used to think I was a Bowie fan. I listened to the music, of course, but... fan? Then one day I looked at just how many of his albums I had. And I reflected on the films he'd been in I'd seen (I made sure, I remember, that I got in to see The Man Who Fell to Earth at the GFT the first chance I got), and acquired in various

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[soon_lee]

I don't actually own a Bowie album except one of the Greatest Hits ones. While I've always liked his stuff, I was never a fanatic. That said, his songs were part of the soundtrack to my life, mostly because of radioplay. His singles are mostly what I liked him for, again because of radioplay.

[tanngrisnir]

I'd never knock his greatest hits albums - he really did have a lot of great hits. He was big part of the soundtrack of my life.

[twinfair]

I WAS a fan of a lot (not quite all) his work. It was University days, listening to him in my room for hours on end when doing my essays. That was the period of Scary Monsters (fantastic) and Lets Dance (not so good) but I had a lot of his earlier stuff too and I still think Aladdin Sane was better the Ziggy Stardust.

When I saw the recent video I commented to myself that he didn't look at all good but I assumed it was the ravages of age (and drugs) - I was wrong, obviously. RIP David Bowie.

[tanngrisnir]

Another thing I recall was discussing him with a colleague not long after Let's Dance came out. It was maybe the weakest of his albums (though it's grown on me over the years), and my colleague was of the opinion that Bowie was past it. That seems very amusing now.