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David Bowie was simply an all-round pop genius , writes James Walsh

SAUDADE isn’t an English word but I wish it was, so I am appropriating it for international socialism.

It describes a state of profound nostalgic, melancholic longing for something or someone that one loves but is forever gone — or didn’t exist in the first place.

There has been a lot of it about over the past few weeks, largely in the context of chameleon entertainer and all-round pop genius David Bowie, whose artistic reaction to his own impending death was the match of his 1970s triumphs.

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