Bowie tribute stamps announced

Subject: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 06:48 AM

Bowie stamps

It really is a marketing ploy. But it makes me uncomfortable, hero worship in a musical context is one thing but there has to be a sense of proportion.
What was his contribution to the world beyond music? And body art?

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 07:05 AM

Well we have a pic of the Queen on every bloody stamp issued for decades, not to speak of coins and banknotes, and she's no hero of mine. Give me Bowie any day!

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 09:33 AM

"What was his contribution to the world beyond music? And body art?"


.. well.. ermmm.. dare we ask that same question about any song and dance performer....???

.. or any actor, or fine artist.. ?? - for Bowie also made a mark in these creative cultural activities...

I've just been watching a documentary about the invention of the machine gun and it's devastating effect on the course of world history.
Maybe I should google if Mr Maxim also had a go at performing folk and parlour songs for his circle of acquaintances moral edification & amusement....????? 🙄




Now then, a list of notable world shaping individuals who were equally a dab hand at music...


errrmm.. Nero

errrmmm....????

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 10:02 AM

I have nothing against David Bowie, a very fine artist ! However if I were going to honour a musician with a stamp, it would be Kate Bush, a hugely influential artist and an inspiration for many female artists. She, like Bowie, was a true innovator but being a woman kept her from getting the recognition she deserved, I think. So why not a female artist ?

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 10:43 AM

Because she hasn't died yet?

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 10:46 AM

I don't think you have to be dead to be on a stamp, Do you ?

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 11:10 AM

Wsa just watching a report on the news reporting that the last surviving airman The Dam Busters raid has once again been passed over by the Honours List
Must be missing something!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 11:22 AM

He's probably one of the usual suspects, Jim. 😉

How about Victoria Wood.

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 11:28 AM

Mary Millington, Fiona Richmond, and similar notable British women pioneers from the 1970s... 😎


.. actually when all is said and done.. I can't remember when I last bought or used a stamp... definitely a few years ago....

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 12:18 PM

I buy stamps but I never see 'em. Reason? In our house it's "Oh, Steve, you haven't got a stamp I can borrow, have you?"

"Borrow." That's a bloody laugh is that!

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 12:32 PM

A member of close family died 4 years ago, that's when i discovered a massive pile of first day covers
that were collected every month [???] throughout the previous 10 years or more...

I'd forgot I still need to find out what to do with them..
last seeen in black bin bags blocking up part of a room in our house...

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: Reinhard
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 01:48 PM

So why not a female artist?

I have a stamp of piano accordion player Mairearad Green.

And while we're collecting musicians, I also have The Chieftains, The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and Altan on a stamp set.

Subject: RE: Bowie tribute stamps announced
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 05:22 PM

Irish stamp set

Thanks Reinhard, I have a concertina-playing friend who collects stamps, I'll tell her about this set