Has you all probably have heard by now, the renowned pop musician and singer David Bowie has died today, at the age of 69. :(
This has been
all over the news today, on TV and on the radio (I was listening to my MP3 Player whilst working, and nearly every station was saying something about it).
Nearly everyone agrees that he is now regarded as being one of the biggest and influential musicians in the history of 20th centaury music, and I'm amazed at the sheer volume of sincerity and condolences from so many people all the across the whole world, such was the impact his music seems to have had on modern society.
I think one of the best comments I heard was from a TV reporter, who said that, like the deaths of JFK, Elvis Presley and Princess Diana, this is one of those Where-were-you-when-you-first-heard-the-news?-moments in history. :(
But watching/listening to the news I did learn to rather amazing facts about him.
Firstly, the video he made to accompany the 1981 song Ashes to Ashes, which featured scenes of him walking along a beach, was actually filmed near Hastings.
(I know it's not technically in Kent, but it's close enough in that sense).
The other was that, back in the 1960's, he actually lived in a flat in Maidstone with his (then) bandmates, called The Manish Boys, and that they once performed in Mote Park!

Here's a picture of him at Mote Park with the Mannish Boys that I've found:
http://media.kentonline.co.uk/filerepository/archive/images2/PD1788965Solly%20TN%201.12_l.jpgI was
genuinely surprised to hear this, because I had
no idea that he had connections to Maidstone at all!
