Every time an interviewer would question his sexuality or ask if it was a publicity stunt he would always say something along the lines of “I’ve answered this question before” or “what did I say in 1972?” Which I really respect
Me too. There’s so much emphasis on sexual orientation and skin color these days it’s like nobody can be defined by the thousand other intricacies that make them unique.
@@RC-no8ef not that race and sexual orientation don’t play a large part in how people are seen and how they define themselves within society though. People don’t exist in a vacuum but they’re not solely statistical factors
Almost 5 years since he left us, but it seems like he's still here, esp when I watch these videos. He certainly left a legacy and I'll just bet he was waiting to explore the next world. He'd achieved all he ever wanted and he was ready to move on. Still, it's sad for those of us who miss him.
I've been watching some of these old interviews and musing if he might reincarnate. Then i realized he was much too evolved to need to come back! Brilliant mind and spirit. Miss him a lot.
Hardly. Conversation is a two way thing. He always dominates. That's nerves and insecurity. Creating a fake impression of intellect. He was not very academic.
@@steffanhoffmann Lmao what? It wouldn't really be an interview if the interviewee didn't "dominate" the conversation. Also, he is well-known to have been a very avid reader and there is no question that he was an incredibly articulate person.
Great interview. The interviewer threw in compliments which are always nice to hear. They opened him up, relaxed and then Bowie was more easier with difficult questions. Highly enjoyable!
I was so lucky to grow up during his time. And SO goddamn lucky to see him in Dublin in 2003 (the one that’s on the DVD). I’ve never cried for a celebrity/person I don’t know. But I cried and held my kids when Bowie died. 1:38 “rock n roll stars like you…” omg he was so much more than that.
This is the purest interview of David Bowie I've ever seen. Magnitude of philosophies and inner look of this man, almost distracts me from the fact that he was a musician and an icon. He could be anything and he was everything. I'm glad we will be experiencing what he left for eternity.
In most of Bowie’s interviews, he is clearly the smarter one. This dude is kind of hitting some soft spots and David is trying to keep his cool. Some people understand that these artists are not the ones in control as Hollywood likes to make it appear.
I agree with everything you said. You are obviously a very insightful and flexible person which I think is required in any relationship even if it is with rockstar rockstar, that honesty and you shared that. That is fantastic! Thank you
maybe cause there is nobody who paid for it, that it will be paid. It's a shame that they don't play anything of his last album. That talks alot what to think about it.
Maybe like John Lennon, David decides he would never go back to london and the same for john his life was in new york and i miss david even now five years on and will remember what a kind and generous man david was like my adopted dad terry and even though i never met david bowie (Jones) i knew him and respected that he stood up for what he believed in and is to be admired for that! Peter from Southport in the north of england
Why? It has not affected his skin or looks, he seems very happy. It protects against covid, if he was still around. It promotes contemplation. In fact, with all due respect, we do not have the right to say ANYTHING about what he should or should not do in terms of habits - it is what he does to do what he does. He is an artist. If he drinks a bottle of vodka a day, that 's what he needs. And, he has amazing hair for a 50 year old.. Hence, we should copy him
@@Jamie-js3qw Perhaps because smoking is tied to cancer, and not only lung cancer? And no, we should not copy self-destructive behaviour and there is nothing disrespectful in pointing it out.
How could smoking protect against Covid!?Covid is a virus not bacteria. It's dead already. Then smokers touch their mouths more frequently. The damage to lungs caused by smoking is well known; and coronovirus kills by effecting the lungs. Being a smoker would surely increase the chance of fatality if you got that virus
I agree that I appreciate what interviewers must want to ask and the way that they need to go about it delicately. Not delicate as in pandering about and haunting their “ subject”... The balance of having good manners and still remaining oneself, if that person is not completely refined I would think that person should be embraced because there should not be a. A literal. At the end of anyone statement when they’re just doing their best to get through an interview and back into there cozy chaotic normal lives, the ones without eyes and mouth pressing them for answers.💌
Yes, sorry for not adding anything substantial to the conversation - I just thought it wasn't easy to catch that reference, so I was happy someone else did.
David Robert Jones (Londres, 8 de enero de 1947-Nueva York, 10 de enero de 2016),[6][7] más conocido por su nombre artístico David Bowie (AFI: [ˈboʊ.iː]),[8] fue un músico y compositor británico de rock, quien ejerció a su vez como actor, productor discográfico, arreglista y diseñador gráfico. Figura importante de la música popular durante casi cinco décadas. Bowie es considerado un innovador, en particular por sus trabajos de la década de 1970 y por su peculiar voz, además de la profundidad intelectual de su obra.[9][10]
Such a handsome man especially after he had work done on his teeth which were crooked earlier on in his career. He was so dynamic on stage. Pity the cancer got him.
It's interesting how he seems really uncomfortable talking about his own sexuality, compared to other topics in this interview like race and his brother's suicide. In other interviews from the 90s he seems equally uncomfortable when asked about his sexuality and he tends to send very mixed messages on the topic. It's weird because he's otherwise so eloquent and expressive in this interview.
I think it is because they are trying to pigeon hole him, categorize him, label him and he doesn't like to commit to an answer because for him maybe it is always changing, but it could be that he doesn't like how personal the question is and struggles to give away everything about himself.
In addition to Andy C's comment, I think that it is natural for younger people to be a lot more open about sexuality (especially since that era), but as people get older and mature it just becomes less of a "raging" topic to focus on... I see younger folks who are figuring out sexuality to be a lot more interested in discussing it, but by your 40s-50s it is pretty old news. I imagine most would rather have sex-life be part of their private-life.
@@user-uu2cj9ct3j Oh yes, I can certainly imagine why Bowie would be tired of answering the question by the 90s, especially given that he was now in a committed relationship. But I do kind of suspect though that part of the reason he started identifying as straight was due to the AIDS crisis of the 80s and the resulting homophobia and biphobia it led to, and there was an interview in 2002 where he implied that was the case. But of course he was clearly a very private person as well.
@@etanaedelman9011 Well, being in a hetero relationship doesn't necessarily mean you identify as straight, it just means you are in a straight relationship. As someone who is bi-sexual, I can say that one of the challenges is that people think you are just uncertain, and trying to choose between *being* heterosexual or homosexual. Once you are in a committed relationship though, it isn't so much choosing a side as choosing a person. Discussion about one's sexual attraction is pretty awkward in this situation, because once you've already chosen your significant other.... orientation really just doesn't matter. I don't think most reporters would ask someone who always identified as straight about their previous sex life once they are happily married, so I think the question itself is also just a bit inappropriate to be honest. You could definitely be right though. Heck, my parents are pretty anti-LGBTQ, so they aren't even aware of my orientation. Straight relationships for bi people are definitely the "safer" option, per se.
Jagger ,Bowie and many others would like to erase their gay past ,ha but unfortunately for them we all know about it ,they should just own it ,no big deal.
I really david bowie lou reed and i miss my adopted dad terence william hardy and how he got vascular dementia and how his life should always be celebrated and life is precise and we need to do good for people and help the elderly and because of this where david and lou lived in new york has a real connection to how i feel in myself and can not wait to go there when physically possible and like david i lost people like john lennon lost his mum in that fateful day when the lord decided her life would end and i think that haunted john for the whole of his life and that is also why david lived in new york not surrey because he probably felt like john he could get a better life for wife and kids in new york! Peter from southport, north of england
In the sixties change was so necessary, the old values had to be rethought. Religion being one of them, and most young men were having the same feeling: they were afraid they would not get older than Jesus.
@@courtnisaizon4546 It's like watching Norm Macdonald get interviewed, you can see the gears turning, always trying to find the funniest way to turn a subject or situation.
@@whiteduke523 He stopped smoking when Iman became pregnant with their daughter in the early noughties. He smoked all way though his Glastonbury headlining gig in 2000.
Bowie is a classy guy very well spoken and extremely bright.
Extraordinarily bright. Sadly, he is no more
Just a ham actor mate.
He was always so generous with his honesty and frankness. Such a gift to the world.
True capricorn, thats an aspect i love about them straight shooter with their words
الله اكبر
Bowie's reflections on his life are so honest & sincere. Blessings.
What rubbish
Serial liar.
Thus what did I say in 1972 comment
so not full of himself, maybe even shy....very endearing. He was intelligent and an intellectual.
To the American mind perhaps
Am a Brit! @@steffanhoffmann
He WAS his music. He WAS whatever he was doing! So real and honest with himself.
Every time an interviewer would question his sexuality or ask if it was a publicity stunt he would always say something along the lines of “I’ve answered this question before” or “what did I say in 1972?” Which I really respect
Me too. There’s so much emphasis on sexual orientation and skin color these days it’s like nobody can be defined by the thousand other intricacies that make them unique.
@@RC-no8ef not that race and sexual orientation don’t play a large part in how people are seen and how they define themselves within society though. People don’t exist in a vacuum but they’re not solely statistical factors
A sign of a liar many psychologists would say
@@steffanhoffmann or someone who’s tired of answering the same question for 50 years haha
@@steffanhoffmannhe wasnt a liar, he was a performer. Big difference.
What a beautiful man, may he rest in peace
i could listen to his voice forever and never get bored
I like this interviewer; he asks some very thought provoking questions. Great video
I think he ls some
Sweet kind man
He was so intelligent and beautiful, a pure genius
Almost 5 years since he left us, but it seems like he's still here, esp when I watch these videos.
He certainly left a legacy and I'll just bet he was waiting to explore the next world. He'd achieved all he ever wanted and he was ready to move on. Still, it's sad for those of us who miss him.
I love his honest countenance and humility. He's a lovely Man-- a Man of his word not afraid to be himself .
You must be joking he was scared shitttless.
Seeking alternative methods even.
@@maryingolfsrud937Rubbish look how many musical masks he wore. That tells lots about his split personality etc
he’s so incredible handsome
Make-up and botox.
The week he died he couldn't use it anymore
Beautiful inside and out.
Absolutely. What a wonderful interviewee. He's so lucid. Dealt with the rather prurient 'bisexuality' question very gracefully.
“ Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” - Leonardo da Vinci.
Nothing can be truly understood.
He was incredible man with an incredible soul. I miss him so much
I've been watching some of these old interviews and musing if he might reincarnate. Then i realized he was much too evolved to need to come back! Brilliant mind and spirit. Miss him a lot.
I agree. Much too evolved to come back. This was his last go round. 🙏🏽
I swear david bowie was actually born 200 years from now and went back just for fun.
😂❤🔥💥
I concur.
What bloody nonsense.
Half the planet will probably have destroyed itself by then and we will have big Space X colonies on Mars or something.
Errm, no.
A beautiful and intelligent person in and out.
Good gracious, this man was very, very handsome. And he could sing the notes off the page!
David was a true Renaissance Man
What an artist, brilliant observations, great conversationalist
Hardly.
Conversation is a two way thing.
He always dominates.
That's nerves and insecurity.
Creating a fake impression of intellect.
He was not very academic.
@@steffanhoffmann Lmao what? It wouldn't really be an interview if the interviewee didn't "dominate" the conversation. Also, he is well-known to have been a very avid reader and there is no question that he was an incredibly articulate person.
Great interview. I'm particularly impressed by his answer at 12:35 - I've never thought of humility that way but he's absolutely right.
Agreed
Great interview. The interviewer threw in compliments which are always nice to hear. They opened him up, relaxed and then Bowie was more easier with difficult questions. Highly enjoyable!
Ele era um homem fora do vulgar! Adoro esta entrevista❤🎉
I think David Bowie is also looking down and praying for this world good man great life ups and downs but caring
This actually, is a BRILLIANT interview - can't believe I've not seen it before...
Fucking hell! I miss Bowie.
7:48 The people in the business..He cracks me up...very funny
This is one of the very best interviews with the man, really direct answers. Thanks for uploading!
Are you from Iran?
@@frankb3467 No. But Happy St. Zavid's Day!
I was so lucky to grow up during his time. And SO goddamn lucky to see him in Dublin in 2003 (the one that’s on the DVD). I’ve never cried for a celebrity/person I don’t know. But I cried and held my kids when Bowie died. 1:38 “rock n roll stars like you…” omg he was so much more than that.
Love his sense of humor.
This is the purest interview of David Bowie I've ever seen. Magnitude of philosophies and inner look of this man, almost distracts me from the fact that he was a musician and an icon. He could be anything and he was everything. I'm glad we will be experiencing what he left for eternity.
Such a legacy he left us all…so grateful❤
hes so pretty
This is a very good interview.
Bowie starts answering many questions even before the interviewer finishes formulating them )
Bowie around this period, I don't think any woman in history could resist
Great interview
What a great artist, what a great person. So much inspiration 🌹
He was a gem.
thank you for uploading
In most of Bowie’s interviews, he is clearly the smarter one. This dude is kind of hitting some soft spots and David is trying to keep his cool. Some people understand that these artists are not the ones in control as Hollywood likes to make it appear.
He was clearly way smarter than this interviewer too
I was a Bowie freak in the early 70s. He transformed my life in a very special way i don't get it why they don't play his early stuff on the radio..😐
I agree with everything you said. You are obviously a very insightful and flexible person which I think is required in any relationship even if it is with rockstar rockstar, that honesty and you shared that. That is fantastic! Thank you
maybe cause there is nobody who paid for it, that it will be paid. It's a shame that they don't play anything of his last album. That talks alot what to think about it.
Oh he's doing quite well on Spotify. Which isn't the same but it's a good thing cause the kids are listening to him.
Width of a Circle
lovely
Oh, I thought that was Martin Clunes interviewing him till he mentioned Norway
Hadn't thought of that but yes, the resemblance is striking. Starmen Behaving Badly?
Maybe like John Lennon, David decides he would never go back to london and the same for john his life was in new york and i miss david even now five years on and will remember what a kind and generous man david was like my adopted dad terry and even though i never met david bowie (Jones) i knew him and respected that he stood up for what he believed in and is to be admired for that! Peter from Southport in the north of england
Why can I only like this video once?
Oh hey, looks, it's the Heroes cover art at 12:10. Also, damn it, David, stop smoking.
Why? It has not affected his skin or looks, he seems very happy. It protects against covid, if he was still around. It promotes contemplation. In fact, with all due respect, we do not have the right to say ANYTHING about what he should or should not do in terms of habits - it is what he does to do what he does. He is an artist. If he drinks a bottle of vodka a day, that 's what he needs. And, he has amazing hair for a 50 year old.. Hence, we should copy him
@@Jamie-js3qw Perhaps because smoking is tied to cancer, and not only lung cancer? And no, we should not copy self-destructive behaviour and there is nothing disrespectful in pointing it out.
How could smoking protect against Covid!?Covid is a virus not bacteria. It's dead already.
Then smokers touch their mouths more frequently. The damage to lungs caused by smoking is well known; and coronovirus kills by effecting the lungs. Being a smoker would surely increase the chance of fatality if you got that virus
@@Jamie-js3qw Smoking is what killed him fool.
Amo esse homem para sempre
Great inspiration
Thanks man
Nice Alien Man. R.I.P.
it would be his 77th birthday tomorrow
I agree that I appreciate what interviewers must want to ask and the way that they need to go about it delicately. Not delicate as in pandering about and haunting their “ subject”... The balance of having good manners and still remaining oneself, if that person is not completely refined I would think that person should be embraced because there should not be a. A literal. At the end of anyone statement when they’re just doing their best to get through an interview and back into there cozy chaotic normal lives, the ones without eyes and mouth pressing them for answers.💌
..I inhale...' lol people forget how cheeky and damned witty the man could be.
Yes, that was so funny and clever as well
@@jameskubik8804 which is the definition of wit, is it not?! ;)
Yes, sorry for not adding anything substantial to the conversation - I just thought it wasn't easy to catch that reference, so I was happy someone else did.
@@jameskubik8804 From what I have read since, Clinton loved to inhale!! Only it wasn't pot smoke he is rumoured to have breathed in, shall we say!
David Robert Jones (Londres, 8 de enero de 1947-Nueva York, 10 de enero de 2016),[6][7] más conocido por su nombre artístico David Bowie (AFI: [ˈboʊ.iː]),[8] fue un músico y compositor británico de rock, quien ejerció a su vez como actor, productor discográfico, arreglista y diseñador gráfico. Figura importante de la música popular durante casi cinco décadas. Bowie es considerado un innovador, en particular por sus trabajos de la década de 1970 y por su peculiar voz, además de la profundidad intelectual de su obra.[9][10]
RIP
Did you notice how he turned analyst with the interviewer at one point?
The Star never sleeping
Such a handsome man especially after he had work done on his teeth which were crooked earlier on in his career. He was so dynamic on stage. Pity the cancer got him.
I adored his original teeth and smile!!! But even after he did “fix” them he was still a beautiful man!!!
it's happening outside .
It's interesting how he seems really uncomfortable talking about his own sexuality, compared to other topics in this interview like race and his brother's suicide. In other interviews from the 90s he seems equally uncomfortable when asked about his sexuality and he tends to send very mixed messages on the topic. It's weird because he's otherwise so eloquent and expressive in this interview.
I think it is because they are trying to pigeon hole him, categorize him, label him and he doesn't like to commit to an answer because for him maybe it is always changing, but it could be that he doesn't like how personal the question is and struggles to give away everything about himself.
In addition to Andy C's comment, I think that it is natural for younger people to be a lot more open about sexuality (especially since that era), but as people get older and mature it just becomes less of a "raging" topic to focus on... I see younger folks who are figuring out sexuality to be a lot more interested in discussing it, but by your 40s-50s it is pretty old news. I imagine most would rather have sex-life be part of their private-life.
@@user-uu2cj9ct3j Oh yes, I can certainly imagine why Bowie would be tired of answering the question by the 90s, especially given that he was now in a committed relationship. But I do kind of suspect though that part of the reason he started identifying as straight was due to the AIDS crisis of the 80s and the resulting homophobia and biphobia it led to, and there was an interview in 2002 where he implied that was the case. But of course he was clearly a very private person as well.
@@etanaedelman9011 Well, being in a hetero relationship doesn't necessarily mean you identify as straight, it just means you are in a straight relationship. As someone who is bi-sexual, I can say that one of the challenges is that people think you are just uncertain, and trying to choose between *being* heterosexual or homosexual.
Once you are in a committed relationship though, it isn't so much choosing a side as choosing a person. Discussion about one's sexual attraction is pretty awkward in this situation, because once you've already chosen your significant other.... orientation really just doesn't matter. I don't think most reporters would ask someone who always identified as straight about their previous sex life once they are happily married, so I think the question itself is also just a bit inappropriate to be honest.
You could definitely be right though. Heck, my parents are pretty anti-LGBTQ, so they aren't even aware of my orientation. Straight relationships for bi people are definitely the "safer" option, per se.
Jagger ,Bowie and many others would like to erase their gay past ,ha but unfortunately for them we all know about it ,they should just own it ,no big deal.
Bella intervista...
His biggest shock album of all was a mere 1.5 years away from this interview! Ha!
I feel Outside is a bit overrated
@@ivankaramasovEarthling was superior 😄😎
David Robert Bowie
08 de enero de 1947
10 de enero de 2016
76 años
69 años
07 años
Jump, they say..
what album were they discussing towards the end of the interview?
Creo, que no dejó de fumar totalmente, nunca ...
I really david bowie lou reed and i miss my adopted dad terence william hardy and how he got vascular dementia and how his life should always be celebrated and life is precise and we need to do good for people and help the elderly and because of this where david and lou lived in new york has a real connection to how i feel in myself and can not wait to go there when physically possible and like david i lost people like john lennon lost his mum in that fateful day when the lord decided her life would end and i think that haunted john for the whole of his life and that is also why david lived in new york not surrey because he probably felt like john he could get a better life for wife and kids in new york! Peter from southport, north of england
Punctuation?
Who is the Norwegian painter they are referring to that Bowie likes? I didn't quite catch the name. Thank you :)
Nerdrum
In the sixties change was so necessary, the old values had to be rethought. Religion being one of them, and most young men were having the same feeling: they were afraid they would not get older than Jesus.
Did you see co co open the door to wind up the interview
Does anyone know the name of the interviewer?
It is Petter Nome. Norwegian journalist. Not the worst, decent interview
Minneapolis riots - May 2020: "Black Tie, White Noise"
Much as I ADORE Bowie - and I do - that's a pretty horrendous sweater!!! :D
Mr. Rogers was not his best look.
He thinks like a comedian.
He does!
@@courtnisaizon4546 It's like watching Norm Macdonald get interviewed, you can see the gears turning, always trying to find the funniest way to turn a subject or situation.
Cinm
Bowie became more physically attractive with age. Especially when he had his teeth fixed
Allah great
cigs killed him u know.....he too weak to give them up, alas...yet he seems soo 'strong willed'
teenie beenie he stopped quite a while before I think
He stopped around 1999 never drank alcohol or smoked cigarets again. It killed him probably but he gave it up
@@whiteduke523 He stopped smoking when Iman became pregnant with their daughter in the early noughties. He smoked all way though his Glastonbury headlining gig in 2000.
Bowie's reflections on his life are so honest & sincere. Blessings.