"THE STARS LOOK VERY DIFFERENT TODAY"

I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT A SHOCK IT WAS TO LEARN OF DAVID BOWIE'S DEATH.  

My mother has always been a huge Bowie fan so I pretty much grew up listening to his music since I was the size of a little bitty alien.  "THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS" remains one of my top 10 favourite albums.  And Bowie himself has proved to be a major formative influence in my life.  He famously was a chameleon and strove to be a leader and not a follower; to head in directions that were least expected.  Robert Frost's "road less travelled".  Along the way he's managed to create some phenomenal music.  As a woefully inadequate tribute, I thought I'd list my top 10 favourite Bowie songs.  Now, this is a particularly impossible and painful task -- to pick only 10 -- but I've taken my protein pills and put my helmet on.  So here goes . . .

• 10.  MODERN LOVE
• 9.   PLEASE MR. GRAVEDIGGER
• 8.   THIS IS NOT AMERICA
• 7.   LADY STARDUST
• 6.   FIVE YEARS
• 5.   QUEEN BITCH
• 4.   HEROES
• 3.   SPACE ODDITY
• 2.   ASHES TO ASHES
• 1.   LIFE ON MARS

LIFTOFF!

All I can say is that the world just got a lot less interesting.