<<Look up here, I'm in Heaven
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama can't be stolen
Everybody knows me now>>
These are the first words you listen to in the song "Lazarus", words which hide what we have understood today.
It seemed the same boring day, with the same rainy and foggy weather. I was listening to the radio when a shocking news had been pronounced: "Bowie is dead". Even the broadcast journalist stood speechless for a while.
No, it couldn't be possible: the 8th of this month was his 69th birthday, the new album was launched, the return of the man who had always reinvented himself and his music.
I catched the train with a great sadness, which went along with me for the entire day.
Somebody was missing and that absence was very heavy.
He wasn't only a "singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor"
He was the Music, he had been able to feel the changes across the decades.
Bowie's star isn't black: what distance him from us is dark and terrible, but Bowie is a bright star, an example of what courage and love can do.
We will never forget him, we cannot.
RIP
It seemed the same boring day, with the same rainy and foggy weather. I was listening to the radio when a shocking news had been pronounced: "Bowie is dead". Even the broadcast journalist stood speechless for a while.
No, it couldn't be possible: the 8th of this month was his 69th birthday, the new album was launched, the return of the man who had always reinvented himself and his music.
I catched the train with a great sadness, which went along with me for the entire day.
Somebody was missing and that absence was very heavy.
He wasn't only a "singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor"
He was the Music, he had been able to feel the changes across the decades.
Bowie's star isn't black: what distance him from us is dark and terrible, but Bowie is a bright star, an example of what courage and love can do.
We will never forget him, we cannot.
RIP
(tribute concert in memory of Freddie Mercury, here the video)
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