The 66-year-old singer received a stunning 48.5% of votes, almost quadrupling the support for the first runner-up, Elizabeth I. Bowie was nominated for the prize by Red or Dead designer Wayne Hemingway, who described leaving a 1973 David Bowie gig "utterly blown away by [his] music and style (and already planning a change of hair colour)".
Waiting for the dogs to dawdle in from the garden, I picked up a volume of A La Recherche and was utterly blown away by the description of a party where the Duke of Guermantes is distributing varying degrees of largesse, his outstretched hand swimming through the room like a "shark fin".
Two years ago he claimed the prospect of the referendum would damage investment in Scotland, claims which have been utterly blown apart by our great success in attracting inward investment, and today the Chancellor was forced to acknowledge the success of the Scottish economy.
Leo Laporte saw it, though, and was so utterly blown away by it that he got the creative team who created it on for an interview.
"We're absolutely and utterly blown away by winning Pitch@Palace Global 2.0 - I'm just a surfer from Australia, so as you can imagine, it's incredible for us to have this opportunity to meet such a calibre of people!," said Nev Hyman, founder and chairman of NevHouse.
I recall watching my first 25 Ta Life show as a youth and being utterly blown away by the sheer power of the entire experience.
Northampton Town caretaker manager Tim Flowers tells BBC Radio Northampton: "We were completely and utterly blown within 17 minutes - run over the top of by a team that's bottom of the table.
And I had my mind utterly blown.
Theatre Recently I saw the musical, 'La Cage Aux Folles' at the Playhouse Theatre and was completely and utterly blown away.
Recently I saw the musical, 'La Cage Aux Folles' at the Playhouse Theatre and was completely and utterly blown away.
