as a black person I was a big fan, the biggest thrill for me was to see him in Cincinnati during the station to station tour The Thin White Duke did not disappoint such a great concert he will be missed.
You should see the video when he was the first white person on soul train. It was the best video ever, even if he was stoned. Lol. I'm not racist and I'm glad he did so I could see variety in that show when I was born. Lol. I used to watch it all the time and I didn't know he he been on there til 2016.
As a testament to your enduring legacy, your wish has been granted. You did become a teacher....and your class room encompassed the world of creative, intellectual, multiplicity. The level and dimension of your artistic mentorship across the public cultural sphere, is simply staggering, by virtue of your unparalleled, and pioneering career trajectory. Your insatiable curiosity, aesthetic eclecticism, and prolific body of work will continue to influence and impact contemporary cultural literacy as we know it, for generations to follow. You were the last renaissance man standing...and how boldly and graciously you shattered the common disparity between intellect and character. I am so grateful and privileged to have lived during the Bowie era.
+Ineffable Oracular well said...he truly was / is a very real human being. I could listen to him forever as a life coach, he really had his act together with all his changes and such charisma he very well was a teacher in life! But in a classroom as a teacher he'd excel as he did in life with everything. His writings are so inspirational to me anyway and his curiosity with everything life has to offer. Yes he did quit smoking..... he just got dealt his card and he handled it on his terms with Blackstar. Bless that Starman for being a part of my life, i'm so happy he fell to earth during my time....and i saw him Live in the 70s and don't remember a thing....haaa he quotes he remembers nothing either .... love the man, he is so missed.
+Pam P So missed indeed...I hear you Pam. He's the only public figure that can entrance me with his charm and intellect and totally crack me up simultaneously with his self-deprecating humility and hilarious sense of humor....so missed indeed
+Karen Katz It's very possible….he might have contracted Hepatitis C,w which is very common in his age group, especially amongst people who indulged a lot, and is often associated with liver cancer-or he might have had a primary lung cancer from his smoking that spread to his liver. However, he must have had a wonderful constitution to come back in such a strong way after the 1970's.
What a sharp, funny, smart, witty, self-deprecating, self-aware, self-effacing, richly creative and expressive and tuned in man was he...RIP David Bowie
9:58 "I want it to be just like that until death strikes". So prescient, and I am happy that he got his wish. He was creating and full of ideas right up until it struck, and maintained that close family life too, all the things he was talking about here, nearly 20 years ago.
+lestrange I'm still so sad that he's gone, but it does my heart good to look back at these old interviews and see how many of the things Bowie wished for that he was able to accomplish in his life. In this interview he spoke so movingly about his relationships with his beloved family, and his ideals about artistic integrity and never shutting out new ideas, and his joy in sharing new ideas with other people. These were clearly his favorite things, and he had a life so full of them. In earlier interviews he said he hoped that his work would be meaningful to people, that he wanted to keep trying different things whether it meant losing fans or not, even specific things like he wanted to write a musical someday and he wanted to have an exhibition of paintings and he wanted to visit Indonesia. He did all of it. All his wishes came true.
It was said so many times about him that he got fed up hearing it. There is an interview of him saying that they always say that David Bowie has been through many ch-ch-ch-changes.
tears...he was such an inspiration on living life through ups and downs and all arounds....looney to be an artist - ahhh so understand in a good way - beautiful David Bowie is a legend.
Absolutely 💯 BEAUTIFUL BRILLIANT 👏, i had the pleasure of seeing you, in Ireland 🇮🇪, your concert's were out of this world. Rip, David BOWIE, Gone but never, FORGOTTEN, you still light up the skies at, NIGHT ❤😂
Thank you Sean for this. I've always enjoyed Charlie Roses interviews, as evidenced here with David. Relaxed, joking , at ease of what it was to be David Bowie... an artist. To new fans, welcome, explore... it's an interesting palate.. Lol.As with Prince, the best ' wake' is to listen to their output. If you'll excuse me, I'm off to feed the Diamond Dogs They miss their Master " This ain't Rock and Roll, this is ( you know the rest..)
fyi---This clip SEEMS to have been a TAVIS SMILEY show introduction of the Bowie/Charlie Rose interviews from 1996...and from 1998. I wonder if Charlie was unavailable to make the clip for the death announcement and the pulling together of these exerpted clips...? I 'm in NYC...used to see Boie in books sotres and record stores...ALL the time. Never acknowledged his celebirty...and ALWAYS gave him space. I was a long-time fan...especially in the NEW WAVE era.
+Glenn Leahey I'm not immune to your consultations, but this definitely ran on Charlie's show on PBS. I saw it and recorded it. Charlie was off duty that night. Tavis Smiley was one of several substitutes. Other guest hosts took care of politics and such. I'm happy folks are enjoying this clip. David Bowie was a major talent. I like how he and John Lennon teamed up and made good use of their fame on "Fame."
+Sean Daly Nice lyrical reference. Amazing to hear him so blatantly admit that after 1987, he thought he was writing crap, and writing for the audience. That kind of awareness is what made him a genius. This was just the intro to Tavis' show a couple of days after Bowie died. The clips were from Charlie Rose in the 90's.
+Glenn Leahey Your exactly why he probably chose to live in NYC. He had the freedom that he probably couldn't find anywhere else. I think John Lennon was of the same mind. ( Unfortunately, an asshole from outside New York sought him out.) I don't know if I could have resisted like you did. He is my favorite artist of all time. I probably would have been too awed to approach him-so, I would have left him alone for that reason. I think New Yorkers are so busy trying to survive in such and expensive place, they don't have time to worry about a celebrity in their midst. Anyway, that's my useless opinion.
He said that culture/art was irrational. That humans only needed to provide shelter and food. Anything else was extra. But I think that culture/art is what makes us human. It's the choices that we make that aren't necessary that determines us as individuals and as societies. If there is anything that lifts us above just being animals it is culture/art. And it has been with us even when we were at our most primitive. Humans think and create. We explore the unknown and manipulate our environment. We go beyond surviving. And that bit that is irrational makes all the difference. So celebrate it. Do something creative today. Get inspired. You don't need applause for it. Just do it because you can. Because you want to. Because you need to. Because you are human.
There are a few celebrities that are in what I call yhe UNCLE Class. Like a close family friend they are in your house or around so much they achieve that familiarity status. Robin Williams, Arnold, Tom Hanks, Elton John and of course David Bowie are def on that list. Never met him, but I know him.
Funny he always talks about how bad his late 80s "never let me down" era was so bad i genuinely like that album, even better than some of his other releases
I disagree with his estimate of culture as being "extra" or a "freebie", though I also think he might be injecting a little high sarcasm, which Rose eats up but doesn't quite realize...of course for an artist culture is EVERYTHING (and Bowie had JUST talked about "keeping up" with music and art)...Bowie CLEARLY wanted to run circles around Rose, and he did
aqui ele estava muito magro.o meu idolo desde os meus 12anos nunca aparecerá alguem como ele,o figado deu cabo dele como tambem matou muitos amigos meus aqui em portugal,eu tambem acabei de fazer um tratamento ao figado ,é uma morte lentta eu lamento que um homem como ele tenha passado por essa dor.!!for ever in my mind.R:I:P l.miss you.-um dos melhor musicos de sempre .
Charlie Rose is so nice, he can't think outside of his own reportorial literalism...he takes everything that Bowie says at face value because he assumes him to be a successful musician who has "gotten over" his past nonsense...and Bowie indirectly kind of laughs at him big time
the word Genius is so vastly overused, incorrectly used and abused ... bowie was just another pop star, and he wore different costumes at different times. i change clothes daily. i must be a genius. pfft! bowie was just another forgettable diva, like madonna, or some fashionista fruitcake i've seen smarter bees than bowie
nope. Bowie was a peacock, Bach.... now HE was a genius! Coltrane was a genius! Einstein was a Genius ! Klee et al were all geniuses. DaVinci was a genius. Socrates was a genius . You seriously think this little poseur was in that league? pop stars are like Scooby Doo cartoons. when you grow up, read books, expand your perspective and travel the world extensively , you will come to realize that disabusing the English language this way is embarrassing at best!
Bowie's poetry, the music he created, the revolutionary approach, his knowledge of literature, music, culture, art, and intellectual capacities are more than genious. Bowie's sophistication is reflected in his eyes, facial expression, diction, etc, etc. „When we were casting The Prestige, we had gotten very stuck on the character of Nikola Tesla. Tesla was this other-worldly, ahead-of-his-time figure, and at some point it occurred to me he was the original Man Who Fell to Earth. As someone who was the biggest Bowie fan in the world, once I made that connection, he seemed to be the only actor capable of playing the part. He had that requisite iconic status, and he was a figure as mysterious as Tesla needed to be. It took me a while to convince him, though-he turned down the part the first time. It was the only time I can ever remember trying again with an actor who passed on me. I petitioned to let me explain why he was the right actor for it. In total honesty, I told him if he didn’t agree to do the part, I had no idea where I would go from there. I would say I begged him.„ Christopher Nolan . Chao chao jealous boy!!!!!!!!!!!!
j en I am pretty sure Bowie read a lot more books than you will read in your lifetime. Check out the list of his 100 favorite books and see how many you have read.
Sometimes lately, David Bowie strikes an emotional cord in me when listening to him. He sounded so genuine when he talked about wanting to be a teacher. How he loved giving that "gift" to others, the greatest gift in his opinion. David has left an amazing legacy, and most importantly a reminder to live life on YOUR terms. Don't give a crap about what others think. Look like how you want, love who you love. Sure, he talked about his straying in the 1980s. But that just made him find himself again. Live life on your own terms, if you're lucky to be able to, because you never know when life is over. And who the hell wants to look back thinking "I wish I had..."? No one! Thank you David Bowie for reminding me of that!! I could even say that I love you for it. Wherever you are, black star.
+My Biz Thanks friend. I agree with you so much about: Live life on your own terms, if you're lucky to be able to, because you never know when life is over. thank you so much!
+My Biz He does come off as genuine and even self-deprecating to a point. A real human being! Go figure. Would have loved to have met the man as he is my favorite individual artist of all time. I saw the "Serous Moonlight" tour of which he toured off of Let's Dance. It was an absolutely stellar show. I saw him 4 times and that was the most comprehensive and best of the 4. He may have not been happy with that period but I believe he gained so many new fans from that tour. I had already been a fan since the early 70s and had seen him at smaller venues than the open stadiums of "Serous Moonlight", but that show was something else. He's the only celebrity in my life whose death affected me on a very emotional level. Even when John Lennon was shot, I didn't have the reaction I did when David died. Will miss him for sure.
He was fortunate to have had such happiness in his life, his wife, children, his music - he loved them all & it's such an amazing success to have had that kind of fortune. RIP
sad to c him smoking. i wonder if he had ever quit & if so, was it long before he was diagnosed w/cancer? or did he choose the patrick swayze way of denying it affected his chances of recovering? what i admire even more than his incredible musical talent is his relationship w/his wife. another paul & linda mccartney type of marriage. & his devotion to his family. great guy. i miss him.
+mjt11860 liver cancer is not really associated with cigarette smoking. tobacco probably did cause his heart disease, which he did survive. liver cancer can be associated with many things (like hepatitis C) or can just arise spontaneously. I'm an oncology nurse, by the way.
+mjt11860 Yes he quit after his daughter was born, because he didn't want to have to go outside to smoke all the time. And I am sure the heart attack made him want to take better care of himself.
Looking at the life of many celebrities and their stories. I know nothing much about their personal life...However, their work life (tempted to say world life..) Well, prince worked a 80 hour week. Is that unusual? No Oprah works 80 hours a week. Prince..40 hours spent on music, 40 hours spent on the business. according to people who knew him (read it or video.) Everyone can look at this, its all online... I dont see many people working 80 hour weeks and lasting long. looking at other professions. Oh fun music and dancing? :D (for 50 years, it just becomes another job. With world wide consequences if you fail too much. :D ) Lot of stress. Life young, die long. That is my motto. I like to last for my grandchildren at least. Career is not worth it. Even at that price. I would have loved to have BOWIE, PRINCE, LEMMY! Even if for only a decade more. :D I dont think it was the drugs, i think it was a long and hard life style lived in the public eye. (look at history, things have changed and are much softer.) Look at the beatles... I wish all these people could have been around longer, but they lived it, made the choices and left as happy looking as they came in. What more can you ask from ANYONE? Even if they dont live long enough to appreciate them fully? I dont know.
OH and living in hotels. Ever done that? :D Holy shit its not like home at all. Its much more like , sleeping with a family member :D ONe you dont know at all. But came with your wife...
I will always appreciate Bowie and the rest of the heros. Without them life would be much poorer and that is my only complaint of all that have died this year. And i hope to see them again, next reincarnation . Fuck yeah!
as a black person I was a big fan, the biggest thrill for me was to see him in Cincinnati during the station to station tour The Thin White Duke did not disappoint such a great concert he will be missed.
You should see the video when he was the first white person on soul train. It was the best video ever, even if he was stoned. Lol. I'm not racist and I'm glad he did so I could see variety in that show when I was born. Lol. I used to watch it all the time and I didn't know he he been on there til 2016.
Odd way to frame that...
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Maybe to You - but not for the person who wrote the comment.
To each their own...
You were a teacher, David...to many of us.
If he was a teacher to many then no wonder there's so many alienated retards walking the Earth.. :)
The Low album is a masterpiece.
Agreed, such a wonderful orange cover also.
As a testament to your enduring legacy, your wish has been granted. You did become a teacher....and your class room encompassed the world of creative, intellectual, multiplicity. The level and dimension of your artistic mentorship across the public cultural sphere, is simply staggering, by virtue of your unparalleled, and pioneering career trajectory. Your insatiable curiosity, aesthetic eclecticism, and prolific body of work will continue to influence and impact contemporary cultural literacy as we know it, for generations to follow. You were the last renaissance man standing...and how boldly and graciously you shattered the common disparity between intellect and character. I am so grateful and privileged to have lived during the Bowie era.
+Ineffable Oracular well said...he truly was / is a very real human being. I could listen to him forever as a life coach, he really had his act together with all his changes and such charisma he very well was a teacher in life! But in a classroom as a teacher he'd excel as he did in life with everything. His writings are so inspirational to me anyway and his curiosity with everything life has to offer. Yes he did quit smoking..... he just got dealt his card and he handled it on his terms with Blackstar. Bless that Starman for being a part of my life, i'm so happy he fell to earth during my time....and i saw him Live in the 70s and don't remember a thing....haaa he quotes he remembers nothing either .... love the man, he is so missed.
+Pam P So missed indeed...I hear you Pam. He's the only public figure that can entrance me with his charm and intellect and totally crack me up simultaneously with his self-deprecating humility and hilarious sense of humor....so missed indeed
I am grateful to have existed during the same time as this amazing time. We had Bowie!!!!
Kelly Schlegel yes we had Bowie, I adore your positivity on it !!! Damn he was great - is great!
I AGREE WITH THIS UP TO 1980..............
His wonderful voice, smile, wit and charm……what a great and sweet human being!
+Karen Katz he seems so happy here, and he had 18 more years!
not so bad after all…..RIP, sweet David.
+Karen Katz It's very possible….he might have contracted Hepatitis C,w which is very common in his age group, especially amongst people who indulged a lot, and is often associated with liver cancer-or he might have had a primary lung cancer from his smoking that spread to his liver. However, he must have had a wonderful constitution to come back in such a strong way after the 1970's.
AND ULTIMATELY.........ACTOR!!!
What a sharp, funny, smart, witty, self-deprecating, self-aware, self-effacing, richly creative and expressive and tuned in man was he...RIP David Bowie
+Jonny Ross totally agree!
ALSO EXTREMELY OVER RATED WHO PLAGIARISED EVERYBODY B4 THEY WERE FAMOUS AND CLAIMED IT AS HIS OWN.............
mij orrison Bowie borrowed as all great artists do. He made no secret of it and talked a lot about who inspired him.
Did you just click on this video to hate ? .. Internet troll.
@@mijorrison8769 overrated is the opinion of some shitty random internet spit outs
Decades ahead of his time. As a guitarist, people would ask me what my dream was. Always said that it was to tour with Bowie.
Such a contemplative and aware artist and wonderfully honest human being....RIP
9:58 "I want it to be just like that until death strikes". So prescient, and I am happy that he got his wish. He was creating and full of ideas right up until it struck, and maintained that close family life too, all the things he was talking about here, nearly 20 years ago.
+lestrange I'm still so sad that he's gone, but it does my heart good to look back at these old interviews and see how many of the things Bowie wished for that he was able to accomplish in his life. In this interview he spoke so movingly about his relationships with his beloved family, and his ideals about artistic integrity and never shutting out new ideas, and his joy in sharing new ideas with other people. These were clearly his favorite things, and he had a life so full of them. In earlier interviews he said he hoped that his work would be meaningful to people, that he wanted to keep trying different things whether it meant losing fans or not, even specific things like he wanted to write a musical someday and he wanted to have an exhibition of paintings and he wanted to visit Indonesia. He did all of it. All his wishes came true.
Yeah, but I hate it when that guy says "David Bowie DEAD at 69," like you didn't need to stress it, we feel the hurt already. Lol..
"I've ch-ch-ch-changed, Charlie." is a pretty legendary quote.
not really somebody probably said it to him and he remembered it!!
it is a song
It was said so many times about him that he got fed up hearing it. There is an interview of him saying that they always say that David Bowie has been through many ch-ch-ch-changes.
And Charlie Rose completely missed it.
he reminds of a nothing less than reincarnated Oscar Wilde
BEAUTIFUL MAN LOVED HIS MUSIC. SAD HE IS GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN ❤
Beautiful interview from David Bowie x
Still hurts...
David was such a lovely guy, down to earth with a great sense of humour.
He was amazing. Very powerful.
So cool that they closed the program with "Space Oddity" instead of Rose's normal theme music.
This man came from the stars. He is gone back.
;)
scuse, me im talking too much, miss bowie, one of my fav teachers of music..didnt know it till he was gone..
NONSENSE!!
A call for a uprising utoube channel .
RIP great man.
tears...he was such an inspiration on living life through ups and downs and all arounds....looney to be an artist - ahhh so understand in a good way - beautiful David Bowie is a legend.
Bowie,Was, Is and Always will be the Epitome'of Greatness'God Bless David' ...
Tellement modeste et plein d'humour sur lui même ! la classe !!!
Absolutely 💯 BEAUTIFUL BRILLIANT 👏, i had the pleasure of seeing you, in Ireland 🇮🇪, your concert's were out of this world. Rip, David BOWIE, Gone but never, FORGOTTEN, you still light up the skies at, NIGHT ❤😂
Thank you Sean for this. I've always enjoyed Charlie Roses interviews, as evidenced here with David. Relaxed, joking , at ease of what it was to be David Bowie... an artist. To new fans, welcome, explore... it's an interesting palate.. Lol.As with Prince, the best ' wake' is to listen to their output.
If you'll excuse me, I'm off to feed the Diamond Dogs
They miss their Master
" This ain't Rock and Roll, this is ( you know the rest..)
What an incredible man / RIP
Bowie left us with style, grace, and honor.
Rose, not so much.
He did it his way, with awareness
When I see "older Bowie" I always think..man, the guy would have an epic mustache!
fyi---This clip SEEMS to have been a TAVIS SMILEY show introduction of the Bowie/Charlie Rose interviews from 1996...and from 1998. I wonder if Charlie was unavailable to make the clip for the death announcement and the pulling together of these exerpted clips...? I 'm in NYC...used to see Boie in books sotres and record stores...ALL the time. Never acknowledged his celebirty...and ALWAYS gave him space. I was a long-time fan...especially in the NEW WAVE era.
+Glenn Leahey
I'm not immune to your consultations, but this definitely ran on Charlie's show on PBS. I saw it and recorded it. Charlie was off duty that night. Tavis Smiley was one of several substitutes. Other guest hosts took care of politics and such. I'm happy folks are enjoying this clip. David Bowie was a major talent. I like how he and John Lennon teamed up and made good use of their fame on "Fame."
+Sean Daly Nice lyrical reference. Amazing to hear him so blatantly admit that after 1987, he thought he was writing crap, and writing for the audience. That kind of awareness is what made him a genius.
This was just the intro to Tavis' show a couple of days after Bowie died. The clips were from Charlie Rose in the 90's.
+Patrick Quibodeaux Υes - but not after 1987, he said that 1987 was right in the middle of that period.
+Glenn Leahey Your exactly why he probably chose to live in NYC. He had the freedom that he probably couldn't find anywhere else. I think John Lennon was of the same mind. ( Unfortunately, an asshole from outside New York sought him out.) I don't know if I could have resisted like you did. He is my favorite artist of all time. I probably would have been too awed to approach him-so, I would have left him alone for that reason. I think New Yorkers are so busy trying to survive in such and expensive place, they don't have time to worry about a celebrity in their midst. Anyway, that's my useless opinion.
Wonderful!
brigada por esta entrevista .bowie mostra nos como a familia éo mais importante..sempre foi como um bom professor para mim.
He said that culture/art was irrational. That humans only needed to provide shelter and food. Anything else was extra. But I think that culture/art is what makes us human. It's the choices that we make that aren't necessary that determines us as individuals and as societies. If there is anything that lifts us above just being animals it is culture/art. And it has been with us even when we were at our most primitive. Humans think and create. We explore the unknown and manipulate our environment. We go beyond surviving. And that bit that is irrational makes all the difference. So celebrate it. Do something creative today. Get inspired. You don't need applause for it. Just do it because you can. Because you want to. Because you need to. Because you are human.
He said culture and art were irrational but that doesn't mean that they aren't real.
It struck!! Right at the end!
There are a few celebrities that are in what I call yhe UNCLE Class. Like a close family friend they are in your house or around so much they achieve that familiarity status. Robin Williams, Arnold, Tom Hanks, Elton John and of course David Bowie are def on that list. Never met him, but I know him.
+macruz1221 I totally get what you mean.
'Never met him, but I know him.'
kinda sounds like a 'Bowie lyric'
'don't it guv'...
Funny he always talks about how bad his late 80s "never let me down" era was so bad i genuinely like that album, even better than some of his other releases
Miss David so much.
wonderful chap x
The other, the stranger the outsider, the hungry, the man, wizard and alien.
Plus joker smoker!
Seeing David Bowie is like being in the presence of God
Especially now
01:40 onwards sounds like he's predicting the 'remix' culture so prevalent on UA-cam..
3:35 “...in the blending...”
I disagree with his estimate of culture as being "extra" or a "freebie", though I also think he might be injecting a little high sarcasm, which Rose eats up but doesn't quite realize...of course for an artist culture is EVERYTHING (and Bowie had JUST talked about "keeping up" with music and art)...Bowie CLEARLY wanted to run circles around Rose, and he did
YeeeeeHaaayyee Bowie and I have something in common YES We both have the attention spam of a grasshopper !yehhhaaaa
But you were a teacher my dear.
He's hilarious starting at 3:55, but as usual Charlie's trying to talk over him
sweet vid brah
Did that dude in the beginning just call David Bowie "boy" ?
No. Its how he says Bowie. His name is Tavis Smiley and had a talk show
aqui ele estava muito magro.o meu idolo desde os meus 12anos nunca aparecerá alguem como ele,o figado deu cabo dele como tambem matou muitos amigos meus aqui em portugal,eu tambem acabei de fazer um tratamento ao figado ,é uma morte lentta eu lamento que um homem como ele tenha passado por essa dor.!!for ever in my mind.R:I:P l.miss you.-um dos melhor musicos de sempre .
Way too intelligent to be a rock star. And SO together.
david was a genius unfortunately was a smoker for a long time and that caught up with him ...hes sadly missed
title date misleading
Charlie Rose is so nice, he can't think outside of his own reportorial literalism...he takes everything that Bowie says at face value because he assumes him to be a successful musician who has "gotten over" his past nonsense...and Bowie indirectly kind of laughs at him big time
9 : 13. check what he says.
What about it?
After his 69th birthday. 🤔
Bowie so overrated. ADD trend-chasing, shallow.
You're that same ugly dumb jerk who hates everybody for nothing. You're nothing. Nobody, and so are your parents.
the word Genius is so vastly overused, incorrectly used and abused ...
bowie was just another pop star, and he wore different costumes at different times. i change clothes daily. i must be a genius. pfft!
bowie was just another forgettable diva, like madonna, or some fashionista fruitcake
i've seen smarter bees than bowie
If you can not see the genius, the problem is in you.
nope. Bowie was a peacock, Bach.... now HE was a genius!
Coltrane was a genius! Einstein was a Genius ! Klee et al were all geniuses. DaVinci was a genius. Socrates was a genius .
You seriously think this little poseur was in that league?
pop stars are like Scooby Doo cartoons. when you grow up, read books, expand your perspective and travel the world extensively , you will come to realize that disabusing the English language this way is embarrassing at best!
Bowie's poetry, the music he created, the revolutionary approach, his knowledge of literature, music, culture, art, and intellectual capacities are more than genious. Bowie's sophistication is reflected in his eyes, facial expression, diction, etc, etc. „When we were casting The Prestige, we had gotten very stuck on the character of Nikola Tesla. Tesla was this other-worldly, ahead-of-his-time figure, and at some point it occurred to me he was the original Man Who Fell to Earth. As someone who was the biggest Bowie fan in the world, once I made that connection, he seemed to be the only actor capable of playing the part. He had that requisite iconic status, and he was a figure as mysterious as Tesla needed to be. It took me a while to convince him, though-he turned down the part the first time. It was the only time I can ever remember trying again with an actor who passed on me. I petitioned to let me explain why he was the right actor for it. In total honesty, I told him if he didn’t agree to do the part, I had no idea where I would go from there. I would say I begged him.„ Christopher Nolan . Chao chao jealous boy!!!!!!!!!!!!
he was more than that and you know it
j en I am pretty sure Bowie read a lot more books than you will read in your lifetime. Check out the list of his 100 favorite books and see how many you have read.
Sometimes lately, David Bowie strikes an emotional cord in me when listening to him. He sounded so genuine when he talked about wanting to be a teacher. How he loved giving that "gift" to others, the greatest gift in his opinion.
David has left an amazing legacy, and most importantly a reminder to live life on YOUR terms. Don't give a crap about what others think. Look like how you want, love who you love. Sure, he talked about his straying in the 1980s. But that just made him find himself again. Live life on your own terms, if you're lucky to be able to, because you never know when life is over. And who the hell wants to look back thinking "I wish I had..."? No one! Thank you David Bowie for reminding me of that!! I could even say that I love you for it. Wherever you are, black star.
Amen to that.
+My Biz Thanks friend. I agree with you so much about: Live life on your own terms, if you're lucky to be able to, because you never know when life is over.
thank you so much!
+My Biz He does come off as genuine and even self-deprecating to a point. A real human being! Go figure. Would have loved to have met the man as he is my favorite individual artist of all time. I saw the "Serous Moonlight" tour of which he toured off of Let's Dance. It was an absolutely stellar show. I saw him 4 times and that was the most comprehensive and best of the 4. He may have not been happy with that period but I believe he gained so many new fans from that tour. I had already been a fan since the early 70s and had seen him at smaller venues than the open stadiums of "Serous Moonlight", but that show was something else. He's the only celebrity in my life whose death affected me on a very emotional level. Even when John Lennon was shot, I didn't have the reaction I did when David died. Will miss him for sure.
straying? HE COMPLETELY SOLD OUT........
yh he was a sound geezer
He was fortunate to have had such happiness in his life, his wife, children, his music - he loved them all & it's such an amazing success to have had that kind of fortune. RIP
+Vicky08 yes, he had pain and loss though too, so he knew how great it was
You should check out his last album and the last few interviews he did he felt very wrong in different areas of his life. Like he made a mistake.
Bowie, the only Idol I ever had. Interesting personality, extraordinary songwriter and great performer.
I couldn't agree with you more!
He also was never political, he understood you should be known for your art..🤔
Same with me Ed. He was such a lovely person.
Very interesting person.
And one of his most revealing interviews ever.
LOVED David Bowie as an ACTOR in The Hunger.
What an amazing interview..........
You're in my heart forever David. ..R.I.P my friend
His outfit with the shades, speckled blazer and star spangled shirt is outstanding. Incredible force on so many levels. Love Bowie forever.
I like almost anything he wore as long as it was after Ziggy Stardust. Lol
sad to c him smoking. i wonder if he had ever quit & if so, was it long before he was diagnosed w/cancer? or did he choose the patrick swayze way of denying it affected his chances of recovering? what i admire even more than his incredible musical talent is his relationship w/his wife. another paul & linda mccartney type of marriage. & his devotion to his family. great guy. i miss him.
He hadn't smoked in at least 10 years. Good for him for quitting !
+mjt11860 liver cancer is not really associated with cigarette smoking. tobacco probably did cause his heart disease, which he did survive. liver cancer can be associated with many things (like hepatitis C) or can just arise spontaneously. I'm an oncology nurse, by the way.
+Karen Katz i didn't know that, that was the type of cancer he died of. thanx 4 the info.
+mjt11860 Yes he quit after his daughter was born, because he didn't want to have to go outside to smoke all the time. And I am sure the heart attack made him want to take better care of himself.
+Karen Katz what about all the cocaine-wouldn't that take it's toll on his heart?
nice to hear his thoughts
great guy, yet unable to kick the killer cigs.......sad
Great Man .... I love playing Bowie classics .... legend
Thanks for this, RIP David Bowie, a true artist of our time.
RIP Goblin King....
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I need to listen to a certain part of sentences every day ...I think it would do me good...
He is right about getting a little out of one's depth.
He says 'Bowie' like 'boy' as in here boy!
Pseudointelectual.
square 😉
Looking at the life of many celebrities and their stories.
I know nothing much about their personal life...However, their work life (tempted to say world life..)
Well, prince worked a 80 hour week.
Is that unusual? No Oprah works 80 hours a week.
Prince..40 hours spent on music, 40 hours spent on the business. according to people who knew him (read it or video.) Everyone can look at this, its all online...
I dont see many people working 80 hour weeks and lasting long. looking at other professions.
Oh fun music and dancing? :D (for 50 years, it just becomes another job. With world wide consequences if you fail too much. :D )
Lot of stress.
Life young, die long. That is my motto. I like to last for my grandchildren at least. Career is not worth it. Even at that price. I would have loved to have BOWIE, PRINCE, LEMMY!
Even if for only a decade more. :D
I dont think it was the drugs, i think it was a long and hard life style lived in the public eye. (look at history, things have changed and are much softer.)
Look at the beatles...
I wish all these people could have been around longer, but they lived it, made the choices and left as happy looking as they came in. What more can you ask from ANYONE? Even if they dont live long enough to appreciate them fully?
I dont know.
OH and living in hotels. Ever done that? :D Holy shit its not like home at all. Its much more like , sleeping with a family member :D ONe you dont know at all.
But came with your wife...
I will always appreciate Bowie and the rest of the heros. Without them life would be much poorer and that is my only complaint of all that have died this year.
And i hope to see them again, next reincarnation . Fuck yeah!
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The meeting of two megalomaniacs, big deal!