EllyRox

I can remember sitting cross-legged on the floor of my then best friends attic, listening to LP’s on her parents record player. Among introducing me to Monty Python and George Carlin, we would sit on that floor and listen to David Bowie (David Jones) albums. I also inevitably heard David Bowie on the radio and saw him on MTV in my household growing up. My father, king geek among my circle, has always had eclectic music tastes, and fostered me to have the same, so of course I took to Bowie like a duck to water.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched Labyrinth. For all the puppets and creatures in the movie the things that have always stuck with me were Jareth the Goblin king and the music. ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ bizarre and oddly captivating, an early sci-fi cult classic. Velvet Goldmine, while not staring Bowie is undeniably based on him. If I were to go on and list everything the man has ever done, this would be a very long post, and wouldn’t do him justice.

Bowie consistently reinvented himself and his music, he has been a special hero to the weirdos and outcasts since the 1969. Generations have discovered and held dear his music, style and pop iconography. I’m no different. Most of us never got to meet or know him, but many of us love him because he understood us, somehow with a preternatural sense to make those who didn’t belong feel like we have a place in the world, or at least feel like it was Ok not to belong.

Today the world has lost a truly amazing artist, nothing anyone will write can fully describe his lasting impact.
I leave you with a few of my favorites from Mr. Jones.