
(Elvert Barnes)
(Elvert Barnes)
DAVID BOWIE has been secretly cremated, according to the DAILY MIRROR, reportedly because he didn't want a public memorial or service. I find ZIGGY STARDUST's musings on MARS more believable than anything first reported in the DAILY MIRROR. But either way, the message to let BOWIE's music speak for itself is probably a good idea after three days and 1.5 billion or so words of public mourning, much of it moving, beautiful and very, very welcome. Some final strands of information from yesterday: He thought he had a little more time and had started working on yet another album, producer TONY VISCONTI tells ROLLING STONE. NED RAGGETT attempts to piece together BOWIE's final couple years of musicmaking with a mix of detective work, speculation and wonder. The WASHINGTON POST's GEOFF EDGERS writes about the history of making art while dying, and SLATE's CARL WILSON sets out to decode the monumental swan song "BLACKSTAR"... This is 1.5 billion levels of weird: Ticketing giant TICKETMASTER publicly fighting ADELE on her rules for selling her own tickets, because TICKETMASTER, of course, is in the business of not only selling tickets, but also reselling them... RIP GIORGIO GOMELSKY and BRETT SMILEY.