RIP David Bowie: Rock’s Only Genius

I’d always thought that if David Bowie had a spiritual home town in the UK it would be Brighton. He only played here twice, both times during the hectic Ziggy Stardust period – he landed at Brighton Dome on 14^th February 1972 and 23^rd May 1973. Brighton is the place in the UK that seems to be about the closest you’ll get to what Bowie stood for – fluidity, tolerance, eclecticism, quirkiness, hedonism, iconoclasm. So I’ve been surprised by the apparent lack of visible reaction to his death. Maybe it’s the youth of the population? Maybe you had to have been there - the 70s – to really get what he meant. Maybe we take it all for granted nowadays. Anyhow, here’s the only tribute I have spotted, in a bookshop window in the North Laine. And here’s a (not very good) photo I took at the Station to Station gig at Wembley. Post-Ziggy, but equally memorable. David Bowie: Brixton, 8.1.1947 to New York, 10.1.2016. The Thin White Duke has gone but he will not be forgotten.