David Bowie - Where Are We Now? (Video)
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2013
- "Where Are We Now?" by David Bowie
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Lyrics:
Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
#DavidBowie #WhereAreWeNow #Rock
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I was a set carpenter on the Bowie video "Jump". Carthart overalls, work boots. I was talking on the soundstage pay phone in Indonesian (I spent a few years there) and Bowie passed by, stopped, and listened in. He introduced himself when I hung up. He knew some Indonesian as well, and he was genuinely curious about me. We chatted for about 15 minutes until my boss called me away. We talked about Balinese architecture, music (He had a Balinese house dismantled and re-assembled in a location in the Bahamas.) Anyway. Nice guy. Nice memory.
Wow. What an awesome share.
Lol and literally cultural appropriation!
Waahh beruntung sekali bisa ketemu personal.... ketemu David Bowie adalah mimpi saya yg tidak kesampaian 🙏🏼
Your so lucky to have met this wonderful person
You were involved in that video? He produced that after the death of his brother. It's so poignant and beautiful.
I love that song and that's saying something. Bowie's been in my life from the beginning.
Nonetheless, you had a hand in his expressing that piece of music. How freakishly wonderful!
And you talked. That's how he was. Look at this video for COL! Him giving us that look at the end. Who else
could express that much by just looking us in the eye.
David, we are diminished! Everyone says Hi!
Will humanity ever stop mourning the loss of David Bowie..? Don't think I will.
Loved all biwis songs😊❤❤❤❤❤
No. Never.
No.
It simply is not possible...
The music industry lost a genius when he left us. We'll never stop mourning that.
I'm in my late 60's and have been listening to David Bowie for nearly 50 years. I truly loved him and he made a huge impact on my life. I will always miss him.
Bill everyday I miss him
@@davidkeith9015 Back again David. Reminiscing as always. Hope all is well in your life. I'll be 70 next month. If I died tomorrow, I would feel like I had a short life and David died the age I am now. God Bless and take care.
Same here, a lovely tribute.
so agree
Me too, I´m 62 and love Bowie since I was 11 ( in 1971)
Trivia: Eric Clapton loved this song when it came out and sent Bowie a message congratulating him. Bowie replied saying "thanks for the shoutout, old sock". That's why Clapton's 2013 album is called "Old Sock".
I was about to call bs, "there's no way this song was out in 2013 or earlier". It was. What happened to the past 10 years?
@@raywt3237 I know right?
Stop making me cry.
DAVID RAPHAEL WERE JUST WALKING THE DEAD
Great comment, old panties! ;-)
I guess this is what getting older is like. Seems every year a part of my life and memories passes away. :( Rest in Peace David. Thanks for making my memories full of sound. Beautiful sound.
+Michael white I know, it is very sad and humbling. Lemmy and now Bowie... many tears.
luangu Ughh Lemmy. I hope they name the new element after him. They always come in 3's..who is next.???
Christpher Penn
+Michael white Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop... Clint Eastwood. Someone has their Wikipedia pages in a tab so they can quickly add the date of death.
+Michael white Agreed, I remember my friend once said if people we grew up with died after one another that was gradually our turn as well.
Where are we now without David Bowie?
Yes, artistically speaking in a popular culture sense - very much so! The last few years were getting to be like old times: market shocks, terrorism, gloomy weather forecasts, industrial unrest - and the latest David Bowie LP!
Because it was always nice to have an artist to whom you wanted to look back over your shoulder at. His creativity, his daring and his musical surprises were nuggets of delight that always fought off the tendency in society to level off into a cosy, smug plane of existence.
true. were lost without him
+Charlie Woodward As long as there is sun , rain and fire we are here.
Shafiq r Rehman so true...lost without him..
Rose Kennedy one of my favorites is slip away
It made me cry back then. It still makes me cry today. An underrated masterpiece that reminds us of our own mortality. And the mortality of all the ones we love and all we hold dear!
One Allah
you meant overrated
It's my favorite Bowie track!
Exactly.very moving
I consider The Next Day the best album of the last decade. And at the same time songs like these helped me through one of the worst times in my life. It´s a mixed emotions thing for me.
this dropping out of nowhere was one of the coolest moments ever. it's such a great song.
❤
it was shocking
I was in Taiwan. My English mate phoned me. Have you heard?
so true ... and I said to my mate should be called "I'm old I'm old im old" cheers David ... then quite soon after said he was dying.. was truly heartbreaking
True words.
Most of Bowie's songs are quite intellectual, but when he gets emotional...he can make you cry. This song is an example of that.
agreed
@@LiamPorterFilms Agree
where are we now? Lonely without you, David, without your music. Thank you for all your creations.
"Without your music"? Rly?
+ Maud Sullivan VERDAD. DONDE NOS ENCONTRAMOS AHORA. ADIOS DAVID DESCANSA EN PAZ NOS QUEDAREMOS CON TU MUSICA.CON ESTA CANCION ME SONABA A DESPEDIDA DE ESTE MUNDO HE SENTIDO TU PARTIDA.
+Maud Sullivan And i really never understood this video until now.
+Maud Sullivan i feel like an orphan.
+Maud Sullivan 'without your music? He's not taken it with him hes left it here for us and future generations. Its rumored he has also a huuuge collection of un-released music that he recorded over the last 10 years so there will be more to come.
2024 anyone? This song is timeless
I still can’t stop listening to it ❤
Yep😊
🕎@@Caribouclermontoisetdailleurs⛎🅿️
Such a beautiful song
Un hombre perdido en el tiempo...
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
Very good quote..👍👍
That moment, is infinite. The present moment is the only thing that is real, never-changing and everlasting.
Ace quote!
Good night, Ziggy. And thanks for all the music.
+AveLudusMagnus Ziggy has returned to stardust...
+Siegfried S me too... so terrible
:(
+AveLudusMagnus: Well said. Thank you.
+AveLudusMagnus Good night, good night forever.
dear Bowie,
when my father drank, cheated on my mother, walked out on us, then came back thinking everything was okay, you were there to keep me company. I couldn't trust men very much back then but you, you were there and that's all that makes me happy. you will always be a friend to me and I hope one day maybe I'll be able to meet. if not it this life, maybe another one.
thanks for all the help and kindness..
:)
🤗😥💔⚡⚡👍😊😊
If I were you I would keep that attitude I may stand you well...
wow Emily...that's powerful
David of all spirits that came to this earth was an angel..122618
As long as there's me. As long as there's you. That's the moment that gets me every time. A truly beautiful song.
Yes
He was talking about Iman?
I had those lines and a black star tattooed on my arm in 2016 as my tribute to David. 💖💖
When it boils down to it, all the riches in the world cannot compare to a loved one.
Just heard this song for first time...I'm crying
On January 8, 2013, at midnight, the music video for "Where Are We Now?" was released without fanfare, and I remember waking up the next day to the headlines and my incredible excitement, especially since I had believed all of the rumours about his ill health and retirement. In fact, I googled "Is DB dead?" a few weeks before the song's release. The song's emotive, introspective tone has always made me feel deeply sad and nostalgic, as it reminds me of the transience of life and the unstoppable march of time. Its poignancy has only grown with the passing of the years, as I try to understand where the last ten years have gone.
Knowing what he knew about his own health, David Bowie's reflections on his own mortality are almost unbearable to listen to, but they are also a testament to his incredible talent and dedication to his art.
David Bowie, your music and memory will live on in perpetuity, inspiring and moving people for generations to come.
You have to return some video tapes
@@alexsetterington3142No, l am in touch with humanity
@@alexsetterington3142 No , l am in touch with humanity!
You know, when you get old (like Bowie and some of us), you can become almost overwhelmed by the bone-deep realization that you ARE OLD, and that time is running on without you. It's an bittersweet feeling--both panic and relief. Bowie's 1970's Berlin years must have been incredible--the juxtaposition of the abject misery beyond the Wall, and the hedonistic squalor of drug-addled West Berlin. I can imagine that, visiting it 30-40 yrs later, a person could become paralyzed by memories....being able to take a train to the east end of town, remembering all who had come before (and the ones who died trying)...the sheer ease of it. How difficult--in so many ways--it was before.
I don't know. I've loved Bowie's work since I was a little kid in the early 70's, and bought my first single, "Fame". I grew up with him. I grooved to Ziggy, tried to imitate the piano in "Aladdin Sane", picked out jagged political references in Scary Monsters, his most political album, after he moved back to the UK. I've been in love with his work for 40 years. He's held my hand through a lot of times. At this point, whether or not this is a "good" song is immaterial. For me, it's BOWIE, and he gets it. Every freaking time.
Nice description / no judgements.... Thanks
Amen!
So welll said..I think pretty much every bowie fan thinks and feels what you have just said
My mum told me all about David and their escapades .... seem only fitting to connect with him by covering a few songs on YT ... I suppose Space Boy is my name.
I am just back from Berlin and this song is now more special than before. Bowie was always on my mind during the whole visit, i always associate the city with him. I went to his apartment to put a candle in front of the door and had amazing stroke of luck and actually got in the building and saw it just as it is in the video at 2.55. An incredible memory made.
Desi that is so awesome and special..sitting here 4 monthes away from 11 January 2019, and watching his videos or love perfos ...still makes me uncontrollably unemotional.... I feel foolish nut so be it
I'm visiting in February and I'll be the same! Can't wait!
@@leewhite344 Where is the apartment? I once had an address for a place in Neukoln, a Turkish quarter. But I no longer have this address.
@@andrewcooper2617 , it is Hauptstrasse 155 in Berlin-Schöneberg. Next door is the "Neues Ufer" the bar David always used to be. It always was one of my fav places here.
I was there to, flowers still there :(
Almost unbearable listening to this, knowing what he knew...and yet, he recorded two wonderful albums even as the cancer was killing him. What a brilliant way to go. From the first moment I heard Low this man changed my life forever and for the better (moved to Berlin, met my wife, which of course evokes a Low song)... God bless you. Think I'll play New Career In A New Town.
What? He wasn't diagnosed until after this album.
@@ClaudiusPtolemy True
@@ClaudiusPtolemy still 'it feels as if hi's subconcious knew by the longing feeling of this song
^ I agree, he knew he had less than ten years somehow
@@israhelldid9119 Or his regular conscious just new that he is going to die someday, rather than having some premonition about an upcoming cancer diagnosis.
2016 was the worst year for me personally. It started with the death of David Bowie and 4 days before christmas my mom passed away. So this is my song for 2016... Still miss them very much.
Heartbreaking.
Rip to your mom!
My Mum loved this song, She left this world Jan 2019, miss her so much.....
I feel your pain. I lost my brother in 2016. I'm sorry for your loss.
My Mum also died that same year, it was a rough one alright.
That shirt he is wearing that says "Song for Norway" is a tribute to a women he once loved that moved to Norway in 1969. Her name was Hermione Farthingale. He also penned two songs in her memory. "Letter to Hermione" and "life on mars".
As well as "An Occasional Dream". Though "Life on Mars" it doubtful. Hermione herself claims that it's not about her, she mousy hear, she always was redhead, that's why Bowie dyed his hear red, she says
tell us something we don't know….
No. she didnt move to Norway. She left him and then appeared in Song Of Norway. now come on !
How about you tell me something I don't know? Good luck with that.
+Mike Garvin youre right I just read it in his biography Starman.
I guess I wasn't ready to go back and listen to this.
Crying while eating takeaway pizza is not glamorous
It became glamorous when you added Bowie to it
+Dejahthoris22 you're goddamn right!
+MichaelLeroi It's 4.30 am here and I'm still having trouble sleeping...can't face Blackstar album yet, but watching this video again somehow soothes my grieving soul... I still feel so sad though. Bowie's music helped me get through my youth and it feels like a part of me has died too #RIP
+MichaelLeroi I thought I was "cried out"... I loved him so much.
+weez246 Have you now? It's 3 weeks ago and I am still so sad. Nothing has ever effected me like this. sucks
Bowie. A musical genius. Glad I shared the earth with you at the same time...
Super Awesome and compelling to play and sing Bowie songs on YT as a one man band ... its spiritual and a priviledge.
Yes exactly. I am so grateful to have ever gotten to experience him. I fell in love with him at 5 years old with Labyrinth and didn't even know anything yet but I knew him.😭😍😭💔
His death hit me like a ton of bricks. I never felt an urgency to see my heroes, didn’t I have forever? A huge wake up call regarding my own mortality. However, he seems to me the happiest man in the music world and life. Truly a man in full.
yeah your other 50 accounts already posted that comment
@@rickacton7540
Thousands of accounts.
@@emperorhadrian6011 lol
@@emperorhadrian6011 thousands of accounts operated by a few dozen repurposed, former gangstalkers
Thank God for David Bowie!! What would we do without him?
+xtrnext thank god to berlin!
+xtrnext well we're going to find out now aren't we
Unfortunately we are without him now...:'(
+xtrnext Yes, what are we going to do now? Well, we could be heroes, just for one day.
+xtrnext here we are now
Bowie is a fucking genius.
Happy Birthday DB. Rest assured, the world certainly hasn't been the same since you left.
It has absolutely shot to shit since he went.
Its completely fallen apart.the magic went
My mum told me all about David and their escapades .... seem only fitting to connect with him by covering a few songs on YT ... I suppose Space Boy is my name.
Mr. Bowie, I am still enchanted by you. “As long as there’s sun”, we miss you. You are a bright shining star. Thank you for your beautiful soul.
I'm a 54 year old guy in Berlin for my Birthday , I just cried my eyes out listening to this !! I'm totally sobar and it's the middle of the afternoon. Memories of David's Berlin years the soundtrack to my early teens
❤
Walking the dead.
❤
I can't watch/listen to this without crying. "As long as there's you, as long as there's me". It's like he's reaching out to us and saying that, no matter what happens, we'll always have him. David Bowie's music has made a difference in my life and I'll always love him for it x
Dude, same here !!!!!!! That part gets to me especially when he’s wearing that shirt while looking around, it hurts so much
Yes.
Oh he's telling us a lot more than that. Walking the dead. You not think he didn't know anything about how this world really works? That bag he's standing next to "Thank you for shopping with us" what do you think that means? Also the Song of Norway T Shirt. Speaks volumes
@@SoulFlask The Song of Norway gets me every time when I see it. Some people stay with you your entire life, even if they’re not physically there.
@@angelesskies I know that too well :)
He rescued me as a teenager, he gived me the feeling, he would understand me, light up my minds.That he lived in the same city for a while, near my home, to be in the same bars and places he used to be, makes me still happy. I remember we was sitting in the "Neues Ufer" his bar next to the house he and Iggy lived. It was his birthday and "Black star" cames out same day. Frank, the owner of the bar, played it after another and we was talking hopeful about he will may go on tour again. Two days later we met there again, heartbroken. Still feels same.
Toni Orchid Hey- sitting at the table next to you- feels the same either. I think we never are going to tow that off our lives- at least- as he sang "you're not alone"
@@Romalvx Thank you for let me know. He was a magician, not from this world, a starman! Even those who have never met him personally he gived the feeling that he know us. And we him. That's why we're never alone again.
Toni Orchid stay in touch, whenever you feel like- it will be a privilege.
Beautiful memories, it warms my heart to think he was smiling down on you guys that day.
i sadly wattched Davids video about 3 years ago ....little did i know what was growing inside of me then. shortly i was diagnosed with stage 4.. i know what he felt.
How are u now?
how are you now?
Bless you
God bless
God bless you
didn't like this when it first came out and typical of a bowie song grows on you and becomes a gem, love the sound in the 2nd half of the song, the legend.
Same here! When it first came out I kind of gave a shrug of disappointment. Now I think about this song a lot. It comes back to me and asks that I play it once again, once again, once again...
I didn't like it at all the first time I heard it. I actually said to myself it's time he retires but something about it haunted me enough to look it up on UA-cam. After reading the lyrics I realized the beauty of the song. The day he passed I truly realized why he did the song.
Most of Bowie's songs elicit a shrug from me, but this one caught me right away. The chord progression of the chorus is particularly emotive to me. I tend to like this type of progression and favorite many songs with the same or similar progressions. It makes me feel when I cannot feel otherwise......or do not want to.....Bowie knew what he was doing, that scamp. He knew how to find something that would cut through the bullshit and reach someone. Maybe not on one song....maybe on another.....but eventually....he got everyone. Even me. The world is so much emptier without his presence.
It's true. First time I listened this song it was seeming to me too too slow. Ri-listening the song became very beautiful and touching since 2.40 . A great great song and "Next day" is a great great album (not so much the cover).
+Angela Petaccio me too
Where are you now, David? ★
+Carlo Lubatti floating in a tin can
+Frances Watford that would be bowie...
Well, he told us there's a Starman waiting in the sky. Now we know the Starman's name is Bowie. You'll see him again. In the meantime, there's still sun. There's still rain. And there's still you.
Jade Cunningham 😊😶
In the HIGHEST echelons of HEAVEN, my friend!!!!!
5 years ago we lost a legend, a true genius of music, and re invention, who will be revered for generations, unlike the rubbish of today, RIP David
Agreed.
He's not dead he was on sky news after his fake death posing as a character who once knew him.. And he was a devil worshiper who's obviously made a fool out of you..
Seems all the Great Artists who will be listened to in 200 years are well over 50.
True
i dont know whats wrong with you guys, theres plenty of good music today. bowie knew that, collaborated with younger artists, often let himself be inspired by them. put in some effort and find some contemporary music you like. or at least stop wining.
Never been a Bowie fan but the day I heard this it made me cry as it suddenly dawned on me that I can no longer relate to the modern society, I was an 80's teen and I just don't belong in the screwed up world we have today, so sad, take me back 30 years please, it was so much better.
Worth A Buy What?
Yes better days. I'd go back with you.
You are not alone, many people have the same feeling. This doesn´t feel like my world neither, its completely different, mostly worse.
You want to be in the middle of The Cold War???????????????????? What?
There is a Chinese saying, "Memory is painted with a golden brush." We often think that everything used to be better. But that is often not true. Granted, in the 80s there was no corona, no mass immigration of criminals and social cases and no political correctness and SJWs... On the other hand, HIV infection was a death sentence, blacks and gays were actually discriminated against (not only in their oversensitive imagination) and people were constantly afraid of nuclear war. Have the times ever been good? Weren't there always problems?
I love this man's sensibility, musically, melodically....he knows how to make a song spectacular, ethereal, emotionally moving and classy at the same time.....Love him.
Linda Lapetino .
Over rated
Lost without Bowie. Where are we now? Still Sad. RIP David.
yes, where are we now xx
+Berry Music yes RIP mr bowie!
X Where are YOU now ?
Since more than 20 years, i live a few blocks away from where he lived in th 80's. The weeks after he died, i passed this house every day by bus and hold back not to cry. You know you'll next. If your youth is over and the voices of you youth start diying, you know you run out of time. This moment, like someone is punching you in your face, really - really hard, without holding back, you then get this sober picture, that it's really up to you, to be the one who reminds yourself of the passion and strenth, which is required to carry this all on, even if you sometimes feel you break in half. And even if there are friends and family, at the very end, you will go alone and hopefully in peace with yourself. So, he knew exactly what he was talking about: "as long as there's sun, ... as long as there's me ...". This is a farewell, a last look back. You have to be physical alive and old enough, to remember the pain to loose someone, or some place, some idea, some picture, some thought, and then, for the first time, you really understand what time means - to waste time - while dealing with the issues of this world you did not fully understand - and people, you can not help or love, until you first start to help and love yourself. This song is like a slow motion, irreversibel heart attack of my youth and i love every line and every note of it. RIP Davie.
Beautiful words.
He looked as if he was resigned to death and had accepted it. His face tells the story of a man ready to meet his maker - if indeed a "maker" exists. I would love to think so. When I close my eyes for the last time and take that final leap from life to death I would hope to see the loved ones I have lost again. Dinner with my Father would be magnificent. The last time I saw him was the day he died on 24th December 1964. Strange - he was 27 - I am now 62 and old enough to be my Fathers Father - if that makes any sense. A Happy Christmas to anyone and everyone who chances to read this - yes it is to you personally - regardless of age, race, colour or creed. I hope all your hopes and dreams are yours in 2020. Much love.
Beautifully put Will. Lately I have been thinking a lot about people close to me who have passed and what I wouldn't give just to spend a day with them. Life can be very painful sometimes without our loved ones. I only hope that we will get to see them again someday. Sending love and peace to you Will and wish you all the best for 2020.
Sweet thought, although doubtful. This piece was released in January 2013, 3 years before Bowie past away. He hadn't resigned yet, in fact this was a kind of comeback for him. It did well on the British charts.
Very beautiful sentiment Will Thompson! From: A lifelong fan of David Bowie in all of his incarnations...RIP
What a wonderful thought to share. So kind
Your Father would be proud
It's so hard to believe he passed away... This song is so touching...
same here.......almost one year passed since he's gone but still in tears when I watched some of his video or listen particular song.....
I feel compelled to leave this note of sorrow for the passing of this giant of a musician. I first heard Bowie as a17 year old. His brand of sound created a volume complete with horizons and gave me the definition to coolness. I will miss Bowie and the Spiders
The emotion in this song is palpable.
for sure shows you how deep you mind can be
+Marko Horvat palpable
I met DB on a plane once when by sheer good fortune I was put in with his enterage as they left NZ for Singapore after the Serious Moonlight tour. I sat next to a sound tech called Steve who got me into listening to the latest music on his super walkman while drinking Cognac and beer (!) and when he told me what he did I asked him: Is David here too? He pointed to a fair head a few rows away and I ...no words. A little while later he did his rounds talking with everyone and stopped at me with a "and I dont know you?" We talked about nothing for about 15 min and he struck me as a really nice guy who was easy to talk to and (as has been my want since strangely meeting lots of famous people in my life - didnt shake his hand or even ask for an autograph) then he moved on; and for a short moment I was a part of "his people" I'm glad I cant see the future...RIP super dude
Thank you.
The Song of Norway T shirt he wears is significant and is a nod to his first great love Hermione. Such a beautiful song and gets me every time. No one else comes close to his genius and I doubt they ever will.
Some grows on you. Some you get to understand and appreciate more, as you mature.
And some are simply love at first listen; this song is one of them.
Thank you David
camelshit RIP
WELL SAID.......Merry Christmas!
Thank you Pamela, and a Merry Christmas to you too!
Gustavo in Octavio
“ Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
At 3.30 David is leaning against the blank wall. He has a tense, frightened face. But there is also a lot of dignity and beauty:... her eyes look forward.
It is something unforgettably human. It just makes me want to hug him... forever.
....😑
Never considered myself much of a Bowie fan , little did I know how much his music was ingrained in my psyche , still can't believe he is gone.
I still think about this guy everyday. I found a list of his 100 favourite books (some of which I have, most of which I don't). I'm even starting to read those. This song is so hauntingly beautiful. Thank you, Mr Jones.
+Jason Brayshaw that's beautiful
+Jason Brayshaw can you tell where I can find that book list, please?
can you tell where I can find that book list, please?
www.davidbowie.com/news/bowie-s-top-100-books-complete-list-52061
Thank you so much, Mary Ann! You made me very happy cos I found that David has similar taste and I had read some books when i was young. That's incredible!!! miss him dearly.........
Have been a massive fan since the time I was in my mum's womb. Bowie is simply... *sigh*... There are no words to describe such a man. I even sometimes wonder if he really belongs to this planet. He's beyond everything on earth.
He is the man who fell to earth!
Neil Elkins haha good 1
Neil Elkins Of course he is!
His face isn't a mess, though!
xtrnext
Sadly, he's looked better though. I hope his health is okay. beloved David!
@@ellethekitten this aged badly
Beautiful song. I was never a bowie fan at the time, I have found my time now in 2021. The moment u know u know. Well folks, I now know.
Just like me as he suddenly appeared again within his songs...
I became a Bowie fan during the Young American's album.
I was a Beatles/Lennon fan at the time. I was still a kid.
Lennon did a song called FAME with Bowie. I bought the album.
Liked it. Bought Station To Station, enjoyed it a lot.
During the period I was in a records store and heard the tail end of an exotic sounding song. ...Eno. bought the ENO LP.
Little did I know they'd soon make some albums in Berlin. Low and Heroes.
Lodger lost me.
Let's Dance was fun mass popular pop-rock. But...uneven.
Bowie was an eclectic genius for sure... Sadly his oeuvre was just so uneven.
He talks about why in some of the quotes in "David Bowie: A Life."
I once posted that David Bowie had a poor quality control record in his recording career on a noted music forum. Got threatened by one of the moderators there, lol.
Can't have any critical discourse there, I suppose. How literally, lame. Especially when the man himself is on record talking a lot about the periods he lost himself and was trying to make records he thought people would like.
He's had that conscious goal with the Let's Dance album...and gone from averaging 2-3 million in sales per album, to selling 6-7m copies of Let's Dance...
He just learned that he couldn't be commercial on demand...such as when record companies demanded he get a new record out.
He said that that used to be the only way he got pain, that there wasn't money in touring yet for him...so he recorded a lot in the 70s.
I long missed and longed for the Bowie of more quality songs like Station to Station, Young American's, Low, Heroes, LEt's Dance...but to be honest he usually only had about 3 good songs per album...and had entire albums where nothing much was interesting.
27 studio albums.
In the end, the end, in the end...he gave us one last great album.
Thank you, David.
I enjoyed him more as a pop singer, a pop artist than anything else.
If the music wasn't strong, then the design and costume didn't mean anything to me.
I am glad he helped pave the way for acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. Even though he later said claiming he was "gay" was the biggest mistake he ever made. He should have just left the mystery open and allowed people to believe what they wanted to believe...
One thing for certain...whenever Bowie had a new album etc. drop...you just knew you had to check it out and see if he'd done something fresh, groundbreaking, amazing.
This song is...of course...Amazing.
It's the feeling of the sadness we'd all find when we learned that David had died.
Lastly, I want to say, having just read her book, I believe Angela Bowie had a huge influence on his early evolution and career. He was pretty shy off stage, and she was a total social and art world catalyst.
It's a pity he was never able to circle back and be the great guy he became to her...throwing a little appreciation and credit her way...
There's just too many connections in her book to deny she was a prime catalyst in his life and evolution for ten years.
He even admitted in one interview that he had read her book. He did not deny anything.
Quite a dichotomy in him...known for being friends forever with people, a real gentleman, and also being done with people and dropping them like a hot rock. Not because they'd done anything wrong - just because he seems to have gotten from them all he wanted and he found them no longer interesting...kind of cold.
I guess we're all flawed.
@@ericlindsey3069 not everyone gets it, some people catchy tunes or radio play, most do really, can be hard to hear the gems, there can be many levels to songs and they can be hard to see at first, i have had that a lot with many bands/sounds, you usually come to the realization too late haha, hated The Cure, Love them now, mostly is out of the popular genre but later slides into it's time, hated Joy Division, i didn't get it when i was younger, i do now.
@@negativezero3107 That's very true. I tend to revisit some bands/artists after my initial impression. Just to see if I think any different now. I loved the Cure when I was young, hated it after I found out about The Velvets and now I think they're okay because of their relation to shoegaze.
I would like to add that, it takes a bit of mind-clearing or so before listening to a song to be consistent with how we feel about them in the future.
I have to be strong to listen to this masterpiece
When I first heard the lyrics "The moment you know, you know, you know" I knew, I knew, I knew what Bowie meant 😢
What Bowie meant ???
@@xx-wabbit-xx Cancer. Mortality. A life well lived. A life still longing.
He knew he was dying.
Now I think I see a really heavy, sad face, like he's having to face hard, real truth about how it's going to go. Lots of love goes out to him and his family.
+Lisa Colorado You think he knew of his cancer when this track was released? 3 years back? maybe he did, reports say he found out 18 months ago, but I have to say, he looks ill in this video and like a man who knew he only had a short amount of time left. Very sad..
+booopdooop thanks for a kind reply.
He's lyric tells us he knew:
"The moment you know... you know, you know".
It's not a randomal echo. It's acknowledge of the coming inavitable. A true genius
This was my first time listening to this song just now (I discovered/fell in love with Lazarus about the time he passed away) and I've sort of been stumbling through his songs randomly at times and tonight I landed here... and I was like "People were asking if he knew because of Lazarus and/or Blackstar? Then they need to hear this song!" (I had read somewhere after that he had known 18mths before Blackstar album but this is even a little earlier!) I'm wondering if he knew about it yet still had hope then maybe 18mths before Lazarus he might have been told "Sorry but there's nothing else we can do."
No, he had n idea he had cancer when he made this album.
It was also a trick move - as the other singles are actually upbeat, and even intense and gritty.
He fooled a lot of people with this song and video into thinking he really had mellowed and/or really was 'sick' - or whatever.
Then the other videos , and the album, proved the opposite.
I see he is still fooling people...
Sleep well, dear Mr. Bowie. I lost a friend today
Miss you, Daddy !
Bowie said he had a tough time writing for himself. So he created characters that he could write for and enact them. Brilliant.
Forever LOVE for GOD Bowie.
I went to Berlin and went to every place narrated on this video. It was the best trip EVER!! All due respect, my Main Man!
This song is so beautiful. I get a lump in my throat when the chorus hits. RIP David Bowie.
Crying as I'm listening
There are no words to describe this song. Wonderful David.
I wonder if he knew his prognosis & ultimate fate when he made this? I think so.Thank you David as a 54 year old English guy to me you were & always will be our Starman. You provided the musical soundtrack for a generation that saw us thorough early loves & early breakup's, happiness, sadness, births & deaths & the business of living life itself!
Deep Heat I doubt it considering he was claimed to be battleing cancer for 18 months.
It is clear he knew he would soon be dead.
Harlan Nelson In this video no. In Blackstar, most definitely. Although that's where the genius shines through.
"The moment you know you know you know" I think he knew.
Still doubtful to me.
Eight years ago was lying in hospital thinking I was going to die as they could not find out what was wrong with me. This song was constantly on the radio at the time and often made me cry probably just me feeling sorry for myself. Turned out I had an allergy to goose feathers in my quilt and also lung infections which are now fine. Still a sad memorable song for me today.
I like his hidden message on his t-shirt. Don't we still carry on our own Hermione, that we've lost long ago, with a benevolent memory in ourselves?
It's a weird feeling watching this as I lived in West Berlin around the same time as he's singing about. ..it's like since Bowie died the stopwatch has started on me..Thats a bit dark but it feels like someone who was there since I was 14 is gone and I know that lots of my friends are gone too but Bowie was somehow 'other' and his mortality has really brought my own into sharp focus. I mean I never thought I'd be here for ever but Bowie seemed untouchable.
i would like to visit berlin, partly because of bowie's time there and also the TV show 'counterpart' was filmed, at least in part there. I've had David Bowie since i was 16 as part of what i've always been and it was such a shock when he passed. his creativity is unmatched on this planet. i think of my own mortality a lot these days and see and feel myself slowing down. i'm fighting it. it's me against aging. it was getting me for awhile, but i'm getting the upper hand. i sure don't pretend anymore. i don't know why, out of all these comments i responded to yours. i guess i felt connected to what you said.
Beautiful words, I feel the same
Every single one of us has are own personal armageddon, our very own inner struggle between the light and the dark. We all have BIG choices to make.
i like your message because it seems trus and untouchable
I live in Berlin too
I live in Berlin and think of David Bowie everywhere I go. Walking the streets is now different than it was just a few days ago. I was listening to this song on my ipod today on my way to work, Berlin has all of a sudden become a city I see with another set of eyes. I'm sure gonna miss you David. Thanks for all the music which was the soundtrack to many of our lives.
This is one of David's best Songs and there are some of them, I was 18 years when I moved to Berlin 1978 and you can imagine,, what song means to me, David you did so many great songs, thanks a lot for all your great music.I decided already, that this song will be played at my funeral, Bowie forever ! Udo from Germany
'The moment u know, u know u know'
Is a sublime genius lyrics writting.
I've been listening to this guy's music for over 40 years and it's better than ever. His voice and music really matured.
He felt his death was coming much before he really knew. Knowledge comes with deaths release.
Quicksand.
He knew the day he was going to die fourty years before it happened, according to Mike Garson..
@@homerogonzalez6371 Forty*
Nonsense. When he was diagnosed with it: it took him totally by surprise. He PANICKED IN DETROIT to stay alive. He suddenly realised for all the sycophants who make comments making his ego so BIG! He was a mere mortal AFTER ALL.....
@@homerogonzalez6371 Why do people say "facts" that aren't true? Mike Garson said Bowie went to a fortune teller/ medium of some sort back in the 70's who told him he would die at age 69. He didn't know THE DAY. lol! I highly doubt he took her prediction very seriously. Just a lucky guess. If he truly thought he'd die at 69 he probably would've had his second child much earlier. He had said in later interviews that his biggest fear was leaving his daughter before she was grown.
There is no one who can stir up my emotions like David Bowie. I've been a giant fan of his from the beginning, and he still stirs me up.This world is so messed up I'm in pain for my son. This mess we are dumping on him God help us.
Uhm, ever heard of David Sylvian?
us help us x
This song is so beautiful and it became sadder since the day that you left us, Bowie. Four years ago.
I miss you. We'll always love you, Bowie.
No doubt, Another Masterpiece
No doubt.
Beautiful
Depth. Tone. Feel.
Art
Super Awesome and compelling to play and sing Bowie songs on YT as a one man band ... its spiritual and a priviledge.
I'am german who was born and is still living in Berlin.I do understand what Bowie is singing about.I am greatful ,Bowie lived in Hauptstrasse 155 and made a song about his time in Berlin.He is one of the greatest artists.What a loss.......
It’s strange, i’m nearly 14 yet this is how it feels. Everything is wildly simple and calm, but so much has happened. Rest in Peace David, you got me through some harder times.
I love it! A brialliant 15 year old Bowie fan!!! Cool! Props Mr. Duck!
It only gets better, sadder, and more interesting. You had a great start to life!
That's just kind of what aging is. A point comes in life where you've been through it. Past that point, things happen, things _always_ happen...but you become less moved by them. It's a strange dichotomy; a little like being lost, a little like being well-rooted. More is just more, at that time. It seeps in less, but you also get to see it from a more sober, analytical position.
Just sitting here alone, missing him, mesmerized with his ability to create hauntingly beautiful, sweet and somber music such as this. Godspeed, Starman
Me too
And yet I do...
First time I heard it on the radio I didn't get it, but now having seen the video I find it one of the most moving things I have ever seen or heard.
It's about courage, fear and love, with public and private themes enigmatically conjoined.
It's about fear of losing your appearance as you age, in fact fear of death, and love overcoming that fear, it 's about the apprehension of Berliners crossing the bridge not knowing how their family would react or even if they were still alive.,
David's vulnerability is shocking, not embarrassing, and to display it on his comeback is courageous.
Love this music, and the joy as the new rising theme emerge at 2:43 is almost unbearable by contrast with his tremulous singing voice.
It's in a completely different place to anything else he has ever written, and I love it for that.
I'll be 50 years old this year and I've heard a LOT of music. This is easily one of the most moving songs I have ever heard!
Miss you david❤❤❤❤
Berlin, world within a world. My visit to Berlin has been very emotional. When I was a kid, I saw the Berlin wall fall as a kid on TV. Bowie stayed here as well. Berlin is one of the most safest cities I've ever been to. I caught a bus from Spreewald platz at 5am and walked to the Berlin cathedral, no hassle,no undesirables. Just me and a beautiful city for a week. I'm saving the trains for my next visit.
Thanks for sharing, beautiful memory.❤
"... u never knew that, that I could do that, just walking the dead..." RIP otherwordly David
Came back to this while digesting Blackstar......just devastating.
+JonMatt62 That is a very eerie video. Not sure what Bowie is up to there. Was it a shot at Christians or what?! Is he just trying a different way to move albums since he no longer tours?! Maybe when the album comes out we'll get more insight into it.
+JonMatt62 I would recommend listening to it once more. Once you understand the lyrics and the video itself, you'll be far more impressed. I didn't like it until a fourth viewing and after I studied up. The song is brilliant once understood. It is a commentary on radical religion but I think there is a narrative story there too. Major Tom also makes an appearance and his legacy is said to be a flash in the pan' whereas the new prophet, Bowie, states that he's 'the great I AM.' The dancing (though really weird) is taken from 'Fashion' and inspired by old Popeye cartoons, where the artist wouldn't fully animate the background characters. If you break down the lyrics and compare it with the video it's an awesome testament to David's career. Just give it a chance, because let's face it, there is only 1 David Bowie.
+Jficklin530 fantastic well said, i couldnt agree more, brillantly observed, theres nearly always a subtext with bowie
+Jficklin530 David is telling us that he knows his life will end soon, I got that from when he released this (My comments from 2013) He goes back over his most memorial cherished moments and shares them with the world.
I love reading comments on videos. When they are about charismatic people as David Bowie was, there is so much love expressed that you can feel the Human Thickness. This moves me up to tears.
Thank you everyone for being what you are and letting your heart talk. It gives me hope in Human Nature !
Sorry for my poor english.
"Where are we know?" is the sublime epitaph of genius Bowie. I can perfectly imagine how he extracted this jewel from his very soul while experiencing his mortality, after learning that he suffered from irreversible liver cancer and that it was only a matter of time: “…The moment you know
You know, you know…”, a phrase that is followed, starting at 2:36, by a splendid guitar crescendo that shows the life that is slipping away and that everything is fine, “..as long as there's me, as long as there's you…”.
Bowie's talent manifested itself from his first album to his last and this “silent poem” of a piece of music could not have been a better epitaph and a more sublime legacy. As always, only time will place this piece in the dimension that these lines intrinsically keep.
Exceptionally that this song was made at least 18 months prior to him being diagnosed with cancer. This track was released on January 8th, 2013. Bowie died 3 years later.
WE CAN BE HEROES,JUST FOR ONE DAY. YOU WERE A HERO FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS. RIP DAVY.
I've no idea why, but something about this song makes me love it.
+StonyRC A man for all reasons. RIP David.
+StonyRC my sentiments exactly, Stony
+StonyRC David Bowie did not just write songs, meanings are spewed throughout the words. You picked up on his meaning without knowing why. He treated his first real love, Hermoine very badly. They were drifting apart and she finally left him to be in a play called Song of Norway. He had the t-shirt made for this filming. The breakup devastated him. He met here once back stage, later in life and never again. He was afraid to do any damage to his marriage to Iman. It is believed he never told Iman he met his old flame.
I think we can conclude that this is a man knowing life's end is coming, and saying what has to be said before it's too late. Knowing the meaning of this song can really hit a nerve. I get the sense that this was one of those poignant moments in his life. Think how he put the line of fire just before me and you.
+Ann Korn just got this! so many references and cross references to everything he did.
fascinating. I love this man. rip.
+StonyRC That something is David Bowie.
No British person loved Berlin like David Bowie did. One of his frustrations was never moving back (I am reading the book "Berlin Calling"). And he left there his soulmate Romy Haag
This song is so beautiful and elegiac about his period in Berlin with Iggy and Coco.
The expectant, anxious look on his face as he is seated just kills me. I know the feeling.
2 years without the greatest starman. We'll always love you, Bowie. Be in peace.
His voice is absolutely amazing on this
Still makes me cry. I miss Bowie. Never said that about another musician in my 52 years, as a fellow musician.
I'm a classical singer and I beat cancer. I did not have the air to sing for a while. I am amazed at his ability to produce. I am so sad for him and his wife
just so beautiful and melancholic
just cant stop my tears so sad
I'm crying again right now. Makes me remember my mother's death even tho that was 20 yrs ago. She was too young and so was David. Cancer is just evil.
Lost my mum too she ws only 50 so sad
+C A Hunt
Same for me
It is 15 days that I cry now and nothing soothes my pain of this loss
Only reading you guys makes me feel a little better.
Hugs to everyone the earth is so very very blue
+C A Hunt
thank you
It is good at least to have the support of David Bowie's admirers
Miss you Bowie. The world is not the same without you. We need you down here on earth.
He brings this single out, the first in many many years and it made every national news bulletin.
I remember the day. The respect he received from that day to this is gigantic. A true artist to the core.
That shot of ‘actual’ Bowie at 3:31 absolutely kills me - looking into the middle distance: contemplation, reflection, melancholy... The whole video is lovely, but that clip at the end: beautiful.
My god, this song makes me sob my fucking heart out!!
The music has a sad feel, to be sure.
Why does it make you cry? It does the exact opposite for me.He's saying as long as you are alive you can do anything you want. The teddy bears represent people who are paralyzed by fear and hang ups. This is the most positive song he's ever written.
Ka Boom you gotta admit he looks the saddest ever in this video, as a conjoined twin with his personal assistant. Its a mixture of emotions.
Sinful Nun He is getting Old
Ellethekitty.ca Michelle He does look sad in most of the next day videos
Has to be my favourite Bowie single.
It is right now! Dreamt of it this AM, had it running in body when I awoke. Sadness over the pandemic and people who are suffering less fortunate in the non western world that I know...Sigh. Stay strong and safe people, breed hope within.
@@ericlindsey3069 Do you think he knew what was coming?
I think he saw this all coming, all the smart ones did
@@Tails7212 Hmmm not too sure.....look what they done to JL.
Super Awesome and compelling to play and sing Bowie songs on YT as a one man band ... its spiritual and a priviledge.
So happy he was was born. Bowie forever.
So well said!
this was the beginning of the end. As a spiritual person and hearing this the first time there was an overwhelming message of death in this song which makes it so amazing to me. David i never met you but how amazing is this song it took me to the moment i lost my spiritual mother my grandma this somehow took me to that moment with that person and this song made it all okay...... in the situation i was in at the time. i have to say i commented to my wife about this song that to write someting so deep and dark like this that is so true and unbelieavble to life i knew something was wrong i could feel it. i was correct. I am so happy for you that you finished at least one piece of work for your fans, but i will never forget the influence you have had on and in my life without bearly knowing you. Lets hope i meet you in heaven david x
+Russell Hallam to add i knew that u were unwell otherise why the rush of new material. after your heart attack you shyed away from new material and gruelling tours. This was the result and subsequent tracks from blacksstar. I knew. God bless.....
3:04 Song of Norway T-Shirt
this is the name of the movie that his then girlfriend broke up with him to go and act in it in Norway. its clear the rumors are true, she was the love of his life and she broke his heart, but he never forgot her.
+cuteNADA1992 Also the name of the first "cruise ship". As opposed to point to point passenger ship.
A very historic vessel, sadly taken to the beach in India. If you know what I mean...
Mrbrbusby his wife is Iman not Imam. and I didn't bring this information from my head, its mentioned in every book about David Bowie
+Mrbrbusby Yeah, but where is she now-HA!!!! Ba-dump-bump!!!
Mrbrbusby The fuck is wrong with you?? judging me from behind a screen! real clever man
fuck you creepy old man.
a master class from one of the greatest performers of all time. Understated elegance and beauty. Pure poetry. Thank you, David.
Bowie’s last 4 albums are criminally overlooked and underrated. I’m calling The Hague.
William Hague?? ;-)