A series of observational bullet points mixing sage wisdom and glib crassness. “Make the best of every moment” is another quote from you-know-who, though this attempt at verisimilitude can be verified, coming from an article in the March 2004 issue of Esquire entitled What I’ve Learned.
The tangled web he weaved Bowie’s lyricist Erland Cooper has clearly been trawling the web for inspiration. Too often people see death as the “end” of someone’s metaphorical “journey.”īut, at the risk of sounding super cheesy, with the endless Elvis-style repackaging of his core catalogue from Parlophone (the same record label Weller is currently signed to), it’s wrong to say that 10 January 2016 was the end of David Bowie. It’s especially important for music fans to remember in light of Bowie’s shock death. It’s not such a big deal because Weller paraphrases the words in a beautifully meditative way it’s impossible not to be moved by them.
I’m conscious that, from Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher to Alan Rickman (who spookily also died from cancer at 69, the same age as Bowie, four days after Bowie, and on Bowie Weller’s sixth birthday) the world wide web is tangled up, full of faked soundbites and philosophical quotations. The quote was much-repeated on the Internet after the Dame’s death, though I haven’t managed to source the interview from where it’s supposedly been extracted. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.” “The truth is of course is that there is no journey. Seasoned Bowie watchers will probably know that one of the most the most famous quotes attributed to their restless celebutante is:
Gee, I wonder who they could be named after. Among Weller’s many children, Bowie has a twin, John Paul and an older sister Dylan. Bowie Weller was born on 14 January 2012, making him a Capricorn just like The Dame.