WORD, IT WOULD BE "COOL."
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>> Reporter: REBRITISH SINGER 
DAVID BOWIE WHO INFLUENCED 
GENERATIONS WITH HIS 
GROUNDBREAKING SOUND, DEAD AT 
AGE 69.
AFTER AN 18 MONTH BATTLE WITH 
CANCER.
BOWI
B
BOWIE'S PUBLICIST SAYING HE DIED
PEACEFULLY.
HIS SON SAYING VERY SAD TO SAY 
IT'S TRUE.
I'LL BE OFFLINE FOR A WHILE.
LOVE TO ALL.
HIS CAREER SPANNED OVER 40 
YEARS.
HE WAS BORN IN SOUND LONDON AS 
DAVID JONES.
BURSTING ON TO THE SCENE IN 1969
WITH THE SMASH HIT SPACE ODDITY.
AND LATER AS HIS ALTER EGO ZIGGY
STARDUST.
HIS FLAMBOYANT THEATRICS 
BECOMING A SIGNATURE HALLMARK.
HIS MUSIC A RALLY CRY FOR 
MISFITS EVERYWHERE.
IN 1996, HE WAS INDUCTED INTO 
THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 
AND AWARDED A GRAMMY LIFETIME 
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TEN YEARS 
LATER.
HIS LONG TIME WIFE, A STEADY 
FIXTURE BY HIS SIDE, BOWIE A 
MASTER OF REINVENTION, DIPPED IN
AND OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE, 
RELEASING HIS LATEST ALBUM JUST 
DAYS AGO ON HIS 69th BIRTHDAY, 
MUCH TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM.
THE ALBUM TOPPING CHARTS IN THE 
UK AND U.S.
HIGHLIGHTING HIS UNPARALLELED 
ABILITY
