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Death of David Bowie So there we have it: the death of David Bowie, trending in its now customary fashion along the volatile cardiac graphs that characterise Social Media. It’ll probably reach a peak over the next few days when the waves on the Cultural ECG monitor practically shoot off the screens. It’s been a long time coming. 69 years to be precise but it arrived with no less shock and awe than Aladdin Sane and Ziggy Stardust combined. Death of David Bowie Last night’s News 24 saw a solemn procession of talking heads grappling for the killer phrase most likely to preserve his genius (and their own careers) in amber, as if ‘nailing’ the man would somehow stop his inevitable slide from this world to the next. It didn’t, it won’t and the uplifting sense of profundity we’re all experiencing now will eventually give way to a bleak, unwelcoming loss. As trending subsides and press euphoria begins the sorry task of moving on, there will be those who wil...