Yes, but...it's a jolt. I remember The Midnight Special. The first "music video" I ever saw was "Jean Genie". The music of my formative years was sung by this skinny English guy with a carrot red toilet brush hairdo. Who at certain angles was pretty damned hot.
I've lost track of the number of groups I've come to like after they've broken up for good or their lead singer/creative force died. This goes along with my not getting into TV shows until they're cancelled/over, such as Buffy.
...and probably the most creative musical artist alive -- others follow in his footsteps and create waves of new categories while he's running off to start something else.
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Funny--Plant is the Eternal Hippie to me. Maybe I don't put them in the same category because I'm not a big Plant fan, but Bowie will always have it all over him, imho.
Although apparently he's a copycat. Mick Jagger was quoted as saying "Don't wear a new pair of shoes around him."
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Okay -- I *think* it was Plant. Who was the other rock singer who wore the great suits in his videos? Died hysterically young a couple of years ago. Just having breakfast with his longtime girlfriend and keeled over. Now I can't remember one of his big songs...lights on but no one's home....
Bowie and he would trade off every other year for "best dressed rocker".
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Like I said, it's a jolt.
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Did we need to know this? ARGGHHH!
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It just seems wrong, somehow, that the Goblin King is getting older. (Unlike Mick Jagger, who has looked like a piece of shrunken leather for years.)
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With Robert Plant gone, he's the unchallenged Style King...
Re: With Robert Plant gone, he's the unchallenged Style King...
Funny--Plant is the Eternal Hippie to me. Maybe I don't put them in the same category because I'm not a big Plant fan, but Bowie will always have it all over him, imho.
Although apparently he's a copycat. Mick Jagger was quoted as saying "Don't wear a new pair of shoes around him."
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Bowie and he would trade off every other year for "best dressed rocker".
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I really liked him, but he aged so fast.
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Yes -- his genes or hard living did tell more in his face, sort of like Rod Stewart.
Why can't they age like Tony Bennett?! ;^)