..I just had a moment of immense sadness.

I looked at the release date for the Reality Album.

September 2003.

It looks like that's it. Nothing in 9 years.

Reality was a great album. He went out on a high.

Anyone seen any recent pictures of him or heard any news?

He's had a bit of a makeover in recent years, just to add a fresh "bite" to his image



Other than that not much, except for the fact that his name is mentioned in connection with Mick Jagger a lot lately, for some reason...

a friend of mine lives in his building in nyc - he is *very* low key - also has a place up in woodstock

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..I just had a moment of immense sadness.

I looked at the release date for the Reality Album.

September 2003.

It looks like that's it. Nothing in 9 years.

Reality was a great album. He went out on a high.

Anyone seen any recent pictures of him or heard any news?

I really think it's too late for a come back. he stayed too long out of the picture.....maybe we even can't recognize him
Pity though ...but i still got his great records............

Oh please. He could clean up with a world tour doing his hits. There's a whole new generation that adores him. He's translated to the younguns like Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. Imagine all the people who've never seen him, me included. I thought his last live album, Reality Tour(?) was really soft and unmemorable, but he would still be a huge concert draw without releasing anything new.

Perhaps after a heart attack and a lollipop in the eye, he's decided to retire.



Date: June 18, 2004

What Went Down: Musicians are often pelted with roses and underwear during their shows, but David Bowie was struck by an object of adoration that almost cost him his sight. Twenty minutes into a performance in Norway , the stick of a lollipop that was thrown at the singer became wedged between his left eyeball and eyelid. A panicked member of his entourage rushed the stage to remove the sweet projectile so Bowie could finish the show.

[www.spinner.com]

He's been taking it easy since he suffered a heart attack in June 2004, during the 'A Reality' Tour.

In January 2009, he was at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, for the premiere of the film "Moon", directed by his son Duncan Jones (who used to be known as Zowie Bowie). There haven't been too many public appearances since then, only occasional sightings at his favourite NYC bookshops and such.
[bit.ly]

Shadow Man, you are Sadly missed - Pity he never put out the 'TOY' album officially.I am thinking he is waiting his time to choose his moment.[Hope I am not gonna get abuse for posting non RS messages]

If this was really Mick he would have looked down

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Shadow Man, you are Sadly missed - Pity he never put out the 'TOY' album officially.I am thinking he is waiting his time to choose his moment.[Hope I am not gonna get abuse for posting non RS messages]

Agree about the Toy album. Picked it up on Godfather Records about two months ago and it hasn't been out of my cd player. It's fantastic.

Scotty

Heathen and Reality are both great great albums.............. his last period is very interesting (90's albums are very great indeed)

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Shadow Man, you are Sadly missed - Pity he never put out the 'TOY' album officially.I am thinking he is waiting his time to choose his moment.[Hope I am not gonna get abuse for posting non RS messages]

Agree about the Toy album. Picked it up on Godfather Records about two months ago and it hasn't been out of my cd player. It's fantastic.

Scotty

Toy is perhaps the greatest thing he has done since Scary Monsters. Well worth tracking down.

How can i get the TOY album?? Thanks

He must have made some home recordings in the last nine years.

You would hope he didn't entirely pack it in.

That said.. his greatest stuff is with Eno/Visconti who know how to get the best out of him.

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How can i get the TOY album?? Thanks

Er, the same that I did. Trawl the internet and you will find some download options. It's great quality too.

Nacho, check out the torrent sites for Toy. Just a few years ago the entire album was leaked and rumored to be leaked by The Sailor himself. Also, it is interesting to note many of the toy songs were released on extended singles/EPs from Heathen through to Reality. Toy is fantastic. Heathen is brilliant. His Low Pt. 2. So much so he performed all of Heathen and Low live during the New York five Burroughs tour.

I know he has continued recording. There was stirrings that leaked from his inner circle a few years ago about some stuff, thought to be a continuation of the 1.Outside project, and also more singer/songwriter stuff. But nothing materialized.

I still hope he will surprise us with some new and excciting stuff
Thaks a lot

There is a website with some fantastic writing about Bowie.

First class stuff.

[bowiesongs.wordpress.com]

The article on Ashes to Ashes is magnificent.

Wow. Through the bowiesongs website I discover this.






Also links to lots of demos of his songs in various articles.

I think it's good that he had decided to retire (for now), whatever his reasons. It goes to show that he is not governed by ego, trying to flog a public persona in his old age. It'd be exciting to hear new work from him, but I'd hope he is different enough from some of his peers to stay off the tour treadmill, doing the songs "we all love". He's been there, done that.

Plus, his vocal range would be diminished since 2003. Unlike many others though, he is probably just intelligent and realistic enough to not want to go on screeching out the old numbers like he's still 25. He also seems to have too many interests to hanker for any more time in the limelight. I don't spend much time listening to him /mostly "Heathen"/, but you've gotta love a dude with his balanced attitude.

I'm not contrasting the Stones negatively with this by the way. They're two very different types of artists, who just happened to explore each other's bodies for a brief romantic moment in the '70's.



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Two of his last live appearances

Live at Fashion Rocks with Arcade Fire, 2005







David Gilmour & David Bowie, 2007

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a friend of mine lives in his building in nyc - he is *very* low key

man, that must be awesome ... in chinatown, I think?

Very sad in that he was putting out some great music. Reality was a brilliant record, and the tour was amazing. I saw him on the tour in both an Arena and a small theater and loved that he was playing a mix of old hit, new material, and obscure stuff, with a great band of people who had been with him thru several different periods. From Mike Garson who toured with the Spiders to Earl Slick who played in the band in the mid-70s David Live record.

I hope he releases more music and tours again. But if he doesn't, he certainly went out at a peak.

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I think it's good that he had decided to retire (for now), whatever his reasons. It goes to show that he is not governed by ego, trying to flog a public persona in his old age. It'd be exciting to hear new work from him, but I'd hope he is different enough from some of his peers to stay off the tour treadmill, doing the songs "we all love". He's been there, done that.

Plus, his vocal range would be diminished since 2003. Unlike many others though, he is probably just intelligent and realistic enough to not want to go on screeching out the old numbers like he's still 25. He also seems to have too many interests to hanker for any more time in the limelight. I don't spend much time listening to him /mostly "Heathen"/, but you've gotta love a dude with his balanced attitude.

I'm not contrasting the Stones negatively with this by the way. They're two very different types of artists, who just happened to explore each other's bodies for a brief romantic moment in the '70's.

I completely agree with you. I don't think it would have ended in 2004 if he hadn't had the heart attack but that necessitated a lengthy break and I guess he looked at what he would be going back to and made the wise decision to bow out with dignity. I loved Bowie from Hunky Dory onwards, i.e. a long time, so it's not that I wanted him to retire as such but I can see that it was the right thing for the circumstances. He has a young daughter and realised where he priorities lay. Well done, David. He left us with a great body of work though a DVD of the full Diamond Dogs show would complete things nicely.

Latest pictures I could find of him from 2010.





Did he make a speech here?

Some of his archive material would be nice.

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Some of his archive material would be nice.

Most of the 70s stuff got added to various "special edition" CDs down the years.

A Beatles type Anthology would be good (same for the Stones).

You guys need to check out this site.

On Station to Station (a crazy genius album)...

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So by the time he wrote “Station to Station,” mainly in the studio, Bowie’s mind was like a swath of exposed film in a camera whose shutter was stuck open.

[bowiesongs.wordpress.com]

Who else was writing about Kether and Malkuth?

And then there was "Wild is the wind".

I am sure loads of live recordings exist

This is my favourite song off the album. Really swings.