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b'The sound of a text coming through woke me up at 2:15 in the morning\\u2026what was so important that it couldn\\u2019t wait until later?...it was either a wrong number\\u2014or it was bad news\\u2026\\n\\nIt was bad news\\u2026a friend in L.A. had just heard some awful information: David Bowie had died\\u2026\\n\\nThis wasn\\u2019t supposed to happen\\u2026Bowie was supposed to be one of the immortals, someone who would always be with us\\u2026.after all, he\\u2019d been making music through six decades\\u2026\\n\\nAnd yes, he\\u2019d been almost entirely out of sight for a decade, but we knew he was there\\u2026he released a surprise album in 2013 to much critical acclaim\\u2026and didn\\u2019t just release another acclaimed album just three days ago\\u2026how could be dead?....\\n\\nNo, there must be some mistake\\u2026one of internet hoaxes\\u2026but as soon as my computer booted up, I could see that it was all confirmed\\u2026David Bowie had suddenly, surprinslgy passed away\\u2026.and from cancer?...he had cancer?...\\n\\nAnd so began weeks of mourning all over the world\\u2026\\n\\nLook, I realize that if you\\u2019re of a certain age, Bowie might be as foreign to you as some big band leader of the 1930s\\u2026he was an old guy that belonged to another generation, like Elvis or John Lennon\\u2026you might even feel that way about Kurt Cobain\\u2026Michael Jackson dying\\u2014you get that\\u2014but this Bowie guy?...why should I care?...why are people making such a big deal about this?...isn\\u2019t this just another baby boomer sob story\\u2026\\n\\nNo, it\\u2019s not\\u2026 here\\u2019s a line I\\u2019ve repeated again and again since Bowie died:\\xa0 if you take any contemporary artist\\u2014and I don\\u2019t care which one\\u2014and you draw a line from that artist into the past, that line will inevitably, unavoidably intersect with bowie: something he did, something he touched, something he influenced\\u2026no matter where you start, all roads lead to Bowie\\u2026\\n\\nIf you are to understand anything about today\\u2019s music, you to acknowledge this\\u2026fans already know this\\u2026and if you\\u2019re still uncertain, don\\u2019t go anyway\\u2026I will explain why Bowie does and will always matter\\u2026\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'