On Bowie

Bowie listened to Kendrick and got an idea for a different way he could approach music. He still wasn’t finished learning

They fell in love at a time when he was wiped out as a musician, and her love gave him his music back, which gave Bowie back to the rest of us

In “Blackstar,” he sings the key line: “At the center of it all, at the center of it all, your eyes.”

as he sings about returning to outer space, the place he always goes to ponder basic Bowie concerns like love and death and the terror of knowing what this world is about

Bowie was taking me to the church on time, one more time

Like all his great songs of his final decades, it’s about how weird it feels to be in love for (and with) the rest of your life

He made his last high-profile concert appearance in May 2006, at a Royal Albert Hall show in honor of his old hero Syd Barrett. He joined Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour for two songs: the cross-dressing ditty “Arnold Layne” and a classic from The Wall, “Comfortably Numb

So I’m passing it on here. He was wearing fabulous shoes

She told him every last detail of her family life (“You’ve got to forgive, for your own sake,” that’s what he kept telling her) until the taxi reached SoHo

Hours was his first album in twenty-five years to miss the Top 40 of the American chart