Originally posted by BelgianBono:I only knew hours later... Really touched by this.
For some reason it suddenly became very real Bono will leave us one day...
Originally posted by LikeASong:. Listening to Lazarus and seeing its videoclip is painful now...
He was exceptional even in the very last moment. Long live, genius.
David's death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now. We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of [comic characters] Pete and Dud.
Over the last few years – with him living in New York and me in London – our connection was by email. We signed off with invented names: some of his were 'mr showbiz', 'milton keynes', 'rhoda borrocks' and 'the duke of ear'.
I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot'. And it was signed 'Dawn'.
I realise now he was saying goodbye.