![]() ![]() ![]() Bowie was a man constantly bursting with ideas for musicals, movies, records he appeared creative all day, drawing, writing on cards, playing music, ringing to ask what you thought of this or that, traveling, meeting people. He was, as well, extremely lively and curious, very enthusiastic about movies and books, and in particular, painting and drawing. I could see he had movie-star glamour, that unbuyable, untouchable sheen which fame, style and a certain self-consciousness bestow on few people. He wasn’t merely rich or successful either. And he’d made, with Brian Eno, experimental music – Low, “Heroes”, Lodger – which had lasted, which you could listen to today. He’d introduced people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop to British audiences and written songs about Andy Warhol and Dylan. ‘I knew at thirteen,’ he said to me, ‘that I wanted to be the English Elvis.’ Throughout the 70s he’d extended English pop music: he’d established ‘glam rock’, worn dresses and make-up, claimed to be gay, and written clever, knowing songs. ![]() Thats too bad, because The Buddha of Suburbia is an often engaging collection of songs and. ![]() until 1995, when it was slipped out in the wake of his new album, Outside. He’d attended, ten years previously, the school I’d gone to, though he had got out long before us, leading the way so that others, like Charlie Hero, could follow. It was probably David Bowies record-company affiliation difficulties that kept the 1993 Buddha of Suburbia soundtrack to a British TV miniseries from being released in the U.S. In February 1993 I was, fortuitously, invited by an American magazine to interview David Bowie. ![]()
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