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DAVID:<i> Time.</i>

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<i>One of the most</i>
<i>complex expressions.</i>

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<i>Memory made manifest.</i>

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<i>It's something that</i>
<i>straddles past and future</i>

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<i>without ever quite</i>
<i>being present.</i>

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<i>Or rather, it at first seems</i>
<i>indifferent to the present.</i>

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<i>There's a tension of a most</i>
<i>unfathomable nature.</i>

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<i>The word desires</i>
<i>to be understood.</i>

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<i>To have meaning.</i>

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<i>But you somehow feel</i>
<i>that it's not you yourself</i>

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<i>that the word is addressing.</i>

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<i>It washes over you,</i>

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<i>holding a dialogue</i>
<i>with something arcane</i>

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<i>that's maybe not mortal.</i>

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<i>And you feel intrigued.</i>

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<i>Captured even.</i>

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<i>You're aware</i>
<i>of a deeper existence.</i>

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<i>Maybe a temporary reassurance</i>
<i>that indeed</i>

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<i>there is no beginning,</i>
<i>no end.</i>

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<i>And all at once,</i>
<i>the outward appearance</i>

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<i>of meaning is transcended.</i>

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<i>And you find yourself</i>
<i>struggling to comprehend</i>

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<i>a deep and</i>
<i>formidable mystery.</i>

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<i>All is transient.</i>

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<i>Does it matter?</i>

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<i>Do I bother?</i>

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[INCHWORM SONG]

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<i>♪ Inchworm, Inchworm ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Measuring the marigolds ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You and your... ♪</i>

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DAVID:<i> All those moments</i>

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<i>will be lost in time...</i>

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<i>like tears...</i>

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<i>Dust...</i>

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<i>Cover me moon dust.</i>

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<i>Cover me...</i>

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[HALLO SPACEBOY SONG]

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<i>♪ Spaceboy, you're sleepy now ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Your silhouette</i>
<i>is so stationary ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You're released,</i>
<i>but your custody calls ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And I want to be free ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Don't you want to be free ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Do you like girls or boys? ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's confusing these days ♪</i>

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<i>♪ But Moondust will cover you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Cover you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ So bye bye love ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Yeah bye bye love ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Hallo, Spaceboy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ This chaos is killing me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Hallo, Spaceboy ♪</i>

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NEIL:<i> Ground to Major,</i>
<i>bye bye, Tom</i>

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DAVID:
♪ This chaos is killing me ♪

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NEIL:<i> ♪ Dead the circuit,</i>
<i>countdown's wrong ♪</i>

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DAVID:
<i>♪ This chaos is killing me ♪</i>

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NEIL:<i> Planet Earth,</i>
<i>is control on?</i>

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DAVID:
<i>♪ So sleepy now ♪</i>

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NEIL:
<i>♪ Do you wanna be free? ♪</i>

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BOTH:
<i>♪ Don't you wanna be free? ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Do you like girls or boys? ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's confusing these days ♪</i>

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DAVID:
<i>♪ But moondust will cover you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Cover you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ So bye bye love ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Yeah, bye bye love ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Hallo Spaceboy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Spaceboy, Spaceboy... ♪</i>

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WOMAN:
I wanted to see him.

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MAN:
What are you so upset about?

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GIRL:
I wanted to see him.

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They said he was
coming round the back.

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I've been waiting
for ages to see him.

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MAN: Why are you so upset?

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GIRL:
He's smashing.

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GIRL 2: I kissed him!
I kissed his hand!

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[HALLO SPACEBOY SONG]

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DAVID:
♪ Hallo Spaceboy ♪

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<i>♪ Hallo, hallo. ♪</i>

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DICK CAVETT:<i> Rumors</i>
<i>and questions have arisen,</i>

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<i>such as who is he, what is he,</i>
<i>where did he come from?</i>

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<i>Is he a creature</i>
<i>of a foreign power?</i>

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<i>Is he a creep?</i>
<i>Is he dangerous?</i>

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<i>Is he smart, dumb,</i>
<i>nice to his parents,</i>

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<i>real, a put-on, crazy,</i>
<i>sane, man, woman, robot?</i>

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<i>What is this?</i>

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<i>Ladies and gentlemen,</i>
<i>David Bowie.</i>

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[WILD EYED BOY
FROM FREECLOUD SONG]

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♪ Solemn faced ♪

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♪ The village settles down ♪

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♪ Undetected by the stars ♪

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♪ Hangman plays the mandolin ♪

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♪ before he goes to sleep ♪

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♪ And the last thing
on his mind ♪

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♪ Is the Wild Eyed Boy
imprisoned ♪

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♪ 'Neath the covered
wooden shaft ♪

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♪ Folds the rope into its bag ♪

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♪ Blows his pipe of smolders ♪

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♪ Blankets smoke
into the room ♪

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♪ And the day
will end for some ♪

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♪ As the night begins for one ♪

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<i>♪ Staring through the message</i>
<i>in his eyes ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Lies a solitary son ♪</i>

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♪ From the mountain
called Freecloud ♪

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♪ Where the eagle dare not fly ♪

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♪ And the patience in his sigh ♪

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<i>♪ Gives no indication ♪</i>

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<i>♪ For the townsmen to decide ♪</i>

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♪ So the village
dreadful yawns ♪

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♪ Pronouncing gross diversion ♪

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♪ As the label for the dog ♪

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<i>♪ Oh, "It's the madness</i>
<i>in his eyes" ♪</i>

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<i>♪ As he breaks</i>
<i>the night to cry ♪</i>

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♪ It's really me ♪

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<i>♪ Really you and really me ♪</i>

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♪ It's so hard
for us to really be ♪

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♪ Really you and really me ♪

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<i>♪ You'll lose me,</i>
<i>though I'm always ♪</i>

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♪ Really free ♪

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♪ Yeah... ♪

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[ALL THE YOUNG DUDES SONG]

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♪ Jimmy rapped all night
about his suicide ♪

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♪ How he'd kick it in the head
when he was 25 ♪

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♪ All that speed jive ♪

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♪ Don't want to stay alive
when you're 25 ♪

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♪ Lucy's stealing clothes
from unlocked cars ♪

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♪ Freddy's got spots ♪

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♪ from ripping off the stars
from his face, honey ♪

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♪ A funky little boat race ♪

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♪ The television man is crazy ♪

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♪ Saying we're juvenile
delinquent wrecks ♪

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♪ But, man, I need a TV
when I've got T. Rex ♪

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♪ Hey, brother, you guessed ♪

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♪ I'm a dude ♪

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♪ All the young dudes ♪

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♪ Carry the news ♪

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♪ Boogaloo dudes ♪

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♪ Carry the news ♪

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♪ All the young dudes ♪

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♪ Carry the news ♪

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♪ Boogaloo dudes
Yeah ♪

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♪ Carry the news ♪

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[OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS SONG]

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♪ Wake up you sleepy head ♪

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♪ Put on some clothes,
shake up your bed ♪

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♪ Put another log
on the fire for me ♪

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♪ I've made some
breakfast and coffee ♪

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♪ I look out my window
what do I see ♪

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♪ A crack in the sky
and a hand... ♪

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♪ Reaching down... ♪

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♪ To me... ♪

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♪ All the nightmares
came today ♪

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♪ And it looks as though
they're here to stay... ♪

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[LIFE ON MARS? SONG]

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♪ It's a God-awful
small affair ♪

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♪ To the girl with
the mousy hair ♪

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♪ But her mummy
is yelling, "No" ♪

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♪ And her daddy
has told her to go ♪

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<i>♪ But her friend is</i>
<i>nowhere to be seen... ♪</i>

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MAN:<i> He's just</i>
<i>another fella, you know?</i>

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<i>WOMAN: No, he's not.</i>
<i>He's different.</i>

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MAN:<i> Well, nobody like</i>
<i>him can produce the music.</i>

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MAN 2:

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WOMAN:

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MAN:<i> Davie's the greatest,</i>
<i>and I'll say it again.</i>

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Dave's the greatest,

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and I'll say it again,
Dave's the greatest.

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<i>And I seen him onstage,</i>
<i>and he was fantastic.</i>

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<i>I'll follow that bloke anywhere</i>
<i>'cause he's the greatest.</i>

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<i>And I'll say it again,</i>
<i>he's the greatest.</i>

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<i>MAN 2: Listen, you don't have</i>
<i>to be bent to wear makeup.</i>

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It looks good,
so why not wear it?

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WOMAN: Even if it's camp,
but he's sexy, isn't he?

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Sort of thing, really.

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DAVID:<i> If I can</i>
<i>tart it all up enough,</i>

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<i>maybe people will see that it</i>
<i>has a lot to do with just them.</i>

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INTERVIEWER:
<i>What, with reflection?</i>

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DAVID:<i> Yeah, that it is really</i>

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<i>a reflection</i>
<i>of what they're like.</i>

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HOST: Mr. Powell, Mr. Jenkins.

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[indistinct]

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Businessmen in general...

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Best watch it.

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INTERVIEWER:
How are you?

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DAVID: I'm very well,
thank you. How are you?

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INTERVIEWER
I'm fine.

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DAVID: Good. How are you?
How are you?

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INTERVIEWER: You, uh,
have to get the gear on

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in order to project yourself.

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I mean, were you a nobody
who suddenly thought,

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"Jesus, I must get into
the scene by some other way"?

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DAVID: I never asked
Jesus for a think, no.

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It was always
on my own initiative.

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And...

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When I was 14, I became a Mod,

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<i>and it just carried</i>
<i>on from there.</i>

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I've always dressed
in what I considered clothes

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that are exciting for me,

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<i>um, to prevent me</i>
<i>becoming humdrum</i>

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<i>so that I would receive</i>
<i>reaction from people</i>

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<i>which would</i>
<i>encourage me to write.</i>

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INTERVIEWER:<i> You will have</i>
<i>obviously as many men followers</i>

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<i>-as you have women followers.</i>
-DAVID:<i> Yes.</i>

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INTERVIEWER:<i> I mean,</i>
<i>you haven't been shy about</i>

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declaring a certain
air of bisexuality.

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DAVID: Not at all.
I know quite a few men.

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WOMAN:<i> Some people</i>
<i>feel you're--</i>

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<i>by saying you're bisexual.</i>

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<i>by-- by kind of flaunting</i>
<i>that in a way--</i>

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DAVID:<i> Who's flaunting it?</i>

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INTERVIEWER:<i> Why do</i>
<i>you think that bisexuality in,</i>

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say '72, '73 has become
a common-- not a common,

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but an accepted kind of deal.

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<i>Why do you think we</i>
<i>have moved into that</i>

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<i>era of liberal behavior?</i>

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DAVID:<i> Once upon</i>
<i>a time, your father,</i>

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<i>my father, everybody's</i>
<i>father, I presume,</i>

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<i>wanted a good job, with a good</i>
<i>income, or reasonable income.</i>

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<i>Some chance of promotion</i>
<i>to secure their family life.</i>

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Um, where's the camera?

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You're probably fine there,
and that's where it ended.

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But now, people
want a role in society.

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They want to feel that
they have a position.

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They want to be an individual,

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and I think there's
a lot of searching to find

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the individual within oneself.

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INTERVIEWER: Right,
and how about the shoes?

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Are those men's shoes,
or women's shoes,

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or bisexual shoes?

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DAVID: They're
shoe shoes, silly.

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DAVID:<i> There was a feeling</i>
<i>of excitement and titillation</i>

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<i>about moving in areas</i>

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<i>which were forbidden</i>
<i>to the rest of society.</i>

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<i>From micro to macro,</i>
<i>from yin to yang,</i>

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<i>from male to female,</i>

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<i>there is no scissor cut.</i>
<i>No absolute.</i>

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<i>I believe that there was</i>
<i>an unconscious move to create</i>

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<i>a high priest form from</i>
<i>the line of the Greek gods</i>

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<i>who could procreate themselves.</i>

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<i>Somebody who</i>
<i>was at a super level</i>

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<i>to we regular mortals, because</i>
<i>of his androgynous nature,</i>

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<i>being somebody</i>
<i>that incorporated</i>

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<i>both feminine</i>
<i>and masculine attributes.</i>

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[MOONAGE DAYDREAM SONG]

244
00:16:35,278 --> 00:16:36,442
<i>♪ I'm an alligator ♪</i>

245
00:16:38,248 --> 00:16:41,348
♪ I'm a mama-papa
comin' for you ♪

246
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♪ I'm the space invader ♪

247
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♪ I'll be a rock 'n' rollin'
bitch for you ♪

248
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♪ Keep your mouth shut ♪

249
00:16:51,327 --> 00:16:54,163
♪ You're squawking
like a pink monkey bird ♪

250
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♪ And I'm bustin' up my
brains for the words ♪

251
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Know I am.

252
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♪ Keep your 'lectric eye
on me, babe ♪

253
00:17:09,411 --> 00:17:13,281
♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪

254
00:17:15,780 --> 00:17:19,353
♪ Press your space
face close to mine, love ♪

255
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♪ Freak out in a moonage
daydream, oh yeah! ♪

256
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<i>♪ Don't fake it baby ♪</i>

257
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<i>♪ Lay the real thing on me ♪</i>

258
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♪ You know,
the church of man, love ♪

259
00:17:38,836 --> 00:17:41,507
♪ Is such a holy place to be ♪

260
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<i>♪ Don't fake it, baby ♪</i>

261
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<i>♪ Make me know</i>
<i>you really care ♪</i>

262
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♪ Make me jump into the air ♪

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♪ If you dare ♪

264
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<i>♪ Keep your 'lectric eye</i>
<i>on me, babe ♪</i>

265
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<i>♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Press your space</i>
<i>face close to mine, love ♪</i>

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♪ Freak out in a moonage
daydream, oh yeah! ♪

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DAVID:<i> It was</i>
<i>a pudding, you know?</i>

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<i>It was a pudding of new ideas.</i>

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<i>I think we took it</i>
<i>on our shoulders</i>

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<i>that we were creating</i>
<i>the 21st century in 1971.</i>

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<i>We wanted to just blast</i>
<i>everything in the past.</i>

273
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<i>Question all the established</i>
<i>values, all the taboos.</i>

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<i>Everything is rubbish</i>
<i>and all rubbish is wonderful.</i>

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[MOONAGE DAYDREAM SONG
CONTINUES]

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♪ Keep your 'lectric eye
on me, babe ♪

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♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪

278
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♪ Press your space
face close to mine, love ♪

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♪ Freak out in a moonage
daydream, oh yeah! ♪

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♪ Freak out ♪

281
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♪ Far out ♪

282
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♪ In a... ♪

283
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WOMAN:
<i>I just didn't... to this.</i>

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<i>I've never seen anything</i>
<i>like this before.</i>

285
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WOMAN 2:<i> See, I'm just a space</i>
<i>cadet, he's the commander.</i>

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MAN:
<i>What universe is that?</i>

287
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MAN 2:<i> Bowie universe.</i>

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WOMAN:<i> Now nobody's scared</i>
<i>to walk around like that,</i>

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<i>are they?</i>
<i>He's done it, ain't he.</i>

290
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<i>He's broke through</i>
<i>a barrier, now, ain't he?</i>

291
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WOMAN 2: I guess I'm living
my fantasy, you know?

292
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MAN: What's your fantasy?

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WOMAN 2: Oh, Bowie.

294
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MAN: I like people
who are AC/DC.

295
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You know what I mean?

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INTERVIEWER: Do the clothes,
you are trying to say,

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are the clothes expressed
now your own personality?

298
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DAVID: Um, no, that I've
never been quite clear about.

299
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I've never been sure
of my own personality.

300
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INTERVIEWER:
That's very refreshing.

301
00:20:20,635 --> 00:20:22,602
That's a very refreshing thing
to hear somebody say that.

302
00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:27,673
Very. But can you fill us
in on the barest outlines?

303
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DAVID: I'm a collector.

304
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Um, and I've always just
seemed to collect personalities,

305
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um, ideas. I have
a hodge podge philosophy

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which really is very minimal.
Um, [indistinct] what?

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INTERVIEWER: [indistinct]
Do you believe in God?

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DAVID: Um, I believe
in an energy form.

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I'm not-- I wouldn't put a--

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I wouldn't like to
put a name to it.

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INTERVIEWER: Do you
indulge in any form of worship?

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DAVID: Um, uh, life.

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I love life very much indeed.

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DAVID:<i> My strivings to have</i>
<i>some kind of spiritual base</i>

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<i>were really, really</i>
<i>strong all my life,</i>

316
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<i>and I think I tried</i>
<i>to amalgamate</i>

317
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<i>my own bedrock of spirituality.</i>

318
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<i>I mean, I was</i>
<i>a Buddhist on Tuesday,</i>

319
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<i>and I was into</i>
<i>Nietzsche by Friday.</i>

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INTERVIEWER:<i> Some time</i>
<i>flirting with Buddhism,</i>

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<i>and spending some</i>
<i>time in a Buddhist retreat.</i>

322
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DAVID:<i> I mean, I felt at</i>
<i>the time that I was, you know,</i>

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<i>um, Buddha's answer to</i>
<i>everything he wanted man to be,</i>

324
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<i>but I'm-- the one thing that</i>
<i>hung over from that time</i>

325
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<i>was the feeling</i>
<i>of impermanence and transience.</i>

326
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<i>That was the one thing</i>
<i>that really struck home</i>

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<i>about everything</i>
<i>that I was learning.</i>

328
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<i>Nothing's gonna</i>
<i>stay around very long.</i>

329
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:50,624
<i>I mean, you know,</i>
<i>everything changes</i>

330
00:21:50,659 --> 00:21:52,186
<i>...different rates.</i>

331
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<i>Some seem to me sort</i>
<i>of established for a bit,</i>

332
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<i>but they're only moving at</i>
<i>a slower rate than other things</i>

333
00:21:57,666 --> 00:22:00,568
<i>and they're all inevitably</i>
<i>sort of a change-over.</i>

334
00:22:11,548 --> 00:22:15,077
<i>For me, there's always</i>
<i>been a thread of merely,</i>

335
00:22:15,112 --> 00:22:17,453
<i>um, a search.</i>

336
00:22:17,488 --> 00:22:20,082
<i>Generally, I think the subject</i>
<i>matters always come back</i>

337
00:22:20,117 --> 00:22:23,525
<i>to this singular question</i>
<i>of nearly every artist,</i>

338
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,989
<i>which is what's my</i>
<i>relationship with the universe?</i>

339
00:22:26,024 --> 00:22:28,761
<i>Whatever other form</i>
<i>it takes that's basic,</i>

340
00:22:28,796 --> 00:22:31,192
<i>I think that's probably</i>
<i>the essential question</i>

341
00:22:31,227 --> 00:22:34,030
<i>that all of us ask ourselves.</i>

342
00:22:34,065 --> 00:22:36,472
<i>A lot of us probably</i>
<i>on that last few minutes.</i>

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INTERVIEWER:<i> What's Ziggy?</i>

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DAVID:<i> Ziggy, I wanted--</i>
<i>I wanted to define</i>

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<i>the archetype</i>
<i>"Messiah Rockstar."</i>

346
00:22:57,924 --> 00:22:59,825
<i>That's all I wanted to do,</i>

347
00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:02,828
<i>and I used the trappings</i>
<i>of Kabuki theater,</i>

348
00:23:02,863 --> 00:23:06,095
<i>mime technique,</i>
<i>and fringe New York music.</i>

349
00:23:06,130 --> 00:23:07,228
[LOVE ME DO SONG]

350
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♪ Love, love me do ♪

351
00:23:10,167 --> 00:23:13,707
♪ You know I love you ♪

352
00:23:13,742 --> 00:23:16,743
♪ I'll always be true ♪

353
00:23:16,778 --> 00:23:19,779
♪ So please ♪

354
00:23:22,047 --> 00:23:23,178
AUDIENCE:
♪ Love me do ♪

355
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DAVID:
♪ Loves to be loved ♪

356
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DAVID:<i> Ziggy was for</i>
<i>me a very simplistic thing:</i>

357
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<i>what it seemed to</i>
<i>be, an alien rockstar,</i>

358
00:23:31,826 --> 00:23:34,563
<i>but other people reread him</i>

359
00:23:34,598 --> 00:23:36,994
<i>and contributed more</i>
<i>information about Ziggy</i>

360
00:23:37,029 --> 00:23:38,028
<i>than I'd put into him.</i>

361
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DAVID:

362
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DAVID:<i> You know, we've</i>
<i>set ourselves up as such.</i>

363
00:24:09,963 --> 00:24:11,831
<i>We want it all.</i>

364
00:24:11,866 --> 00:24:13,635
<i>You know, we want</i>
<i>all the adulation,</i>

365
00:24:13,670 --> 00:24:15,197
<i>and people to read the lyrics,</i>
<i>and read and everything</i>

366
00:24:15,232 --> 00:24:16,671
<i>just to play the game.</i>

367
00:24:17,069 --> 00:24:18,266
DAVID:

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DAVID:<i> When I was really</i>
<i>young, one of the mysteries,</i>

369
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<i>the great mystery of rock,</i>
<i>was that I hardly understood</i>

370
00:26:57,196 --> 00:26:59,262
<i>a word of what they</i>
<i>were singing about.</i>

371
00:27:01,365 --> 00:27:03,805
<i>Fats Domino,</i>
<i>I still don't know</i>

372
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,807
<i>one word of one lyric</i>
<i>that he ever wrote.</i>

373
00:27:05,842 --> 00:27:08,304
<i>I never understood</i>
<i>his pronunciation.</i>

374
00:27:08,339 --> 00:27:11,109
<i>And that made it even more</i>
<i>mysterious, and wonderful,</i>

375
00:27:11,144 --> 00:27:12,847
<i>and magic, you know?</i>

376
00:27:12,882 --> 00:27:14,475
<i>That he was talking</i>
<i>about something</i>

377
00:27:14,510 --> 00:27:16,950
<i>that I couldn't even</i>
<i>possibly start to understand,</i>

378
00:27:16,985 --> 00:27:19,381
<i>and I wanted in.</i>

379
00:27:19,416 --> 00:27:21,251
<i>I wanted to be in that place,</i>

380
00:27:21,286 --> 00:27:24,452
<i>this alternate</i>
<i>universe, you know?</i>

381
00:27:24,487 --> 00:27:27,092
<i>And that was so much</i>
<i>a part of the magic of music,</i>

382
00:27:27,127 --> 00:27:29,028
<i>and the same with art.</i>

383
00:27:29,063 --> 00:27:32,361
<i>I never really-- I could</i>
<i>appreciate the Vermeer,</i>

384
00:27:32,396 --> 00:27:34,968
<i>or Tintoretto, or Titian,</i>
<i>or something like that,</i>

385
00:27:35,003 --> 00:27:37,234
<i>but because it was</i>
<i>symbolic and figurative,</i>

386
00:27:37,269 --> 00:27:41,469
<i>it didn't-- I was never that</i>
<i>impressed with virtuosity.</i>

387
00:27:41,504 --> 00:27:44,241
<i>I was, you know, I understood</i>
<i>that their technique</i>

388
00:27:44,276 --> 00:27:46,276
<i>and the way they applied</i>
<i>paint, and what they could do,</i>

389
00:27:46,311 --> 00:27:49,312
<i>and how they could</i>
<i>embrace light and all that,</i>

390
00:27:49,347 --> 00:27:52,348
<i>I understood</i>
<i>and realized the...</i>

391
00:27:52,383 --> 00:27:56,451
<i>and I bowed</i>
<i>in humbleness at their...</i>

392
00:27:56,486 --> 00:27:59,223
<i>But it wasn't-- I mean, that's</i>
<i>not what I wanted from it.</i>

393
00:27:59,258 --> 00:28:01,027
<i>I wanted to use art.</i>

394
00:28:01,062 --> 00:28:04,327
<i>I wanted to use art</i>
<i>in a different way in my life.</i>

395
00:28:04,362 --> 00:28:06,230
<i>I wanted a sense that...</i>

396
00:28:09,532 --> 00:28:12,038
<i>all the nooks and crannies</i>
<i>that we don't understand</i>

397
00:28:12,073 --> 00:28:14,271
<i>about the way that we live</i>
<i>through our day to day life,</i>

398
00:28:14,306 --> 00:28:17,010
<i>and I wanted that</i>
<i>shown to me, you know?</i>

399
00:28:17,045 --> 00:28:20,442
<i>Not in great clarity, but some</i>
<i>kind of physical manifestation</i>

400
00:28:20,477 --> 00:28:24,149
<i>of these are the areas of life</i>
<i>that are causing you grief,</i>

401
00:28:24,184 --> 00:28:27,955
<i>or euphoria, and you</i>
<i>don't really know why.</i>

402
00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:29,858
<i>Why is it that you</i>
<i>wake up one day,</i>

403
00:28:29,893 --> 00:28:33,554
<i>and an oak tree, hit by</i>
<i>the light in a certain way,</i>

404
00:28:33,589 --> 00:28:37,932
<i>will produce these</i>
<i>extraordinary feelings of glee,</i>

405
00:28:37,967 --> 00:28:39,527
<i>and absolute enjoyment,</i>

406
00:28:39,562 --> 00:28:42,035
<i>exhilaration at</i>
<i>actually being alive.</i>

407
00:28:42,070 --> 00:28:44,433
<i>Another day, you can wake up</i>

408
00:28:44,468 --> 00:28:47,304
<i>and that same tree</i>
<i>will seem like some</i>

409
00:28:47,339 --> 00:28:51,539
<i>Caspar David Friedrich</i>
<i>symbolic death, you know?</i>

410
00:28:51,574 --> 00:28:53,948
<i>And it will be dark and</i>
<i>negative and awful, you know?</i>

411
00:28:53,983 --> 00:28:56,478
<i>And it's that sense of why</i>
<i>those things happen?</i>

412
00:28:56,513 --> 00:28:59,448
<i>Why aren't things</i>
<i>the same every single day</i>

413
00:28:59,483 --> 00:29:01,450
<i>and produce exactly</i>
<i>the same feeling?</i>

414
00:29:01,485 --> 00:29:03,320
<i>And art always does that to me.</i>

415
00:29:16,368 --> 00:29:18,368
INTERVIEWER:
<i>What are your hobbies?</i>

416
00:29:18,403 --> 00:29:20,040
DAVID:<i> Well, where</i>
<i>would you like to start?</i>

417
00:29:20,075 --> 00:29:25,914
<i>Uh, I sculpt, paint,</i>
<i>and write films.</i>

418
00:29:25,949 --> 00:29:29,016
<i>Um, I make video television.</i>

419
00:29:29,051 --> 00:29:30,611
<i>Not programs,</i>
<i>but video television.</i>

420
00:29:30,646 --> 00:29:33,317
-INTERVIEWER:<i> Of what?</i>
<i>-Um, art things that I do.</i>

421
00:29:33,352 --> 00:29:39,257
<i>Experimental video,</i>
<i>and cinematography.</i>

422
00:29:39,292 --> 00:29:40,995
INTERVIEWER:<i> With</i>
<i>the art now that you create,</i>

423
00:29:41,030 --> 00:29:42,359
<i>the sculpturings...</i>

424
00:29:42,394 --> 00:29:45,131
DAVID:<i> Yeah, I have...</i>
<i>you'll see.</i>

425
00:29:47,465 --> 00:29:49,300
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Is what...</i> [indistinct]

426
00:29:49,335 --> 00:29:52,501
DAVID:<i> I play with video, yes.</i>
<i>I flirt an awful lot.</i>

427
00:30:02,579 --> 00:30:04,249
<i>I've asked again,</i>
<i>over the last few years,</i>

428
00:30:04,284 --> 00:30:06,185
<i>I've been identifying</i>
<i>again with a force.</i>

429
00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:07,923
<i>I don't know</i>
<i>how I'm going to--</i>

430
00:30:07,958 --> 00:30:10,288
<i>how it will end up for me,</i>

431
00:30:10,323 --> 00:30:14,226
<i>but, um, I can't pinpoint it,</i>

432
00:30:14,261 --> 00:30:16,360
<i>but I do have</i>
<i>a very strong belief in...</i>

433
00:30:17,968 --> 00:30:20,265
<i>in a force, and I don't</i>
<i>know how it works.</i>

434
00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:23,367
<i>What I mean is, there is</i>
<i>something else other than us.</i>

435
00:30:23,402 --> 00:30:25,534
<i>That's as near</i>
<i>as I can get to it,</i>

436
00:30:25,569 --> 00:30:30,209
<i>and it may even just be</i>
<i>people on other planets</i>

437
00:30:30,244 --> 00:30:31,474
<i>that I'm thinking about.</i>

438
00:30:31,509 --> 00:30:33,146
<i>It may be God.</i>

439
00:30:33,181 --> 00:30:34,950
<i>It may be--</i>
<i>I don't know what it is,</i>

440
00:30:34,985 --> 00:30:36,413
<i>but there's a definite</i>
<i>force that I feel.</i>

441
00:30:38,153 --> 00:30:39,988
INTERVIEWER:<i> Almost</i>
<i>like there's something else,</i>

442
00:30:40,023 --> 00:30:41,990
<i>-that we're just a part of it.</i>
-DAVID:<i> Yeah. Yeah.</i>

443
00:30:42,025 --> 00:30:44,223
INTERVIEWER:<i> That's beyond us.</i>
<i>That's my feeling as well.</i>

444
00:30:44,258 --> 00:30:47,226
<i>There's always been,</i>
<i>um, for me--</i>

445
00:30:47,261 --> 00:30:50,196
<i>I guess for a lot of people--</i>
<i>a certain sense of you</i>

446
00:30:50,231 --> 00:30:53,936
<i>that's other-worldly.</i>
<i>Um, and of course that's...</i>

447
00:30:58,503 --> 00:30:59,733
[WARSZAWA SONG]

448
00:30:59,768 --> 00:31:03,638
♪ Sula vie ♪

449
00:31:03,673 --> 00:31:08,346
♪ Dilejo ♪

450
00:31:10,416 --> 00:31:16,123
♪ Sula vie milejo ♪

451
00:31:16,158 --> 00:31:20,622
♪ Mmm-omm... ♪

452
00:32:17,615 --> 00:32:19,120
DAVID: Like anything useful,

453
00:32:20,420 --> 00:32:22,090
it's all got to do with fear.

454
00:32:24,292 --> 00:32:26,160
I think he's
broken his arm, sir.

455
00:32:28,659 --> 00:32:31,429
They wouldn't
bother with it, Captain.

456
00:32:31,464 --> 00:32:33,299
[QUICKSAND SONG]

457
00:32:33,334 --> 00:32:38,271
<i>♪ I'm closer to</i>
<i>the Golden Dawn ♪</i>

458
00:32:38,306 --> 00:32:41,835
<i>♪ Immersed in</i>
<i>Crowley's uniform ♪</i>

459
00:32:41,870 --> 00:32:45,278
<i>♪ Of imagery... ♪</i>

460
00:32:45,313 --> 00:32:47,445
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Ziggy was a disguise?</i>

461
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,216
DAVID:<i> He was</i>
<i>a character that I created.</i>

462
00:32:49,251 --> 00:32:51,251
<i>I wanted to make films...</i>

463
00:32:51,286 --> 00:32:53,847
<i>♪ I'm living in</i>
<i>a silent film... ♪</i>

464
00:32:53,882 --> 00:32:58,159
<i>...and I transposed most</i>
<i>of those ideas into music form.</i>

465
00:33:00,658 --> 00:33:02,130
INTERVIEWER:<i> How</i>
<i>long is it gonna take</i>

466
00:33:02,165 --> 00:33:03,626
<i>before you're all</i>
<i>David Bowie?</i>

467
00:33:03,661 --> 00:33:05,364
David:
<i>Oh never, you know.</i>

468
00:33:05,399 --> 00:33:07,234
<i>I'd run off</i>
<i>into something else, you know.</i>

469
00:33:07,269 --> 00:33:11,337
<i>♪ I'm frightened</i>
<i>by the total goal ♪</i>

470
00:33:11,372 --> 00:33:14,109
<i>♪ Drawing to the ragged hole ♪</i>

471
00:33:14,144 --> 00:33:15,539
INTERVIEWER:<i> What's</i>
<i>"Changes" all about?</i>

472
00:33:15,574 --> 00:33:17,871
DAVID:<i> Changes.</i>

473
00:33:17,906 --> 00:33:20,247
<i>Someone putting</i>
<i>themselves through</i>

474
00:33:20,282 --> 00:33:23,184
<i>as much experimentation</i>
<i>to, you know,</i>

475
00:33:23,219 --> 00:33:25,780
<i>sort of treating oneself</i>
<i>as a bit of an experiment.</i>

476
00:33:27,223 --> 00:33:30,158
<i>I put myself in predicaments</i>

477
00:33:30,193 --> 00:33:32,853
<i>to see how I'll</i>
<i>cope with them a lot.</i>

478
00:33:32,888 --> 00:33:36,494
<i>It's sort of trying</i>
<i>to strengthen myself.</i>

479
00:33:36,529 --> 00:33:41,169
<i>♪ I'm the twisted name</i>
<i>in Goebbel's eyes ♪</i>

480
00:33:41,204 --> 00:33:44,436
<i>♪ Living proof</i>
<i>of Churchill's lies ♪</i>

481
00:33:45,538 --> 00:33:47,637
<i>♪ I'm destiny ♪</i>

482
00:33:52,446 --> 00:33:57,185
<i>♪ I'm torn between</i>
<i>the light and dark ♪</i>

483
00:33:57,220 --> 00:34:00,287
<i>♪ Where others</i>
<i>see their targets ♪</i>

484
00:34:00,322 --> 00:34:04,225
<i>♪ In divine symmetry ♪</i>

485
00:34:09,232 --> 00:34:12,299
<i>I put myself in dangerous</i>
<i>situations, which I did.</i>

486
00:34:12,334 --> 00:34:15,929
<i>Put myself in any situation</i>
<i>which I feel I can't cope with.</i>

487
00:34:15,964 --> 00:34:17,502
INTERVIEWER:<i> Dangerous</i>
<i>situations, such as what?</i>

488
00:34:17,537 --> 00:34:18,899
<i>Can you explain that?</i>

489
00:34:18,934 --> 00:34:20,604
DAVID:<i> Yeah. Areas</i>
<i>where I have to be in,</i>

490
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:22,309
<i>sort of, social</i>
<i>contact with people,</i>

491
00:34:22,344 --> 00:34:24,278
<i>which I'm not</i>
<i>very good at doing.</i>

492
00:34:24,313 --> 00:34:25,840
<i>I put myself in--</i>

493
00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:27,710
INTERVIEWER:<i> I don't quite</i>
<i>know what you mean now.</i>

494
00:34:27,745 --> 00:34:29,514
DAVID:<i> Well, I went to</i>
<i>Los Angeles and I lived there</i>

495
00:34:29,549 --> 00:34:31,780
<i>for a couple of years, which is</i>
<i>a city I really detest.</i>

496
00:34:31,815 --> 00:34:33,551
-INTERVIEWER:<i> Yeah.</i>
-DAVID:<i> So, I went to</i>

497
00:34:33,586 --> 00:34:37,324
<i>live there to see what</i>
<i>would happen to my writing.</i>

498
00:34:37,359 --> 00:34:39,392
[NATURAL WOMAN SONG]

499
00:34:39,427 --> 00:34:43,726
Aretha Franklin:<i> ♪ When my soul</i>
<i>was in the lost and found... ♪</i>

500
00:34:43,761 --> 00:34:45,200
INTERVIEWER: Since
you've been in America,

501
00:34:45,235 --> 00:34:46,729
you seem to have picked up

502
00:34:46,764 --> 00:34:49,864
on a lot of the idioms
and themes of American music,

503
00:34:49,899 --> 00:34:52,933
and American culture.
How has that happened?

504
00:34:52,968 --> 00:34:55,771
DAVID: There's a fly
floating around in my milk.

505
00:34:55,806 --> 00:34:58,774
There's a foreign body
in it, you see?

506
00:34:58,809 --> 00:35:00,611
And it's getting a lot of milk.

507
00:35:00,646 --> 00:35:02,184
That's kind of how I feel.

508
00:35:04,254 --> 00:35:07,585
A foreign body, and I just--
I couldn't help but soak it up.

509
00:35:07,620 --> 00:35:09,422
You know.

510
00:35:09,457 --> 00:35:11,820
I hated it when
I first came here.

511
00:35:11,855 --> 00:35:13,294
I couldn't see any of it.

512
00:35:14,429 --> 00:35:15,989
Look, a wax museum.

513
00:35:16,024 --> 00:35:19,300
Hey, a bleedin' wax museum
in the middle of a desert!

514
00:35:19,335 --> 00:35:21,401
You'd think it would
melt, wouldn't you?

515
00:35:39,553 --> 00:35:41,388
DAVID:<i> There's</i>
<i>a good, old circle thing,</i>

516
00:35:41,423 --> 00:35:43,324
<i>and it really is, it's uh,</i>

517
00:35:43,359 --> 00:35:46,987
<i>it's the decadence that</i>
<i>precedes the righteousness,</i>

518
00:35:47,022 --> 00:35:49,627
<i>and the morality</i>

519
00:35:49,662 --> 00:35:53,631
<i>of an extremely</i>
<i>right wing art form,</i>

520
00:35:53,666 --> 00:35:56,799
<i>which, in its right wing-ness</i>
<i>is in fact very liberal</i>

521
00:35:56,834 --> 00:35:58,801
<i>because the faster you</i>
<i>can get rid of the right wings,</i>

522
00:35:58,836 --> 00:36:01,870
<i>and by accelerating it, then</i>
<i>you bring back [indistinct].</i>

523
00:36:01,905 --> 00:36:04,675
<i>You've got to go</i>
<i>through the dictatorship.</i>

524
00:36:04,710 --> 00:36:06,512
<i>You've got to go</i>
<i>through the right wing--</i>

525
00:36:06,547 --> 00:36:07,744
DAVID:<i> Coveting the highest...</i>

526
00:36:07,779 --> 00:36:09,812
DAVID:<i> Exactly.</i>

527
00:36:09,847 --> 00:36:11,682
<i>Man Ray is suddenly</i>
<i>getting very popular...</i>

528
00:36:13,587 --> 00:36:16,885
<i>and it's-- I mean, I-- We--</i>
<i>I know, you know what's coming.</i>

529
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:22,693
<i>I mean, baby, what</i>
<i>is coming.</i> [indistinct]

530
00:36:22,728 --> 00:36:24,057
<i>Of course it is, yeah.</i>

531
00:36:24,092 --> 00:36:26,301
<i>And we're going</i>
<i>to live through it.</i>

532
00:36:26,336 --> 00:36:28,534
<i>We're gonna be lucky</i>
<i>enough</i> [indistinct].

533
00:36:28,569 --> 00:36:31,405
DAVID:
<i>This ain't rock and roll!</i>

534
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,770
<i>This is genocide!</i>

535
00:36:41,351 --> 00:36:43,384
[CRACKED ACTOR SONG]

536
00:36:56,894 --> 00:36:58,630
<i>♪ I've come on a few years ♪</i>

537
00:36:58,665 --> 00:37:00,830
<i>♪ from my Hollywood Highs ♪</i>

538
00:37:00,865 --> 00:37:02,535
<i>♪ The best of the last ♪</i>

539
00:37:02,570 --> 00:37:04,735
<i>♪ The cleanest star'</i>
<i>they ever had ♪</i>

540
00:37:04,770 --> 00:37:06,605
<i>♪ I'm stiff on my legend ♪</i>

541
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,541
<i>♪ The films that I made ♪</i>

542
00:37:08,576 --> 00:37:10,378
<i>♪ Forget that I'm fifty ♪</i>

543
00:37:10,413 --> 00:37:12,479
<i>♪ 'Cause you just got paid ♪</i>

544
00:37:12,514 --> 00:37:14,448
♪ Crack, baby, crack ♪

545
00:37:14,483 --> 00:37:16,450
♪ Show me you're real ♪

546
00:37:16,485 --> 00:37:19,981
♪ Smack, baby, smack,
is that all that you feel ♪

547
00:37:20,016 --> 00:37:21,818
♪ Suck, baby, suck ♪

548
00:37:21,853 --> 00:37:23,985
♪ Give me your head ♪

549
00:37:24,020 --> 00:37:25,855
♪ Before you start professing ♪

550
00:37:25,890 --> 00:37:28,957
♪ That you're
knocking me dead... ♪

551
00:37:28,992 --> 00:37:30,827
INTERVIEWER:<i> You know,</i>
<i>you haven't-- your accent,</i>

552
00:37:30,862 --> 00:37:33,401
<i>your voice, your method</i>
<i>of speech has not changed.</i>

553
00:37:33,436 --> 00:37:35,568
<i>You've been away for two years.</i>

554
00:37:35,603 --> 00:37:37,636
<i>Does that mean you've been</i>
<i>locked away somewhere?</i>

555
00:37:37,671 --> 00:37:39,066
DAVID:<i> Yes, I don't</i>
<i>talk to anybody.</i>

556
00:37:41,411 --> 00:37:44,005
INTERVIEWER:
<i>But do people talk to you?</i>

557
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,677
DAVID:<i> I've heard</i>
<i>it rumored, yes.</i>

558
00:37:45,712 --> 00:37:47,074
[CRACKED ACTOR SONG]

559
00:37:47,109 --> 00:37:48,680
<i>♪ But since he pinned you,</i>
<i>baby ♪</i>

560
00:37:48,715 --> 00:37:50,814
♪ You're a porcupine ♪

561
00:37:50,849 --> 00:37:54,521
♪ You sold me illusions
for a sack full of checks ♪

562
00:37:54,556 --> 00:37:58,118
♪ You've made a bad connection
'cause I just want your sex ♪

563
00:37:58,153 --> 00:38:00,153
♪ Crack, baby, crack ♪

564
00:38:00,188 --> 00:38:02,463
♪ Show me you're real ♪

565
00:38:02,498 --> 00:38:06,027
<i>♪ Smack, baby, smack,</i>
<i>is that all that you feel ♪</i>

566
00:38:06,062 --> 00:38:08,029
♪ Suck, baby, suck ♪

567
00:38:08,064 --> 00:38:09,569
♪ Give me your head ♪

568
00:38:09,604 --> 00:38:11,505
♪ Before you start professing ♪

569
00:38:11,540 --> 00:38:13,870
♪ That you're knocking me dead ♪

570
00:38:15,071 --> 00:38:16,774
<i>♪ Oh... ♪</i>

571
00:38:22,518 --> 00:38:23,979
<i>♪ Oh stay ♪</i>

572
00:38:26,148 --> 00:38:27,719
<i>♪ Don't you dare ♪</i>

573
00:38:30,152 --> 00:38:32,152
<i>♪ Oh yeah... ♪</i>

574
00:38:35,795 --> 00:38:37,124
<i>♪ Don't you dare ♪</i>

575
00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:42,734
♪ Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

576
00:38:42,769 --> 00:38:44,065
♪ Yeah... ♪

577
00:39:20,037 --> 00:39:21,938
DICK:
<i>Some people thought--</i>

578
00:39:21,973 --> 00:39:23,940
<i>There's a lady who said</i>
<i>"I don't know if he'd be...</i>

579
00:39:23,975 --> 00:39:25,777
if I'd want to meet him.
He would make me very nervous.

580
00:39:25,812 --> 00:39:27,207
I have a feeling
he's into black magic,

581
00:39:27,242 --> 00:39:29,044
and that sort of thing."

582
00:39:29,079 --> 00:39:31,112
And other people see you as
just a very skillful performer

583
00:39:31,147 --> 00:39:33,213
who changes from time to time,

584
00:39:33,248 --> 00:39:34,654
from one thing to another.

585
00:39:34,689 --> 00:39:36,722
DAVID: Yeah.
Well, both of that is--

586
00:39:36,757 --> 00:39:38,119
DICK:
All of the above?

587
00:39:39,859 --> 00:39:41,529
ROCK 'N' ROLL WITH ME (SONG)

588
00:39:41,564 --> 00:39:45,467
<i>♪ You always were</i>
<i>the one that knew ♪</i>

589
00:39:48,230 --> 00:39:51,968
<i>♪ They sold us</i>
<i>for the likes of you ♪</i>

590
00:39:55,171 --> 00:39:58,513
<i>♪ I never wanted anything ♪</i>

591
00:39:58,548 --> 00:40:00,977
<i>♪ But new surroundings ♪</i>

592
00:40:02,783 --> 00:40:04,849
<i>♪ A room to rent ♪</i>

593
00:40:04,884 --> 00:40:10,756
<i>♪ while the lizards</i>
<i>lay lying in the heat ♪</i>

594
00:40:10,791 --> 00:40:12,285
INTERVIEWER:<i> What kind</i>
<i>of childhood did you have?</i>

595
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:13,924
DAVID:<i> Oh, incredibly ordinary.</i>

596
00:40:13,959 --> 00:40:15,794
-INTERVIEWER:<i> Ordinary?</i>
-DAVID:<i> Yeah.</i>

597
00:40:15,829 --> 00:40:17,290
-INTERVIEWER:<i> In what way?</i>
-DAVID:<i> Well, I mean,</i>

598
00:40:17,325 --> 00:40:19,226
<i>it was regular.</i>
<i>I went to school, I ate.</i>

599
00:40:21,670 --> 00:40:24,000
DAVID:<i> In suburbia,</i>
<i>you're given the impression</i>

600
00:40:24,035 --> 00:40:26,002
<i>that nothing culturally</i>
<i>belongs to you.</i>

601
00:40:26,037 --> 00:40:28,103
<i>That you are sort</i>
<i>of in this wasteland,</i>

602
00:40:28,138 --> 00:40:30,677
<i>and I think there's</i>
<i>a passion for most people</i>

603
00:40:30,712 --> 00:40:33,108
<i>who have an iota of curiosity</i>

604
00:40:33,143 --> 00:40:35,682
<i>about them to escape</i>
<i>and get out.</i>

605
00:40:35,717 --> 00:40:40,148
♪ When you rock 'n' roll
with me ♪

606
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,254
♪ No one else I'd rather be ♪

607
00:40:49,698 --> 00:40:55,801
♪ Nobody here can do it for me ♪

608
00:40:55,836 --> 00:40:57,569
♪ I'm in tears again ♪

609
00:41:01,644 --> 00:41:06,779
♪ When you rock 'n' roll
with me ♪

610
00:41:10,279 --> 00:41:12,147
DAVID:<i> One of my siblings</i>

611
00:41:12,182 --> 00:41:14,886
<i>meant so much to</i>
<i>me in my early years,</i>

612
00:41:14,921 --> 00:41:17,350
<i>and his name was Terry,</i>
<i>and he was my half-brother,</i>

613
00:41:17,385 --> 00:41:19,022
<i>my mother's son.</i>

614
00:41:19,057 --> 00:41:20,661
DAVID:<i> Hey, hey, good evening,</i>
<i>Buffalo.</i>

615
00:41:20,696 --> 00:41:23,257
<i>It's nice to be here.</i>

616
00:41:23,292 --> 00:41:27,734
DAVID:<i> He was living between</i>
<i>our family and another family,</i>

617
00:41:27,769 --> 00:41:30,099
<i>and the periods</i>
<i>that I did see him,</i>

618
00:41:30,134 --> 00:41:33,135
<i>it seemed to me that he had</i>
<i>more curiosity about the world</i>

619
00:41:33,170 --> 00:41:34,840
<i>than anybody I'd met.</i>

620
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:41,044
<i>And the first real,</i>
<i>major event for me was</i>

621
00:41:41,079 --> 00:41:43,211
<i>when he passed Jack Kerouac's</i>
<i>On The Road on to me,</i>

622
00:41:43,246 --> 00:41:46,687
<i>which really changed my life.</i>

623
00:41:46,722 --> 00:41:50,119
<i>And he would also introduce me</i>
<i>to people like John Coltrane,</i>

624
00:41:50,154 --> 00:41:51,857
<i>which was way above my head,</i>

625
00:41:51,892 --> 00:41:53,859
<i>but I wanted to read</i>
<i>what he read,</i>

626
00:41:53,894 --> 00:41:56,257
<i>and I wanted to listen</i>
<i>to what he listened to,</i>

627
00:41:56,292 --> 00:41:59,194
<i>as one does with</i>
<i>an older brother.</i>

628
00:41:59,229 --> 00:42:03,935
♪ When you rock 'n' roll
with me ♪

629
00:42:06,236 --> 00:42:11,074
♪ No one else I'd rather be ♪

630
00:42:13,177 --> 00:42:18,818
♪ Nobody here
can do it for me... ♪

631
00:42:18,853 --> 00:42:20,952
DAVID:<i> I think Terry</i>
<i>probably gave me a great--</i>

632
00:42:20,987 --> 00:42:22,690
<i>the greatest serviceable</i>
<i>education</i>

633
00:42:22,725 --> 00:42:24,351
<i>I could ever have had.</i>

634
00:42:24,386 --> 00:42:27,893
<i>I mean, he just introduced</i>
<i>me to the outside things,</i>

635
00:42:27,928 --> 00:42:30,192
<i>kinds of books,</i>
<i>and kinds of music</i>

636
00:42:30,227 --> 00:42:32,667
<i>and attitudes that just weren't</i>

637
00:42:32,702 --> 00:42:34,262
<i>the currency</i>
<i>in the area that I grew up.</i>

638
00:42:35,903 --> 00:42:38,134
<i>And then he would go</i>
<i>away for long periods,</i>

639
00:42:38,169 --> 00:42:41,335
<i>and one period he went</i>
<i>away and joined the RAF.</i>

640
00:42:43,207 --> 00:42:48,815
<i>When he came back, he had very</i>
<i>evident signs of schizophrenia,</i>

641
00:42:48,850 --> 00:42:50,850
<i>and he stayed in hospital</i>
<i>for the rest of his life.</i>

642
00:42:52,150 --> 00:42:53,952
[ROCK 'N' ROLL WITH ME SONG]

643
00:42:57,023 --> 00:43:01,828
<i>♪ When you rock 'n' roll</i>
<i>with me ♪</i>

644
00:43:04,129 --> 00:43:08,703
<i>♪ No one else I'd rather be ♪</i>

645
00:43:11,334 --> 00:43:16,205
<i>♪ Nobody here</i>
<i>can do it for me... ♪</i>

646
00:43:18,143 --> 00:43:20,440
DAVID:<i> I think it made me</i>
<i>worry about my own disposition,</i>

647
00:43:20,475 --> 00:43:23,311
<i>and whether I just</i>
<i>had eccentric ideas,</i>

648
00:43:23,346 --> 00:43:26,314
<i>or whether I was</i>
<i>heading somewhere else.</i>

649
00:43:26,349 --> 00:43:32,089
♪ When you rock 'n' roll,
rock 'n' roll with me ♪

650
00:43:33,488 --> 00:43:38,161
♪ No one else I'd rather,
I'd rather be ♪

651
00:43:40,968 --> 00:43:45,366
♪ Nobody down here
can do it for me ♪

652
00:43:48,074 --> 00:43:49,909
♪ I'm in tears ♪

653
00:43:51,847 --> 00:43:53,110
♪ I'm in tears ♪

654
00:43:55,312 --> 00:44:00,854
♪ When you rock 'n' roll
with me... ♪

655
00:44:03,122 --> 00:44:04,792
♪ Oh yeah ♪

656
00:44:06,521 --> 00:44:09,522
♪ Rock 'n' roll with me ♪

657
00:44:09,557 --> 00:44:11,491
♪ Oh-hoo yeah. ♪

658
00:44:20,304 --> 00:44:22,007
INTERVIEWER:<i> I understand</i>
<i>that you have a fear</i>

659
00:44:22,042 --> 00:44:24,075
<i>because there was</i>
<i>mental illness in your family,</i>

660
00:44:24,110 --> 00:44:26,946
<i>that you have a fear of</i>
<i>mental illness. Is that true?</i>

661
00:44:26,981 --> 00:44:30,114
DAVID:<i> Um, no, I developed</i>
<i>a system against it.</i>

662
00:44:30,149 --> 00:44:33,381
<i>I think that probably became</i>
<i>part of the therapy of art,</i>

663
00:44:33,416 --> 00:44:36,021
<i>and I was fortunate</i>
<i>enough to be able to</i>

664
00:44:36,056 --> 00:44:38,485
<i>express any visions</i>
<i>that I had in my head.</i>

665
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,124
-INTERVIEWER: Yeah.
-DAVID: Very outwardly.

666
00:44:40,159 --> 00:44:42,830
DAVID: Gradually
learning to do without sleep.

667
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,363
DAVID:<i> It's a labyrinthine</i>
<i>existence that we live,</i>

668
00:44:48,398 --> 00:44:51,300
<i>and so it makes sense</i>
<i>for me to put together</i>

669
00:44:51,335 --> 00:44:52,972
<i>elements in a song which</i>

670
00:44:53,007 --> 00:44:55,007
<i>wouldn't naturally</i>
<i>be good bedfellows.</i>

671
00:44:59,574 --> 00:45:02,179
<i>I guess I'm trying</i>
<i>to articulate...</i>

672
00:45:04,282 --> 00:45:06,381
<i>those mysterious</i>
<i>corners of the mind</i>

673
00:45:06,416 --> 00:45:08,350
<i>where there exist</i>
<i>grains of truth</i>

674
00:45:08,385 --> 00:45:10,286
<i>that we don't often touch on,</i>

675
00:45:10,321 --> 00:45:12,893
<i>because we don't have</i>
<i>the words to capture them.</i>

676
00:45:15,095 --> 00:45:17,931
<i>So, we'll write on three or</i>
<i>four different subject matters,</i>

677
00:45:17,966 --> 00:45:21,902
<i>and then integrate them</i>
<i>together by cutting them up.</i>

678
00:45:21,937 --> 00:45:25,136
What I've used it for
more than anything else

679
00:45:25,171 --> 00:45:30,009
is igniting anything that
might be in my imagination.

680
00:45:30,044 --> 00:45:31,604
I've tried doing it
with diaries and things,

681
00:45:31,639 --> 00:45:34,277
and I was finding out
amazing things about me

682
00:45:34,312 --> 00:45:36,411
and what I'd done
and where I was going.

683
00:45:38,019 --> 00:45:39,887
A lot of the things I had done,

684
00:45:39,922 --> 00:45:42,318
it seemed that it would
predict things about the future

685
00:45:42,353 --> 00:45:45,321
<i>and tell me a lot</i>
<i>about the past.</i>

686
00:45:45,356 --> 00:45:49,589
<i>I suppose it's a very</i>
<i>Western tarot. I don't know.</i>

687
00:45:49,624 --> 00:45:51,591
<i>Obviously, one</i>
<i>is trying to always</i>

688
00:45:51,626 --> 00:45:53,626
<i>reevaluate one's personality,</i>

689
00:45:53,661 --> 00:45:56,431
<i>and understand why one works.</i>

690
00:45:58,402 --> 00:46:01,403
<i>I think a lot of artists deal</i>
<i>with loneliness and solitude.</i>

691
00:46:03,506 --> 00:46:07,640
<i>An artist does tend</i>
<i>to examine the world</i>

692
00:46:07,675 --> 00:46:09,543
<i>through his relationship to it,</i>

693
00:46:09,578 --> 00:46:11,446
<i>and so that produces</i>

694
00:46:11,481 --> 00:46:13,514
<i>a very introverted looking</i>
<i>lot of work.</i>

695
00:46:13,549 --> 00:46:16,517
<i>I don't feel lonely.</i>
<i>I apply that to my work.</i>

696
00:46:16,552 --> 00:46:21,324
<i>I sense a feeling of loneliness</i>
<i>from my work when I look at it,</i>

697
00:46:21,359 --> 00:46:24,558
<i>but I don't feel like</i>
<i>a solitary person myself,</i>

698
00:46:24,593 --> 00:46:26,428
<i>but it seems</i>
<i>to show up in my work,</i>

699
00:46:26,463 --> 00:46:28,661
<i>and it's like taking</i>
<i>a photograph</i>

700
00:46:28,696 --> 00:46:30,630
<i>and then developing</i>
<i>the negative</i>

701
00:46:30,665 --> 00:46:33,237
<i>and seeing another</i>
<i>person standing behind you.</i>

702
00:46:33,272 --> 00:46:39,144
<i>♪ Who will love Aladdin Sane ♪</i>

703
00:46:39,179 --> 00:46:43,984
<i>♪ Battle cries and champagne</i>
<i>just in time for sunrise ♪</i>

704
00:46:44,019 --> 00:46:49,253
<i>♪ Who will love Aladdin Sane ♪</i>

705
00:46:51,587 --> 00:46:53,994
<i>♪ Motor sensational ♪</i>

706
00:46:56,097 --> 00:46:58,526
<i>♪ Paris or maybe hell ♪</i>

707
00:46:58,561 --> 00:47:00,231
<i>♪ I'm waiting ♪</i>

708
00:47:00,266 --> 00:47:02,563
<i>♪ Clutches of sad remains ♪</i>

709
00:47:04,501 --> 00:47:08,470
<i>♪ Waits for Aladdin Sane</i>
<i>You'll make it ♪</i>

710
00:47:08,505 --> 00:47:14,674
<i>♪ Who will love Aladdin Sane ♪</i>

711
00:47:14,709 --> 00:47:18,381
<i>♪ Millions weep a fountain,</i>
<i>just in case of sunrise... ♪</i>

712
00:47:18,416 --> 00:47:19,679
INTERVIEWER:
<i>With your background,</i>

713
00:47:19,714 --> 00:47:23,452
<i>why were you</i>
<i>intrigued by all this?</i>

714
00:47:23,487 --> 00:47:27,423
DAVID: Um, it was... I mean,

715
00:47:27,458 --> 00:47:29,623
it filled a vast expanse
of my imagination.

716
00:47:29,658 --> 00:47:31,262
I was always
pretty imaginative.

717
00:47:33,431 --> 00:47:36,267
And the imagination
can dry up in

718
00:47:36,302 --> 00:47:38,467
wherever you're
living in England, often.

719
00:47:38,502 --> 00:47:40,700
I mean, if there's
nothing to keep it going.

720
00:47:40,735 --> 00:47:42,702
It just supplied a need in me.

721
00:47:44,277 --> 00:47:46,640
American became
a myth-land for me.

722
00:47:52,780 --> 00:47:55,616
DAVID: We're not stopped.
Is there anything behind us?

723
00:48:01,096 --> 00:48:02,557
INTERVIEWER:<i> Let's</i>
<i>go with him now live,</i>

724
00:48:02,592 --> 00:48:04,262
<i>by satellite,</i>

725
00:48:04,297 --> 00:48:07,001
<i>to beautiful downtown Burbank</i>
<i>in Los Angeles.</i>

726
00:48:09,071 --> 00:48:10,136
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is it true that you're gonna be

727
00:48:10,171 --> 00:48:11,335
teaming up with...

728
00:48:12,470 --> 00:48:14,371
Every avenue.

729
00:48:14,406 --> 00:48:17,209
It's very calm, and it's a kind
of a superficial calmness

730
00:48:17,244 --> 00:48:19,310
that they've developed to
underplay the fact that it's--

731
00:48:19,345 --> 00:48:22,247
there's a lot of high
pressure here,

732
00:48:22,282 --> 00:48:24,183
as it's a very big
entertainment industry area.

733
00:48:25,780 --> 00:48:28,550
<i>And you get this feeling</i>
<i>of unease with everybody.</i>

734
00:48:28,585 --> 00:48:30,090
It's a very big
entertainment area.

735
00:48:30,125 --> 00:48:31,487
DAVID:<i> The first time</i>
<i>that it really</i>

736
00:48:31,522 --> 00:48:34,127
<i>came home to me</i>
<i>what a strange...</i>

737
00:48:36,098 --> 00:48:39,792
<i>About the churches</i>
<i>designed by an architect...</i>

738
00:48:39,827 --> 00:48:41,662
DAVID: Arthur, would
you please slow down?

739
00:48:43,402 --> 00:48:45,072
INTERVIEWER:<i> We're</i>
<i>bouncing backwards and forwards</i>

740
00:48:45,107 --> 00:48:46,436
on the satellite at the moment.

741
00:48:46,471 --> 00:48:49,406
I mean, our sound
is bouncing around.

742
00:48:49,441 --> 00:48:50,605
Yes, I can see it.

743
00:48:52,609 --> 00:48:54,279
It'll be all right in a minute.

744
00:49:00,221 --> 00:49:01,220
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Are you there, David?</i>

745
00:49:02,553 --> 00:49:03,717
<i>Are you there, David?</i>

746
00:49:03,752 --> 00:49:05,653
Bedroom in the sky.

747
00:49:05,688 --> 00:49:07,424
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Are you there, Mr. David Bowie?</i>

748
00:49:16,732 --> 00:49:19,766
DAVID:<i> I think</i>
<i>that I felt often,</i>

749
00:49:19,801 --> 00:49:24,375
<i>ever since I was a teenager,</i>

750
00:49:24,410 --> 00:49:29,578
<i>um, so adrift, and so</i>
<i>not part of everyone I saw.</i>

751
00:49:30,713 --> 00:49:32,449
<i>There's so many dark secrets</i>

752
00:49:32,484 --> 00:49:33,780
<i>about my family</i>
<i>in the cupboard</i>

753
00:49:33,815 --> 00:49:36,618
<i>that it kind of made me feel</i>

754
00:49:36,653 --> 00:49:39,192
<i>very much on the outside</i>
<i>of everything,</i>

755
00:49:39,227 --> 00:49:44,560
<i>and because of that, I felt</i>
<i>there was no basis to my life,</i>

756
00:49:44,595 --> 00:49:46,595
<i>like everybody else</i>
<i>seemed to have.</i>

757
00:49:48,203 --> 00:49:50,500
<i>Which of course</i>
<i>is ridiculous.</i>

758
00:49:50,535 --> 00:49:53,272
<i>Probably, I would</i>
<i>do things to prove that</i>

759
00:49:53,307 --> 00:49:56,209
<i>I had some</i>
<i>emotional substance...</i>

760
00:49:57,476 --> 00:49:59,113
<i>when in fact I didn't.</i>

761
00:50:39,881 --> 00:50:42,849
DAVID:<i> Thematically, I've always</i>
<i>dealt with isolation</i>

762
00:50:42,884 --> 00:50:44,719
<i>in everything I've written,</i>
<i>I think.</i>

763
00:50:44,754 --> 00:50:46,919
INTERVIEWER:<i> If you're</i>
<i>interested in isolation,</i>

764
00:50:46,954 --> 00:50:49,823
<i>is it because you think that</i>
<i>a person in an isolated state</i>

765
00:50:49,858 --> 00:50:53,167
<i>feel greater emotions</i>
<i>than they do</i>

766
00:50:53,202 --> 00:50:55,829
<i>when they're surrounded</i>
<i>by people and things?</i>

767
00:50:55,864 --> 00:50:58,667
DAVID:
<i>I think if he is in isolation,</i>

768
00:50:58,702 --> 00:51:03,375
<i>instead of receiving</i>
<i>the whole world as his home,</i>

769
00:51:03,410 --> 00:51:06,510
<i>he tends to create</i>
<i>a micro-world inside himself.</i>

770
00:51:06,545 --> 00:51:10,349
<i>Um, and it's that peculiar</i>
<i>part of the human mind</i>

771
00:51:10,384 --> 00:51:12,714
<i>that fascinates me</i>
<i>about the small universes</i>

772
00:51:12,749 --> 00:51:15,750
<i>that can be created</i>
<i>inside the mind.</i>

773
00:51:15,785 --> 00:51:18,291
<i>Some of them</i>
<i>fairly schizophrenic</i>

774
00:51:18,326 --> 00:51:19,424
<i>and quite off the wall.</i>

775
00:51:22,726 --> 00:51:25,595
<i>It feels now that</i>
<i>I don't come from anywhere,</i>

776
00:51:25,630 --> 00:51:28,796
<i>but I was born in Brixton.</i>

777
00:51:28,831 --> 00:51:30,369
INTERVIEWER :
<i>When were you born? What year?</i>

778
00:51:30,404 --> 00:51:33,504
DAVID:<i> 1947.</i>
<i>January the eighth.</i>

779
00:51:33,539 --> 00:51:36,606
<i>Makes me a Capricorn</i>
<i>with an Aquarius ascendant</i>

780
00:51:36,641 --> 00:51:38,641
<i>and a Leo descendant.</i>

781
00:51:41,844 --> 00:51:43,514
INTERVIEWER:<i> How much now</i>
<i>is left of the lad</i>

782
00:51:43,549 --> 00:51:45,219
<i>from Brixton, do you think?</i>

783
00:51:45,254 --> 00:51:46,352
DAVID:<i> Not very much,</i>
<i>I would think.</i>

784
00:51:46,387 --> 00:51:48,321
<i>I know, you know.</i>

785
00:51:48,356 --> 00:51:52,259
<i>I never got-- I never became</i>
<i>who I should have been.</i>

786
00:51:52,294 --> 00:51:54,261
<i>I've spent an awful lot</i>
<i>of my life</i>

787
00:51:54,296 --> 00:51:56,692
<i>actually looking</i>
<i>for myself, you know?</i>

788
00:51:56,727 --> 00:52:00,696
<i>And understanding what it was</i>
<i>that I-why-what I existed for.</i>

789
00:52:00,731 --> 00:52:02,467
<i>What was it that really</i>
<i>made me happy in life?</i>

790
00:52:03,734 --> 00:52:05,800
<i>And who exactly, or was--</i>

791
00:52:05,835 --> 00:52:07,769
<i>Who are the parts of myself</i>
<i>I was trying to hide from?</i>

792
00:52:10,609 --> 00:52:13,709
<i>I think a lot of us</i>
<i>have huge senses of denial</i>

793
00:52:13,744 --> 00:52:15,909
<i>about who we are and</i>
<i>where we exist in the world</i>

794
00:52:18,485 --> 00:52:19,913
<i>I really wanted to</i>
<i>sort of, you know,</i>

795
00:52:19,948 --> 00:52:21,519
<i>be very emotionally involved</i>
<i>with people.</i>

796
00:52:22,654 --> 00:52:24,324
<i>I didn't know how to do it.</i>

797
00:52:24,359 --> 00:52:25,754
<i>You know,</i>
<i>my parents were like that,</i>

798
00:52:25,789 --> 00:52:27,558
<i>and I guess you kind of,</i>
<i>as they say,</i>

799
00:52:28,891 --> 00:52:30,924
<i>they pass on a lot of faults.</i>

800
00:52:35,029 --> 00:52:36,765
DICK:<i> What do</i>
<i>your parents do for a living?</i>

801
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:41,308
My father's dead,
and my mother has a small flat,

802
00:52:41,343 --> 00:52:44,575
and I think she's got
a day job.

803
00:52:44,610 --> 00:52:46,313
DICK: Does she have trouble
explaining you to the neighbors

804
00:52:46,348 --> 00:52:48,546
who say, "Are you
any relation to that..."

805
00:52:48,581 --> 00:52:50,614
DAVID: I think she pretends
I'm not hers.

806
00:52:52,354 --> 00:52:54,519
Nah, she's uh,
she doesn't talk much.

807
00:52:54,554 --> 00:52:57,687
You know, she doesn't,
um, I don't think we really--

808
00:52:57,722 --> 00:52:59,524
We were never
that close particularly.

809
00:52:59,559 --> 00:53:00,888
We have an understanding.

810
00:53:00,923 --> 00:53:01,955
DICK: Yeah.

811
00:53:05,730 --> 00:53:07,763
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Was it a happy marriage?</i>

812
00:53:07,798 --> 00:53:10,469
<i>Not necessarily</i>
<i>terribly loving or anything,</i>

813
00:53:10,504 --> 00:53:12,933
<i>in terms of</i>
<i>no real physical affection,</i>

814
00:53:14,805 --> 00:53:17,443
<i>or even they</i>
<i>didn't really articulate</i>

815
00:53:17,478 --> 00:53:18,609
<i>any love for each other.</i>

816
00:53:26,014 --> 00:53:28,553
<i>There's an awful lot of</i>
<i>emotional/spiritual mutilation</i>

817
00:53:28,588 --> 00:53:30,324
<i>goes on in my family.</i>

818
00:53:35,430 --> 00:53:38,530
INTERVIEWER:<i> Did you like any</i>
<i>of the traditional people</i>

819
00:53:38,565 --> 00:53:40,598
<i>that you're supposed to like?</i>

820
00:53:40,633 --> 00:53:42,094
<i>Like, did you like</i>
<i>Winnie the Pooh?</i>

821
00:53:42,129 --> 00:53:43,535
DAVID:<i> No. No.</i>

822
00:53:43,570 --> 00:53:44,965
INTERVIEWER:<i> Rupert Bear?</i>

823
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,637
DAVID:<i> No.</i>
<i>No I didn't. I didn't like--</i>

824
00:53:46,672 --> 00:53:48,100
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Did you have a teddy bear?</i>

825
00:53:48,135 --> 00:53:50,344
DAVID:<i> No, I didn't.</i>
<i>I don't think...</i>

826
00:53:53,448 --> 00:53:56,075
<i>I can't remember having</i>
<i>anything like that at all.</i>

827
00:53:56,110 --> 00:53:59,320
<i>No, I never liked, um,</i>
<i>children's things very much.</i>

828
00:54:24,611 --> 00:54:26,039
INTERVIEWER:<i> You know,</i>
<i>since you've been away,</i>

829
00:54:26,074 --> 00:54:27,876
<i>or quite recently,</i>
<i>the newspapers</i>

830
00:54:27,911 --> 00:54:30,351
<i>having been having a bit</i>
<i>of a bash at your mother?</i>

831
00:54:33,554 --> 00:54:36,115
And saying that she's
a bit tearful from time to time.

832
00:54:36,150 --> 00:54:39,558
and that she's suffered
a certain amount of anguish,

833
00:54:39,593 --> 00:54:41,692
and that she doesn't hear
from you an awful lot.

834
00:54:41,727 --> 00:54:43,892
<i>Is that eyewash</i>
<i>or is it real?</i>

835
00:54:49,064 --> 00:54:50,701
DAVID:<i> There's some kind</i>
<i>of traumatism</i>

836
00:54:50,736 --> 00:54:53,132
<i>often goes on</i>
<i>in our childhoods I think.</i>

837
00:54:53,167 --> 00:54:55,475
<i>I think, that are...</i>

838
00:54:55,510 --> 00:54:57,411
<i>Makes us crave some kind</i>
<i>of strange affection, you know?</i>

839
00:54:57,446 --> 00:54:58,709
<i>It's sort of an...</i>

840
00:54:58,744 --> 00:55:00,447
<i>Often you'll find</i>
<i>that the person</i>

841
00:55:00,482 --> 00:55:02,449
<i>who craves a lot of affection</i>

842
00:55:02,484 --> 00:55:04,517
<i>actually isn't terribly good</i>
<i>at giving it.</i>

843
00:55:07,918 --> 00:55:10,985
INTERVIEWER: Does that mean
you have to separate yourself

844
00:55:11,020 --> 00:55:14,087
quite a lot from, say,
falling in love

845
00:55:14,122 --> 00:55:16,694
and getting very involved
with a person?

846
00:55:16,729 --> 00:55:20,159
Um, oh no, I think, no.

847
00:55:20,194 --> 00:55:21,699
I think quite the reverse.

848
00:55:21,734 --> 00:55:23,800
INTERVIEWER: But, love,
falling in love,

849
00:55:23,835 --> 00:55:26,935
is different from then going on
to love that person.

850
00:55:26,970 --> 00:55:28,200
Yes, it is. Yes.

851
00:55:28,235 --> 00:55:30,576
And once you've
loved somebody a lot,

852
00:55:30,611 --> 00:55:32,479
it means that you've got
to share your life with them.

853
00:55:32,514 --> 00:55:34,173
-That's what I really--
-DAVID: No, I don't think so.

854
00:55:34,208 --> 00:55:36,813
I think you can love somebody
from afar.

855
00:55:36,848 --> 00:55:39,519
But if you then decided
not to love them from afar,

856
00:55:39,554 --> 00:55:41,950
you as an artist
would have to give up

857
00:55:41,985 --> 00:55:43,820
quite a lot of your time
to them.

858
00:55:43,855 --> 00:55:45,151
Yes, and I can't do that.

859
00:55:45,186 --> 00:55:46,691
INTERVIEWER:
That's what I was wondering,

860
00:55:46,726 --> 00:55:48,187
whether you did--
whether you did that.

861
00:55:48,222 --> 00:55:49,925
DAVID: No, no, no, love can't
get quite in my way,

862
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,995
because I feel-- I shelter
myself from it incredibly.

863
00:55:55,966 --> 00:56:01,002
Interviewer:<i> Do you feel removed</i>
<i>from the body and the feel</i>

864
00:56:01,037 --> 00:56:03,873
<i>that you create on the planet?</i>

865
00:56:03,908 --> 00:56:06,040
DAVID:
<i>Until I'm performing or writing</i>

866
00:56:06,075 --> 00:56:08,845
<i>I mainly feel pretty much</i>
<i>of an empty vessel.</i>

867
00:56:10,277 --> 00:56:11,749
INTERVIEWER:<i> When you're</i>
<i>performing and writing,</i>

868
00:56:11,784 --> 00:56:13,113
<i>you're fulfilled?</i>

869
00:56:13,148 --> 00:56:16,017
DAVID:
<i>I don't particularly feel...</i>

870
00:56:16,052 --> 00:56:19,724
<i>♪ Ground Control to Major Tom ♪</i>

871
00:56:23,059 --> 00:56:26,500
<i>♪ Ground Control to Major Tom ♪</i>

872
00:56:30,572 --> 00:56:35,476
<i>♪ Take your protein pills</i>
<i>and put your helmet on ♪</i>

873
00:56:37,304 --> 00:56:40,613
<i>♪ Ground Control to Major Tom ♪</i>

874
00:56:44,586 --> 00:56:48,049
<i>♪ Commencing countdown,</i>
<i>engines on ♪</i>

875
00:56:51,791 --> 00:56:53,692
<i>♪ Check ignition ♪</i>

876
00:56:53,727 --> 00:56:58,499
<i>♪ And may God's love</i>
<i>be with you ♪</i>

877
00:57:09,039 --> 00:57:12,810
♪ This is Ground Control
to Major Tom ♪

878
00:57:13,978 --> 00:57:16,880
♪ You've really made the grade ♪

879
00:57:18,818 --> 00:57:21,885
♪ And the papers want to know ♪

880
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,217
♪ Whose shirts you wear ♪

881
00:57:25,924 --> 00:57:29,189
♪ Now it's time
to leave the capsule ♪

882
00:57:29,224 --> 00:57:31,928
♪ If you dare ♪

883
00:57:33,899 --> 00:57:38,704
♪ This is Major Tom
to Ground Control ♪

884
00:57:38,739 --> 00:57:41,839
♪ I'm stepping
through the door ♪

885
00:57:43,711 --> 00:57:48,241
♪ And I'm floating
in a most peculiar way ♪

886
00:57:50,850 --> 00:57:55,314
♪ And the stars look
very different today ♪

887
00:57:58,088 --> 00:58:01,089
♪ For here ♪

888
00:58:01,124 --> 00:58:03,993
♪ Am I sitting in my tin can ♪

889
00:58:05,733 --> 00:58:10,098
♪ Far above the world ♪

890
00:58:12,773 --> 00:58:15,642
♪ Planet Earth is blue ♪

891
00:58:15,677 --> 00:58:19,679
♪ And there's nothing I can do ♪

892
00:59:43,930 --> 00:59:45,765
DAVID:
<i>Well, an awful lot of changes</i>

893
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,294
<i>with my musical career</i>

894
00:59:47,329 --> 00:59:49,736
<i>were challenges to myself.</i>

895
00:59:49,771 --> 00:59:52,706
<i>I have to feel that I'm</i>
<i>stepping on new ground,</i>

896
00:59:52,741 --> 00:59:55,104
<i>that the ice beneath my feet</i>
<i>is very thin.</i>

897
00:59:55,139 --> 00:59:56,710
<i>Any second, I could crack it</i>

898
00:59:56,745 --> 00:59:58,107
<i>and just plunge through</i>
<i>and drown.</i>

899
00:59:59,913 --> 01:00:02,276
<i>I got to a point in Los Angeles</i>

900
01:00:02,311 --> 01:00:05,015
<i>where I got very tired</i>
<i>with my method of writing,</i>

901
01:00:05,050 --> 01:00:08,117
<i>and I wanted to invent</i>
<i>a new musical language.</i>

902
01:00:10,352 --> 01:00:12,319
<i>I knew I had to get</i>
<i>to an environment</i>

903
01:00:12,354 --> 01:00:14,860
<i>that was totally different</i>
<i>to Los Angeles.</i>

904
01:00:14,895 --> 01:00:16,994
<i>So I thought</i>
<i>of the most arduous city</i>

905
01:00:17,029 --> 01:00:19,392
<i>that I could think of,</i>
<i>and it was West Berlin.</i>

906
01:00:19,427 --> 01:00:22,835
<i>They don't give an FA about</i>
<i>who you are in Berlin.</i>

907
01:00:22,870 --> 01:00:25,200
<i>The trappings of rock and roll</i>
<i>don't mean anything to them.</i>

908
01:00:25,235 --> 01:00:26,971
<i>So, I could walk around,</i>
<i>buy me own food,</i>

909
01:00:27,006 --> 01:00:29,204
<i>and just lease</i>
<i>a small apartment,</i>

910
01:00:29,239 --> 01:00:31,745
<i>which I did above</i>
<i>an automobile spare parts shop.</i>

911
01:00:41,955 --> 01:00:45,825
<i>I didn't have</i>
<i>the necessary verbal equipment</i>

912
01:00:45,860 --> 01:00:47,926
<i>to describe what I was seeing,</i>

913
01:00:47,961 --> 01:00:49,323
<i>and that's where</i>
<i>I needed assistance.</i>

914
01:01:00,303 --> 01:01:02,006
<i>So, I contacted Brian Eno,</i>

915
01:01:02,041 --> 01:01:04,437
<i>who is definitely one</i>
<i>of the keenest brains</i>

916
01:01:04,472 --> 01:01:06,373
<i>of modern music, and I said,</i>

917
01:01:06,408 --> 01:01:09,277
<i>"Look, Brian, I need to know</i>
<i>some new processes,</i>

918
01:01:09,312 --> 01:01:11,048
<i>"and new methods of writing.</i>

919
01:01:11,083 --> 01:01:13,017
<i>Please help me,</i>
<i>otherwise I'm packing it in."</i>

920
01:01:14,482 --> 01:01:16,383
<i>We started working</i>
<i>on a series</i>

921
01:01:16,418 --> 01:01:19,386
<i>of processes and methods of</i>
<i>writing in the studio in Berlin</i>

922
01:01:19,421 --> 01:01:22,092
<i>to invent, a different kind</i>
<i>of linguistics to work with.</i>

923
01:01:40,013 --> 01:01:41,848
<i>Most of the things</i>
<i>that I do these days,</i>

924
01:01:41,883 --> 01:01:44,147
<i>I go in with very little</i>
<i>preparation.</i>

925
01:01:44,182 --> 01:01:46,578
<i>There's no governor,</i>
<i>no controller.</i>

926
01:01:46,613 --> 01:01:49,449
<i>Every track is written</i>
<i>with a different process,</i>

927
01:01:49,484 --> 01:01:51,825
<i>from spontaneous singing,</i>

928
01:01:51,860 --> 01:01:53,024
<i>I didn't know</i>
<i>what I was gonna sing,</i>

929
01:01:53,059 --> 01:01:54,520
<i>or how I was gonna sing it,</i>

930
01:01:54,555 --> 01:01:56,225
<i>and I just stood</i>
<i>in front of the mic,</i>

931
01:01:56,260 --> 01:01:58,898
<i>right down</i>
<i>to fragmented, pre-thought,</i>

932
01:01:58,933 --> 01:02:01,802
<i>analyzed and processed writings</i>
<i>of Burroughs' school.</i>

933
01:02:04,004 --> 01:02:05,938
<i>It probably touches areas</i>
<i>of emotion</i>

934
01:02:05,973 --> 01:02:07,841
<i>that aren't normally</i>
<i>dwelt upon</i>

935
01:02:07,876 --> 01:02:09,535
<i>because they're arrived</i>
<i>at other than</i>

936
01:02:09,570 --> 01:02:12,010
<i>by the regular channels</i>
<i>of emotive thought.</i>

937
01:02:13,145 --> 01:02:17,081
[SOUND AND VISION SONG]

938
01:02:30,998 --> 01:02:33,262
<i>♪ Blue, blue, electric blue ♪</i>

939
01:02:33,297 --> 01:02:35,363
<i>♪ That's the color</i>
<i>of my living room ♪</i>

940
01:02:35,398 --> 01:02:36,529
<i>♪ Where I will live ♪</i>

941
01:02:39,336 --> 01:02:40,572
<i>♪ Blue, blue ♪</i>

942
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,572
♪ Pale blinds drawn all day ♪

943
01:02:46,607 --> 01:02:48,541
♪ Nothing to read
and nothing to say ♪

944
01:02:52,646 --> 01:02:53,882
♪ Blue, blue
Pale blinds ♪

945
01:02:57,959 --> 01:03:00,223
♪ I will dream of other lands ♪

946
01:03:00,258 --> 01:03:02,929
♪ Waiting for the gift
of sound and vision ♪

947
01:03:04,493 --> 01:03:06,328
DAVID:<i> Most of the things</i>
<i>that I do these days</i>

948
01:03:06,363 --> 01:03:09,034
<i>are on the occasion</i>
<i>of the studio.</i>

949
01:03:09,069 --> 01:03:11,498
<i>I go in with very little</i>
<i>preparation,</i>

950
01:03:11,533 --> 01:03:13,335
<i>just throw ideas out,</i>

951
01:03:13,370 --> 01:03:16,140
<i>and you might make</i>
<i>little experiments sort of say,</i>

952
01:03:16,175 --> 01:03:17,603
<i>look here's 50 seconds.</i>

953
01:03:17,638 --> 01:03:20,309
<i>play 10 notes</i>
<i>on that 50 seconds</i>

954
01:03:20,344 --> 01:03:22,179
<i>and don't repeat</i>
<i>the same note twice.</i>

955
01:03:27,989 --> 01:03:30,121
<i>Now, that sounds</i>
<i>like an awful easy thing to do.</i>

956
01:03:30,156 --> 01:03:32,024
<i>Well, it is.</i>

957
01:03:32,059 --> 01:03:33,487
<i>See, you must understand,</i>

958
01:03:33,522 --> 01:03:35,258
<i>I mean, it sounds</i>
<i>incredibly indulgent,</i>

959
01:03:35,293 --> 01:03:39,130
<i>and indeed it is</i>
<i>because what I'm trying to do</i>

960
01:03:39,165 --> 01:03:42,496
<i>is mold the traditional</i>
<i>methods of rock and roll...</i>

961
01:03:44,071 --> 01:03:45,367
<i>with newer processes.</i>

962
01:03:47,305 --> 01:03:51,076
<i>Trying to find</i>
<i>a new form of language.</i>

963
01:03:51,111 --> 01:03:52,440
INTERVIEWER:<i> Do you think</i>
<i>you have influence</i>

964
01:03:52,475 --> 01:03:54,013
<i>on their thinking, though?</i>

965
01:03:54,048 --> 01:03:55,949
DAVID:<i> No.</i>

966
01:03:55,984 --> 01:03:58,116
<i>And that's what I'm trying</i>
<i>to do with the new music,</i>

967
01:03:58,151 --> 01:04:01,152
is find a new language
which doesn't-- it isn't that--

968
01:04:01,187 --> 01:04:03,583
doesn't have that kind
of image influence.

969
01:04:06,390 --> 01:04:08,324
INTERVIEWER:<i> Do you think people</i>
<i>will understand that language?</i>

970
01:04:08,359 --> 01:04:10,227
DAVID:<i> Yes.</i>

971
01:04:10,262 --> 01:04:12,130
<i>Because I think people,</i>
<i>especially in the city context,</i>

972
01:04:12,165 --> 01:04:13,626
<i>think in fragments.</i>

973
01:04:13,661 --> 01:04:16,464
The city person will see
a milk advert on the street,

974
01:04:16,499 --> 01:04:18,235
and be thinking
"Milk, what's gonna--

975
01:04:18,270 --> 01:04:19,500
"what are we gonna have
for dinner?

976
01:04:19,535 --> 01:04:21,271
"Boy getting knocked down
by a bus,

977
01:04:21,306 --> 01:04:23,504
<i>crashed against a wall..."</i>
<i>that kind of thing.</i>

978
01:04:23,539 --> 01:04:25,275
<i>So, he's thinking in terms of,</i>

979
01:04:25,310 --> 01:04:28,707
<i>maybe 1,000 different images</i>
<i>at any given time.</i>

980
01:04:28,742 --> 01:04:32,480
<i>And the language that Brian</i>
<i>and I are sort of producing</i>

981
01:04:32,515 --> 01:04:35,351
<i>is a language that can relate</i>
<i>to that way of thinking.</i>

982
01:04:46,298 --> 01:04:50,201
DAVID:<i> We live within</i>
<i>this manifested idea</i>

983
01:04:50,236 --> 01:04:52,071
<i>of what should be form,</i>

984
01:04:52,106 --> 01:04:55,668
and what we try and keep out
of our existence is chaos,

985
01:04:55,703 --> 01:04:59,045
which is a very real part
of our lives,

986
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,674
and our refusal to accept chaos

987
01:05:01,709 --> 01:05:03,775
as being integral
to our existence,

988
01:05:03,810 --> 01:05:06,382
I think, has been one
of the greatest mistakes

989
01:05:06,417 --> 01:05:08,714
as a civilization
that we've made.

990
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,058
DAVID:<i> My work as an artist</i>

991
01:05:12,093 --> 01:05:13,356
<i>has always been</i>
<i>to do with transition.</i>

992
01:05:14,557 --> 01:05:16,755
<i>The nature and study of change</i>

993
01:05:16,790 --> 01:05:19,428
<i>in our particular era</i>
<i>is most important</i>

994
01:05:19,463 --> 01:05:21,166
<i>because never in our history</i>

995
01:05:21,201 --> 01:05:24,202
<i>has there been</i>
<i>such a rapid curve of change</i>

996
01:05:24,237 --> 01:05:25,764
<i>since the industrial</i>
<i>revolution.</i>

997
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,207
I'm a fairly
good social observer,

998
01:05:29,242 --> 01:05:32,210
and I think
that I encapsulate areas

999
01:05:32,245 --> 01:05:35,147
every, maybe every year or so,

1000
01:05:35,182 --> 01:05:38,117
I tried to stamp
that down somewhere,

1001
01:05:38,152 --> 01:05:41,120
what that year is all about.

1002
01:05:41,155 --> 01:05:42,451
Rather than
what it was all about,

1003
01:05:42,486 --> 01:05:44,519
or what it's going to be.

1004
01:05:44,554 --> 01:05:47,291
It's very much
trying to capture

1005
01:05:47,326 --> 01:05:49,689
the quintessence of that year.

1006
01:06:03,804 --> 01:06:05,342
INTERVIEWER:
<i>I notice that the music now</i>

1007
01:06:05,377 --> 01:06:07,146
<i>is more-- more daring,</i>

1008
01:06:07,181 --> 01:06:09,280
<i>more adventurous,</i>
<i>more fractured.</i>

1009
01:06:09,315 --> 01:06:10,842
Is there a danger that
by following your instinct,

1010
01:06:10,877 --> 01:06:12,283
your aesthetic instincts,

1011
01:06:12,318 --> 01:06:13,416
if you like,
your artistic instinct,

1012
01:06:13,451 --> 01:06:16,617
that you will jeopardize that?

1013
01:06:16,652 --> 01:06:18,256
You know, the money
and the good life and all--

1014
01:06:18,291 --> 01:06:19,554
No shit, Sherlock.

1015
01:06:21,525 --> 01:06:24,460
Yes, I think I-- Yes, I think
I rather sort of hit that one

1016
01:06:24,495 --> 01:06:25,725
in the head at the moment.

1017
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:30,532
Um, and it's quite
a relief, really.

1018
01:06:30,567 --> 01:06:36,208
I feel a lot more,
um, free than what I do.

1019
01:06:36,243 --> 01:06:39,244
I just needed, it just needed
a positive decision

1020
01:06:39,279 --> 01:06:41,114
to only do what I want to do,

1021
01:06:41,149 --> 01:06:42,610
and not do things
for the sake of what...

1022
01:06:44,614 --> 01:06:48,220
either David Bowie or whoever
I was playing last time,

1023
01:06:48,255 --> 01:06:50,486
Thin White Duke or something,
was expected to do.

1024
01:06:54,789 --> 01:06:56,393
DAVID:<i> I went naked in Berlin.</i>

1025
01:06:56,428 --> 01:06:59,528
<i>I really did try</i>
<i>and strip down my life</i>

1026
01:06:59,563 --> 01:07:02,630
<i>to what I believed</i>
<i>to be absolute basic essentials</i>

1027
01:07:02,665 --> 01:07:04,467
<i>so I could build up again</i>

1028
01:07:04,502 --> 01:07:07,536
<i>everything that I thought</i>
<i>that I'd lost, you know?</i>

1029
01:07:07,571 --> 01:07:09,307
<i>I guess I was--</i>
<i>what I was really doing</i>

1030
01:07:09,342 --> 01:07:11,474
<i>was doing that on an emotional</i>
<i>and spiritual level,</i>

1031
01:07:11,509 --> 01:07:14,213
<i>but you manifest it physically.</i>

1032
01:07:14,248 --> 01:07:16,578
<i>The surprising thing is,</i>
<i>is that we came up--</i>

1033
01:07:16,613 --> 01:07:18,745
<i>We thought we were</i>
<i>just going to be into a process</i>

1034
01:07:18,780 --> 01:07:20,582
<i>of discovery and experiment</i>

1035
01:07:20,617 --> 01:07:22,650
<i>and had some pretty wishy-washy</i>
<i>stuff come out of it,</i>

1036
01:07:22,685 --> 01:07:26,654
<i>but what did come out of it</i>
<i>was a pretty good statement</i>

1037
01:07:26,689 --> 01:07:30,328
<i>of some esoteric nature.</i>

1038
01:07:30,363 --> 01:07:32,528
<i>It was a bit hard</i>
<i>to put one's finger</i>

1039
01:07:32,563 --> 01:07:34,167
<i>on exactly</i>
<i>what the information was,</i>

1040
01:07:34,202 --> 01:07:36,565
<i>but it was vital,</i>
<i>and it was interesting,</i>

1041
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:38,204
<i>and I think</i>
<i>that's successful music.</i>

1042
01:07:39,504 --> 01:07:41,636
[HEROES SONG]

1043
01:07:57,291 --> 01:08:01,655
<i>♪ I, I will be king ♪</i>

1044
01:08:05,728 --> 01:08:10,731
<i>♪ And you,</i>
<i>you will be my queen ♪</i>

1045
01:08:14,803 --> 01:08:20,345
<i>♪ Though nothing</i>
<i>can keep us together ♪</i>

1046
01:08:23,746 --> 01:08:29,387
<i>♪ We can beat them,</i>
<i>forever and ever ♪</i>

1047
01:08:31,985 --> 01:08:38,330
<i>♪ We could be heroes</i>
<i>just for one day ♪</i>

1048
01:08:41,929 --> 01:08:46,701
<i>♪ You, you can be me ♪</i>

1049
01:08:50,839 --> 01:08:55,677
<i>♪ And I,</i>
<i>I'll drink all the time ♪</i>

1050
01:08:59,452 --> 01:09:04,785
<i>♪ 'Cause we're lovers,</i>
<i>and that is the fact ♪</i>

1051
01:09:08,428 --> 01:09:13,629
<i>♪ Yes we're lovers,</i>
<i>and that is that ♪</i>

1052
01:09:17,734 --> 01:09:22,704
<i>♪ Though nothing</i>
<i>will keep us together ♪</i>

1053
01:09:26,006 --> 01:09:31,350
<i>♪ We can beat them</i>
<i>forever and ever ♪</i>

1054
01:09:34,014 --> 01:09:39,754
<i>♪ And we can be heroes</i>
<i>just for one day ♪</i>

1055
01:10:00,106 --> 01:10:04,911
<i>♪ I, well I wish I could swim ♪</i>

1056
01:10:08,422 --> 01:10:13,524
♪ Like dolphins,
like dolphins can swim ♪

1057
01:10:16,694 --> 01:10:22,434
♪ Though nothing,
can drive them away ♪

1058
01:10:24,702 --> 01:10:30,002
♪ We can beat them
forever and ever ♪

1059
01:10:32,677 --> 01:10:38,384
♪ Oh, we can be heroes
just for one day ♪

1060
01:10:40,014 --> 01:10:41,420
♪ What you say? ♪

1061
01:10:58,637 --> 01:11:04,542
♪ I, I can remember ♪

1062
01:11:04,577 --> 01:11:05,576
BAND:
♪ I remember ♪

1063
01:11:06,810 --> 01:11:11,879
DAVID:
♪ Standing by the wall ♪

1064
01:11:11,914 --> 01:11:14,915
BAND:
♪ By the wall ♪

1065
01:11:14,950 --> 01:11:20,657
DAVID: ♪ And the guns
shot above our heads ♪

1066
01:11:20,692 --> 01:11:22,956
BAND:♪ Over our heads ♪

1067
01:11:22,991 --> 01:11:28,731
DAVID: ♪ And we kissed
as though nothing could fall ♪

1068
01:11:28,766 --> 01:11:30,997
BAND:
♪ Nothing could fall ♪

1069
01:11:31,032 --> 01:11:36,673
DAVID: ♪ And nothing
and no one will help us ♪

1070
01:11:38,809 --> 01:11:40,776
♪ Maybe we're lying ♪

1071
01:11:42,648 --> 01:11:44,450
♪ Then you better not stay ♪

1072
01:11:47,015 --> 01:11:52,458
♪ We can be safer
just for one day ♪

1073
01:11:58,829 --> 01:12:01,797
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

1074
01:12:06,936 --> 01:12:10,938
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

1075
01:12:10,973 --> 01:12:13,644
♪ We can be heroes ♪

1076
01:12:14,944 --> 01:12:18,913
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

1077
01:12:18,948 --> 01:12:20,981
♪ Just for one day ♪

1078
01:12:22,919 --> 01:12:26,855
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

1079
01:12:26,890 --> 01:12:31,992
♪ Just for one day. ♪

1080
01:12:41,641 --> 01:12:44,235
REPORTER:<i> Today, David Bowie</i>
<i>is 33 years old.</i>

1081
01:12:44,270 --> 01:12:47,007
<i>He has recorded 17 rock albums,</i>

1082
01:12:47,042 --> 01:12:49,009
<i>produced a gallery full</i>
<i>of paintings,</i>

1083
01:12:49,044 --> 01:12:51,110
<i>acted in two feature films,</i>

1084
01:12:51,145 --> 01:12:53,046
<i>and is the only rock star</i>

1085
01:12:53,081 --> 01:12:55,752
<i>ever to act in a play</i>
<i>on Broadway.</i>

1086
01:12:55,787 --> 01:12:58,623
<i>Bowie never seems</i>
<i>to stand still.</i>

1087
01:12:58,658 --> 01:12:59,789
<i>When he no longer</i>
<i>feels challenged</i>

1088
01:12:59,824 --> 01:13:01,659
<i>by one art form,</i>

1089
01:13:01,694 --> 01:13:04,695
<i>he moves on to the next,</i>
<i>and the next, and the next.</i>

1090
01:13:04,730 --> 01:13:06,862
<i>It's as if David Bowie</i>
<i>learned to run</i>

1091
01:13:06,897 --> 01:13:08,061
<i>before he learned to walk.</i>

1092
01:13:08,096 --> 01:13:10,030
[DJ SONG]

1093
01:13:14,872 --> 01:13:16,773
<i>♪ I'm home ♪</i>

1094
01:13:16,808 --> 01:13:18,643
<i>♪ Lost my job... ♪</i>

1095
01:13:18,678 --> 01:13:20,139
DAVID:<i> You know, I've got</i>
<i>a grasshopper sort of mind,</i>

1096
01:13:20,174 --> 01:13:22,009
and I can't resist
bringing things

1097
01:13:22,044 --> 01:13:24,682
to a conclusion like saying,
"Well that's a piece in itself,

1098
01:13:24,717 --> 01:13:25,881
and now I move
on to something else."

1099
01:13:30,184 --> 01:13:31,755
INTERVIEWER:<i> You described</i>
<i>yourself as a generalist.</i>

1100
01:13:31,790 --> 01:13:33,119
<i>-Is that--</i>
-DAVID:<i> Yeah.</i>

1101
01:13:33,154 --> 01:13:35,121
<i>That's a freedom--</i>
<i>giving umbrella.</i>

1102
01:13:35,156 --> 01:13:37,090
<i>It gives me a chance</i>

1103
01:13:37,125 --> 01:13:39,191
<i>to do anything</i>
<i>I want successfully</i>

1104
01:13:39,226 --> 01:13:41,061
<i>or unsuccessfully,</i>
<i>without being tied down.</i>

1105
01:13:44,671 --> 01:13:47,034
I want-- I'm a generalist,

1106
01:13:47,069 --> 01:13:50,972
is really sort of my cliche way
describing myself.

1107
01:13:51,007 --> 01:13:52,710
DAVID:<i> David Bowie.</i>
<i>Rank and file.</i>

1108
01:13:53,911 --> 01:13:55,306
<i>33 years old.</i>

1109
01:13:55,341 --> 01:13:56,714
<i>Generalist.</i>

1110
01:13:56,749 --> 01:13:58,012
ANNOUNCER:
<i>Unlike most rock stars</i>

1111
01:13:58,047 --> 01:13:59,717
<i>who stick</i>
<i>to a successful formula</i>

1112
01:13:59,752 --> 01:14:01,950
<i>when they get it,</i>
<i>Bowie, when he does,</i>

1113
01:14:01,985 --> 01:14:07,153
<i>deliberately changes direction,</i>
<i>and puts on yet another face.</i>

1114
01:14:07,188 --> 01:14:11,894
<i>♪ Believing me ♪</i>

1115
01:14:13,799 --> 01:14:17,603
DAVID:<i> I really sort of go</i>
<i>in just pure, barbaric impetus.</i>

1116
01:14:18,903 --> 01:14:21,574
<i>I do get fired up</i>
<i>for something</i>

1117
01:14:21,609 --> 01:14:25,303
and it's not all cerebral
at all, by any means.

1118
01:14:25,338 --> 01:14:27,008
<i>A lot of it is pure instinct,</i>

1119
01:14:27,043 --> 01:14:29,076
<i>and knowing that</i>
<i>I've found something</i>

1120
01:14:29,111 --> 01:14:31,243
<i>that I haven't found before.</i>

1121
01:14:31,278 --> 01:14:37,018
(slurring speech) Sometimes
I think my head is so big

1122
01:14:37,053 --> 01:14:40,725
because it is
so full of themes.

1123
01:14:42,927 --> 01:14:47,094
♪ I am a D.J.,
I am what I play ♪

1124
01:14:47,129 --> 01:14:48,799
♪ Can't turn around no ♪

1125
01:14:48,834 --> 01:14:51,263
♪ Can't turn around,
no, oh, ooh ♪

1126
01:14:51,298 --> 01:14:55,839
♪ I am a D.J.
I am what I say ♪

1127
01:14:55,874 --> 01:15:00,008
♪ Can't turn around no,
can't turn around, no, oh no ♪

1128
01:15:00,043 --> 01:15:04,045
<i>♪ I am a D.J.,</i>
<i>I am what I play ♪</i>

1129
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,883
<i>♪ I've got believers ♪</i>

1130
01:15:06,918 --> 01:15:10,920
<i>♪ Believing me, oh... ♪</i>

1131
01:15:10,955 --> 01:15:12,185
INTERVIEWER:
<i>What are you gonna do now?</i>

1132
01:15:12,220 --> 01:15:13,384
Are you going back home to bed?

1133
01:15:13,419 --> 01:15:15,188
DAVID:
Yes. Well, I don't know.

1134
01:15:15,223 --> 01:15:17,828
A bit in the mood to
probably do a little writing

1135
01:15:17,863 --> 01:15:19,995
or painting or something.

1136
01:15:20,030 --> 01:15:21,997
INTERVIEWER:<i> You're painting</i>
<i>in large canvases?</i>

1137
01:15:22,032 --> 01:15:23,295
<i>Or small canvases?</i>
<i>Or drawings?</i>

1138
01:15:23,330 --> 01:15:25,396
DAVID:
<i>Yes. Quire large, acrylics.</i>

1139
01:15:25,431 --> 01:15:27,673
<i>I'm doing a lot</i>
<i>of sculptures as well.</i>

1140
01:15:27,708 --> 01:15:31,974
<i>A sort of polythene and</i>
<i>essential functional things.</i>

1141
01:15:33,406 --> 01:15:35,780
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Why are you creative, David?</i>

1142
01:15:35,815 --> 01:15:38,013
DAVID:<i> I think</i>
<i>it has something to do</i>

1143
01:15:38,048 --> 01:15:43,018
<i>with wanting to find the place</i>
<i>where I can kind of set sail</i>

1144
01:15:43,053 --> 01:15:46,087
<i>and know that I won't really</i>
<i>fall off the edge of the world</i>

1145
01:15:46,122 --> 01:15:47,726
<i>when I get</i>
<i>to the end of the sea.</i>

1146
01:15:47,761 --> 01:15:51,323
<i>I find it</i>
<i>an intoxicating parallel</i>

1147
01:15:51,358 --> 01:15:53,699
<i>to my perceived reality.</i>

1148
01:16:14,018 --> 01:16:16,051
<i>I'm not sure</i>
<i>that I'm manifesting ideas</i>

1149
01:16:16,086 --> 01:16:17,822
<i>when I do my work.</i>

1150
01:16:17,857 --> 01:16:20,858
<i>It's just</i>
<i>this inexhaustible supply</i>

1151
01:16:20,893 --> 01:16:24,862
<i>of extracurricular thoughts</i>

1152
01:16:24,897 --> 01:16:26,391
<i>that I have</i>
<i>that don't actually apply</i>

1153
01:16:26,426 --> 01:16:28,063
<i>to the survival of life,</i>

1154
01:16:28,098 --> 01:16:29,933
<i>and I'm not quite sure</i>
<i>what to do with them.</i>

1155
01:16:29,968 --> 01:16:34,036
<i>♪ He used to be my boss</i>
<i>and now he is a puppet dancer ♪</i>

1156
01:16:34,071 --> 01:16:38,403
<i>♪ I am the D.J.,</i>
<i>and I've got believers ♪</i>

1157
01:16:40,407 --> 01:16:43,144
<i>♪ I got believers ♪</i>

1158
01:16:44,752 --> 01:16:47,379
<i>♪ I got believers ♪</i>

1159
01:16:49,053 --> 01:16:53,990
<i>♪ I got believers,</i>
<i>believing me... ♪</i>

1160
01:17:00,900 --> 01:17:02,493
DAVID:<i> So rather than</i>
<i>be pinned down,</i>

1161
01:17:02,528 --> 01:17:05,903
<i>my momentum</i>
<i>was to hit and run very fast.</i>

1162
01:17:05,938 --> 01:17:07,234
<i>Once I'd done something,</i>

1163
01:17:07,269 --> 01:17:09,203
<i>and said it,</i>
<i>drop it and move on.</i>

1164
01:17:09,238 --> 01:17:11,975
[ASHES TO ASHES SONG]

1165
01:17:28,290 --> 01:17:31,159
DAVID:<i> I feel quite at home</i>
<i>in just about anywhere now,</i>

1166
01:17:31,194 --> 01:17:32,930
<i>on a temporary basis.</i>

1167
01:17:32,965 --> 01:17:35,933
INTERVIEWER:<i> Where do you spend</i>
<i>most of your time?</i>

1168
01:17:35,968 --> 01:17:37,363
DAVID:<i> Again, what is</i>
<i>"most of one's time"?</i>

1169
01:17:37,398 --> 01:17:39,970
<i>Over the last year,</i>
<i>it's been London,</i>

1170
01:17:40,005 --> 01:17:43,776
<i>New York, South Pacific,</i>
<i>Australia, Africa...</i>

1171
01:17:43,811 --> 01:17:45,305
<i>The nature of my life</i>

1172
01:17:45,340 --> 01:17:48,374
<i>is one of an old-fashioned</i>
<i>beatnik traveler,</i>

1173
01:17:48,409 --> 01:17:50,409
<i>and more than anything else,</i>

1174
01:17:50,444 --> 01:17:54,182
<i>I spend very little time</i>
<i>in musical circles.</i>

1175
01:17:54,217 --> 01:17:57,790
<i>I spend more time discovering</i>
<i>the social life</i>

1176
01:17:57,825 --> 01:17:59,957
<i>of rather obscure places.</i>

1177
01:18:01,488 --> 01:18:07,228
<i>♪ "I'm happy,</i>
<i>hope you're happy too ♪</i>

1178
01:18:07,263 --> 01:18:10,363
<i>♪ I've loved</i>
<i>all I've needed, love ♪</i>

1179
01:18:10,398 --> 01:18:14,268
<i>a♪ Sordid details following" ♪</i>

1180
01:18:14,303 --> 01:18:17,436
<i>♪ The shrieking of nothing</i>
<i>is killing, just ♪</i>

1181
01:18:17,471 --> 01:18:21,979
<i>♪ Pictures of Jap girls</i>
<i>in synthesis and I ♪</i>

1182
01:18:22,014 --> 01:18:25,510
<i>♪ Ain't got no money</i>
<i>and I ain't got no hair ♪</i>

1183
01:18:29,923 --> 01:18:34,123
<i>♪ But I'm hoping to kick,</i>
<i>but the planet it's glowing ♪</i>

1184
01:18:37,326 --> 01:18:41,130
♪ Ashes to ash,
funk to funky ♪

1185
01:18:41,165 --> 01:18:45,200
♪ We know Major Tom's
a junkie ♪

1186
01:18:45,235 --> 01:18:48,236
♪ Strung out in heaven's high ♪

1187
01:18:48,271 --> 01:18:51,470
♪ Hitting an all-time low... ♪

1188
01:19:06,619 --> 01:19:10,126
MAN:<i> This is your promised land</i>
<i>is it not?</i>

1189
01:19:10,161 --> 01:19:13,591
<i>Roof, food, care, protection.</i>

1190
01:19:15,001 --> 01:19:17,496
DAVID:<i> Oh, right, Mr. Treves.</i>

1191
01:19:17,531 --> 01:19:20,202
MAN:<i> I'll bet you don't know</i>
<i>what to call this.</i>

1192
01:19:20,237 --> 01:19:22,336
DAVID:<i> No, sir.</i>
<i>I don't.</i>

1193
01:19:22,371 --> 01:19:24,371
MAN:<i> You call it... home.</i>

1194
01:19:27,145 --> 01:19:29,442
Never had a home before.

1195
01:19:29,477 --> 01:19:30,949
MAN:
You have one now.

1196
01:19:30,984 --> 01:19:32,115
Say it, John.

1197
01:19:32,150 --> 01:19:33,446
-Home.
-Home?

1198
01:19:33,481 --> 01:19:35,349
MAN: No, no.
I mean really say it.

1199
01:19:35,384 --> 01:19:37,483
"I have a home.

1200
01:19:37,518 --> 01:19:39,551
This is my--" Come on.

1201
01:19:40,653 --> 01:19:42,092
DAVID:
I have a home.

1202
01:19:43,227 --> 01:19:49,363
This is my home.

1203
01:19:49,398 --> 01:19:53,070
This is my home.

1204
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:55,567
I have a home.

1205
01:19:56,702 --> 01:20:00,407
I have, for as long as I like.

1206
01:20:03,313 --> 01:20:06,083
MAN:
That is what home is.

1207
01:20:16,656 --> 01:20:18,425
DAVID:<i> I had always thought</i>

1208
01:20:18,460 --> 01:20:20,999
<i>that by this stage I would be</i>
<i>settled down somewhere</i>

1209
01:20:21,034 --> 01:20:23,199
<i>with a house and grounds</i>
<i>and everything,</i>

1210
01:20:23,234 --> 01:20:25,036
<i>but I never got</i>
<i>to doing that.</i>

1211
01:20:32,738 --> 01:20:34,474
<i>Never-- I've never bought</i>
<i>a house,</i>

1212
01:20:34,509 --> 01:20:36,443
<i>and I still have</i>
<i>no intention to buy...</i>

1213
01:20:38,711 --> 01:20:40,645
<i>because with me,</i>

1214
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:44,187
<i>the way I live is very much</i>
<i>also part of the...</i>

1215
01:20:44,222 --> 01:20:45,551
<i>what produces my work,</i>

1216
01:20:45,586 --> 01:20:49,357
<i>so I have to keep examining</i>
<i>my life</i>

1217
01:20:49,392 --> 01:20:52,129
<i>to make sure that I am</i>
<i>in constant change,</i>

1218
01:20:52,164 --> 01:20:57,365
<i>and not getting too bloated</i>
<i>with philosophic opulence.</i>

1219
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,137
<i>Keep sort of throwing bits</i>
<i>and pieces away.</i>

1220
01:21:00,172 --> 01:21:03,239
<i>And by-- to change countries</i>
<i>is one way of doing that.</i>

1221
01:21:10,182 --> 01:21:12,050
<i>I'm not quite sure</i>
<i>where to go now.</i>

1222
01:21:12,085 --> 01:21:17,187
<i>Um, the East beckons me.</i>

1223
01:21:17,222 --> 01:21:18,617
<i>I'm a bit scared</i>
<i>of moving over there, you know?</i>

1224
01:21:18,652 --> 01:21:20,256
INTERVIEWER:<i> Japan?</i>

1225
01:21:20,291 --> 01:21:22,489
DAVID:<i> Yes, because I fall</i>
<i>in love so much</i>

1226
01:21:22,524 --> 01:21:24,524
<i>with the lifestyle that</i>
<i>I'll get very Zen about it.</i>

1227
01:21:24,559 --> 01:21:27,395
[ALL THE YOUNG DUDES SONG
BEING VOCALIZED]

1228
01:21:38,639 --> 01:21:41,640
JAPANESE INTERVIEWER:<i> Please</i>
<i>give us your special message</i>

1229
01:21:41,675 --> 01:21:44,478
<i>to the audience of our program,</i>
<i>"Young Oh! Oh!"</i>

1230
01:21:45,580 --> 01:21:47,283
<i>Look at the camera, please.</i>

1231
01:21:47,318 --> 01:21:49,648
DAVID: Uh, don't waste any day.
Don't waste a minute.

1232
01:21:49,683 --> 01:21:51,419
INTERVIEWER: Yes.

1233
01:21:51,454 --> 01:21:53,388
[indistinct] Mr. David Bowie.

1234
01:21:53,423 --> 01:21:54,653
Thank you again.

1235
01:21:54,688 --> 01:21:55,753
[SPEAKS JAPANESE BRIEFLY]

1236
01:22:09,670 --> 01:22:11,703
DAVID:<i> I hope that none of us</i>
<i>are kind of static</i>

1237
01:22:11,738 --> 01:22:13,375
<i>throughout our lives.</i>

1238
01:22:13,410 --> 01:22:16,444
<i>I mean, I guess one has</i>
<i>a formed personality</i>

1239
01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:18,050
<i>from quite an early age,</i>

1240
01:22:18,085 --> 01:22:20,415
<i>but it is tempered</i>
<i>and subject to change.</i>

1241
01:22:24,124 --> 01:22:26,223
<i>I mean,</i>
<i>we all to a certain extent</i>

1242
01:22:26,258 --> 01:22:29,391
<i>create our lives</i>
<i>and create our culture daily,</i>

1243
01:22:29,426 --> 01:22:31,162
<i>as we live that 24 hours.</i>

1244
01:22:31,197 --> 01:22:34,594
<i>We'll choose a tie,</i>
<i>or a haircut, or a chair,</i>

1245
01:22:34,629 --> 01:22:35,826
<i>not just</i>
<i>because it's functional,</i>

1246
01:22:35,861 --> 01:22:37,564
<i>but for most of us</i>

1247
01:22:37,599 --> 01:22:38,765
<i>because it actually</i>
<i>says something about us.</i>

1248
01:22:41,570 --> 01:22:44,241
<i>I still, you know,</i>
<i>am sort of getting somewhere</i>

1249
01:22:44,276 --> 01:22:47,079
<i>that I quite like,</i>
<i>but I'm still not.</i>

1250
01:22:47,114 --> 01:22:48,509
<i>We'll find out eventually,</i>
<i>won't we?</i>

1251
01:22:50,678 --> 01:22:53,118
<i>I might now be cut out</i>
<i>for all this, really,</i>

1252
01:22:53,153 --> 01:22:55,153
<i>at the end.</i>

1253
01:22:55,188 --> 01:22:56,550
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Why did you change so often?</i>

1254
01:22:56,585 --> 01:22:57,683
I mean,
what was the need for it?

1255
01:22:57,718 --> 01:22:58,783
Was it just a gimmick?

1256
01:22:58,818 --> 01:23:00,389
DAVID:
Being a Capricorn.

1257
01:23:00,424 --> 01:23:02,787
I didn't want to expose myself
to the public,

1258
01:23:02,822 --> 01:23:05,130
so I developed a series
of characters.

1259
01:23:05,165 --> 01:23:07,528
So, behind that all the time
was a real David Bowie?

1260
01:23:08,333 --> 01:23:09,497
At times, yes.

1261
01:23:09,532 --> 01:23:11,103
I lost control
a couple of times.

1262
01:23:12,568 --> 01:23:14,337
So you're not--
This is really you.

1263
01:23:14,372 --> 01:23:16,537
This is not you just still
sort of playing the role of...

1264
01:23:18,310 --> 01:23:19,573
One wonders.

1265
01:23:19,608 --> 01:23:21,872
I think
that it's not at all mystifying

1266
01:23:21,907 --> 01:23:23,577
why you change your appearance
as often as you do,

1267
01:23:23,612 --> 01:23:25,249
to my view by the way,

1268
01:23:25,284 --> 01:23:29,352
because I think you've
used yourself as a canvas.

1269
01:23:29,387 --> 01:23:31,222
-Yes, very much so.
-Is that right?

1270
01:23:31,257 --> 01:23:32,817
DAVID:
Yes, very much so.

1271
01:23:32,852 --> 01:23:37,789
Um, I never wanted to appear
as myself onstage ever,

1272
01:23:37,824 --> 01:23:39,461
at any time, until recently.

1273
01:23:39,496 --> 01:23:43,399
Were you hiding yourself
from us by doing that?

1274
01:23:43,434 --> 01:23:46,270
DAVID: Partly, but I was
enjoying it very much.

1275
01:23:46,305 --> 01:23:48,272
-And, you paint now?
-Yes.

1276
01:23:48,307 --> 01:23:49,768
But your paintings,
you're not willing

1277
01:23:49,803 --> 01:23:51,209
to let us see yet?

1278
01:23:51,244 --> 01:23:52,540
DAVID:
Uh, no.

1279
01:23:52,575 --> 01:23:53,640
I've been offered
two or three showings,

1280
01:23:53,675 --> 01:23:55,312
but I've turned--

1281
01:23:55,347 --> 01:23:57,413
I've accepted two of them,
and then I broke my word

1282
01:23:57,448 --> 01:23:59,547
and said I wouldn't show them.

1283
01:23:59,582 --> 01:24:01,417
I haven't yet bucked up
the courage.

1284
01:24:01,452 --> 01:24:04,288
INTERVIEWER: Why not?
What do you fear?

1285
01:24:04,323 --> 01:24:05,619
DAVID:
Well, I know I'm a good writer.

1286
01:24:07,524 --> 01:24:09,491
I'm not sure
about putting my paintings.

1287
01:24:09,526 --> 01:24:11,163
They're very personal
to me, as well.

1288
01:24:11,198 --> 01:24:13,396
Um, they're all portraits,

1289
01:24:13,431 --> 01:24:15,431
and they're portraits
of people in isolation.

1290
01:24:15,466 --> 01:24:19,204
Most of the paintings
are Germans or Turks

1291
01:24:19,239 --> 01:24:20,898
who live in Berlin,

1292
01:24:20,933 --> 01:24:23,340
and they're either
from East Berlin,

1293
01:24:23,375 --> 01:24:24,836
and who are now living
in West Berlin,

1294
01:24:24,871 --> 01:24:26,277
and knowing their families

1295
01:24:26,312 --> 01:24:28,246
are on the other side
of the wall.

1296
01:24:28,281 --> 01:24:31,480
And so, I tried to capture
a lot of that isolation

1297
01:24:31,515 --> 01:24:33,845
and I put a lot of myself
into the paintings as well.

1298
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:35,187
They're very much part of me.

1299
01:24:53,735 --> 01:24:55,669
DICK:<i> Well, I think</i>
<i>the question is what--</i>

1300
01:24:55,704 --> 01:24:58,804
<i>you know, what you want to be</i>
<i>for yourself and your life.</i>

1301
01:24:58,839 --> 01:25:00,707
DAVID:<i> I don't know whether</i>
<i>that's important anymore.</i>

1302
01:25:00,742 --> 01:25:02,940
<i>I mean, what I want</i>
<i>to do is just work well.</i>

1303
01:25:02,975 --> 01:25:05,481
<i>When I'm working well,</i>
<i>I like my writing.</i>

1304
01:25:05,516 --> 01:25:06,911
<i>At the moment, especially.</i>

1305
01:25:06,946 --> 01:25:08,748
<i>More than at any other time,</i>
<i>I think.</i>

1306
01:25:08,783 --> 01:25:11,289
<i>I mean, I was getting so bored</i>
<i>with what I was writing.</i>

1307
01:25:11,324 --> 01:25:13,588
<i>I just, I felt inadequate,</i>
<i>I thought my writing</i>

1308
01:25:13,623 --> 01:25:14,952
<i>was becoming monotonous.</i>

1309
01:25:14,987 --> 01:25:16,888
<i>I didn't take</i>
<i>the kinds of chances</i>

1310
01:25:16,923 --> 01:25:18,296
<i>I was taking at one time.</i>

1311
01:25:19,695 --> 01:25:21,794
<i>I thought if I'm going</i>
<i>to end up like,</i>

1312
01:25:23,765 --> 01:25:27,437
<i>um, a lot of other rock</i>
<i>and roll celebrities,</i>

1313
01:25:27,472 --> 01:25:28,900
<i>inasmuch</i>
<i>that I'm going to be trying</i>

1314
01:25:28,935 --> 01:25:30,869
<i>to retain the safe position,</i>
<i>you know?</i>

1315
01:25:30,904 --> 01:25:33,245
<i>And that's not what</i>
<i>I started out wanting to do.</i>

1316
01:25:33,280 --> 01:25:35,313
DICK:<i> But is it important to you</i>
<i>to have a mass audience?</i>

1317
01:25:35,348 --> 01:25:36,413
<i>Do you want</i>
<i>a lot of people to--</i>

1318
01:25:36,448 --> 01:25:37,480
DAVID:<i> No. No.</i>

1319
01:25:37,515 --> 01:25:38,910
<i>I want to work well.</i>

1320
01:25:38,945 --> 01:25:41,616
<i>I want to--</i>
<i>I just have to work well.</i>

1321
01:25:44,390 --> 01:25:46,522
<i>I think it's</i>
<i>an heroic act to take,</i>

1322
01:25:46,557 --> 01:25:51,626
<i>um-- to be able</i>
<i>to obtain enthusiasm</i>

1323
01:25:51,661 --> 01:25:54,926
<i>and joy from the actual process</i>
<i>of living from day to day.</i>

1324
01:25:54,961 --> 01:25:56,532
INTERVIEWER: [SPEAKING JAPANESE]

1325
01:25:56,567 --> 01:25:57,665
DAVID:<i> Yes, very much.</i>

1326
01:25:57,700 --> 01:26:01,537
<i>I try. And it is, it is--</i>

1327
01:26:01,572 --> 01:26:03,704
<i>I think it takes practice to,</i>

1328
01:26:03,739 --> 01:26:07,345
<i>and concentration,</i>
<i>and exercise to enjoy it.</i>

1329
01:26:07,380 --> 01:26:10,546
<i>This is very easy to fall</i>
<i>into the trap of looking</i>

1330
01:26:10,581 --> 01:26:13,813
<i>for one's dreams and always</i>
<i>thinking of a future moment</i>

1331
01:26:13,848 --> 01:26:15,551
<i>when everything</i>
<i>will be better.</i>

1332
01:26:15,586 --> 01:26:17,685
<i>And if the process</i>
<i>is not enjoyed,</i>

1333
01:26:17,720 --> 01:26:19,456
<i>the dreams will never come</i>
<i>to anything.</i>

1334
01:26:19,491 --> 01:26:21,755
<i>And by enjoying the process,</i>

1335
01:26:21,790 --> 01:26:23,493
<i>you are creating</i>
<i>a dream come true.</i>

1336
01:26:33,835 --> 01:26:37,034
<i>I think I have an abundantly</i>
<i>healthy curiosity about life.</i>

1337
01:26:37,069 --> 01:26:39,872
<i>About life around me,</i>
<i>specifically.</i>

1338
01:26:39,907 --> 01:26:43,579
<i>And how, how we put</i>
<i>ourselves together culturally,</i>

1339
01:26:43,614 --> 01:26:46,384
<i>and I think it's served me well</i>
<i>as an artist,</i>

1340
01:26:46,419 --> 01:26:50,784
<i>in as much as I'm really</i>
<i>inquiring continually</i>

1341
01:26:50,819 --> 01:26:53,490
<i>into how things are made</i>
<i>and why we make them,</i>

1342
01:26:53,525 --> 01:26:57,989
<i>and the significance</i>
<i>or meanings behind things.</i>

1343
01:27:01,896 --> 01:27:05,997
<i>I'd be really scared of feeling</i>
<i>that I'd got somewhere,</i>

1344
01:27:06,032 --> 01:27:09,473
<i>because for me,</i>
<i>art is about searching,</i>

1345
01:27:09,508 --> 01:27:10,870
<i>and if you come to a place</i>

1346
01:27:10,905 --> 01:27:12,872
<i>where you think</i>
<i>you've made a discovery,</i>

1347
01:27:12,907 --> 01:27:14,808
<i>I think that really is...</i>

1348
01:27:17,109 --> 01:27:19,384
<i>God, that would be</i>
<i>really demoralizing.</i>

1349
01:27:19,419 --> 01:27:21,386
<i>I think the search</i>
<i>is the thing.</i>

1350
01:27:23,522 --> 01:27:25,423
<i>♪ And you want to believe ♪</i>

1351
01:27:27,053 --> 01:27:29,053
<i>♪ And we want to believe ♪</i>

1352
01:27:30,529 --> 01:27:32,430
<i>♪ And we want to live ♪</i>

1353
01:27:33,862 --> 01:27:35,796
<i>♪ Oh, we want to live ♪</i>

1354
01:27:37,734 --> 01:27:39,404
<i>♪ We want to live ♪</i>

1355
01:27:41,606 --> 01:27:42,902
<i>♪ We want to live ♪</i>

1356
01:27:44,906 --> 01:27:46,576
<i>♪ We want to live ♪</i>

1357
01:27:48,481 --> 01:27:49,909
<i>♪ We want to live ♪</i>

1358
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:53,715
<i>♪ We want to live ♪</i>

1359
01:27:55,554 --> 01:27:57,422
<i>♪ I want to live ♪</i>

1360
01:27:59,118 --> 01:28:01,052
<i>♪ I want to live ♪</i>

1361
01:28:02,858 --> 01:28:04,759
<i>♪ I want to live ♪</i>

1362
01:28:06,532 --> 01:28:08,697
<i>♪ I want to live ♪</i>

1363
01:28:10,503 --> 01:28:12,569
<i>♪ I want to live ♪</i>

1364
01:28:13,902 --> 01:28:16,067
<i>♪ I want to live ♪</i>

1365
01:28:18,544 --> 01:28:19,741
<i>♪ Live ♪</i>

1366
01:28:22,042 --> 01:28:23,976
<i>♪ Live ♪</i>

1367
01:28:25,815 --> 01:28:27,947
<i>♪ Live ♪</i>

1368
01:28:27,982 --> 01:28:29,982
[SINGING NOT AUDIBLE]

1369
01:28:52,006 --> 01:28:55,645
<i>♪ Ain't that just like me. ♪</i>

1370
01:30:29,037 --> 01:30:32,071
DAVID:<i> There's a gradual shift</i>
<i>when you reach mid 30s.</i>

1371
01:30:32,106 --> 01:30:33,776
<i>Uh, I think that</i>
<i>there's a period</i>

1372
01:30:33,811 --> 01:30:36,911
<i>where you have</i>
<i>to decide not to try</i>

1373
01:30:36,946 --> 01:30:41,652
<i>and grasp frantically</i>
<i>for the feelings of desperation</i>

1374
01:30:41,687 --> 01:30:44,787
<i>and anger that you have</i>
<i>when you're in your mid 20s.</i>

1375
01:30:44,822 --> 01:30:49,286
<i>And if you can relax into</i>
<i>the idea that being mid 30s</i>

1376
01:30:49,321 --> 01:30:51,024
<i>is quite a nice place to be</i>

1377
01:30:51,059 --> 01:30:52,861
<i>with an amount of experience</i>
<i>behind you,</i>

1378
01:30:54,293 --> 01:30:56,227
<i>I think</i>
<i>the perspective changes.</i>

1379
01:31:03,236 --> 01:31:04,235
INTERVIEWER:
<i>You said once that there's</i>

1380
01:31:04,270 --> 01:31:06,105
<i>so many shells around you</i>

1381
01:31:06,140 --> 01:31:07,777
<i>that you don't know what</i>
<i>the p... looks like anymore.</i>

1382
01:31:07,812 --> 01:31:09,141
DAVID:<i> Yeah,</i>
<i>well I've gone through that.</i>

1383
01:31:09,176 --> 01:31:11,715
<i>I'm pretty aware</i>
<i>of what I'm like.</i>

1384
01:31:11,750 --> 01:31:13,585
-INTERVIEWER:<i> Really?</i>
-DAVID:<i> Yeah, yeah.</i>

1385
01:31:13,620 --> 01:31:16,720
<i>I feel pretty-pretty happy</i>
<i>about my own relationship</i>

1386
01:31:16,755 --> 01:31:17,787
<i>to the world, and...</i>

1387
01:31:21,023 --> 01:31:25,696
<i>We've got to be positive</i>
<i>about our days on this planet.</i>

1388
01:31:25,731 --> 01:31:28,127
INTERVIEWER:<i> I never realized</i>
<i>you were such an optimist.</i>

1389
01:31:28,162 --> 01:31:29,733
DAVID:<i> Well,</i>
<i>I never was particularly.</i>

1390
01:31:30,967 --> 01:31:32,329
INTERVIEWER:
<i>You're more romantic</i>

1391
01:31:32,364 --> 01:31:35,068
<i>than people</i>
<i>give you credit for.</i>

1392
01:31:35,103 --> 01:31:37,037
DAVID:<i> I think I'm probably</i>
<i>a lot more emotional</i>

1393
01:31:37,072 --> 01:31:39,809
<i>than people would think</i>
<i>that I was.</i>

1394
01:31:39,844 --> 01:31:42,647
<i>I am emotionally very</i>
<i>responsive to life and people.</i>

1395
01:31:46,752 --> 01:31:49,280
<i>I just wanted to come in touch</i>
<i>with a common factor</i>

1396
01:31:49,315 --> 01:31:51,216
<i>because I feel a need</i>
<i>at the moment to...</i>

1397
01:31:52,351 --> 01:31:54,890
<i>be part of a society again,</i>

1398
01:31:54,925 --> 01:31:56,353
<i>and having traveled</i>
<i>an awful lot,</i>

1399
01:31:56,388 --> 01:31:59,224
<i>feel more and more</i>
<i>part of everything.</i>

1400
01:31:59,259 --> 01:32:01,028
<i>And I wish</i>
<i>to express that feeling.</i>

1401
01:32:01,063 --> 01:32:04,064
<i>I don't want to seem</i>
<i>as though I'm detached and cold</i>

1402
01:32:04,099 --> 01:32:05,703
<i>because I'm not.</i>

1403
01:32:09,170 --> 01:32:11,104
INTERVIEWER:<i> You seem very sure</i>
<i>of yourself,</i>

1404
01:32:11,139 --> 01:32:13,172
<i>and very,</i>
<i>sort of content, and...</i>

1405
01:32:13,207 --> 01:32:14,778
<i>You seem at ease with yourself.</i>

1406
01:32:14,813 --> 01:32:16,043
DAVID:<i> I'm at ease</i>
<i>with myself, yeah.</i>

1407
01:32:22,722 --> 01:32:23,919
INTERVIEWER:
<i>You've always been so good</i>

1408
01:32:23,954 --> 01:32:26,152
<i>at being convincing, you know?</i>

1409
01:32:26,187 --> 01:32:28,759
<i>-Whatever it was at the time.</i>
-DAVID:<i> Yeah. I see.</i>

1410
01:32:28,794 --> 01:32:30,728
INTERVIEWER:<i> I mean,</i>
<i>is it possible that this</i>

1411
01:32:30,763 --> 01:32:34,325
<i>-is just another role?</i>
-DAVID:<i> I see what's going on.</i>

1412
01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:36,734
<i>I believe that</i>
<i>there is a thread</i>

1413
01:32:36,769 --> 01:32:38,967
<i>of meaning running</i>
<i>through my life at the moment,</i>

1414
01:32:39,002 --> 01:32:40,738
<i>that I have no wish</i>
<i>at the moment to break,</i>

1415
01:32:40,773 --> 01:32:42,102
<i>and I feel it's leading</i>

1416
01:32:42,137 --> 01:32:44,203
<i>somewhere fulfilling</i>
<i>and positive.</i>

1417
01:32:44,238 --> 01:32:47,107
<i>And if I feel that way,</i>
<i>then I make every effort</i>

1418
01:32:47,142 --> 01:32:49,714
<i>to make that part</i>
<i>of my music now.</i>

1419
01:32:54,248 --> 01:32:56,413
<i>It's the ultimate swing</i>
<i>of the pendulum.</i>

1420
01:32:56,448 --> 01:32:58,822
<i>When things reach a point</i>
<i>to one extreme,</i>

1421
01:32:58,857 --> 01:33:00,285
<i>there will be</i>
<i>a natural gravitation</i>

1422
01:33:00,320 --> 01:33:02,188
<i>back to a point,</i>

1423
01:33:02,223 --> 01:33:04,157
<i>which is the antithesis</i>
<i>of that one.</i>

1424
01:33:04,192 --> 01:33:06,192
<i>So, you've got</i>
<i>a musical vocabulary,</i>

1425
01:33:06,227 --> 01:33:10,295
<i>which is high-tech, and icy.</i>

1426
01:33:10,330 --> 01:33:13,265
<i>There's gonna be sooner</i>
<i>or later a swing back to,</i>

1427
01:33:13,300 --> 01:33:16,169
<i>well, what is the other side</i>
<i>of that coin?</i>

1428
01:33:16,204 --> 01:33:17,907
MAN:<i> Ladies and gentlemen,</i>
<i>Mr. David Bowie.</i>

1429
01:33:17,942 --> 01:33:20,272
[MODERN LOVE SONG]

1430
01:33:23,442 --> 01:33:26,278
DAVID: I'd like to, um,
start off the 80s

1431
01:33:26,313 --> 01:33:29,215
in a positive,
optimistic fashion.

1432
01:33:29,250 --> 01:33:32,119
I'll be undertaking,
a world tour,

1433
01:33:32,154 --> 01:33:34,055
sometime around the middle
of the year,

1434
01:33:34,090 --> 01:33:38,059
and it'll take me through
to the autumn at least.

1435
01:33:38,094 --> 01:33:40,127
And he's back.
David Bowie,

1436
01:33:40,162 --> 01:33:42,327
launching his
first new album in three years,

1437
01:33:42,362 --> 01:33:45,264
preparing for his first
British tour in five years,

1438
01:33:45,299 --> 01:33:47,299
and telling Newsnight's
Robin Denselow

1439
01:33:47,334 --> 01:33:50,335
<i>about his new</i>
<i>and more emotional music style.</i>

1440
01:33:51,910 --> 01:33:54,438
DAVID: I'm trying to write
in a more obvious

1441
01:33:54,473 --> 01:33:56,143
and positive manner.

1442
01:33:56,178 --> 01:33:59,344
I've not gone quite
into a corner

1443
01:33:59,379 --> 01:34:01,951
with experimentation of sound.

1444
01:34:01,986 --> 01:34:04,822
I'm not quite so concerned
with cut-up exercise,

1445
01:34:04,857 --> 01:34:07,319
or using juxtaposition
of lyrics, or whatever.

1446
01:34:07,354 --> 01:34:09,222
I'd like to do
something positive.

1447
01:34:09,257 --> 01:34:11,994
Something that helps people,
to use a cliche.

1448
01:34:13,393 --> 01:34:14,766
DAVID:<i> This is probably</i>
<i>the simplest music</i>

1449
01:34:14,801 --> 01:34:16,097
<i>I've ever done.</i>

1450
01:34:16,132 --> 01:34:17,428
INTERVIEWER:
<i>What do you mean simple?</i>

1451
01:34:17,463 --> 01:34:20,266
DAVID:<i> It makes very warm,</i>

1452
01:34:20,301 --> 01:34:22,235
<i>understandable</i>
<i>musical statements.</i>

1453
01:34:22,270 --> 01:34:24,138
<i>It has a warm response.</i>

1454
01:34:24,173 --> 01:34:27,911
<i>I hope that it's the most</i>
<i>emotionally uplifting music</i>

1455
01:34:27,946 --> 01:34:29,979
<i>I've made in a long time.</i>

1456
01:34:30,014 --> 01:34:31,475
<i>It's very positive.</i>

1457
01:34:31,510 --> 01:34:33,180
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Is that how you're feeling?</i>

1458
01:34:33,215 --> 01:34:35,116
DAVID:<i> Relatively. Oh yeah.</i>

1459
01:34:35,151 --> 01:34:36,447
<i>I'm very positive.</i>

1460
01:34:37,824 --> 01:34:38,988
<i>♪ Never gonna fall for ♪</i>

1461
01:34:39,023 --> 01:34:40,187
<i>♪ Modern love ♪</i>

1462
01:34:40,222 --> 01:34:41,419
<i>♪ Walks beside me ♪</i>

1463
01:34:41,454 --> 01:34:42,860
<i>♪ Modern love ♪</i>

1464
01:34:42,895 --> 01:34:43,861
<i>♪ Walks on by ♪</i>

1465
01:34:43,896 --> 01:34:45,225
<i>♪ Modern love ♪</i>

1466
01:34:45,260 --> 01:34:48,833
<i>♪ Gets me to the church</i>
<i>on time ♪</i>

1467
01:34:48,868 --> 01:34:50,934
REPORTER:<i> British fans</i>
<i>are overwhelming</i>

1468
01:34:50,969 --> 01:34:53,233
<i>the post office with more</i>
<i>than four times</i>

1469
01:34:53,268 --> 01:34:56,467
<i>as many ticket requests</i>
<i>as seats available.</i>

1470
01:34:56,502 --> 01:34:59,074
<i>This is the biggest</i>
<i>demand ever.</i>

1471
01:34:59,109 --> 01:35:01,076
BOY: We waited hours
and hours to get tickets.

1472
01:35:01,111 --> 01:35:02,176
INTERVIEWER: Big Bowie fan?

1473
01:35:02,211 --> 01:35:03,276
MAN: Yeah, that's me.

1474
01:35:03,311 --> 01:35:04,409
WOMAN:<i> He's totally evolved.</i>

1475
01:35:04,444 --> 01:35:05,982
<i>He knows what his fans want,</i>

1476
01:35:06,017 --> 01:35:07,379
<i>and that's what</i>
<i>he's delivering now.</i>

1477
01:35:07,414 --> 01:35:09,887
I love David Bowie!

1478
01:35:09,922 --> 01:35:11,383
REPORTER:<i> Fans have</i>
<i>been waiting a day and a half</i>

1479
01:35:11,418 --> 01:35:12,824
<i>in the stadium parking lot.</i>

1480
01:35:12,859 --> 01:35:14,287
<i>They open the gates at 5pm.</i>

1481
01:35:14,322 --> 01:35:16,960
We want Bowie!

1482
01:35:18,425 --> 01:35:19,897
<i>♪ Modern love ♪</i>

1483
01:35:19,932 --> 01:35:20,964
<i>♪ Modern love ♪</i>

1484
01:35:22,429 --> 01:35:24,561
<i>♪ Modern love ♪</i>

1485
01:35:24,596 --> 01:35:27,465
EMCEE :<i> Ladies and gentlemen...</i>

1486
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:32,371
<i>David Bowie and his band!</i>

1487
01:35:32,406 --> 01:35:34,472
[LET'S DANCE SONG]

1488
01:35:40,348 --> 01:35:41,512
MAN:<i> What is it</i>
<i>about David Bowie</i>

1489
01:35:41,547 --> 01:35:43,382
<i>that excites you so much?</i>

1490
01:35:43,417 --> 01:35:44,889
-His style.
-Yeah?

1491
01:35:44,924 --> 01:35:46,121
I like his makeup.

1492
01:35:46,156 --> 01:35:47,386
MAN: You like his makeup?

1493
01:35:47,421 --> 01:35:48,860
WOMAN:
I like his music.

1494
01:35:50,391 --> 01:35:52,996
BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪

1495
01:35:53,031 --> 01:35:58,100
DAVID: ♪ Put on your red shoes
and dance the blues ♪

1496
01:35:58,135 --> 01:36:00,234
BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪

1497
01:36:00,269 --> 01:36:04,172
DAVID: ♪ To the song
they're playin' on the radio ♪

1498
01:36:05,670 --> 01:36:08,044
BAND: ♪ Let's sway ♪

1499
01:36:08,079 --> 01:36:10,541
DAVID: ♪ While color
lights up your face ♪

1500
01:36:13,414 --> 01:36:15,887
BAND: ♪ Let's sway ♪

1501
01:36:15,922 --> 01:36:19,616
DAVID: ♪ Sway through the crowd
to an empty space ♪

1502
01:36:22,621 --> 01:36:27,393
♪ If you say run
I'll run with you ♪

1503
01:36:30,299 --> 01:36:33,135
<i>♪ And if you say hide ♪</i>

1504
01:36:33,170 --> 01:36:35,005
♪ We'll hide ♪

1505
01:36:37,405 --> 01:36:40,604
♪ Because my love for you ♪

1506
01:36:40,639 --> 01:36:44,641
♪ Would break my heart in two ♪

1507
01:36:44,676 --> 01:36:49,019
♪ If you should fall
into my arms ♪

1508
01:36:49,054 --> 01:36:54,288
♪ Trembling like a flower ♪

1509
01:37:20,448 --> 01:37:23,218
BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪

1510
01:37:23,253 --> 01:37:27,057
DAVID: ♪ Put on your red shoes
and dance the blues ♪

1511
01:37:28,225 --> 01:37:30,423
BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪

1512
01:37:30,458 --> 01:37:34,196
DAVID:<i> ♪ Under the moonlight ♪</i>

1513
01:37:34,231 --> 01:37:36,297
<i>♪ This serious moonlight ♪</i>

1514
01:37:36,332 --> 01:37:37,364
BAND: ♪ Let's sway ♪

1515
01:37:43,372 --> 01:37:44,404
<i>♪ Let's sway ♪</i>

1516
01:37:51,050 --> 01:37:52,115
<i>♪ Let's dance ♪</i>

1517
01:37:58,486 --> 01:37:59,617
♪ Let's dance ♪

1518
01:38:06,197 --> 01:38:07,658
♪ Let's dance ♪

1519
01:38:13,732 --> 01:38:15,072
♪ Let's dance ♪

1520
01:38:17,538 --> 01:38:19,604
DAVID: ♪ Let's dance,
let's dance ♪

1521
01:38:19,639 --> 01:38:21,980
♪ Let's dance,
Let's dance. ♪

1522
01:38:33,191 --> 01:38:34,487
AUDIENCE:
Bowie!

1523
01:38:34,522 --> 01:38:36,060
Bowie!

1524
01:38:36,095 --> 01:38:37,589
Bowie!

1525
01:38:37,624 --> 01:38:39,756
Bowie! Bowie!

1526
01:38:44,202 --> 01:38:45,729
INTERVIEWER:<i> Do you think</i>
<i>they phenomenal success</i>

1527
01:38:45,764 --> 01:38:48,303
<i>of the tour marks</i>
<i>the rebirth of Bowie fever?</i>

1528
01:38:49,471 --> 01:38:51,141
DAVID:
<i>No, I don't think that.</i>

1529
01:38:51,176 --> 01:38:53,242
<i>But I think it's just</i>
<i>a Bowie acceptance now,</i>

1530
01:38:53,277 --> 01:38:56,278
<i>which is quite gratifying</i>
<i>after all these years.</i>

1531
01:39:11,130 --> 01:39:12,657
<i>Didn't think I'd ever</i>
<i>hear myself saying this,</i>

1532
01:39:12,692 --> 01:39:14,395
<i>but it's like the audience</i>

1533
01:39:14,430 --> 01:39:16,298
<i>and myself are just,</i>
<i>like, together.</i>

1534
01:39:16,333 --> 01:39:17,596
<i>It's trying to come back</i>

1535
01:39:17,631 --> 01:39:19,730
<i>to being a person again</i>
<i>in terms--</i>

1536
01:39:19,765 --> 01:39:21,567
<i>in the eyes of the audience,</i>

1537
01:39:21,602 --> 01:39:23,305
<i>and it certainly</i>
<i>has no pretensions</i>

1538
01:39:23,340 --> 01:39:25,373
<i>to be a serious,</i>

1539
01:39:25,408 --> 01:39:29,839
<i>heavy statement-filled show,</i>
<i>but I mean,</i>

1540
01:39:29,874 --> 01:39:31,511
<i>it's exactly</i>
<i>what I want it to be.</i>

1541
01:39:35,583 --> 01:39:37,220
INTERVIEWER:
<i>What do you most enjoy doing?</i>

1542
01:39:37,255 --> 01:39:39,057
DAVID:<i> In life, at the moment?</i>

1543
01:39:41,259 --> 01:39:43,325
<i>Waking up and feeling</i>
<i>as though I've got a future.</i>

1544
01:39:44,889 --> 01:39:48,198
<i>I keep remembering</i>
<i>that there is a tomorrow,</i>

1545
01:39:48,233 --> 01:39:50,200
<i>when that never really occurred</i>
<i>to me before,</i>

1546
01:39:50,235 --> 01:39:51,531
<i>that there was a tomorrow.</i>

1547
01:39:51,566 --> 01:39:54,336
<i>Tomorrow was really,</i>
<i>"This is it.</i>

1548
01:39:54,371 --> 01:39:56,536
<i>"This is now,</i>
<i>this is important.</i>

1549
01:39:56,571 --> 01:39:58,703
<i>"Everything else is crazy,</i>
<i>and static,</i>

1550
01:39:58,738 --> 01:40:01,772
<i>"and it means nothing,</i>
<i>or everything's impermanent,</i>

1551
01:40:01,807 --> 01:40:04,511
<i>therefore I will just live</i>
<i>for the second."</i>

1552
01:40:06,284 --> 01:40:09,318
And one has to start taking
very positive stands on things.

1553
01:40:15,326 --> 01:40:16,820
<i>When you feel comfortable</i>
<i>with yourself,</i>

1554
01:40:16,855 --> 01:40:18,558
<i>you can no longer write.</i>

1555
01:40:18,593 --> 01:40:22,133
<i>That seems to be</i>
<i>the writer's great problem.</i>

1556
01:40:22,168 --> 01:40:25,565
<i>As I get more comfortable,</i>
<i>I obviously have the feeling</i>

1557
01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:29,206
<i>that it's not so much that</i>
<i>is my writing as good,</i>

1558
01:40:29,241 --> 01:40:32,803
<i>or as potent as it used to be,</i>
<i>but do I need to write anymore?</i>

1559
01:41:01,570 --> 01:41:05,341
MAN:<i> His new album seems</i>
<i>to be, to me, a step sideways.</i>

1560
01:41:05,376 --> 01:41:06,408
INTERVIEWER:
<i>Why do you describe it</i>

1561
01:41:06,443 --> 01:41:07,706
<i>that-- in that way?</i>

1562
01:41:07,741 --> 01:41:09,312
MAN:<i> Because I think</i>
<i>he's not doing</i>

1563
01:41:09,347 --> 01:41:10,874
<i>anything particularly new,</i>

1564
01:41:10,909 --> 01:41:14,185
<i>and I suspect that</i>
<i>for the first time ever,</i>

1565
01:41:14,220 --> 01:41:18,552
<i>the fans are up there with him</i>
<i>and he's not ahead of the game.</i>

1566
01:41:18,587 --> 01:41:21,852
<i>He seems to me to have become</i>
<i>something rather old fashioned,</i>

1567
01:41:21,887 --> 01:41:24,228
<i>which is to say a superstar.</i>

1568
01:41:38,310 --> 01:41:41,278
<i>If you've gone mainstream,</i>
<i>there's only one way to do it,</i>

1569
01:41:41,313 --> 01:41:43,214
<i>and that's sell out</i>
<i>three days a year.</i>

1570
01:41:43,249 --> 01:41:44,314
MAN 2:
<i>Really do it.</i>

1571
01:41:44,349 --> 01:41:45,777
MAN:<i> Yeah, yeah.</i>

1572
01:41:45,812 --> 01:41:47,383
<i>He's done it in one big deal,</i>
<i>hasn't he?</i>

1573
01:41:50,850 --> 01:41:52,487
INTERVIEWER:
<i>This is the last stop</i>

1574
01:41:52,522 --> 01:41:54,885
<i>on what's been a pretty</i>
<i>extensive tour for you.</i>

1575
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:57,327
DAVID:<i> Uh, yeah, I'm not</i>
<i>actually finishing in Auckland.</i>

1576
01:41:57,362 --> 01:41:58,691
<i>I'm going over now</i>

1577
01:41:58,726 --> 01:42:00,957
<i>to Singapore,</i>
<i>Hong Kong, and Bangkok.</i>

1578
01:42:02,301 --> 01:42:04,499
<i>♪ I've nothing much to offer ♪</i>

1579
01:42:07,504 --> 01:42:10,505
<i>♪ There's nothing much</i>
<i>to take ♪</i>

1580
01:42:22,321 --> 01:42:24,816
<i>♪ I'm an absolute beginner ♪</i>

1581
01:42:27,623 --> 01:42:32,593
<i>♪ But I'm absolutely sane ♪</i>

1582
01:42:36,434 --> 01:42:38,929
<i>I'm not quite so stricken</i>
<i>with the idea</i>

1583
01:42:38,964 --> 01:42:40,997
<i>of making a point.</i>

1584
01:42:41,032 --> 01:42:43,340
<i>I'm not quite sure</i>
<i>that any point</i>

1585
01:42:43,375 --> 01:42:45,837
<i>that I have to make</i>
<i>isn't being made quite as well</i>

1586
01:42:45,872 --> 01:42:47,443
<i>by other people.</i>

1587
01:42:47,478 --> 01:42:50,842
<i>Um, and that maybe the point,</i>

1588
01:42:50,877 --> 01:42:52,349
<i>my most important point,</i>

1589
01:42:52,384 --> 01:42:54,010
<i>is that I can entertain</i>
<i>very well,</i>

1590
01:42:54,045 --> 01:42:57,684
and I think I'm no longer
finding it uncomfortable

1591
01:42:57,719 --> 01:43:01,688
to reach that conclusion.

1592
01:43:02,988 --> 01:43:05,791
<i>That I now find</i>
<i>I'm very comfortable</i>

1593
01:43:05,826 --> 01:43:08,629
<i>being an actor,</i>
<i>an entertainer,</i>

1594
01:43:08,664 --> 01:43:12,336
<i>without too much</i>
<i>all-encompassing stuff.</i>

1595
01:43:12,371 --> 01:43:13,832
♪ Time takes a cigarette ♪

1596
01:43:15,968 --> 01:43:17,506
♪ Puts it in your mouth ♪

1597
01:43:19,543 --> 01:43:21,708
♪ You pull on your finger ♪

1598
01:43:21,743 --> 01:43:24,942
♪ Then another finger
then your cigarette ♪

1599
01:43:26,451 --> 01:43:29,353
<i>♪ The wall-to-wall is calling ♪</i>

1600
01:43:29,388 --> 01:43:33,324
<i>♪ It lingers,</i>
<i>but still you forget ♪</i>

1601
01:43:33,359 --> 01:43:36,393
♪ Ohhh ♪

1602
01:43:36,428 --> 01:43:38,659
♪ You're a rock and roll
suicide ♪

1603
01:43:41,125 --> 01:43:43,026
<i>♪ You're too young to lose it ♪</i>

1604
01:43:44,898 --> 01:43:47,437
<i>♪ But you're too old</i>
<i>to lose it ♪</i>

1605
01:43:49,540 --> 01:43:53,938
<i>♪ And the clocks waits</i>
<i>so patiently on your song ♪</i>

1606
01:43:55,139 --> 01:43:58,514
♪ Well, you walk past a cafe ♪

1607
01:43:58,549 --> 01:44:01,550
♪ But you can't eat
when you've lived too long... ♪

1608
01:44:01,585 --> 01:44:03,585
MAN:<i> Pepsi continues</i>
<i>to innovate,</i>

1609
01:44:03,620 --> 01:44:05,422
<i>by capturing what's new,</i>

1610
01:44:05,457 --> 01:44:08,359
<i>what's contemporary,</i>
<i>and what's hot.</i>

1611
01:44:08,394 --> 01:44:10,394
<i>The Glass Spider Tour</i>
<i>will be all of that.</i>

1612
01:44:10,429 --> 01:44:14,090
♪ Now the Chev brakes
are snarling ♪

1613
01:44:14,125 --> 01:44:15,927
♪ As you stumble
across the road ♪

1614
01:44:17,667 --> 01:44:20,536
INTERVIEWER:<i> You always have</i>
<i>that segment of people</i>

1615
01:44:20,571 --> 01:44:21,933
who are with you
from the start

1616
01:44:21,968 --> 01:44:24,507
and if you know Bowie,
you know he's sold out.

1617
01:44:24,542 --> 01:44:27,972
DAVID: I don't begrudge any
artist for getting an audience.

1618
01:44:28,007 --> 01:44:31,107
I'm sorry, I never found
that poverty meant purity.

1619
01:44:31,142 --> 01:44:33,010
INTERVIEWER:
<i>For a guy who doesn't like</i>

1620
01:44:33,045 --> 01:44:35,518
<i>to play it safe, though,</i>
<i>as the audience gets larger,</i>

1621
01:44:35,553 --> 01:44:37,487
<i>it must be harder</i>
<i>to take those chances.</i>

1622
01:44:38,787 --> 01:44:41,656
♪ Oh no, love,
you're not alone ♪

1623
01:44:43,187 --> 01:44:47,398
♪ You're watching yourself
but you're too unfair ♪

1624
01:44:47,433 --> 01:44:50,467
<i>♪ You got your head</i>
<i>all tangled up ♪</i>

1625
01:44:50,502 --> 01:44:53,965
<i>♪ But if I could only</i>
<i>make you care ♪</i>

1626
01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:55,604
<i>Here I was,</i>
<i>making lots of money,</i>

1627
01:44:55,639 --> 01:44:57,507
<i>performing</i>
<i>to these huge audiences,</i>

1628
01:44:57,542 --> 01:44:59,003
<i>and I thought that's it,</i>
<i>you know?</i>

1629
01:44:59,038 --> 01:45:01,742
<i>I've come to the vacuum</i>
<i>of my life.</i>

1630
01:45:01,777 --> 01:45:05,515
<i>♪ No matter when</i>
<i>or where you've seen ♪</i>

1631
01:45:05,550 --> 01:45:08,914
<i>♪ All the knives</i>
<i>seem to lacerate your brain ♪</i>

1632
01:45:08,949 --> 01:45:13,820
♪ I've had my share now
I'll help you with the pain ♪

1633
01:45:13,855 --> 01:45:15,393
♪ You're not alone ♪

1634
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:23,599
<i>♪ Just turn on with me</i>
<i>and you're not alone ♪</i>

1635
01:45:26,197 --> 01:45:30,441
♪ Just turn on with me
and you're not alone ♪

1636
01:45:34,139 --> 01:45:37,745
<i>♪ Gimme your hands</i>
<i>cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1637
01:45:38,814 --> 01:45:40,616
♪ I said ♪

1638
01:45:40,651 --> 01:45:44,554
<i>♪ Gimme your hands</i>
<i>cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1639
01:45:47,559 --> 01:45:51,627
<i>♪ Gimme your hands</i>
<i>cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1640
01:45:53,125 --> 01:45:57,094
<i>♪ Cause you...</i>
<i>Gimmie your hands ♪</i>

1641
01:45:57,129 --> 01:45:59,195
<i>♪ Cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1642
01:46:01,738 --> 01:46:07,005
♪ Gimme your hands
'cause you're wonderful ♪

1643
01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:08,479
<i>♪ Gimme your hands ♪</i>

1644
01:46:11,550 --> 01:46:13,451
<i>♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1645
01:46:18,821 --> 01:46:20,755
<i>♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1646
01:46:25,894 --> 01:46:27,795
<i>♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1647
01:46:32,901 --> 01:46:34,230
<i>♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪</i>

1648
01:46:34,265 --> 01:46:35,506
I'm a young man.

1649
01:46:36,839 --> 01:46:38,872
Do you understand?

1650
01:46:38,907 --> 01:46:40,676
I'm a<i> young </i> man.

1651
01:46:40,711 --> 01:46:42,172
♪ 'Cause you're wonderful. ♪

1652
01:46:59,323 --> 01:47:02,159
Thank you very much.
Bye bye, we love you.

1653
01:47:31,795 --> 01:47:34,059
DAVID:<i> Even though</i>
<i>it was enormously successful,</i>

1654
01:47:35,634 --> 01:47:37,964
<i>there was no growth</i>
<i>going on at all.</i>

1655
01:47:43,609 --> 01:47:44,905
<i>They were very hard years</i>
<i>to get through</i>

1656
01:47:44,940 --> 01:47:46,676
<i>to find any sense of purpose.</i>

1657
01:47:48,845 --> 01:47:50,746
<i>I wasn't allowing myself</i>

1658
01:47:50,781 --> 01:47:53,683
<i>the service of being</i>
<i>who I really am as an artist.</i>

1659
01:47:55,049 --> 01:47:56,983
<i>I'd given myself</i>
<i>dreadful parameters</i>

1660
01:47:57,018 --> 01:48:01,691
<i>in confining myself to merely</i>
<i>what I presumed people wanted.</i>

1661
01:48:05,763 --> 01:48:07,257
<i>I never wanted to do this.</i>

1662
01:48:07,292 --> 01:48:09,831
<i>I never wanted to be out there</i>
<i>pleasing people.</i>

1663
01:48:09,866 --> 01:48:11,734
<i>I wanted to be really stubborn</i>

1664
01:48:11,769 --> 01:48:13,802
<i>and have people like</i>
<i>what I like.</i>

1665
01:48:13,837 --> 01:48:16,035
<i>Not give them what they like.</i>

1666
01:48:21,878 --> 01:48:25,242
<i>It's very, very easy</i>
<i>to become work-obsessed</i>

1667
01:48:25,277 --> 01:48:27,651
<i>for the reason of not having</i>
<i>to look at oneself.</i>

1668
01:48:31,789 --> 01:48:33,283
<i>I think over</i>
<i>the last few years,</i>

1669
01:48:33,318 --> 01:48:35,252
<i>I'm understanding</i>

1670
01:48:35,287 --> 01:48:38,189
<i>a very important thing</i>
<i>in my life,</i>

1671
01:48:38,224 --> 01:48:41,731
<i>which is that I really</i>
<i>have to come back</i>

1672
01:48:41,766 --> 01:48:44,096
<i>to what my life is about.</i>

1673
01:48:44,131 --> 01:48:47,935
<i>That my life is not about</i>
<i>the work that I do.</i>

1674
01:48:47,970 --> 01:48:49,673
<i>My work is not me.</i>

1675
01:48:49,708 --> 01:48:54,876
<i>I am distinctly one entity</i>
<i>that needs looking at.</i>

1676
01:48:57,782 --> 01:48:59,144
<i>When I first looked,</i>

1677
01:48:59,179 --> 01:49:01,982
<i>I just didn't understand</i>
<i>that person,</i>

1678
01:49:02,017 --> 01:49:04,281
<i>because I'd never given myself</i>
<i>the time,</i>

1679
01:49:04,316 --> 01:49:06,019
<i>nor the incentive</i>

1680
01:49:06,054 --> 01:49:09,759
<i>to want to really</i>
<i>have a look at myself, deeply.</i>

1681
01:49:12,797 --> 01:49:15,963
<i>I think the first intrusion</i>
<i>into one's own inner conflicts</i>

1682
01:49:15,998 --> 01:49:18,064
<i>is not the most pleasant</i>
<i>of experiences.</i>

1683
01:49:21,102 --> 01:49:23,399
<i>But working through them</i>

1684
01:49:23,434 --> 01:49:25,269
<i>can really be</i>
<i>one of the greatest adventures</i>

1685
01:49:25,304 --> 01:49:27,040
<i>of one's life,</i>

1686
01:49:27,075 --> 01:49:31,308
<i>and it takes a certain amount</i>
<i>of bravado,</i>

1687
01:49:31,343 --> 01:49:34,982
<i>and need, and a realization</i>

1688
01:49:35,017 --> 01:49:38,018
<i>that you're missing out</i>
<i>on your own life.</i>

1689
01:49:39,318 --> 01:49:41,318
<i>You are probably</i>
<i>creating hazards</i>

1690
01:49:41,353 --> 01:49:47,225
<i>and disturbing experiences</i>
<i>for others around you.</i>

1691
01:49:47,260 --> 01:49:49,733
<i>And the house</i>
<i>must be put right.</i>

1692
01:50:09,414 --> 01:50:11,117
INTERVIEWER:<i> Do you have</i>
<i>any room in your life</i>

1693
01:50:11,152 --> 01:50:12,987
<i>for any kind of real</i>
<i>relationship like that?</i>

1694
01:50:13,022 --> 01:50:14,351
DAVID:<i> More room than</i>
<i>I've ever had before.</i>

1695
01:50:17,994 --> 01:50:20,192
INTERVIEWER:<i> You've said</i>
<i>that being in love,</i>

1696
01:50:20,227 --> 01:50:21,391
<i>you thought</i>
<i>was like a disease.</i>

1697
01:50:21,426 --> 01:50:23,228
DAVID:<i> Yeah.</i>

1698
01:50:23,263 --> 01:50:24,735
INTERVIEWER:<i> Horrible,</i>
<i>and it bred jealousy, and--</i>

1699
01:50:24,770 --> 01:50:26,462
DAVID:<i> I think I've--</i>
<i>I think I've--</i>

1700
01:50:26,497 --> 01:50:30,873
<i>I think I've grown to feel</i>
<i>a distaste for that statement.</i>

1701
01:50:55,900 --> 01:50:58,395
<i>Then I met Iman,</i>

1702
01:50:58,430 --> 01:51:01,904
<i>and it was smack,</i>
<i>right from the first night.</i>

1703
01:51:01,939 --> 01:51:03,202
<i>That was it.</i>
<i>It was over.</i>

1704
01:51:05,943 --> 01:51:06,975
<i>It was incredible.</i>

1705
01:51:10,475 --> 01:51:14,444
<i>My life suddenly became</i>
<i>rose-tinged.</i>

1706
01:51:14,479 --> 01:51:16,116
[WORD ON A WING SONG]

1707
01:51:16,151 --> 01:51:18,855
<i>♪ In this age</i>
<i>of grand illusion ♪</i>

1708
01:51:18,890 --> 01:51:21,121
<i>♪ You walked into my life ♪</i>

1709
01:51:21,156 --> 01:51:23,024
<i>♪ Out of my dreams ♪</i>

1710
01:51:25,996 --> 01:51:28,326
<i>♪ I don't need another change ♪</i>

1711
01:51:28,361 --> 01:51:30,097
<i>♪ Still you forced your way ♪</i>

1712
01:51:30,132 --> 01:51:33,034
<i>♪ Into my scheme of things ♪</i>

1713
01:51:37,007 --> 01:51:39,304
<i>♪ You say we're growing ♪</i>

1714
01:51:40,538 --> 01:51:44,078
<i>♪ Growing heart and soul... ♪</i>

1715
01:51:44,113 --> 01:51:46,047
<i>I really</i>
<i>started thinking about</i>

1716
01:51:46,082 --> 01:51:50,018
<i>where I was gonna go with it,</i>
<i>and what I could do for her,</i>

1717
01:51:50,053 --> 01:51:52,482
<i>and how I could be</i>

1718
01:51:52,517 --> 01:51:54,187
<i>some kind</i>
<i>of valuable contribution</i>

1719
01:51:54,222 --> 01:51:56,255
<i>to a relationship.</i>

1720
01:51:56,290 --> 01:52:02,195
<i>♪ Sweet name</i>
<i>you're born once again for me ♪</i>

1721
01:52:06,036 --> 01:52:11,842
<i>♪ Sweet name you're born</i>
<i>once again for me... ♪</i>

1722
01:52:13,472 --> 01:52:16,242
<i>It became a process</i>
<i>over the first year or so,</i>

1723
01:52:16,277 --> 01:52:19,014
<i>trying to balance my life</i>
<i>in terms of well,</i>

1724
01:52:19,049 --> 01:52:21,181
<i>how many of these</i>
<i>precious moments</i>

1725
01:52:21,216 --> 01:52:24,118
<i>am I willing to give away</i>
<i>at my age, 45?</i>

1726
01:52:24,153 --> 01:52:27,088
<i>Do I want to keep</i>
<i>on inundating myself</i>

1727
01:52:27,123 --> 01:52:29,519
<i>with one work project</i>
<i>after another, and sort of,</i>

1728
01:52:29,554 --> 01:52:32,456
<i>leave virtually no room</i>
<i>for a real, solid,</i>

1729
01:52:32,491 --> 01:52:35,899
<i>wonderful relationship</i>
<i>to start blooming?</i>

1730
01:52:35,934 --> 01:52:39,870
♪ Lord, I kneel and offer you ♪

1731
01:52:39,905 --> 01:52:42,532
♪ My word on a wing ♪

1732
01:52:44,910 --> 01:52:46,943
INTERVIEWER:<i> Tour plans.</i>
<i>Any tour plans?</i>

1733
01:52:46,978 --> 01:52:50,408
Unfortunately not.
No, not this time.

1734
01:52:50,443 --> 01:52:53,983
As you know, I've only been
married seven months,

1735
01:52:54,018 --> 01:52:57,481
and I really want to spend
more time within the marriage.

1736
01:52:57,516 --> 01:53:00,286
I think the worst thing to do
is run away for a year.

1737
01:53:01,487 --> 01:53:02,552
<i>I really do.</i>

1738
01:53:09,660 --> 01:53:10,901
<i>♪ Lord ♪</i>

1739
01:53:12,069 --> 01:53:13,398
<i>♪ Lord ♪</i>

1740
01:53:13,433 --> 01:53:16,203
♪ My prayer flies
like a word on a wing ♪

1741
01:53:18,108 --> 01:53:20,977
♪ My prayer flies
like a word on a wing ♪

1742
01:53:22,607 --> 01:53:25,982
♪ Does my prayer fit in
with your scheme of things? ♪

1743
01:53:35,686 --> 01:53:38,962
DAVID:<i> There's a certain</i>
<i>buoyancy that you can develop</i>

1744
01:53:38,997 --> 01:53:40,623
<i>as you</i> get older

1745
01:53:40,658 --> 01:53:44,033
<i>if you are capable of absorbing</i>
<i>that it's a finite life,</i>

1746
01:53:44,068 --> 01:53:45,529
<i>and a finite existence.</i>

1747
01:53:46,730 --> 01:53:48,334
<i>And it's a kind of a knowledge</i>

1748
01:53:48,369 --> 01:53:51,337
<i>that you cannot</i>
<i>possibly entertain</i>

1749
01:53:51,372 --> 01:53:53,141
<i>when you're young.</i>

1750
01:53:53,176 --> 01:53:56,705
<i>You cannot entertain</i>
<i>the real magnificence</i>

1751
01:53:56,740 --> 01:53:59,312
<i>and inevitability</i>
<i>of the short span of years</i>

1752
01:53:59,347 --> 01:54:00,709
<i>that we spend on the earth.</i>

1753
01:54:00,744 --> 01:54:02,579
<i>And I think</i>
<i>if you are really honest</i>

1754
01:54:02,614 --> 01:54:04,119
<i>with that reality,</i>

1755
01:54:04,154 --> 01:54:06,517
<i>you can have</i>
<i>a kind of a freedom,</i>

1756
01:54:06,552 --> 01:54:08,992
<i>artistically, spiritually,</i>
<i>and emotionally</i>

1757
01:54:09,027 --> 01:54:10,620
<i>that you don't have</i>
<i>when you're young.</i>

1758
01:54:10,655 --> 01:54:15,262
<i>♪ Ooh, ready to shape</i>
<i>the scheme of things ♪</i>

1759
01:54:15,297 --> 01:54:17,330
<i>The idea of holding</i>
<i>on to anything</i>

1760
01:54:17,365 --> 01:54:21,631
<i>that's manifested</i>
<i>seems farcical.</i>

1761
01:54:21,666 --> 01:54:23,468
There is nothing
to hold onto.

1762
01:54:23,503 --> 01:54:25,371
Youth, physical things, or...

1763
01:54:29,080 --> 01:54:30,244
definitely possessions.

1764
01:54:35,119 --> 01:54:37,020
<i>The 20th century concern</i>

1765
01:54:37,055 --> 01:54:40,287
<i>is how we put our new god</i>
<i>back together again.</i>

1766
01:54:40,322 --> 01:54:43,422
<i>I think that we're coming</i>
<i>into an era of chaos,</i>

1767
01:54:43,457 --> 01:54:45,556
<i>and chaos has meaning</i>
<i>in our lives,</i>

1768
01:54:45,591 --> 01:54:48,031
<i>and I think</i>
<i>that we have to re-adapt</i>

1769
01:54:48,066 --> 01:54:51,232
<i>our interpretation of religion</i>
<i>and spirituality</i>

1770
01:54:51,267 --> 01:54:52,464
<i>to suit our new millennium.</i>

1771
01:54:53,764 --> 01:54:55,698
<i>Chaos and fragmentation</i>
<i>is something</i>

1772
01:54:55,733 --> 01:54:58,536
<i>that I've always been</i>
<i>very comfortable with.</i>

1773
01:54:58,571 --> 01:55:01,275
<i>That obviously</i>
<i>is my through-line.</i>

1774
01:55:01,310 --> 01:55:03,046
<i>Because I've always felt</i>

1775
01:55:03,081 --> 01:55:05,576
<i>that there's no real central</i>
<i>one truth in life.</i>

1776
01:55:05,611 --> 01:55:07,743
<i>That the way we live</i>
<i>is trying to make sense</i>

1777
01:55:07,778 --> 01:55:12,121
<i>of the endless vortex</i>
<i>of fragments.</i>

1778
01:55:12,156 --> 01:55:14,552
<i>That essentially,</i>
<i>we try and pull</i>

1779
01:55:14,587 --> 01:55:17,093
<i>these weedy little truths</i>

1780
01:55:17,128 --> 01:55:19,590
<i>and absolutes</i>

1781
01:55:19,625 --> 01:55:23,627
<i>out of this kind</i>
<i>of mindless chaos,</i>

1782
01:55:23,662 --> 01:55:25,662
<i>which is the real universe.</i>

1783
01:55:25,697 --> 01:55:28,401
<i>There's something about</i>
<i>the 90s that I really like.</i>

1784
01:55:28,436 --> 01:55:30,370
<i>There's something in the air</i>
<i>that I recognize.</i>

1785
01:55:30,405 --> 01:55:32,141
<i>I think it's all the frag--</i>

1786
01:55:32,176 --> 01:55:34,539
<i>all the fragments</i>
<i>flying around in the chaos.</i>

1787
01:55:34,574 --> 01:55:37,311
<i>It feels really... I kind of...</i>
<i>I know this stuff.</i>

1788
01:55:38,611 --> 01:55:40,413
[HALLO SPACEBOY SONG]

1789
01:56:04,406 --> 01:56:05,471
♪ Spaceboy ♪

1790
01:56:06,870 --> 01:56:08,309
♪ You're sleepy now ♪

1791
01:56:09,444 --> 01:56:10,740
♪ Your silhouette ♪

1792
01:56:12,447 --> 01:56:14,051
♪ Is so stationary ♪

1793
01:56:15,714 --> 01:56:18,385
♪ You're released
but your custody calls ♪

1794
01:56:19,883 --> 01:56:21,454
♪ And I want to be free ♪

1795
01:56:25,394 --> 01:56:26,657
♪ Don't you want to be free ♪

1796
01:56:28,496 --> 01:56:30,265
♪ Do you like girls or boys ♪

1797
01:56:32,203 --> 01:56:34,632
♪ Yeah, it's confusing
these days ♪

1798
01:56:35,899 --> 01:56:39,505
♪ But Moondust will cover you ♪

1799
01:56:39,540 --> 01:56:41,375
♪ Cover you ♪

1800
01:56:41,410 --> 01:56:43,542
♪ This chaos is killing me ♪

1801
01:56:48,483 --> 01:56:49,581
♪ So bye bye love ♪

1802
01:56:54,786 --> 01:56:56,192
♪ Bye bye love ♪

1803
01:57:01,496 --> 01:57:02,561
♪ Bye bye love ♪

1804
01:57:07,634 --> 01:57:08,765
♪ Bye bye love ♪

1805
01:57:26,488 --> 01:57:28,488
♪ This chaos is killing me ♪

1806
01:57:33,528 --> 01:57:34,725
♪ Sweet sweet dove ♪

1807
01:57:39,765 --> 01:57:41,303
♪ Bye bye Spaceboy ♪

1808
01:57:46,310 --> 01:57:47,507
♪ Bye bye love ♪

1809
01:57:53,779 --> 01:57:56,318
♪ Moondust will cover you ♪

1810
01:58:00,291 --> 01:58:02,456
♪ Moondust will cover you ♪

1811
01:58:06,264 --> 01:58:09,232
♪ Moondust will cover you ♪

1812
01:58:12,732 --> 01:58:15,403
♪ Moondust will cover you ♪

1813
01:58:19,343 --> 01:58:21,706
♪ Moondust will cover you ♪

1814
01:58:25,448 --> 01:58:27,448
[I HAVE NOT BEEN
TO OXFORD TOWN SONG]

1815
01:58:27,483 --> 01:58:29,846
<i>♪ All is well ♪</i>

1816
01:58:29,881 --> 01:58:32,486
<i>♪ 20th century dies ♪</i>

1817
01:58:32,521 --> 01:58:34,851
<i>♪ Toll the bell ♪</i>

1818
01:58:34,886 --> 01:58:37,392
<i>♪ Pay the private eye ♪</i>

1819
01:58:37,427 --> 01:58:39,757
<i>♪ All is well ♪</i>

1820
01:58:39,792 --> 01:58:42,232
<i>♪ 20th century dies ♪</i>

1821
01:59:01,011 --> 01:59:03,550
[MAN SPEAKS FRENCH]

1822
01:59:03,585 --> 01:59:06,751
DAVID:<i> I think, I think</i>
<i>it has something to do</i>

1823
01:59:06,786 --> 01:59:09,787
<i>with being able to reach</i>
<i>the end of any one day</i>

1824
01:59:09,822 --> 01:59:12,691
<i>and feel that you took from it</i>

1825
01:59:12,726 --> 01:59:16,827
<i>and gave back to it</i>
<i>as much as possible.</i>

1826
01:59:18,369 --> 01:59:20,567
<i>I hate to waste days.</i>

1827
01:59:29,314 --> 01:59:32,282
<i>I've just been feeling</i>
<i>a lot more comfortable</i>

1828
01:59:32,317 --> 01:59:34,383
<i>with life, and myself,</i>
<i>and my writing</i>

1829
01:59:34,418 --> 01:59:35,912
<i>and everything</i>
<i>as the years go by,</i>

1830
01:59:35,947 --> 01:59:38,321
<i>so it's... I just happen to be</i>
<i>in a great place.</i>

1831
01:59:38,356 --> 01:59:39,883
<i>I'm really lucky in that way.</i>

1832
01:59:39,918 --> 01:59:41,456
<i>'Cause I look</i>
<i>at some of my mates,</i>

1833
01:59:41,491 --> 01:59:43,425
<i>and some contemporaries,</i>

1834
01:59:43,460 --> 01:59:46,560
<i>and I know some of them feel,</i>
<i>I don't know, tired, or bitter,</i>

1835
01:59:46,595 --> 01:59:48,496
<i>or you know, a number of things</i>

1836
01:59:48,531 --> 01:59:51,862
<i>that traditionally</i>
<i>are supposed to go</i>

1837
01:59:51,897 --> 01:59:53,336
<i>with getting older, you know?</i>

1838
01:59:53,371 --> 01:59:54,634
<i>And I've just been</i>
<i>very fortunate</i>

1839
01:59:54,669 --> 01:59:56,405
<i>that it just</i>
<i>hasn't happened to me.</i>

1840
01:59:56,440 --> 01:59:59,276
<i>I just feel really--</i>
<i>I'm pretty keen on everything.</i>

1841
02:00:00,675 --> 02:00:02,543
<i>I've just landed on my feet.</i>

1842
02:00:02,578 --> 02:00:05,942
<i>I've done and do everything</i>
<i>I've always wanted to do,</i>

1843
02:00:05,977 --> 02:00:07,680
<i>you know?</i>

1844
02:00:07,715 --> 02:00:08,615
<i>That's been--</i>

1845
02:00:09,915 --> 02:00:11,882
INTERVIEWER:
<i>That's a great thing.</i>

1846
02:00:11,917 --> 02:00:13,389
DAVID:<i> Oh, it's extraordinary.</i>
<i>It really is extraordinary.</i>

1847
02:00:13,424 --> 02:00:14,522
<i>I've an incredible life.</i>

1848
02:00:15,624 --> 02:00:17,492
<i>It's been amazing.</i>

1849
02:00:17,527 --> 02:00:19,296
<i>I would love to do it again.</i>

1850
02:00:22,026 --> 02:00:25,929
<i>I was determined,</i>
<i>ever since I was 16,</i>

1851
02:00:25,964 --> 02:00:27,898
<i>that I would have</i>
<i>the greatest adventure</i>

1852
02:00:27,933 --> 02:00:30,736
<i>that any one person</i>
<i>could ever have.</i>

1853
02:00:30,771 --> 02:00:33,409
<i>And I set my sails</i>
<i>in the general direction</i>

1854
02:00:33,444 --> 02:00:35,675
<i>of uncharted waters.</i>

1855
02:00:35,710 --> 02:00:38,348
<i>I put myself</i>
<i>through everything--</i>

1856
02:00:38,383 --> 02:00:41,109
<i>absolutely everything,</i>
<i>that came along.</i>

1857
02:00:41,144 --> 02:00:45,619
<i>It was very important for me</i>
<i>to expand my horizons</i>

1858
02:00:45,654 --> 02:00:47,357
<i>and seeing just how--</i>

1859
02:00:47,392 --> 02:00:49,755
<i>just how near to the line</i>
<i>I could get.</i>

1860
02:01:30,765 --> 02:01:32,963
<i>I've been so eclectic</i>
<i>all my life.</i>

1861
02:01:32,998 --> 02:01:35,966
<i>I've been admiring</i>
<i>of so many different people</i>

1862
02:01:36,001 --> 02:01:38,001
<i>and so many different things</i>
<i>that they've done,</i>

1863
02:01:38,036 --> 02:01:41,840
<i>I feel that I owe so many</i>
<i>for the way that I think</i>

1864
02:01:41,875 --> 02:01:42,874
<i>and do things.</i>

1865
02:01:44,174 --> 02:01:47,879
<i>I guess anybody</i>
<i>who's had the integrity</i>

1866
02:01:47,914 --> 02:01:50,420
<i>to kind of always work</i>
<i>outside of the system,</i>

1867
02:01:50,455 --> 02:01:52,554
<i>has always appealed to me.</i>

1868
02:01:52,589 --> 02:01:55,755
<i>Whenever I'm teetering</i>
<i>on sort of what I know</i>

1869
02:01:55,790 --> 02:01:58,593
<i>is what I do best,</i>
<i>and what I really feel for,</i>

1870
02:01:58,628 --> 02:02:00,760
<i>and there's an area</i>
<i>that I think that,</i>

1871
02:02:00,795 --> 02:02:03,026
<i>well, an audience</i>
<i>I know would like this,</i>

1872
02:02:03,996 --> 02:02:05,831
<i>I just remember back</i>

1873
02:02:05,866 --> 02:02:09,835
<i>to how much I hate the center</i>
<i>of the social strata,</i>

1874
02:02:09,870 --> 02:02:12,002
<i>how I hate being drawn</i>
<i>into the middle,</i>

1875
02:02:12,037 --> 02:02:14,477
<i>to the middle of the road</i>
<i>of anything,</i>

1876
02:02:14,512 --> 02:02:17,106
<i>to that which is most popular.</i>

1877
02:02:17,141 --> 02:02:19,141
<i>And if-- The other thing</i>
<i>I would say is that</i>

1878
02:02:19,176 --> 02:02:21,979
<i>if you feel safe in the area</i>
<i>that you're working in,</i>

1879
02:02:22,014 --> 02:02:23,783
<i>you're not working</i>
<i>in the right area.</i>

1880
02:02:23,818 --> 02:02:25,983
<i>Always go a little further</i>
<i>into the water</i>

1881
02:02:26,018 --> 02:02:27,952
<i>than you feel</i>
<i>you're capable of being in.</i>

1882
02:02:27,987 --> 02:02:29,921
<i>Go a little bit</i>
<i>out of your depth,</i>

1883
02:02:29,956 --> 02:02:31,122
<i>and when you don't feel</i>

1884
02:02:31,157 --> 02:02:33,155
<i>that your feet</i>
<i>are quite touching the bottom,</i>

1885
02:02:33,190 --> 02:02:34,596
<i>you're just about</i>
<i>in the right place</i>

1886
02:02:34,631 --> 02:02:35,993
<i>to do something exciting.</i>

1887
02:02:44,905 --> 02:02:46,476
<i>Let me tell you one thing.</i>

1888
02:02:47,776 --> 02:02:51,041
<i>All people,</i>
<i>no matter who they are,</i>

1889
02:02:51,076 --> 02:02:53,747
<i>they all wish</i>
<i>they'd appreciated life more.</i>

1890
02:02:56,114 --> 02:02:59,082
<i>It's what you do in life</i>
<i>that's important,</i>

1891
02:02:59,117 --> 02:03:02,525
<i>not how much time you have,</i>
<i>or what you wish you'd done.</i>

1892
02:03:02,560 --> 02:03:04,461
[BLACKSTAR SONG]

1893
02:03:45,130 --> 02:03:49,968
<i>♪ Something happened</i>
<i>on the day he died ♪</i>

1894
02:03:50,003 --> 02:03:54,170
<i>♪ Spirit rose a meter</i>
<i>then stepped aside ♪</i>

1895
02:03:54,205 --> 02:03:58,944
<i>♪ Somebody else took his place</i>
<i>and bravely cried ♪</i>

1896
02:03:58,979 --> 02:04:01,848
<i>♪ I'm a blackstar ♪</i>

1897
02:04:01,883 --> 02:04:05,852
♪ Oooooo... ♪

1898
02:04:26,270 --> 02:04:28,578
<i>There is no beginning,</i>
<i>no end.</i>

1899
02:04:29,878 --> 02:04:31,581
<i>And all at once,</i>

1900
02:04:31,616 --> 02:04:34,617
<i>the outward appearance</i>
<i>of meaning is transcended,</i>

1901
02:04:34,652 --> 02:04:38,049
<i>and you find yourself</i>
<i>struggling to comprehend a deep</i>

1902
02:04:38,084 --> 02:04:39,952
<i>and formidable mystery.</i>

1903
02:04:41,824 --> 02:04:42,889
<i>I'm dying.</i>

1904
02:04:44,057 --> 02:04:46,321
<i>You are dying.</i>

1905
02:04:46,356 --> 02:04:49,863
<i>Second by second,</i>
<i>all is transient.</i>

1906
02:04:51,031 --> 02:04:53,867
<i>Does it matter?</i>
<i>Do I bother?</i>

1907
02:04:55,101 --> 02:04:56,969
<i>Yes I do.</i>

1908
02:04:57,004 --> 02:04:59,004
<i>Life is fantastic.</i>

1909
02:04:59,039 --> 02:05:01,138
<i>It never ends.</i>
<i>It only changes.</i>

1910
02:05:02,240 --> 02:05:05,615
<i>Flesh to stone to flesh.</i>

1911
02:05:05,650 --> 02:05:07,243
<i>And round and round.</i>

1912
02:05:08,983 --> 02:05:10,917
<i>Best keep walking.</i>

1913
02:05:38,782 --> 02:05:40,881
[MEMORY OF
A FREE FESTIVAL SONG]

1914
02:05:42,819 --> 02:05:46,821
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1915
02:05:46,856 --> 02:05:49,417
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1916
02:05:49,452 --> 02:05:51,419
<i>♪ Uh-huh huh ♪</i>

1917
02:05:51,454 --> 02:05:55,291
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1918
02:05:55,326 --> 02:05:58,129
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1919
02:05:58,164 --> 02:05:59,801
<i>♪ Uh-huh huh ♪</i>

1920
02:05:59,836 --> 02:06:03,431
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1921
02:06:03,466 --> 02:06:06,401
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1922
02:06:06,436 --> 02:06:08,106
<i>♪ Uh-huh huh ♪</i>

1923
02:06:08,141 --> 02:06:11,879
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1924
02:06:11,914 --> 02:06:14,750
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1925
02:06:14,785 --> 02:06:16,279
<i>♪ Uh-huh huh ♪</i>

1926
02:06:16,314 --> 02:06:20,316
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1927
02:06:20,351 --> 02:06:24,452
<i>♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪</i>

1928
02:06:24,487 --> 02:06:28,797
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1929
02:06:28,832 --> 02:06:31,195
<i>♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪</i>

1930
02:06:32,869 --> 02:06:36,937
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1931
02:06:36,972 --> 02:06:41,007
<i>♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪</i>

1932
02:06:41,042 --> 02:06:44,945
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1933
02:06:44,980 --> 02:06:47,475
<i>♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪</i>

1934
02:06:47,510 --> 02:06:49,246
<i>♪ Na-na-na ♪</i>

1935
02:06:49,281 --> 02:06:52,986
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1936
02:06:57,124 --> 02:07:00,895
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1937
02:07:05,099 --> 02:07:08,936
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1938
02:07:08,971 --> 02:07:11,400
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1939
02:07:13,074 --> 02:07:16,845
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1940
02:07:16,880 --> 02:07:19,441
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1941
02:07:21,082 --> 02:07:24,314
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1942
02:07:24,349 --> 02:07:27,185
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1943
02:07:28,925 --> 02:07:32,190
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1944
02:07:32,225 --> 02:07:34,830
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1945
02:07:36,559 --> 02:07:40,132
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1946
02:07:40,167 --> 02:07:42,497
<i>♪ And we're gonna</i>
<i>have a party ♪</i>

1947
02:07:44,369 --> 02:07:47,810
<i>♪ The Sun Machine</i>
<i>is coming down ♪</i>

1948
02:07:47,845 --> 02:07:50,208
♪ And we're gonna
have a party ♪

1949
02:07:52,113 --> 02:07:55,884
♪ The Sun Machine
is coming down ♪

1950
02:07:55,919 --> 02:07:57,919
♪ And we're gonna
have a party ♪

1951
02:07:59,890 --> 02:08:03,221
♪ The Sun Machine
is coming down ♪

1952
02:08:03,256 --> 02:08:05,454
♪ And we're gonna
have a party ♪

1953
02:08:07,293 --> 02:08:10,426
♪ The Sun Machine
is coming down ♪

1954
02:08:10,461 --> 02:08:13,132
♪ And we're gonna
have a party... ♪

1955
02:08:18,502 --> 02:08:20,337
[STARMAN SONG]

1956
02:08:29,315 --> 02:08:31,183
<i>♪ Hey, now now ♪</i>

1957
02:08:34,320 --> 02:08:36,221
<i>♪ Goodbye love ♪</i>

1958
02:08:39,391 --> 02:08:44,295
<i>♪ Didn't know what time it was,</i>
<i>the lights were low-ow-ow ♪</i>

1959
02:08:44,330 --> 02:08:49,135
<i>♪ I leaned back</i>
<i>on my radio-o-o ♪</i>

1960
02:08:49,170 --> 02:08:52,908
<i>♪ Some cat was layin' down</i>
<i>some rock 'n' roll ♪</i>

1961
02:08:52,943 --> 02:08:54,107
<i>♪ "Lotta soul" he said ♪</i>

1962
02:08:56,507 --> 02:09:01,081
<i>♪ Then the loud sound</i>
<i>did seem to fade-ade-ade ♪</i>

1963
02:09:01,116 --> 02:09:05,921
<i>♪ Came back like a slow voice</i>
<i>on a wave of phase-ase-ase ♪</i>

1964
02:09:05,956 --> 02:09:10,255
<i>♪ That weren't no DJ,</i>
<i>that was hazy cosmic jive ♪</i>

1965
02:09:14,327 --> 02:09:19,528
<i>♪ There's a starman</i>
<i>waiting in the sky ♪</i>

1966
02:09:19,563 --> 02:09:22,036
<i>♪ He'd like</i>
<i>to come and meet us ♪</i>

1967
02:09:22,071 --> 02:09:24,269
<i>♪ But he thinks</i>
<i>he'd blow our minds ♪</i>

1968
02:09:24,304 --> 02:09:29,307
<i>♪ There's a starman</i>
<i>waiting in the sky ♪</i>

1969
02:09:29,342 --> 02:09:31,342
<i>♪ He's told us not to blow it ♪</i>

1970
02:09:31,377 --> 02:09:33,641
<i>♪ 'Cause he knows</i>
<i>it's all worthwhile ♪</i>

1971
02:09:33,676 --> 02:09:37,480
<i>♪ He told me</i>
<i>Let the children lose it ♪</i>

1972
02:09:37,515 --> 02:09:39,922
<i>♪ Let the children use it ♪</i>

1973
02:09:39,957 --> 02:09:42,155
<i>♪ Let all the children boogie ♪</i>

1974
02:09:58,701 --> 02:10:03,440
<i>♪ I had to phone someone</i>
<i>so I picked on you-ou-ou ♪</i>

1975
02:10:03,475 --> 02:10:08,181
<i>♪ Hey, that's far out,</i>
<i>so you heard him too-oo-oo ♪</i>

1976
02:10:08,216 --> 02:10:13,252
<i>♪ Switch on the TV, we may</i>
<i>pick him up on channel two ♪</i>

1977
02:10:15,355 --> 02:10:20,193
<i>♪ Look out your window,</i>
<i>I can see his light-ight-ight ♪</i>

1978
02:10:20,228 --> 02:10:24,593
<i>♪ If we can sparkle</i>
<i>he may land tonight-ight-ight ♪</i>

1979
02:10:24,628 --> 02:10:26,331
<i>♪ Don't tell your poppa ♪</i>

1980
02:10:26,366 --> 02:10:29,400
<i>♪ Or he'll get us</i>
<i>locked up in fright ♪</i>

1981
02:10:33,406 --> 02:10:38,508
<i>♪ There's a starman</i>
<i>waiting in the sky ♪</i>

1982
02:10:38,543 --> 02:10:40,708
<i>♪ He'd like</i>
<i>to come and meet us ♪</i>

1983
02:10:40,743 --> 02:10:43,150
<i>♪ But he thinks</i>
<i>he'd blow our minds ♪</i>

1984
02:10:43,185 --> 02:10:48,188
<i>♪ There's a starman</i>
<i>waiting in the sky ♪</i>

1985
02:10:48,223 --> 02:10:50,388
<i>♪ He's told us not to blow it ♪</i>

1986
02:10:50,423 --> 02:10:53,523
<i>♪ 'Cause he knows it's all</i>
<i>worthwhile, he told me ♪</i>

1987
02:10:53,558 --> 02:10:58,495
<i>♪ Let the children lose it</i>
<i>Let the children use it ♪</i>

1988
02:10:58,530 --> 02:11:01,168
<i>♪ Let all the children boogie ♪</i>

1989
02:11:01,203 --> 02:11:05,139
<i>♪ Starman waiting in the sky ♪</i>

1990
02:11:05,174 --> 02:11:07,372
<i>♪ He'd like to come</i>
<i>and meet us ♪</i>

1991
02:11:07,407 --> 02:11:09,506
<i>♪ But he thinks</i>
<i>he'd blow our minds ♪</i>

1992
02:11:09,541 --> 02:11:14,478
<i>♪ There's a starman</i>
<i>waiting in the sky ♪</i>

1993
02:11:14,513 --> 02:11:16,645
<i>♪ He's told us not to blow it ♪</i>

1994
02:11:16,680 --> 02:11:18,713
<i>♪ 'Cause he knows</i>
<i>it's all worthwhile ♪</i>

1995
02:11:18,748 --> 02:11:22,519
<i>♪ He told me</i>
<i>Let the children lose it ♪</i>

1996
02:11:22,554 --> 02:11:25,027
<i>♪ Let the children use it ♪</i>

1997
02:11:25,062 --> 02:11:27,194
<i>♪ Let all the children boogie ♪</i>

1998
02:11:36,337 --> 02:11:39,536
<i>♪ La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

1999
02:11:39,571 --> 02:11:44,211
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2000
02:11:44,246 --> 02:11:48,743
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2001
02:11:48,778 --> 02:11:53,418
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2002
02:11:53,453 --> 02:11:58,126
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2003
02:11:58,161 --> 02:12:02,559
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2004
02:12:02,594 --> 02:12:07,267
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2005
02:12:07,302 --> 02:12:11,667
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2006
02:12:11,702 --> 02:12:16,309
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2007
02:12:16,344 --> 02:12:21,149
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2008
02:12:21,184 --> 02:12:25,549
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la ♪</i>

2009
02:12:25,584 --> 02:12:29,190
<i>♪ La, la, la</i>
<i>La, la, la, la-la. ♪</i>

2010
02:12:29,225 --> 02:12:31,753
[CHANGES SONG]

2011
02:12:37,563 --> 02:12:38,665
<i>♪ Oh yeah ♪</i>

2012
02:12:42,535 --> 02:12:43,534
<i>♪ Mmmm ♪</i>

2013
02:12:49,641 --> 02:12:53,445
<i>♪ Still don't know</i>
<i>what I was waitin' for ♪</i>

2014
02:12:53,480 --> 02:12:56,415
<i>♪ And my time</i>
<i>was running wild ♪</i>

2015
02:12:56,450 --> 02:12:58,714
<i>♪ A million</i>
<i>dead-end streets and ♪</i>

2016
02:12:58,749 --> 02:13:01,816
<i>♪ Every time I thought</i>
<i>I'd got it made ♪</i>

2017
02:13:01,851 --> 02:13:06,524
<i>♪ It seemed the taste</i>
<i>was not so sweet ♪</i>

2018
02:13:06,559 --> 02:13:11,100
<i>♪ So I turned myself</i>
<i>to face me ♪</i>

2019
02:13:11,135 --> 02:13:15,269
<i>♪ But I've never caught</i>
<i>a glimpse ♪</i>

2020
02:13:15,304 --> 02:13:19,207
<i>♪ How the others</i>
<i>must see the faker ♪</i>

2021
02:13:19,242 --> 02:13:22,507
<i>♪ I'm much too fast</i>
<i>to take that test ♪</i>

2022
02:13:22,542 --> 02:13:24,410
<i>♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪</i>

2023
02:13:24,445 --> 02:13:26,841
<i>♪ Turn and face the strange ♪</i>

2024
02:13:26,876 --> 02:13:29,514
<i>♪ Ch-ch-changes ♪</i>

2025
02:13:29,549 --> 02:13:32,220
<i>♪ Don't want to be</i>
<i>a richer man ♪</i>

2026
02:13:32,255 --> 02:13:33,881
<i>♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪</i>

2027
02:13:33,916 --> 02:13:36,356
<i>♪ Turn and face the strange ♪</i>

2028
02:13:36,391 --> 02:13:39,128
<i>♪ Ch-ch-changes ♪</i>

2029
02:13:39,163 --> 02:13:41,361
<i>♪ There's gonna have to be</i>
<i>a different man ♪</i>

2030
02:13:41,396 --> 02:13:44,364
<i>♪ Time may change me ♪</i>

2031
02:13:44,399 --> 02:13:46,894
<i>♪ But I can't trace time ♪</i>

2032
02:13:46,929 --> 02:13:50,634
<i>♪ I said that</i>
<i>time may change me ♪</i>

2033
02:13:50,669 --> 02:13:53,835
<i>♪ But I can't trace time. ♪</i>

2034
02:14:12,328 --> 02:14:13,657
<i>DAVID:</i>
<i>Well you know what?</i>

2035
02:14:13,692 --> 02:14:15,758
<i>This has been</i>
<i>an incredible pleasure,</i>

2036
02:14:15,793 --> 02:14:19,201
<i>and, uh,</i>
<i>you were really interesting.</i>

2037
02:14:19,236 --> 02:14:20,763
<i>I didn't know those things</i>
<i>you were telling me</i>

2038
02:14:20,798 --> 02:14:23,205
<i>about yourselves.</i>
<i>It's nice to have met you.</i>

2039
02:14:23,240 --> 02:14:25,339
<i>I'm glad we did finally</i>
<i>meet at last.</i>

2040
02:14:25,374 --> 02:14:28,243
<i>And all I can say is,</i>
♪ Goodbye ♪

2041
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<i>♪ Goodbye</i>
<i>We'll meet again ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Some time ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Somewhere fa-ta-ta</i>
<i>ta-ta-ta-ta ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Ta-da. ♪</i>