The Review
TRIBUTES FOR ICONIC SINGER DAVID BOWIE
Published: January 12, 2016 3:00AM
TRIBUTES FOR BOWIE
Mick Jagger: “David was always an inspiration to me and a true original. He was wonderfully shameless in his work. We had so many good times together… He was my friend. I will never forget him.”
Bette Midler: “Bowie WAS The Man Who Fell to Earth. Curious, brilliant, enigmatic and sweet. We needed him and he appeared, changing our perceptions forever.”
Yoko Ono: “As John & I had very few friends, we felt David was as close as family. Sweet memories will stay with us forever.”
Yusuf Islam, also known as Cat Stevens: “He has left us for another world, beyond the darkness of this present one vividly so depicted in the shadows of his last video. I truly pray he’s welcomed to the light by his Maker in that great today, which has no tomorrow.”
Irish singer Hozier: “Unthinkable. The world has lost one of the most important artists and icons of our time. I was moved immeasurably by David Bowie. RIP.”
Astronaut Tim Peake aboard the International Space Station: “Saddened to hear David Bowie has lost his battle with cancer SEmD his music was an inspiration to many.”
Josh Groban: “He never seemed of this earth. Now he’s left it. He bent rules, gender, genres, and our minds. RIP David Bowie. One. Of. A. Kind.”
Former astronaut Chris Hadfield, who performed “Space Oddity” on the International Space Station in 2013: “Ashes to ashes, dust to stardust. Your brilliance inspired us all. Goodbye Starman.”
Paul McCartney: “His music played a very strong part in British musical history and I’m proud to think of the huge influence he has had on people all around the world.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron: “Genius is an over-used word but I think musically, creatively, artistically, David Bowie was a genius.
“For someone of my age he provided a lot of the soundtrack of our lives.”
