1 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:13,444 DAVID: Time. 2 00:01:14,744 --> 00:01:17,547 One of the most complex expressions. 3 00:01:17,582 --> 00:01:19,252 Memory made manifest. 4 00:01:21,388 --> 00:01:23,784 It's something that straddles past and future 5 00:01:23,819 --> 00:01:26,820 without ever quite being present. 6 00:01:26,855 --> 00:01:31,594 Or rather, it at first seems indifferent to the present. 7 00:01:31,629 --> 00:01:35,235 There's a tension of a most unfathomable nature. 8 00:01:36,568 --> 00:01:38,469 The word desires to be understood. 9 00:01:38,504 --> 00:01:40,372 To have meaning. 10 00:01:40,407 --> 00:01:43,309 But you somehow feel that it's not you yourself 11 00:01:43,344 --> 00:01:45,740 that the word is addressing. 12 00:01:46,875 --> 00:01:48,644 It washes over you, 13 00:01:50,219 --> 00:01:53,715 holding a dialogue with something arcane 14 00:01:53,750 --> 00:01:56,190 that's maybe not mortal. 15 00:01:56,225 --> 00:01:58,390 And you feel intrigued. 16 00:01:58,425 --> 00:01:59,589 Captured even. 17 00:02:01,230 --> 00:02:04,528 You're aware of a deeper existence. 18 00:02:04,563 --> 00:02:07,861 Maybe a temporary reassurance that indeed 19 00:02:07,896 --> 00:02:10,237 there is no beginning, no end. 20 00:02:11,768 --> 00:02:13,603 And all at once, the outward appearance 21 00:02:13,638 --> 00:02:15,935 of meaning is transcended. 22 00:02:15,970 --> 00:02:18,740 And you find yourself struggling to comprehend 23 00:02:18,775 --> 00:02:21,776 a deep and formidable mystery. 24 00:02:22,746 --> 00:02:25,285 All is transient. 25 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,781 Does it matter? 26 00:02:26,816 --> 00:02:28,288 Do I bother? 27 00:02:52,314 --> 00:02:54,347 [INCHWORM SONG] 28 00:02:54,382 --> 00:02:59,913 ♪ Inchworm, Inchworm ♪ 29 00:02:59,948 --> 00:03:04,225 ♪ Measuring the marigolds ♪ 30 00:03:05,657 --> 00:03:07,459 ♪ You and your... ♪ 31 00:03:07,494 --> 00:03:10,825 DAVID: All those moments 32 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:13,795 will be lost in time 33 00:03:16,635 --> 00:03:19,867 like tears... 34 00:03:42,793 --> 00:03:44,595 Dust... 35 00:03:44,630 --> 00:03:47,026 Cover me moon dust. 36 00:03:48,370 --> 00:03:50,370 Cover me... 37 00:03:50,405 --> 00:03:51,833 [HALLO SPACEBOY SONG] 38 00:04:07,620 --> 00:04:10,819 ♪ Space boy, you're sleepy now ♪ 39 00:04:13,791 --> 00:04:17,595 ♪ Your silhouette is so stationary ♪ 40 00:04:21,095 --> 00:04:24,602 ♪ You're released, but your custody calls ♪ 41 00:04:28,575 --> 00:04:30,905 ♪ And I want to be free ♪ 42 00:04:32,139 --> 00:04:34,711 ♪ Don't you want to be free ♪ 43 00:04:35,879 --> 00:04:38,583 ♪ Do you like girls or boys? ♪ 44 00:04:40,488 --> 00:04:42,983 ♪ It's confusing these days ♪ 45 00:04:44,151 --> 00:04:48,428 ♪ But Moondust will cover you ♪ 46 00:04:48,463 --> 00:04:50,595 ♪ Cover you ♪ 47 00:04:50,630 --> 00:04:52,696 ♪ So bye bye love ♪ 48 00:04:54,403 --> 00:04:56,634 ♪ Yeah bye bye love ♪ 49 00:04:58,539 --> 00:05:00,572 ♪ Hallo, Space boy ♪ 50 00:05:01,905 --> 00:05:05,841 ♪ This chaos is killing me ♪ 51 00:05:05,876 --> 00:05:08,349 ♪ Hallo, Space boy ♪ 52 00:05:15,182 --> 00:05:18,854 NEIL: Ground to Major, bye bye, Tom. 53 00:05:20,495 --> 00:05:23,056 DAVID: ♪ This chaos is killing me ♪ 54 00:05:23,091 --> 00:05:26,059 NEIL: ♪ Dead the circuit, countdown's wrong ♪ 55 00:05:27,766 --> 00:05:30,437 DAVID: ♪ This chaos is killing me ♪ 56 00:05:30,472 --> 00:05:33,770 NEIL: Planet Earth, is control on? 57 00:05:33,805 --> 00:05:35,574 DAVID: ♪ So sleepy now ♪ 58 00:05:35,609 --> 00:05:37,070 NEIL: ♪ Do you wanna be free? ♪ 59 00:05:38,777 --> 00:05:41,448 BOTH: ♪ Don't you wanna be free? ♪ 60 00:05:42,616 --> 00:05:45,078 ♪ Do you like girls or boys? ♪ 61 00:05:47,016 --> 00:05:49,588 ♪ It's confusing these days ♪ 62 00:05:50,954 --> 00:05:54,791 DAVID: ♪ But moon dust will cover you ♪ 63 00:05:54,826 --> 00:05:57,024 ♪ Cover you ♪ 64 00:05:57,059 --> 00:05:59,763 ♪ So bye bye love ♪ 65 00:06:00,997 --> 00:06:03,030 ♪ Yeah, bye bye love ♪ 66 00:06:05,133 --> 00:06:07,771 ♪ Hallo Space boy ♪ 67 00:06:07,806 --> 00:06:09,905 ♪ Space boy, Space boy... ♪ 68 00:06:11,106 --> 00:06:13,810 WOMAN: I wanted to see him. 69 00:06:13,845 --> 00:06:15,680 MAN: What are you so upset about? 70 00:06:15,715 --> 00:06:17,847 GIRL: I wanted to see him. 71 00:06:17,882 --> 00:06:19,915 They said he was coming round the back. 72 00:06:19,950 --> 00:06:21,950 I've been waiting for ages to see him. 73 00:06:25,890 --> 00:06:27,186 MAN: Why are you so upset? 74 00:06:27,221 --> 00:06:29,155 GIRL: He's smashing. 75 00:06:29,190 --> 00:06:31,058 GIRL 2: I kissed him! I kissed his hand! 76 00:06:31,093 --> 00:06:32,499 [HALLO SPACEBOY SONG] 77 00:06:32,534 --> 00:06:34,699 DAVID: ♪ Hallo Space boy ♪ 78 00:06:39,574 --> 00:06:41,200 ♪ Hallo, hallo. ♪ 79 00:06:50,046 --> 00:06:52,046 DICK CAVETT: Rumors and questions have arisen, 80 00:06:52,081 --> 00:06:54,488 such as who is he, what is he, where did he come from? 81 00:06:54,523 --> 00:06:56,017 Is he a creature of a foreign power? 82 00:06:56,052 --> 00:06:57,755 Is he a creep? Is he dangerous? 83 00:06:57,790 --> 00:06:59,625 Is he smart, dumb, nice to his parents, 84 00:06:59,660 --> 00:07:02,562 real, a put-on, crazy, sane, man, woman, robot? 85 00:07:02,597 --> 00:07:03,992 What is this? 86 00:07:04,027 --> 00:07:06,764 Ladies and gentlemen, David Bowie. 87 00:07:24,817 --> 00:07:26,619 [WILD EYED BOY FROM FREECLOUD SONG] 88 00:07:26,654 --> 00:07:28,280 ♪ Solemn faced ♪ 89 00:07:28,315 --> 00:07:30,183 ♪ The village settles down ♪ 90 00:07:31,659 --> 00:07:34,561 ♪ Undetected by the stars ♪ 91 00:07:37,731 --> 00:07:41,095 ♪ Hangman plays the mandolin ♪ 92 00:07:41,130 --> 00:07:43,196 ♪ before he goes to sleep ♪ 93 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:49,136 ♪ And the last thing on his mind ♪ 94 00:07:52,108 --> 00:07:55,813 ♪ Is the Wild Eyed Boy imprisoned ♪ 95 00:07:55,848 --> 00:07:57,749 ♪ 'Neath the covered wooden shaft ♪ 96 00:08:01,150 --> 00:08:03,722 ♪ Folds the rope into its bag ♪ 97 00:08:07,222 --> 00:08:10,597 ♪ Blows his pipe of smolders ♪ 98 00:08:10,632 --> 00:08:13,127 ♪ Blankets smoke into the room ♪ 99 00:08:16,671 --> 00:08:19,265 ♪ And the day will end for some ♪ 100 00:08:24,107 --> 00:08:27,306 ♪ As the night begins for one ♪ 101 00:08:34,018 --> 00:08:39,219 ♪ Staring through the message in his eyes ♪ 102 00:08:39,254 --> 00:08:41,694 ♪ Lies a solitary son ♪ 103 00:08:45,161 --> 00:08:48,899 ♪ From the mountain called Free cloud ♪ 104 00:08:48,934 --> 00:08:51,704 ♪ Where the eagle dare not fly ♪ 105 00:08:54,401 --> 00:08:57,270 ♪ And the patience in his sigh ♪ 106 00:09:01,408 --> 00:09:04,178 ♪ Gives no indication ♪ 107 00:09:04,213 --> 00:09:07,148 ♪ For the townsmen to decide ♪ 108 00:09:09,988 --> 00:09:13,154 ♪ So the village dreadful yawns ♪ 109 00:09:16,324 --> 00:09:19,765 ♪ Pronouncing gross diversion ♪ 110 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,228 ♪ As the label for the dog ♪ 111 00:09:24,101 --> 00:09:28,301 ♪ Oh, "It's the madness in his eyes" ♪ 112 00:09:31,075 --> 00:09:34,648 ♪ As he breaks the night to cry ♪ 113 00:09:34,683 --> 00:09:37,882 ♪ It's really me ♪ 114 00:09:40,689 --> 00:09:44,284 ♪ Really you and really me ♪ 115 00:09:47,025 --> 00:09:51,027 ♪ It's so hard for us to really be ♪ 116 00:09:55,869 --> 00:09:59,068 ♪ Really you and really me ♪ 117 00:10:01,402 --> 00:10:04,777 ♪ You'll lose me, though I'm always ♪ 118 00:10:04,812 --> 00:10:11,718 ♪ Really free ♪ 119 00:10:11,753 --> 00:10:14,215 ♪ Yeah... ♪ 120 00:10:34,809 --> 00:10:37,040 [ALL THE YOUNG DUDES SONG] 121 00:10:39,011 --> 00:10:42,309 ♪ Jimmy rapped all night about his suicide ♪ 122 00:10:42,344 --> 00:10:46,313 ♪ How he'd kick it in the head when he was 25 ♪ 123 00:10:46,348 --> 00:10:48,183 ♪ All that speed jive ♪ 124 00:10:48,218 --> 00:10:53,056 ♪ Don't want to stay alive when you're 25 ♪ 125 00:10:53,091 --> 00:10:56,059 ♪ Lucy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars ♪ 126 00:10:56,094 --> 00:10:58,028 ♪ Freddy's got spots ♪ 127 00:10:58,063 --> 00:11:00,866 ♪ from ripping off the stars from his face, honey ♪ 128 00:11:02,001 --> 00:11:04,034 ♪ A funky little boat race ♪ 129 00:11:06,170 --> 00:11:08,874 ♪ The television man is crazy ♪ 130 00:11:08,909 --> 00:11:12,779 ♪ Saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks ♪ 131 00:11:12,814 --> 00:11:18,510 ♪ But, man, I need a TV when I've got T. Rex ♪ 132 00:11:18,545 --> 00:11:20,413 ♪ Hey, brother, you guessed ♪ 133 00:11:21,515 --> 00:11:22,954 ♪ I'm a dude ♪ 134 00:11:24,892 --> 00:11:28,289 ♪ All the young dudes ♪ 135 00:11:28,324 --> 00:11:31,930 ♪ Carry the news ♪ 136 00:11:31,965 --> 00:11:34,196 ♪ Boogaloo dudes ♪ 137 00:11:35,298 --> 00:11:37,837 ♪ Carry the news ♪ 138 00:11:41,337 --> 00:11:45,009 ♪ All the young dudes ♪ 139 00:11:45,044 --> 00:11:48,375 ♪ Carry the news ♪ 140 00:11:48,410 --> 00:11:51,785 ♪ Boogaloo dudes Yeah ♪ 141 00:11:51,820 --> 00:11:54,755 ♪ Carry the news ♪ 142 00:11:56,957 --> 00:11:59,023 [OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS SONG] 143 00:11:59,058 --> 00:12:01,388 ♪ Wake up you sleepy head ♪ 144 00:12:01,423 --> 00:12:04,358 ♪ Put on some clothes, shake up your bed ♪ 145 00:12:04,393 --> 00:12:07,834 ♪ Put another log on the fire for me ♪ 146 00:12:07,869 --> 00:12:10,331 ♪ I've made some breakfast and coffee ♪ 147 00:12:10,366 --> 00:12:13,466 ♪ I look out my window what do I see ♪ 148 00:12:13,501 --> 00:12:16,502 ♪ A crack in the sky and a hand... ♪ 149 00:12:17,978 --> 00:12:20,880 ♪ Reaching down... ♪ 150 00:12:23,885 --> 00:12:25,951 ♪ To me... ♪ 151 00:12:28,857 --> 00:12:31,517 ♪ All the nightmares came today ♪ 152 00:12:33,554 --> 00:12:35,961 ♪ And it looks as though they're here to stay... ♪ 153 00:12:41,430 --> 00:12:43,232 [LIFE ON MARS? SONG] 154 00:12:43,267 --> 00:12:45,938 ♪ It's a God-awful small affair ♪ 155 00:12:47,403 --> 00:12:49,975 ♪ To the girl with the mousy hair ♪ 156 00:12:51,308 --> 00:12:54,012 ♪ But her mummy is yelling, "No" ♪ 157 00:12:55,345 --> 00:12:59,182 ♪ And her daddy has told her to go ♪ 158 00:12:59,217 --> 00:13:02,251 ♪ But her friend is nowhere to be seen... ♪ 159 00:13:04,156 --> 00:13:05,892 MAN: He's just another fella, you know? 160 00:13:05,927 --> 00:13:07,487 WOMAN: No, he's not. He's different. 161 00:13:07,522 --> 00:13:09,995 MAN: Well, nobody like him can produce the music. 162 00:13:11,394 --> 00:13:13,064 MAN 2: 163 00:13:13,099 --> 00:13:14,099 WOMAN: 164 00:13:15,629 --> 00:13:17,508 MAN: Davie's the greatest, and I'll say it again. 165 00:13:17,532 --> 00:13:19,070 Dave's the greatest, 166 00:13:19,105 --> 00:13:20,577 and I'll say it again, Dave's the greatest. 167 00:13:20,601 --> 00:13:22,469 And I seen him onstage, and he was fantastic. 168 00:13:22,504 --> 00:13:24,878 I'll follow that bloke anywhere 'cause he's the greatest. 169 00:13:24,913 --> 00:13:26,605 And I'll say it again, he's the greatest. 170 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,047 MAN 2: Listen, you don't have to be bent to wear makeup. 171 00:13:29,082 --> 00:13:31,115 It looks good, so why not wear it? 172 00:13:31,150 --> 00:13:33,381 WOMAN: Even if it's camp, but he's sexy, isn't he? 173 00:13:33,416 --> 00:13:34,921 Sort of thing, really. 174 00:13:39,059 --> 00:13:41,290 DAVID: If I can tart it all up enough, 175 00:13:41,325 --> 00:13:44,898 maybe people will see that it has a lot to do with just them. 176 00:13:44,933 --> 00:13:46,174 INTERVIEWER: What, with reflection? 177 00:13:46,198 --> 00:13:47,527 DAVID: Yeah, that it is really 178 00:13:47,562 --> 00:13:49,133 a reflection of what they're like. 179 00:13:49,168 --> 00:13:51,630 HOST: Mr. Powell, Mr. Jenkins. 180 00:13:51,665 --> 00:13:54,237 [indistinct] 181 00:13:54,272 --> 00:13:56,173 Businessmen in general... 182 00:13:56,208 --> 00:13:57,570 Best watch it. 183 00:13:57,605 --> 00:13:59,176 INTERVIEWER: How are you? 184 00:13:59,211 --> 00:14:00,320 DAVID: I'm very well, thank you. How are you? 185 00:14:00,344 --> 00:14:01,607 INTERVIEWER I'm fine. 186 00:14:01,642 --> 00:14:03,543 DAVID: Good. How are you? How are you? 187 00:14:03,578 --> 00:14:06,282 INTERVIEWER: You, uh, have to get the gear on 188 00:14:06,317 --> 00:14:07,954 in order to project yourself. 189 00:14:07,989 --> 00:14:09,692 I mean, were you a nobody who suddenly thought, 190 00:14:09,716 --> 00:14:12,552 "Jesus, I must get into the scene by some other way"? 191 00:14:12,587 --> 00:14:14,202 DAVID: I never asked Jesus for a think, no. 192 00:14:14,226 --> 00:14:15,467 It was always on my own initiative. 193 00:14:15,491 --> 00:14:16,655 And... 194 00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:19,966 When I was 14, I became a Mod, 195 00:14:20,001 --> 00:14:21,429 and it just carried on from there. 196 00:14:21,464 --> 00:14:23,343 I've always dressed in what I considered clothes 197 00:14:23,367 --> 00:14:25,664 that are exciting for me, 198 00:14:25,699 --> 00:14:28,568 um, to prevent me becoming humdrum 199 00:14:28,603 --> 00:14:30,471 so that I would receive reaction from people 200 00:14:30,506 --> 00:14:32,044 which would encourage me to write. 201 00:14:33,707 --> 00:14:36,345 INTERVIEWER: You will have obviously as many men followers 202 00:14:36,380 --> 00:14:38,116 - as you have women followers. - DAVID: Yes. 203 00:14:38,151 --> 00:14:39,557 INTERVIEWER: I mean, you haven't been shy about 204 00:14:39,581 --> 00:14:42,021 declaring a certain air of bisexuality. 205 00:14:42,056 --> 00:14:43,696 DAVID: Not at all. I know quite a few men. 206 00:14:46,555 --> 00:14:49,094 WOMAN: Some people feel you're... 207 00:14:49,129 --> 00:14:50,689 By saying you're bisexual. 208 00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:54,363 By... by kind of flaunting that in a way... 209 00:14:54,398 --> 00:14:55,529 DAVID: Who's flaunting it? 210 00:15:00,701 --> 00:15:03,009 INTERVIEWER: Why do you think that bisexuality in, 211 00:15:03,044 --> 00:15:06,111 say '72, '73 has become a common... not a common, 212 00:15:06,146 --> 00:15:08,047 but an accepted kind of deal. 213 00:15:08,082 --> 00:15:09,323 Why do you think we have moved into that 214 00:15:09,347 --> 00:15:11,644 era of liberal behavior? 215 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:13,316 DAVID: Once upon a time, your father, 216 00:15:13,351 --> 00:15:15,582 my father, everybody's father, I presume, 217 00:15:15,617 --> 00:15:19,355 wanted a good job, with a good income, or reasonable income. 218 00:15:19,390 --> 00:15:23,755 Some chance of promotion to secure their family life. 219 00:15:23,790 --> 00:15:25,526 Um, where's the camera? 220 00:15:25,561 --> 00:15:28,397 You're probably fine there, and that's where it ended. 221 00:15:28,432 --> 00:15:31,070 But now, people want a role in society. 222 00:15:31,105 --> 00:15:32,511 They want to feel that they have a position. 223 00:15:32,535 --> 00:15:34,337 They want to be an individual, 224 00:15:34,372 --> 00:15:36,119 and I think there's a lot of searching to find 225 00:15:36,143 --> 00:15:38,011 the individual within oneself. 226 00:15:38,046 --> 00:15:39,452 INTERVIEWER: Right, and how about the shoes? 227 00:15:39,476 --> 00:15:40,684 Are those men's shoes, or women's shoes, 228 00:15:40,708 --> 00:15:42,081 or bisexual shoes? 229 00:15:42,116 --> 00:15:43,396 DAVID: They're shoe shoes, silly. 230 00:15:51,587 --> 00:15:54,126 DAVID: There was a feeling of excitement and titillation 231 00:15:54,161 --> 00:15:55,589 about moving in areas 232 00:15:55,624 --> 00:15:58,196 which were forbidden to the rest of society. 233 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,370 From micro to macro, from yin to yang, 234 00:16:07,405 --> 00:16:09,042 from male to female, 235 00:16:09,077 --> 00:16:12,507 there is no scissor cut. No absolute. 236 00:16:15,545 --> 00:16:18,777 I believe that there was an unconscious move to create 237 00:16:18,812 --> 00:16:21,813 a high priest form from the line of the Greek gods 238 00:16:21,848 --> 00:16:23,518 who could procreate themselves. 239 00:16:23,553 --> 00:16:26,587 Somebody who was at a super level 240 00:16:26,622 --> 00:16:30,360 to we regular mortals, because of his androgynous nature, 241 00:16:30,395 --> 00:16:32,131 being somebody that incorporated 242 00:16:32,166 --> 00:16:34,133 both feminine and masculine attributes. 243 00:16:34,168 --> 00:16:35,200 [MOONAGE DAYDREAM SONG] 244 00:16:35,235 --> 00:16:36,399 ♪ I'm an alligator ♪ 245 00:16:38,205 --> 00:16:41,305 ♪ I'm a mama-papa comin' for you ♪ 246 00:16:41,340 --> 00:16:42,735 ♪ I'm the space invader ♪ 247 00:16:44,508 --> 00:16:48,147 ♪ I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you ♪ 248 00:16:48,182 --> 00:16:49,577 ♪ Keep your mouth shut ♪ 249 00:16:51,284 --> 00:16:54,120 ♪ You're squawking like a pink monkey bird ♪ 250 00:16:54,155 --> 00:16:57,651 ♪ And I'm bustin' up my brains for the words ♪ 251 00:16:58,621 --> 00:16:59,621 Know I am. 252 00:17:03,296 --> 00:17:06,462 ♪ Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe ♪ 253 00:17:09,368 --> 00:17:13,238 ♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪ 254 00:17:15,737 --> 00:17:19,310 ♪ Press your space face close to mine, love ♪ 255 00:17:21,743 --> 00:17:25,811 ♪ Freak out in a moon age daydream, oh yeah! ♪ 256 00:17:29,223 --> 00:17:30,585 ♪ Don't fake it baby ♪ 257 00:17:32,358 --> 00:17:35,392 ♪ Lay the real thing on me ♪ 258 00:17:35,427 --> 00:17:37,130 ♪ You know, the church of man, love ♪ 259 00:17:38,793 --> 00:17:41,464 ♪ Is such a holy place to be ♪ 260 00:17:41,499 --> 00:17:43,664 ♪ Don't fake it, baby ♪ 261 00:17:45,206 --> 00:17:48,240 ♪ Make me know you really care ♪ 262 00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:51,375 ♪ Make me jump into the air ♪ 263 00:17:52,906 --> 00:17:54,246 ♪ If you dare ♪ 264 00:17:57,218 --> 00:18:00,450 ♪ Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe ♪ 265 00:18:03,323 --> 00:18:06,786 ♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪ 266 00:18:09,659 --> 00:18:13,364 ♪ Press your space face close to mine, love ♪ 267 00:18:15,533 --> 00:18:19,700 ♪ Freak out in a moon age daydream, oh yeah! ♪ 268 00:18:24,377 --> 00:18:25,706 DAVID: It was a pudding, you know? 269 00:18:25,741 --> 00:18:27,609 It was a pudding of new ideas. 270 00:18:27,644 --> 00:18:29,677 I think we took it on our shoulders 271 00:18:29,712 --> 00:18:32,812 that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. 272 00:18:32,847 --> 00:18:35,881 We wanted to just blast everything in the past. 273 00:18:35,916 --> 00:18:40,259 Question all the established values, all the taboos. 274 00:18:40,294 --> 00:18:42,822 Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. 275 00:18:44,562 --> 00:18:46,232 [MOONAGE DAYDREAM SONG CONTINUES] 276 00:18:48,368 --> 00:18:51,633 ♪ Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe ♪ 277 00:18:54,638 --> 00:18:58,244 ♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪ 278 00:19:00,875 --> 00:19:04,547 ♪ Press your space face close to mine, love ♪ 279 00:19:06,947 --> 00:19:11,752 ♪ Freak out in a moon age daydream, oh yeah! ♪ 280 00:19:15,494 --> 00:19:16,625 ♪ Freak out ♪ 281 00:19:18,893 --> 00:19:20,332 ♪ Far out ♪ 282 00:19:21,962 --> 00:19:23,236 ♪ In a... ♪ 283 00:19:40,618 --> 00:19:42,321 WOMAN: I just didn't... to this. 284 00:19:42,356 --> 00:19:45,720 I've never seen anything like this before. 285 00:19:45,755 --> 00:19:47,995 WOMAN 2: See, I'm just a space cadet, he's the commander. 286 00:19:50,056 --> 00:19:51,495 MAN: What universe is that? 287 00:19:51,530 --> 00:19:53,794 MAN 2: Bowie universe. 288 00:19:53,829 --> 00:19:56,401 WOMAN: Now nobody's scared to walk around like that, 289 00:19:56,436 --> 00:19:58,370 are they? He's done it, ain't he. 290 00:19:58,405 --> 00:20:01,406 He's broke through a barrier, now, ain't he? 291 00:20:01,441 --> 00:20:03,474 WOMAN 2: I guess I'm living my fantasy, you know? 292 00:20:03,509 --> 00:20:04,607 MAN: What's your fantasy? 293 00:20:04,642 --> 00:20:05,938 WOMAN 2: Oh, Bowie. 294 00:20:05,973 --> 00:20:09,007 MAN: I like people who are AC/DC. 295 00:20:09,042 --> 00:20:10,712 You know what I mean? 296 00:20:10,747 --> 00:20:12,461 INTERVIEWER: Do the clothes, you are trying to say, 297 00:20:12,485 --> 00:20:14,914 are the clothes expressed now your own personality? 298 00:20:14,949 --> 00:20:17,290 DAVID: Um, no, that I've never been quite clear about. 299 00:20:17,325 --> 00:20:18,764 I've never been sure of my own personality. 300 00:20:18,788 --> 00:20:20,557 INTERVIEWER: That's very refreshing. 301 00:20:20,592 --> 00:20:22,832 That's a very refreshing thing to hear somebody say that. 302 00:20:24,057 --> 00:20:27,630 Very. But can you fill us in on the barest outlines? 303 00:20:27,665 --> 00:20:29,566 DAVID: I'm a collector. 304 00:20:29,601 --> 00:20:33,031 Um, and I've always just seemed to collect personalities, 305 00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:36,540 um, ideas. I have a hodge podge philosophy 306 00:20:36,575 --> 00:20:40,907 which really is very minimal. Um, [indistinct] what? 307 00:20:40,942 --> 00:20:42,755 INTERVIEWER: [indistinct] Do you believe in God? 308 00:20:42,779 --> 00:20:44,515 DAVID: Um, I believe in an energy form. 309 00:20:44,550 --> 00:20:46,011 I'm not... I wouldn't put a 310 00:20:46,046 --> 00:20:47,947 I wouldn't like to put a name to it. 311 00:20:47,982 --> 00:20:50,323 INTERVIEWER: Do you indulge in any form of worship? 312 00:20:50,358 --> 00:20:52,721 DAVID: Um, uh, life. 313 00:20:53,889 --> 00:20:55,658 I love life very much indeed. 314 00:21:01,127 --> 00:21:03,666 DAVID: My strivings to have some kind of spiritual base 315 00:21:03,701 --> 00:21:06,097 were really, really strong all my life, 316 00:21:06,132 --> 00:21:08,000 and I think I tried to amalgamate 317 00:21:08,035 --> 00:21:11,003 my own bedrock of spirituality. 318 00:21:11,038 --> 00:21:12,972 I mean, I was a Buddhist on Tuesday, 319 00:21:13,007 --> 00:21:14,941 and I was into Nietzsche by Friday. 320 00:21:24,557 --> 00:21:26,821 INTERVIEWER: Some time flirting with Buddhism, 321 00:21:26,856 --> 00:21:28,658 and spending some time in a Buddhist retreat. 322 00:21:28,693 --> 00:21:30,924 DAVID: I mean, I felt at the time that I was, you know, 323 00:21:30,959 --> 00:21:36,402 um, Buddha's answer to everything he wanted man to be, 324 00:21:36,437 --> 00:21:39,064 but I'm... the one thing that hung over from that time 325 00:21:39,099 --> 00:21:42,606 was the feeling of impermanence and transience. 326 00:21:42,641 --> 00:21:45,444 That was the one thing that really struck home 327 00:21:45,479 --> 00:21:47,380 about everything that I was learning. 328 00:21:47,415 --> 00:21:49,041 Nothing's gonna stay around very long. 329 00:21:49,076 --> 00:21:50,581 I mean, you know, everything changes 330 00:21:50,616 --> 00:21:52,143 different rates. 331 00:21:52,178 --> 00:21:54,750 Some seem to me sort of established for a bit, 332 00:21:54,785 --> 00:21:57,588 but they're only moving at a slower rate than other things 333 00:21:57,623 --> 00:22:00,525 and they're all inevitably sort of a change-over. 334 00:22:11,505 --> 00:22:15,034 For me, there's always been a thread of merely, 335 00:22:15,069 --> 00:22:17,410 um, a search. 336 00:22:17,445 --> 00:22:20,039 Generally, I think the subject matters always come back 337 00:22:20,074 --> 00:22:23,482 to this singular question of nearly every artist, 338 00:22:23,517 --> 00:22:25,946 which is what's my relationship with the universe? 339 00:22:25,981 --> 00:22:28,718 Whatever other form it takes that's basic, 340 00:22:28,753 --> 00:22:31,149 I think that's probably the essential question 341 00:22:31,184 --> 00:22:33,987 that all of us ask ourselves. 342 00:22:34,022 --> 00:22:36,429 A lot of us probably on that last few minutes. 343 00:22:50,511 --> 00:22:51,906 INTERVIEWER: What's Ziggy? 344 00:22:51,941 --> 00:22:54,810 DAVID: Ziggy, I wanted... I wanted to define 345 00:22:54,845 --> 00:22:57,846 the archetype "Messiah Rock star." 346 00:22:57,881 --> 00:22:59,782 That's all I wanted to do, 347 00:22:59,817 --> 00:23:02,785 and I used the trappings of Kabuki theater, 348 00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:06,052 mime technique, and fringe New York music. 349 00:23:06,087 --> 00:23:07,185 [LOVE ME DO SONG] 350 00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:10,089 ♪ Love, love me do ♪ 351 00:23:10,124 --> 00:23:13,664 ♪ You know I love you ♪ 352 00:23:13,699 --> 00:23:16,700 ♪ I'll always be true ♪ 353 00:23:16,735 --> 00:23:19,736 ♪ So please ♪ 354 00:23:22,004 --> 00:23:23,135 AUDIENCE: ♪ Love me do ♪ 355 00:23:25,513 --> 00:23:27,073 DAVID: ♪ Loves to be loved ♪ 356 00:23:27,108 --> 00:23:29,207 DAVID: Ziggy was for me a very simplistic thing: 357 00:23:29,242 --> 00:23:31,748 What it seemed to be, an alien rock star, 358 00:23:31,783 --> 00:23:34,520 but other people reread him 359 00:23:34,555 --> 00:23:36,951 and contributed more information about Ziggy 360 00:23:36,986 --> 00:23:37,986 than I'd put into him. 361 00:23:45,797 --> 00:23:47,027 DAVID: 362 00:24:07,016 --> 00:24:09,885 DAVID: You know, we've set ourselves up as such. 363 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:11,788 We want it all. 364 00:24:11,823 --> 00:24:13,592 You know, we want all the adulation, 365 00:24:13,627 --> 00:24:15,165 and people to read the lyrics, and read and everything 366 00:24:15,189 --> 00:24:16,628 just to play the game. 367 00:24:17,026 --> 00:24:18,223 DAVID: 368 00:26:52,016 --> 00:26:54,060 DAVID: When I was really young, one of the mysteries, 369 00:26:54,084 --> 00:26:57,118 the great mystery of rock, was that I hardly understood 370 00:26:57,153 --> 00:26:59,219 a word of what they were singing about. 371 00:27:01,322 --> 00:27:03,762 Fats Domino, I still don't know 372 00:27:03,797 --> 00:27:05,764 one word of one lyric that he ever wrote. 373 00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:08,261 I never understood his pronunciation. 374 00:27:08,296 --> 00:27:11,066 And that made it even more mysterious, and wonderful, 375 00:27:11,101 --> 00:27:12,804 and magic, you know? 376 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:14,432 That he was talking about something 377 00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:16,907 that I couldn't even possibly start to understand, 378 00:27:16,942 --> 00:27:19,338 and I wanted in. 379 00:27:19,373 --> 00:27:21,208 I wanted to be in that place, 380 00:27:21,243 --> 00:27:24,409 this alternate universe, you know? 381 00:27:24,444 --> 00:27:27,049 And that was so much a part of the magic of music, 382 00:27:27,084 --> 00:27:28,985 and the same with art. 383 00:27:29,020 --> 00:27:32,318 I never really... I could appreciate the Vermeer, 384 00:27:32,353 --> 00:27:34,925 or Tintoretto, or Titian, or something like that, 385 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,191 but because it was symbolic and figurative, 386 00:27:37,226 --> 00:27:41,426 it didn't... I was never that impressed with virtuosity. 387 00:27:41,461 --> 00:27:44,198 I was, you know, I understood that their technique 388 00:27:44,233 --> 00:27:46,244 and the way they applied paint, and what they could do, 389 00:27:46,268 --> 00:27:49,269 and how they could embrace light and all that, 390 00:27:49,304 --> 00:27:52,305 I understood and realized the, 391 00:27:52,340 --> 00:27:56,408 and I bowed in humbleness at their... 392 00:27:56,443 --> 00:27:59,180 But it wasn't... I mean, that's not what I wanted from it. 393 00:27:59,215 --> 00:28:00,984 I wanted to use art. 394 00:28:01,019 --> 00:28:04,284 I wanted to use art in a different way in my life. 395 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:06,187 I wanted a sense that 396 00:28:09,489 --> 00:28:11,995 all the nooks and crannies that we don't understand 397 00:28:12,030 --> 00:28:14,228 about the way that we live through our day to day life, 398 00:28:14,263 --> 00:28:16,967 and I wanted that shown to me, you know? 399 00:28:17,002 --> 00:28:20,399 Not in great clarity, but some kind of physical manifestation 400 00:28:20,434 --> 00:28:24,106 of these are the areas of life that are causing you grief, 401 00:28:24,141 --> 00:28:27,912 or euphoria, and you don't really know why. 402 00:28:27,947 --> 00:28:29,815 Why is it that you wake up one day, 403 00:28:29,850 --> 00:28:33,511 and an oak tree, hit by the light in a certain way, 404 00:28:33,546 --> 00:28:37,889 will produce these extraordinary feelings of glee, 405 00:28:37,924 --> 00:28:39,484 and absolute enjoyment, 406 00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:41,992 exhilaration at actually being alive. 407 00:28:42,027 --> 00:28:44,390 Another day, you can wake up 408 00:28:44,425 --> 00:28:47,261 and that same tree will seem like some. 409 00:28:47,296 --> 00:28:51,496 Caspar David Fried rich symbolic death, you know? 410 00:28:51,531 --> 00:28:53,905 And it will be dark and negative and awful, you know? 411 00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:56,435 And it's that sense of why those things happen? 412 00:28:56,470 --> 00:28:59,405 Why aren't things the same every single day 413 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,407 and produce exactly the same feeling? 414 00:29:01,442 --> 00:29:03,277 And art always does that to me. 415 00:29:16,325 --> 00:29:18,325 INTERVIEWER: What are your hobbies? 416 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,008 DAVID: Well, where would you like to start? 417 00:29:20,032 --> 00:29:25,871 Uh, I sculpt, paint, and write films. 418 00:29:25,906 --> 00:29:28,973 Um, I make video television. 419 00:29:29,008 --> 00:29:30,568 Not programs, but video television. 420 00:29:30,603 --> 00:29:33,274 - INTERVIEWER: Of what? - Um, art things that I do. 421 00:29:33,309 --> 00:29:39,214 Experimental video, and cinematography. 422 00:29:39,249 --> 00:29:40,963 INTERVIEWER: With the art now that you create, 423 00:29:40,987 --> 00:29:42,316 the sculpturings... 424 00:29:42,351 --> 00:29:45,088 DAVID: Yeah, I have... you'll see. 425 00:29:47,422 --> 00:29:49,257 INTERVIEWER: Is what [indistinct] 426 00:29:49,292 --> 00:29:52,458 DAVID: I play with video, yes. I flirt an awful lot. 427 00:30:02,536 --> 00:30:04,206 I've asked again, over the last few years, 428 00:30:04,241 --> 00:30:06,142 I've been identifying again with a force. 429 00:30:06,177 --> 00:30:07,880 I don't know how I'm going to... 430 00:30:07,915 --> 00:30:10,245 How it will end up for me, 431 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,183 but, um, I can't pinpoint it, 432 00:30:14,218 --> 00:30:16,317 but I do have a very strong belief in 433 00:30:17,925 --> 00:30:20,222 in a force, and I don't know how it works. 434 00:30:20,257 --> 00:30:23,324 What I mean is, there is something else other than us. 435 00:30:23,359 --> 00:30:25,491 That's as near as I can get to it, 436 00:30:25,526 --> 00:30:30,166 and it may even just be people on other planets 437 00:30:30,201 --> 00:30:31,431 that I'm thinking about. 438 00:30:31,466 --> 00:30:33,103 It may be God. 439 00:30:33,138 --> 00:30:34,907 It may be... I don't know what it is, 440 00:30:34,942 --> 00:30:36,542 but there's a definite force that I feel. 441 00:30:38,110 --> 00:30:39,956 INTERVIEWER: Almost like there's something else, 442 00:30:39,980 --> 00:30:41,958 - that we're just a part of it. - DAVID: Yeah. Yeah. 443 00:30:41,982 --> 00:30:44,191 INTERVIEWER: That's beyond us. That's my feeling as well. 444 00:30:44,215 --> 00:30:47,183 There's always been, um, for me 445 00:30:47,218 --> 00:30:50,153 I guess for a lot of people... A certain sense of you 446 00:30:50,188 --> 00:30:53,893 that's other-worldly. Um, and of course that's... 447 00:30:58,460 --> 00:30:59,690 [WARSZAWA SONG] 448 00:30:59,725 --> 00:31:03,595 ♪ Sula vie ♪ 449 00:31:03,630 --> 00:31:08,303 ♪ Dilejo ♪ 450 00:31:10,373 --> 00:31:16,080 ♪ Sula vie milejo ♪ 451 00:31:16,115 --> 00:31:20,579 ♪ Mmm-omm... ♪ 452 00:32:17,572 --> 00:32:19,077 DAVID: Like anything useful, 453 00:32:20,377 --> 00:32:22,047 it's all got to do with fear. 454 00:32:24,249 --> 00:32:26,117 I think he's broken his arm, sir. 455 00:32:28,616 --> 00:32:31,386 They wouldn't bother with it, Captain. 456 00:32:31,421 --> 00:32:33,256 [QUICKSAND SONG] 457 00:32:33,291 --> 00:32:38,228 ♪ I'm closer to the Golden Dawn ♪ 458 00:32:38,263 --> 00:32:41,792 ♪ Immersed in Crowley's uniform ♪ 459 00:32:41,827 --> 00:32:45,235 ♪ Of imagery... ♪ 460 00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:47,402 INTERVIEWER: Ziggy was a disguise? 461 00:32:47,437 --> 00:32:49,173 DAVID: He was a character that I created. 462 00:32:49,208 --> 00:32:51,208 I wanted to make films... 463 00:32:51,243 --> 00:32:53,804 ♪ I'm living in a silent film... ♪ 464 00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:58,116 And I transposed most of those ideas into music form. 465 00:33:00,615 --> 00:33:02,095 INTERVIEWER: How long is it gonna take 466 00:33:02,122 --> 00:33:03,583 before you're all David Bowie? 467 00:33:03,618 --> 00:33:05,321 David: Oh never, you know. 468 00:33:05,356 --> 00:33:07,191 I'd run off into something else, you know. 469 00:33:07,226 --> 00:33:11,294 ♪ I'm frightened by the total goal ♪ 470 00:33:11,329 --> 00:33:14,066 ♪ Drawing to the ragged hole ♪ 471 00:33:14,101 --> 00:33:15,507 INTERVIEWER: What's "Changes" all about? 472 00:33:15,531 --> 00:33:17,828 DAVID: Changes. 473 00:33:17,863 --> 00:33:20,204 Someone putting themselves through 474 00:33:20,239 --> 00:33:23,141 as much experimentation to, you know, 475 00:33:23,176 --> 00:33:25,737 sort of treating oneself as a bit of an experiment. 476 00:33:27,180 --> 00:33:30,115 I put myself in predicaments 477 00:33:30,150 --> 00:33:32,810 to see how I'll cope with them a lot. 478 00:33:32,845 --> 00:33:36,451 It's sort of trying to strengthen myself. 479 00:33:36,486 --> 00:33:41,126 ♪ I'm the twisted name in Goebbel's eyes ♪ 480 00:33:41,161 --> 00:33:44,393 ♪ Living proof of Churchill's lies ♪ 481 00:33:45,495 --> 00:33:47,594 ♪ I'm destiny ♪ 482 00:33:52,403 --> 00:33:57,142 ♪ I'm torn between the light and dark ♪ 483 00:33:57,177 --> 00:34:00,244 ♪ Where others see their targets ♪ 484 00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:04,182 ♪ In divine symmetry ♪ 485 00:34:09,189 --> 00:34:12,256 I put myself in dangerous situations, which I did. 486 00:34:12,291 --> 00:34:15,886 Put myself in any situation which I feel I can't cope with. 487 00:34:15,921 --> 00:34:17,470 INTERVIEWER: Dangerous situations, such as what? 488 00:34:17,494 --> 00:34:18,856 Can you explain that? 489 00:34:18,891 --> 00:34:20,561 DAVID: Yeah. Areas where I have to be in, 490 00:34:20,596 --> 00:34:22,266 sort of, social contact with people, 491 00:34:22,301 --> 00:34:24,235 which I'm not very good at doing. 492 00:34:24,270 --> 00:34:25,797 I put myself in. 493 00:34:25,832 --> 00:34:27,678 INTERVIEWER: I don't quite know what you mean now. 494 00:34:27,702 --> 00:34:29,482 DAVID: Well, I went to Los Angeles and I lived there 495 00:34:29,506 --> 00:34:31,737 for a couple of years, which is a city I really detest. 496 00:34:31,772 --> 00:34:33,508 - INTERVIEWER: Yeah. - DAVID: So, I went to 497 00:34:33,543 --> 00:34:37,281 live there to see what would happen to my writing. 498 00:34:37,316 --> 00:34:39,349 [NATURAL WOMAN SONG] 499 00:34:39,384 --> 00:34:43,683 Aretha Franklin: ♪ When my soul was in the lost and found... ♪ 500 00:34:43,718 --> 00:34:45,168 INTERVIEWER: Since you've been in America, 501 00:34:45,192 --> 00:34:46,686 you seem to have picked up 502 00:34:46,721 --> 00:34:49,821 on a lot of the idioms and themes of American music, 503 00:34:49,856 --> 00:34:52,890 and American culture. How has that happened? 504 00:34:52,925 --> 00:34:55,728 DAVID: There's a fly floating around in my milk. 505 00:34:55,763 --> 00:34:58,731 There's a foreign body in it, you see? 506 00:34:58,766 --> 00:35:00,568 And it's getting a lot of milk. 507 00:35:00,603 --> 00:35:02,141 That's kind of how I feel. 508 00:35:04,211 --> 00:35:07,542 A foreign body, and I just... I couldn't help but soak it up. 509 00:35:07,577 --> 00:35:09,379 You know. 510 00:35:09,414 --> 00:35:11,777 I hated it when I first came here. 511 00:35:11,812 --> 00:35:13,251 I couldn't see any of it. 512 00:35:14,386 --> 00:35:15,946 Look, a wax museum. 513 00:35:15,981 --> 00:35:19,257 Hey, a bleedin' wax museum in the middle of a desert! 514 00:35:19,292 --> 00:35:21,358 You'd think it would melt, wouldn't you? 515 00:35:39,510 --> 00:35:41,345 DAVID: There's a good, old circle thing, 516 00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:43,281 and it really is, it's uh, 517 00:35:43,316 --> 00:35:46,944 it's the decadence that precedes the righteousness, 518 00:35:46,979 --> 00:35:49,584 and the morality 519 00:35:49,619 --> 00:35:53,588 of an extremely right wing art form, 520 00:35:53,623 --> 00:35:56,756 which, in its right wing-ness is in fact very liberal 521 00:35:56,791 --> 00:35:58,769 because the faster you can get rid of the right wings, 522 00:35:58,793 --> 00:36:01,827 and by accelerating it, then you bring back [indistinct]. 523 00:36:01,862 --> 00:36:04,632 You've got to go through the dictatorship. 524 00:36:04,667 --> 00:36:06,469 You've got to go through the right wing... 525 00:36:06,504 --> 00:36:07,704 DAVID: Coveting the highest... 526 00:36:07,736 --> 00:36:09,769 DAVID: Exactly. 527 00:36:09,804 --> 00:36:11,639 Man Ray is suddenly getting very popular, 528 00:36:13,544 --> 00:36:16,842 and it's... I mean, I... We... I know, you know what's coming. 529 00:36:16,877 --> 00:36:22,650 I mean, baby, what is coming. [indistinct] 530 00:36:22,685 --> 00:36:24,014 Of course it is, yeah. 531 00:36:24,049 --> 00:36:26,258 And we're going to live through it. 532 00:36:26,293 --> 00:36:28,491 We're gonna be lucky enough [indistinct]. 533 00:36:28,526 --> 00:36:31,362 DAVID: This ain't rock and roll! 534 00:36:31,397 --> 00:36:33,727 This is genocide! 535 00:36:41,308 --> 00:36:43,341 [CRACKED ACTOR SONG] 536 00:36:56,851 --> 00:36:58,587 ♪ I've come on a few years ♪ 537 00:36:58,622 --> 00:37:00,787 ♪ from my Hollywood Highs ♪ 538 00:37:00,822 --> 00:37:02,492 ♪ The best of the last ♪ 539 00:37:02,527 --> 00:37:04,692 ♪ The cleanest star' they ever had ♪ 540 00:37:04,727 --> 00:37:06,562 ♪ I'm stiff on my legend ♪ 541 00:37:06,597 --> 00:37:08,498 ♪ The films that I made ♪ 542 00:37:08,533 --> 00:37:10,335 ♪ Forget that I'm fifty ♪ 543 00:37:10,370 --> 00:37:12,436 ♪ 'Cause you just got paid ♪ 544 00:37:12,471 --> 00:37:14,405 ♪ Crack, baby, crack ♪ 545 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,407 ♪ Show me you're real ♪ 546 00:37:16,442 --> 00:37:19,938 ♪ Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel ♪ 547 00:37:19,973 --> 00:37:21,775 ♪ Suck, baby, suck ♪ 548 00:37:21,810 --> 00:37:23,942 ♪ Give me your head ♪ 549 00:37:23,977 --> 00:37:25,812 ♪ Before you start professing ♪ 550 00:37:25,847 --> 00:37:28,914 ♪ That you're knocking me dead... ♪ 551 00:37:28,949 --> 00:37:30,795 INTERVIEWER: You know, you haven't... your accent, 552 00:37:30,819 --> 00:37:33,358 your voice, your method of speech has not changed. 553 00:37:33,393 --> 00:37:35,525 You've been away for two years. 554 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,593 Does that mean you've been locked away somewhere? 555 00:37:37,628 --> 00:37:39,028 DAVID: Yes, I don't talk to anybody. 556 00:37:41,368 --> 00:37:43,962 INTERVIEWER: But do people talk to you? 557 00:37:43,997 --> 00:37:45,634 DAVID: I've heard it rumored, yes. 558 00:37:45,669 --> 00:37:47,031 [CRACKED ACTOR SONG] 559 00:37:47,066 --> 00:37:48,637 ♪ But since he pinned you, baby ♪ 560 00:37:48,672 --> 00:37:50,771 ♪ You're a porcupine ♪ 561 00:37:50,806 --> 00:37:54,478 ♪ You sold me illusions for a sack full of checks ♪ 562 00:37:54,513 --> 00:37:58,075 ♪ You've made a bad connection 'cause I just want your sex ♪ 563 00:37:58,110 --> 00:38:00,110 ♪ Crack, baby, crack ♪ 564 00:38:00,145 --> 00:38:02,420 ♪ Show me you're real ♪ 565 00:38:02,455 --> 00:38:05,984 ♪ Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel ♪ 566 00:38:06,019 --> 00:38:07,986 ♪ Suck, baby, suck ♪ 567 00:38:08,021 --> 00:38:09,526 ♪ Give me your head ♪ 568 00:38:09,561 --> 00:38:11,462 ♪ Before you start professing ♪ 569 00:38:11,497 --> 00:38:13,827 ♪ That you're knocking me dead ♪ 570 00:38:15,028 --> 00:38:16,731 ♪ Oh... ♪ 571 00:38:22,475 --> 00:38:23,936 ♪ Oh stay ♪ 572 00:38:26,105 --> 00:38:27,676 ♪ Don't you dare ♪ 573 00:38:30,109 --> 00:38:32,109 ♪ Oh yeah... ♪ 574 00:38:35,752 --> 00:38:37,081 ♪ Don't you dare ♪ 575 00:38:39,657 --> 00:38:42,691 ♪ Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 576 00:38:42,726 --> 00:38:44,022 ♪ Yeah... ♪ 577 00:39:19,994 --> 00:39:21,895 DICK: Some people thought... 578 00:39:21,930 --> 00:39:23,908 There's a lady who said "I don't know if he'd be 579 00:39:23,932 --> 00:39:25,745 if I'd want to meet him. He would make me very nervous. 580 00:39:25,769 --> 00:39:27,175 I have a feeling he's into black magic, 581 00:39:27,199 --> 00:39:29,001 and that sort of thing." 582 00:39:29,036 --> 00:39:31,080 And other people see you as just a very skillful performer 583 00:39:31,104 --> 00:39:33,170 who changes from time to time, 584 00:39:33,205 --> 00:39:34,611 from one thing to another. 585 00:39:34,646 --> 00:39:36,679 DAVID: Yeah. Well, both of that is... 586 00:39:36,714 --> 00:39:38,076 DICK: All of the above? 587 00:39:39,816 --> 00:39:41,486 ROCK 'N' ROLL WITH ME (SONG) 588 00:39:41,521 --> 00:39:45,424 ♪ You always were the one that knew ♪ 589 00:39:48,187 --> 00:39:51,925 ♪ They sold us for the likes of you ♪ 590 00:39:55,128 --> 00:39:58,470 ♪ I never wanted anything ♪ 591 00:39:58,505 --> 00:40:00,934 ♪ But new surroundings ♪ 592 00:40:02,740 --> 00:40:04,806 ♪ A room to rent ♪ 593 00:40:04,841 --> 00:40:10,713 ♪ while the lizards lay lying in the heat ♪ 594 00:40:10,748 --> 00:40:12,253 INTERVIEWER: What kind of childhood did you have? 595 00:40:12,277 --> 00:40:13,881 DAVID: Oh, incredibly ordinary. 596 00:40:13,916 --> 00:40:15,751 - INTERVIEWER: Ordinary? - DAVID: Yeah. 597 00:40:15,786 --> 00:40:17,258 - INTERVIEWER: In what way? - DAVID: Well, I mean, 598 00:40:17,282 --> 00:40:19,183 it was regular. I went to school, I ate. 599 00:40:21,627 --> 00:40:23,957 DAVID: In suburbia, you're given the impression 600 00:40:23,992 --> 00:40:25,959 that nothing culturally belongs to you. 601 00:40:25,994 --> 00:40:28,060 That you are sort of in this wasteland, 602 00:40:28,095 --> 00:40:30,634 and I think there's a passion for most people 603 00:40:30,669 --> 00:40:33,065 who have an iota of curiosity 604 00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:35,639 about them to escape and get out. 605 00:40:35,674 --> 00:40:40,105 ♪ When you rock 'n' roll with me ♪ 606 00:40:43,077 --> 00:40:47,211 ♪ No one else I'd rather be ♪ 607 00:40:49,655 --> 00:40:55,758 ♪ Nobody here can do it for me ♪ 608 00:40:55,793 --> 00:40:57,526 ♪ I'm in tears again ♪ 609 00:41:01,601 --> 00:41:06,736 ♪ When you rock 'n' roll with me ♪ 610 00:41:10,236 --> 00:41:12,104 DAVID: One of my siblings 611 00:41:12,139 --> 00:41:14,843 meant so much to me in my early years, 612 00:41:14,878 --> 00:41:17,307 and his name was Terry, and he was my half-brother, 613 00:41:17,342 --> 00:41:18,979 my mother's son. 614 00:41:19,014 --> 00:41:20,618 DAVID: Hey, hey, good evening, Buffalo. 615 00:41:20,653 --> 00:41:23,214 It's nice to be here. 616 00:41:23,249 --> 00:41:27,691 DAVID: He was living between our family and another family, 617 00:41:27,726 --> 00:41:30,056 and the periods that I did see him, 618 00:41:30,091 --> 00:41:33,092 it seemed to me that he had more curiosity about the world 619 00:41:33,127 --> 00:41:34,797 than anybody I'd met. 620 00:41:36,196 --> 00:41:41,001 And the first real, major event for me was 621 00:41:41,036 --> 00:41:43,168 when he passed Jack Kerouac's On The Road on to me, 622 00:41:43,203 --> 00:41:46,644 which really changed my life. 623 00:41:46,679 --> 00:41:50,076 And he would also introduce me to people like John Coltrane, 624 00:41:50,111 --> 00:41:51,814 which was way above my head, 625 00:41:51,849 --> 00:41:53,816 but I wanted to read what he read, 626 00:41:53,851 --> 00:41:56,214 and I wanted to listen to what he listened to, 627 00:41:56,249 --> 00:41:59,151 as one does with an older brother. 628 00:41:59,186 --> 00:42:03,892 ♪ When you rock 'n' roll with me ♪ 629 00:42:06,193 --> 00:42:11,031 ♪ No one else I'd rather be ♪ 630 00:42:13,134 --> 00:42:18,775 ♪ Nobody here can do it for me... ♪ 631 00:42:18,810 --> 00:42:20,909 DAVID: I think Terry probably gave me a great... 632 00:42:20,944 --> 00:42:22,647 The greatest serviceable education 633 00:42:22,682 --> 00:42:24,308 I could ever have had. 634 00:42:24,343 --> 00:42:27,850 I mean, he just introduced me to the outside things, 635 00:42:27,885 --> 00:42:30,149 kinds of books, and kinds of music 636 00:42:30,184 --> 00:42:32,624 and attitudes that just weren't 637 00:42:32,659 --> 00:42:34,219 the currency in the area that I grew up. 638 00:42:35,860 --> 00:42:38,091 And then he would go away for long periods, 639 00:42:38,126 --> 00:42:41,292 and one period he went away and joined the RAF. 640 00:42:43,164 --> 00:42:48,772 When he came back, he had very evident signs of schizophrenia, 641 00:42:48,807 --> 00:42:50,807 and he stayed in hospital for the rest of his life. 642 00:42:52,107 --> 00:42:53,909 [ROCK 'N' ROLL WITH ME SONG] 643 00:42:56,980 --> 00:43:01,785 ♪ When you rock 'n' roll with me ♪ 644 00:43:04,086 --> 00:43:08,660 ♪ No one else I'd rather be ♪ 645 00:43:11,291 --> 00:43:16,162 ♪ Nobody here can do it for me... ♪ 646 00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:20,397 DAVID: I think it made me worry about my own disposition, 647 00:43:20,432 --> 00:43:23,268 and whether I just had eccentric ideas, 648 00:43:23,303 --> 00:43:26,271 or whether I was heading somewhere else. 649 00:43:26,306 --> 00:43:32,046 ♪ When you rock 'n' roll, rock 'n' roll with me ♪ 650 00:43:33,445 --> 00:43:38,118 ♪ No one else I'd rather, I'd rather be ♪ 651 00:43:40,925 --> 00:43:45,323 ♪ Nobody down here can do it for me ♪ 652 00:43:48,031 --> 00:43:49,866 ♪ I'm in tears ♪ 653 00:43:51,804 --> 00:43:53,067 ♪ I'm in tears ♪ 654 00:43:55,269 --> 00:44:00,811 ♪ When you rock 'n' roll with me... ♪ 655 00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:04,749 ♪ Oh yeah ♪ 656 00:44:06,478 --> 00:44:09,479 ♪ Rock 'n' roll with me ♪ 657 00:44:09,514 --> 00:44:11,448 ♪ Oh-hoo yeah. ♪ 658 00:44:20,261 --> 00:44:21,975 INTERVIEWER: I understand that you have a fear 659 00:44:21,999 --> 00:44:24,032 because there was mental illness in your family, 660 00:44:24,067 --> 00:44:26,903 that you have a fear of mental illness. Is that true? 661 00:44:26,938 --> 00:44:30,071 DAVID: Um, no, I developed a system against it. 662 00:44:30,106 --> 00:44:33,338 I think that probably became part of the therapy of art, 663 00:44:33,373 --> 00:44:35,978 and I was fortunate enough to be able to 664 00:44:36,013 --> 00:44:38,442 express any visions that I had in my head. 665 00:44:38,477 --> 00:44:40,092 - INTERVIEWER: Yeah. - DAVID: Very outwardly. 666 00:44:40,116 --> 00:44:42,787 DAVID: Gradually learning to do without sleep. 667 00:44:45,517 --> 00:44:48,320 DAVID: It's a labyrinthine existence that we live, 668 00:44:48,355 --> 00:44:51,257 and so it makes sense for me to put together 669 00:44:51,292 --> 00:44:52,929 elements in a song which 670 00:44:52,964 --> 00:44:54,964 wouldn't naturally be good bedfellows. 671 00:44:59,531 --> 00:45:02,136 I guess I'm trying to articulate 672 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,338 those mysterious corners of the mind 673 00:45:06,373 --> 00:45:08,307 where there exist grains of truth 674 00:45:08,342 --> 00:45:10,243 that we don't often touch on, 675 00:45:10,278 --> 00:45:12,850 because we don't have the words to capture them. 676 00:45:15,052 --> 00:45:17,888 So, we'll write on three or four different subject matters, 677 00:45:17,923 --> 00:45:21,859 and then integrate them together by cutting them up. 678 00:45:21,894 --> 00:45:25,093 What I've used it for more than anything else 679 00:45:25,128 --> 00:45:29,966 is igniting anything that might be in my imagination. 680 00:45:30,001 --> 00:45:31,572 I've tried doing it with diaries and things, 681 00:45:31,596 --> 00:45:34,234 and I was finding out amazing things about me 682 00:45:34,269 --> 00:45:36,368 and what I'd done and where I was going. 683 00:45:37,976 --> 00:45:39,844 A lot of the things I had done, 684 00:45:39,879 --> 00:45:42,275 it seemed that it would predict things about the future 685 00:45:42,310 --> 00:45:45,278 and tell me a lot about the past. 686 00:45:45,313 --> 00:45:49,546 I suppose it's a very Western tarot. I don't know. 687 00:45:49,581 --> 00:45:51,548 Obviously, one is trying to always 688 00:45:51,583 --> 00:45:53,583 reevaluate one's personality, 689 00:45:53,618 --> 00:45:56,388 and understand why one works. 690 00:45:58,359 --> 00:46:01,360 I think a lot of artists deal with loneliness and solitude. 691 00:46:03,463 --> 00:46:07,597 An artist does tend to examine the world 692 00:46:07,632 --> 00:46:09,500 through his relationship to it, 693 00:46:09,535 --> 00:46:11,403 and so that produces 694 00:46:11,438 --> 00:46:13,471 a very introverted looking lot of work. 695 00:46:13,506 --> 00:46:16,474 I don't feel lonely. I apply that to my work. 696 00:46:16,509 --> 00:46:21,281 I sense a feeling of loneliness from my work when I look at it, 697 00:46:21,316 --> 00:46:24,515 but I don't feel like a solitary person myself, 698 00:46:24,550 --> 00:46:26,385 but it seems to show up in my work, 699 00:46:26,420 --> 00:46:28,618 and it's like taking a photograph 700 00:46:28,653 --> 00:46:30,587 and then developing the negative 701 00:46:30,622 --> 00:46:33,194 and seeing another person standing behind you. 702 00:46:33,229 --> 00:46:39,101 ♪ Who will love Aladdin Sane ♪ 703 00:46:39,136 --> 00:46:43,941 ♪ Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise ♪ 704 00:46:43,976 --> 00:46:49,210 ♪ Who will love Aladdin Sane ♪ 705 00:46:51,544 --> 00:46:53,951 ♪ Motor sensational ♪ 706 00:46:56,054 --> 00:46:58,483 ♪ Paris or maybe hell ♪ 707 00:46:58,518 --> 00:47:00,188 ♪ I'm waiting ♪ 708 00:47:00,223 --> 00:47:02,520 ♪ Clutches of sad remains ♪ 709 00:47:04,458 --> 00:47:08,427 ♪ Waits for Aladdin Sane You'll make it ♪ 710 00:47:08,462 --> 00:47:14,631 ♪ Who will love Aladdin Sane ♪ 711 00:47:14,666 --> 00:47:18,338 ♪ Millions weep a fountain, just in case of sunrise... ♪ 712 00:47:18,373 --> 00:47:19,647 INTERVIEWER: With your background, 713 00:47:19,671 --> 00:47:23,409 why were you intrigued by all this? 714 00:47:23,444 --> 00:47:27,380 DAVID: Um, it was... I mean, 715 00:47:27,415 --> 00:47:29,580 it filled a vast expanse of my imagination. 716 00:47:29,615 --> 00:47:31,219 I was always pretty imaginative. 717 00:47:33,388 --> 00:47:36,224 And the imagination can dry up in 718 00:47:36,259 --> 00:47:38,424 wherever you're living in England, often. 719 00:47:38,459 --> 00:47:40,657 I mean, if there's nothing to keep it going. 720 00:47:40,692 --> 00:47:42,659 It just supplied a need in me. 721 00:47:44,234 --> 00:47:46,597 American became a myth-land for me. 722 00:47:52,737 --> 00:47:55,573 DAVID: We're not stopped. Is there anything behind us? 723 00:48:01,053 --> 00:48:02,525 INTERVIEWER: Let's go with him now live, 724 00:48:02,549 --> 00:48:04,219 by satellite, 725 00:48:04,254 --> 00:48:06,958 to beautiful downtown Burbank in Los Angeles. 726 00:48:09,028 --> 00:48:10,104 AUDIENCE MEMBER: Is it true that you're gonna be 727 00:48:10,128 --> 00:48:11,292 teaming up with... 728 00:48:12,427 --> 00:48:14,328 Every avenue. 729 00:48:14,363 --> 00:48:17,166 It's very calm, and it's a kind of a superficial calmness 730 00:48:17,201 --> 00:48:19,278 that they've developed to underplay the fact that it's... 731 00:48:19,302 --> 00:48:22,204 There's a lot of high pressure here, 732 00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:24,140 as it's a very big entertainment industry area. 733 00:48:25,737 --> 00:48:28,507 And you get this feeling of unease with everybody. 734 00:48:28,542 --> 00:48:30,047 It's a very big entertainment area. 735 00:48:30,082 --> 00:48:31,455 DAVID: The first time that it really 736 00:48:31,479 --> 00:48:34,084 came home to me what a strange... 737 00:48:36,055 --> 00:48:39,749 About the churches designed by an architect. 738 00:48:39,784 --> 00:48:41,619 DAVID: Arthur, would you please slow down? 739 00:48:43,359 --> 00:48:45,040 INTERVIEWER: We're bouncing backwards and forwards 740 00:48:45,064 --> 00:48:46,393 on the satellite at the moment. 741 00:48:46,428 --> 00:48:49,363 I mean, our sound is bouncing around. 742 00:48:49,398 --> 00:48:50,562 Yes, I can see it. 743 00:48:52,566 --> 00:48:54,236 It'll be all right in a minute. 744 00:49:00,178 --> 00:49:01,498 INTERVIEWER: Are you there, David? 745 00:49:02,510 --> 00:49:03,674 Are you there, David? 746 00:49:03,709 --> 00:49:05,610 Bedroom in the sky. 747 00:49:05,645 --> 00:49:07,381 INTERVIEWER: Are you there, Mr. David Bowie? 748 00:49:16,689 --> 00:49:19,723 DAVID: I think that I felt often, 749 00:49:19,758 --> 00:49:24,332 ever since I was a teenager, 750 00:49:24,367 --> 00:49:29,535 um, so adrift, and so not part of everyone I saw. 751 00:49:30,670 --> 00:49:32,406 There's so many dark secrets 752 00:49:32,441 --> 00:49:33,737 about my family in the cupboard 753 00:49:33,772 --> 00:49:36,575 that it kind of made me feel 754 00:49:36,610 --> 00:49:39,149 very much on the outside of everything, 755 00:49:39,184 --> 00:49:44,517 and because of that, I felt there was no basis to my life, 756 00:49:44,552 --> 00:49:46,552 like everybody else seemed to have. 757 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,457 Which of course is ridiculous. 758 00:49:50,492 --> 00:49:53,229 Probably, I would do things to prove that 759 00:49:53,264 --> 00:49:56,166 I had some emotional substance 760 00:49:57,433 --> 00:49:59,070 when in fact I didn't. 761 00:50:39,838 --> 00:50:42,806 DAVID: Thematically, I've always dealt with isolation 762 00:50:42,841 --> 00:50:44,676 in everything I've written, I think. 763 00:50:44,711 --> 00:50:46,876 INTERVIEWER: If you're interested in isolation, 764 00:50:46,911 --> 00:50:49,780 is it because you think that a person in an isolated state 765 00:50:49,815 --> 00:50:53,124 feel greater emotions than they do 766 00:50:53,159 --> 00:50:55,786 when they're surrounded by people and things? 767 00:50:55,821 --> 00:50:58,624 DAVID: I think if he is in isolation, 768 00:50:58,659 --> 00:51:03,332 instead of receiving the whole world as his home, 769 00:51:03,367 --> 00:51:06,467 he tends to create a micro-world inside himself. 770 00:51:06,502 --> 00:51:10,306 Um, and it's that peculiar part of the human mind 771 00:51:10,341 --> 00:51:12,671 that fascinates me about the small universes 772 00:51:12,706 --> 00:51:15,707 that can be created inside the mind. 773 00:51:15,742 --> 00:51:18,248 Some of them fairly schizophrenic 774 00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:19,381 and quite off the wall. 775 00:51:22,683 --> 00:51:25,552 It feels now that I don't come from anywhere, 776 00:51:25,587 --> 00:51:28,753 but I was born in Brixton. 777 00:51:28,788 --> 00:51:30,337 INTERVIEWER: When were you born? What year? 778 00:51:30,361 --> 00:51:33,461 DAVID: 1947. January the eighth. 779 00:51:33,496 --> 00:51:36,563 Makes me a Capricorn with an Aquarius ascendant 780 00:51:36,598 --> 00:51:38,598 and a Leo descendant. 781 00:51:41,801 --> 00:51:43,482 INTERVIEWER: How much now is left of the lad 782 00:51:43,506 --> 00:51:45,176 from Brixton, do you think? 783 00:51:45,211 --> 00:51:46,320 DAVID: Not very much, I would think. 784 00:51:46,344 --> 00:51:48,278 I know, you know. 785 00:51:48,313 --> 00:51:52,216 I never got... I never became who I should have been. 786 00:51:52,251 --> 00:51:54,218 I've spent an awful lot of my life 787 00:51:54,253 --> 00:51:56,649 actually looking for myself, you know? 788 00:51:56,684 --> 00:52:00,653 And understanding what it was that I-why-what I existed for. 789 00:52:00,688 --> 00:52:02,488 What was it that really made me happy in life? 790 00:52:03,691 --> 00:52:05,757 And who exactly, or was... 791 00:52:05,792 --> 00:52:07,912 Who are the parts of myself I was trying to hide from? 792 00:52:10,566 --> 00:52:13,666 I think a lot of us have huge senses of denial 793 00:52:13,701 --> 00:52:15,866 about who we are and where we exist in the world. 794 00:52:18,442 --> 00:52:19,881 I really wanted to sort of, you know, 795 00:52:19,905 --> 00:52:21,505 be very emotionally involved with people. 796 00:52:22,611 --> 00:52:24,281 I didn't know how to do it. 797 00:52:24,316 --> 00:52:25,716 You know, my parents were like that, 798 00:52:25,746 --> 00:52:27,515 and I guess you kind of, as they say, 799 00:52:28,848 --> 00:52:30,881 they pass on a lot of faults. 800 00:52:34,986 --> 00:52:36,722 DICK: What do your parents do for a living? 801 00:52:36,757 --> 00:52:41,265 My father's dead, and my mother has a small flat, 802 00:52:41,300 --> 00:52:44,532 and I think she's got a day job. 803 00:52:44,567 --> 00:52:46,281 DICK: Does she have trouble explaining you to the neighbors 804 00:52:46,305 --> 00:52:48,503 who say, "Are you any relation to that". 805 00:52:48,538 --> 00:52:50,571 DAVID: I think she pretends I'm not hers. 806 00:52:52,311 --> 00:52:54,476 Nah, she's uh, she doesn't talk much. 807 00:52:54,511 --> 00:52:57,644 You know, she doesn't, um, I don't think we really... 808 00:52:57,679 --> 00:52:59,481 We were never that close particularly. 809 00:52:59,516 --> 00:53:00,845 We have an understanding. 810 00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:01,912 DICK: Yeah. 811 00:53:05,687 --> 00:53:07,720 INTERVIEWER: Was it a happy marriage? 812 00:53:07,755 --> 00:53:10,426 Not necessarily terribly loving or anything, 813 00:53:10,461 --> 00:53:12,890 in terms of no real physical affection, 814 00:53:14,762 --> 00:53:17,400 or even they didn't really articulate 815 00:53:17,435 --> 00:53:18,566 any love for each other. 816 00:53:25,971 --> 00:53:28,510 There's an awful lot of emotional/spiritual mutilation 817 00:53:28,545 --> 00:53:30,281 goes on in my family. 818 00:53:35,387 --> 00:53:38,487 INTERVIEWER: Did you like any of the traditional people 819 00:53:38,522 --> 00:53:40,555 that you're supposed to like? 820 00:53:40,590 --> 00:53:42,051 Like, did you like Winnie the Pooh? 821 00:53:42,086 --> 00:53:43,492 DAVID: No. No. 822 00:53:43,527 --> 00:53:44,922 INTERVIEWER: Rupert Bear? 823 00:53:44,957 --> 00:53:46,594 DAVID: No. No I didn't. I didn't like... 824 00:53:46,629 --> 00:53:48,068 INTERVIEWER: Did you have a teddy bear? 825 00:53:48,092 --> 00:53:50,301 DAVID: No, I didn't. I don't think. 826 00:53:53,405 --> 00:53:56,032 I can't remember having anything like that at all. 827 00:53:56,067 --> 00:53:59,277 No, I never liked, um, children's things very much. 828 00:54:24,568 --> 00:54:26,007 INTERVIEWER: You know, since you've been away, 829 00:54:26,031 --> 00:54:27,833 or quite recently, the newspapers 830 00:54:27,868 --> 00:54:30,308 having been having a bit of a bash at your mother? 831 00:54:33,511 --> 00:54:36,072 And saying that she's a bit tearful from time to time. 832 00:54:36,107 --> 00:54:39,515 And that she's suffered a certain amount of anguish, 833 00:54:39,550 --> 00:54:41,649 and that she doesn't hear from you an awful lot. 834 00:54:41,684 --> 00:54:43,849 Is that eyewash or is it real? 835 00:54:49,021 --> 00:54:50,658 DAVID: There's some kind of traumatism 836 00:54:50,693 --> 00:54:53,089 often goes on in our childhoods I think. 837 00:54:53,124 --> 00:54:55,432 I think, that are... 838 00:54:55,467 --> 00:54:57,379 Makes us crave some kind of strange affection, you know? 839 00:54:57,403 --> 00:54:58,666 It's sort of an... 840 00:54:58,701 --> 00:55:00,404 Often you'll find that the person 841 00:55:00,439 --> 00:55:02,406 who craves a lot of affection 842 00:55:02,441 --> 00:55:04,474 actually isn't terribly good at giving it. 843 00:55:07,875 --> 00:55:10,942 INTERVIEWER: Does that mean you have to separate yourself 844 00:55:10,977 --> 00:55:14,044 quite a lot from, say, falling in love 845 00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:16,651 and getting very involved with a person? 846 00:55:16,686 --> 00:55:20,116 Um, oh no, I think, no. 847 00:55:20,151 --> 00:55:21,656 I think quite the reverse. 848 00:55:21,691 --> 00:55:23,757 INTERVIEWER: But, love, falling in love, 849 00:55:23,792 --> 00:55:26,892 is different from then going on to love that person. 850 00:55:26,927 --> 00:55:28,157 Yes, it is. Yes. 851 00:55:28,192 --> 00:55:30,533 And once you've loved somebody a lot, 852 00:55:30,568 --> 00:55:32,447 it means that you've got to share your life with them. 853 00:55:32,471 --> 00:55:34,141 - That's what I really... - DAVID: No, I don't think so. 854 00:55:34,165 --> 00:55:36,770 I think you can love somebody from afar. 855 00:55:36,805 --> 00:55:39,476 But if you then decided not to love them from afar, 856 00:55:39,511 --> 00:55:41,907 you as an artist would have to give up 857 00:55:41,942 --> 00:55:43,777 quite a lot of your time to them. 858 00:55:43,812 --> 00:55:45,108 Yes, and I can't do that. 859 00:55:45,143 --> 00:55:46,659 INTERVIEWER: That's what I was wondering, 860 00:55:46,683 --> 00:55:48,155 whether you did... Whether you did that. 861 00:55:48,179 --> 00:55:49,893 DAVID: No, no, no, love can't get quite in my way, 862 00:55:49,917 --> 00:55:53,952 because I feel... I shelter myself from it incredibly. 863 00:55:55,923 --> 00:56:00,959 Interviewer: Do you feel removed from the body and the feel 864 00:56:00,994 --> 00:56:03,830 that you create on the planet? 865 00:56:03,865 --> 00:56:05,997 DAVID: Until I'm performing or writing 866 00:56:06,032 --> 00:56:08,802 I mainly feel pretty much of an empty vessel. 867 00:56:10,234 --> 00:56:11,717 INTERVIEWER: When you're performing and writing, 868 00:56:11,741 --> 00:56:13,070 you're fulfilled? 869 00:56:13,105 --> 00:56:15,974 DAVID: I don't particularly feel... 870 00:56:16,009 --> 00:56:19,681 ♪ Ground Control to Major Tom ♪ 871 00:56:23,016 --> 00:56:26,457 ♪ Ground Control to Major Tom ♪ 872 00:56:30,529 --> 00:56:35,433 ♪ Take your protein pills and put your helmet on ♪ 873 00:56:37,261 --> 00:56:40,570 ♪ Ground Control to Major Tom ♪ 874 00:56:44,543 --> 00:56:48,006 ♪ Commencing countdown, engines on ♪ 875 00:56:51,748 --> 00:56:53,649 ♪ Check ignition ♪ 876 00:56:53,684 --> 00:56:58,456 ♪ And may God's love be with you ♪ 877 00:57:08,996 --> 00:57:12,767 ♪ This is Ground Control to Major Tom ♪ 878 00:57:13,935 --> 00:57:16,837 ♪ You've really made the grade ♪ 879 00:57:18,775 --> 00:57:21,842 ♪ And the papers want to know ♪ 880 00:57:21,877 --> 00:57:24,174 ♪ Whose shirts you wear ♪ 881 00:57:25,881 --> 00:57:29,146 ♪ Now it's time to leave the capsule ♪ 882 00:57:29,181 --> 00:57:31,885 ♪ If you dare ♪ 883 00:57:33,856 --> 00:57:38,661 ♪ This is Major Tom to Ground Control ♪ 884 00:57:38,696 --> 00:57:41,796 ♪ I'm stepping through the door ♪ 885 00:57:43,668 --> 00:57:48,198 ♪ And I'm floating in a most peculiar way ♪ 886 00:57:50,807 --> 00:57:55,271 ♪ And the stars look very different today ♪ 887 00:57:58,045 --> 00:58:01,046 ♪ For here ♪ 888 00:58:01,081 --> 00:58:03,950 ♪ Am I sitting in my tin can ♪ 889 00:58:05,690 --> 00:58:10,055 ♪ Far above the world ♪ 890 00:58:12,730 --> 00:58:15,599 ♪ Planet Earth is blue ♪ 891 00:58:15,634 --> 00:58:19,636 ♪ And there's nothing I can do ♪ 892 00:59:43,887 --> 00:59:45,722 DAVID: Well, an awful lot of changes 893 00:59:45,757 --> 00:59:47,251 with my musical career 894 00:59:47,286 --> 00:59:49,693 were challenges to myself. 895 00:59:49,728 --> 00:59:52,663 I have to feel that I'm stepping on new ground, 896 00:59:52,698 --> 00:59:55,061 that the ice beneath my feet is very thin. 897 00:59:55,096 --> 00:59:56,667 Any second, I could crack it 898 00:59:56,702 --> 00:59:58,064 and just plunge through and drown. 899 00:59:59,870 --> 01:00:02,233 I got to a point in Los Angeles 900 01:00:02,268 --> 01:00:04,972 where I got very tired with my method of writing, 901 01:00:05,007 --> 01:00:08,074 and I wanted to invent a new musical language. 902 01:00:10,309 --> 01:00:12,276 I knew I had to get to an environment 903 01:00:12,311 --> 01:00:14,817 that was totally different to Los Angeles. 904 01:00:14,852 --> 01:00:16,951 So I thought of the most arduous city 905 01:00:16,986 --> 01:00:19,349 that I could think of, and it was West Berlin. 906 01:00:19,384 --> 01:00:22,792 They don't give an FA about who you are in Berlin. 907 01:00:22,827 --> 01:00:25,157 The trappings of rock and roll don't mean anything to them. 908 01:00:25,192 --> 01:00:26,928 So, I could walk around, buy me own food, 909 01:00:26,963 --> 01:00:29,161 and just lease a small apartment, 910 01:00:29,196 --> 01:00:31,702 which I did above an automobile spare parts shop. 911 01:00:41,912 --> 01:00:45,782 I didn't have the necessary verbal equipment 912 01:00:45,817 --> 01:00:47,883 to describe what I was seeing, 913 01:00:47,918 --> 01:00:49,358 and that's where I needed assistance. 914 01:01:00,260 --> 01:01:01,963 So, I contacted Brian Eno, 915 01:01:01,998 --> 01:01:04,394 who is definitely one of the keenest brains 916 01:01:04,429 --> 01:01:06,330 of modern music, and I said, 917 01:01:06,365 --> 01:01:09,234 "Look, Brian, I need to know some new processes, 918 01:01:09,269 --> 01:01:11,005 "and new methods of writing. 919 01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:12,974 Please help me, otherwise I'm packing it in." 920 01:01:14,439 --> 01:01:16,340 We started working on a series 921 01:01:16,375 --> 01:01:19,343 of processes and methods of writing in the studio in Berlin 922 01:01:19,378 --> 01:01:22,049 to invent, a different kind of linguistics to work with. 923 01:01:39,970 --> 01:01:41,805 Most of the things that I do these days, 924 01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,104 I go in with very little preparation. 925 01:01:44,139 --> 01:01:46,535 There's no governor, no controller. 926 01:01:46,570 --> 01:01:49,406 Every track is written with a different process, 927 01:01:49,441 --> 01:01:51,782 from spontaneous singing, 928 01:01:51,817 --> 01:01:52,992 I didn't know what I was gonna sing, 929 01:01:53,016 --> 01:01:54,477 or how I was gonna sing it, 930 01:01:54,512 --> 01:01:56,182 and I just stood in front of the mic, 931 01:01:56,217 --> 01:01:58,855 right down to fragmented, pre-thought, 932 01:01:58,890 --> 01:02:01,759 analyzed and processed writings of Burroughs' school. 933 01:02:03,961 --> 01:02:05,895 It probably touches areas of emotion 934 01:02:05,930 --> 01:02:07,798 that aren't normally dwelt upon 935 01:02:07,833 --> 01:02:09,492 because they're arrived at other than 936 01:02:09,527 --> 01:02:11,967 by the regular channels of emotive thought. 937 01:02:13,102 --> 01:02:17,038 [SOUND AND VISION SONG] 938 01:02:30,955 --> 01:02:33,219 ♪ Blue, blue, electric blue ♪ 939 01:02:33,254 --> 01:02:35,320 ♪ That's the color of my living room ♪ 940 01:02:35,355 --> 01:02:36,486 ♪ Where I will live ♪ 941 01:02:39,293 --> 01:02:40,529 ♪ Blue, blue ♪ 942 01:02:44,397 --> 01:02:46,529 ♪ Pale blinds drawn all day ♪ 943 01:02:46,564 --> 01:02:48,498 ♪ Nothing to read and nothing to say ♪ 944 01:02:52,603 --> 01:02:53,839 ♪ Blue, blue Pale blinds ♪ 945 01:02:57,916 --> 01:03:00,180 ♪ I will dream of other lands ♪ 946 01:03:00,215 --> 01:03:02,886 ♪ Waiting for the gift of sound and vision ♪ 947 01:03:04,450 --> 01:03:06,285 DAVID: Most of the things that I do these days 948 01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,991 are on the occasion of the studio. 949 01:03:09,026 --> 01:03:11,455 I go in with very little preparation, 950 01:03:11,490 --> 01:03:13,292 just throw ideas out, 951 01:03:13,327 --> 01:03:16,097 and you might make little experiments sort of say, 952 01:03:16,132 --> 01:03:17,560 look here's 50 seconds. 953 01:03:17,595 --> 01:03:20,266 Play 10 notes on that 50 seconds 954 01:03:20,301 --> 01:03:22,136 and don't repeat the same note twice. 955 01:03:27,946 --> 01:03:30,078 Now, that sounds like an awful easy thing to do. 956 01:03:30,113 --> 01:03:31,981 Well, it is. 957 01:03:32,016 --> 01:03:33,444 See, you must understand, 958 01:03:33,479 --> 01:03:35,215 I mean, it sounds incredibly indulgent, 959 01:03:35,250 --> 01:03:39,087 and indeed it is because what I'm trying to do 960 01:03:39,122 --> 01:03:42,453 is mold the traditional methods of rock and roll 961 01:03:44,028 --> 01:03:45,324 with newer processes. 962 01:03:47,262 --> 01:03:51,033 Trying to find a new form of language. 963 01:03:51,068 --> 01:03:52,408 INTERVIEWER: Do you think you have influence 964 01:03:52,432 --> 01:03:53,970 on their thinking, though? 965 01:03:54,005 --> 01:03:55,906 DAVID: No. 966 01:03:55,941 --> 01:03:58,073 And that's what I'm trying to do with the new music, 967 01:03:58,108 --> 01:04:01,109 is find a new language which doesn't... it isn't that... 968 01:04:01,144 --> 01:04:03,540 Doesn't have that kind of image influence. 969 01:04:06,347 --> 01:04:08,292 INTERVIEWER: Do you think people will understand that language? 970 01:04:08,316 --> 01:04:10,184 DAVID: Yes. 971 01:04:10,219 --> 01:04:12,098 Because I think people, especially in the city context, 972 01:04:12,122 --> 01:04:13,583 think in fragments. 973 01:04:13,618 --> 01:04:16,421 The city person will see a milk advert on the street, 974 01:04:16,456 --> 01:04:18,192 and be thinking "Milk, what's gonna... 975 01:04:18,227 --> 01:04:19,468 "What are we gonna have for dinner? 976 01:04:19,492 --> 01:04:21,228 "Boy getting knocked down by a bus, 977 01:04:21,263 --> 01:04:23,461 crashed against a wall..." that kind of thing. 978 01:04:23,496 --> 01:04:25,232 So, he's thinking in terms of, 979 01:04:25,267 --> 01:04:28,664 maybe 1,000 different images at any given time. 980 01:04:28,699 --> 01:04:32,437 And the language that Brian and I are sort of producing 981 01:04:32,472 --> 01:04:35,308 is a language that can relate to that way of thinking. 982 01:04:46,255 --> 01:04:50,158 DAVID: We live within this manifested idea 983 01:04:50,193 --> 01:04:52,028 of what should be form, 984 01:04:52,063 --> 01:04:55,625 and what we try and keep out of our existence is chaos, 985 01:04:55,660 --> 01:04:59,002 which is a very real part of our lives, 986 01:04:59,037 --> 01:05:01,631 and our refusal to accept chaos 987 01:05:01,666 --> 01:05:03,732 as being integral to our existence, 988 01:05:03,767 --> 01:05:06,339 I think, has been one of the greatest mistakes 989 01:05:06,374 --> 01:05:08,671 as a civilization that we've made. 990 01:05:10,477 --> 01:05:12,015 DAVID: My work as an artist 991 01:05:12,050 --> 01:05:13,530 has always been to do with transition. 992 01:05:14,514 --> 01:05:16,712 The nature and study of change 993 01:05:16,747 --> 01:05:19,385 in our particular era is most important 994 01:05:19,420 --> 01:05:21,123 because never in our history 995 01:05:21,158 --> 01:05:24,159 has there been such a rapid curve of change 996 01:05:24,194 --> 01:05:25,721 since the industrial revolution. 997 01:05:27,197 --> 01:05:29,164 I'm a fairly good social observer, 998 01:05:29,199 --> 01:05:32,167 and I think that I encapsulate areas 999 01:05:32,202 --> 01:05:35,104 every, maybe every year or so, 1000 01:05:35,139 --> 01:05:38,074 I tried to stamp that down somewhere, 1001 01:05:38,109 --> 01:05:41,077 what that year is all about. 1002 01:05:41,112 --> 01:05:42,419 Rather than what it was all about, 1003 01:05:42,443 --> 01:05:44,476 or what it's going to be. 1004 01:05:44,511 --> 01:05:47,248 It's very much trying to capture 1005 01:05:47,283 --> 01:05:49,646 the quintessence of that year. 1006 01:06:03,761 --> 01:06:05,310 INTERVIEWER: I notice that the music now 1007 01:06:05,334 --> 01:06:07,103 is more... more daring, 1008 01:06:07,138 --> 01:06:09,237 more adventurous, more fractured. 1009 01:06:09,272 --> 01:06:10,810 Is there a danger that by following your instinct, 1010 01:06:10,834 --> 01:06:12,240 your aesthetic instincts, 1011 01:06:12,275 --> 01:06:13,384 if you like, your artistic instinct, 1012 01:06:13,408 --> 01:06:16,574 that you will jeopardize that? 1013 01:06:16,609 --> 01:06:18,224 You know, the money and the good life and all... 1014 01:06:18,248 --> 01:06:19,511 No shit, Sherlock. 1015 01:06:21,482 --> 01:06:24,417 Yes, I think I... Yes, I think I rather sort of hit that one 1016 01:06:24,452 --> 01:06:25,682 in the head at the moment. 1017 01:06:25,717 --> 01:06:30,489 Um, and it's quite a relief, really. 1018 01:06:30,524 --> 01:06:36,165 I feel a lot more, um, free than what I do. 1019 01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:39,201 I just needed, it just needed a positive decision 1020 01:06:39,236 --> 01:06:41,071 to only do what I want to do, 1021 01:06:41,106 --> 01:06:42,706 and not do things for the sake of what 1022 01:06:44,571 --> 01:06:48,177 either David Bowie or whoever I was playing last time, 1023 01:06:48,212 --> 01:06:50,443 Thin White Duke or something, was expected to do. 1024 01:06:54,746 --> 01:06:56,350 DAVID: I went naked in Berlin. 1025 01:06:56,385 --> 01:06:59,485 I really did try and strip down my life 1026 01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,587 to what I believed to be absolute basic essentials 1027 01:07:02,622 --> 01:07:04,424 so I could build up again 1028 01:07:04,459 --> 01:07:07,493 everything that I thought that I'd lost, you know? 1029 01:07:07,528 --> 01:07:09,264 I guess I was... What I was really doing 1030 01:07:09,299 --> 01:07:11,431 was doing that on an emotional and spiritual level, 1031 01:07:11,466 --> 01:07:14,170 but you manifest it physically. 1032 01:07:14,205 --> 01:07:16,535 The surprising thing is, is that we came up... 1033 01:07:16,570 --> 01:07:18,702 We thought we were just going to be into a process 1034 01:07:18,737 --> 01:07:20,539 of discovery and experiment 1035 01:07:20,574 --> 01:07:22,618 and had some pretty wishy-washy stuff come out of it, 1036 01:07:22,642 --> 01:07:26,611 but what did come out of it was a pretty good statement 1037 01:07:26,646 --> 01:07:30,285 of some esoteric nature. 1038 01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,485 It was a bit hard to put one's finger 1039 01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:34,124 on exactly what the information was, 1040 01:07:34,159 --> 01:07:36,522 but it was vital, and it was interesting, 1041 01:07:36,557 --> 01:07:38,161 and I think that's successful music. 1042 01:07:39,461 --> 01:07:41,593 [HEROES SONG] 1043 01:07:57,248 --> 01:08:01,612 ♪ I, I will be king ♪ 1044 01:08:05,685 --> 01:08:10,688 ♪ And you, you will be my queen ♪ 1045 01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:20,302 ♪ Though nothing can keep us together ♪ 1046 01:08:23,703 --> 01:08:29,344 ♪ We can beat them, forever and ever ♪ 1047 01:08:31,942 --> 01:08:38,287 ♪ We could be heroes just for one day ♪ 1048 01:08:41,886 --> 01:08:46,658 ♪ You, you can be me ♪ 1049 01:08:50,796 --> 01:08:55,634 ♪ And I, I'll drink all the time ♪ 1050 01:08:59,409 --> 01:09:04,742 ♪ 'Cause we're lovers, and that is the fact ♪ 1051 01:09:08,385 --> 01:09:13,586 ♪ Yes we're lovers, and that is that ♪ 1052 01:09:17,691 --> 01:09:22,661 ♪ Though nothing will keep us together ♪ 1053 01:09:25,963 --> 01:09:31,307 ♪ We can beat them forever and ever ♪ 1054 01:09:33,971 --> 01:09:39,711 ♪ And we can be heroes just for one day ♪ 1055 01:10:00,063 --> 01:10:04,868 ♪ I, well I wish I could swim ♪ 1056 01:10:08,379 --> 01:10:13,481 ♪ Like dolphins, like dolphins can swim ♪ 1057 01:10:16,651 --> 01:10:22,391 ♪ Though nothing, can drive them away ♪ 1058 01:10:24,659 --> 01:10:29,959 ♪ We can beat them forever and ever ♪ 1059 01:10:32,634 --> 01:10:38,341 ♪ Oh, we can be heroes just for one day ♪ 1060 01:10:39,971 --> 01:10:41,377 ♪ What you say? ♪ 1061 01:10:58,594 --> 01:11:04,499 ♪ I, I can remember ♪ 1062 01:11:04,534 --> 01:11:05,534 BAND: ♪ I remember ♪ 1063 01:11:06,767 --> 01:11:11,836 DAVID: ♪ Standing by the wall ♪ 1064 01:11:11,871 --> 01:11:14,872 BAND: ♪ By the wall ♪ 1065 01:11:14,907 --> 01:11:20,614 DAVID: ♪ And the guns shot above our heads ♪ 1066 01:11:20,649 --> 01:11:22,913 BAND:♪ Over our heads ♪ 1067 01:11:22,948 --> 01:11:28,688 DAVID: ♪ And we kissed as though nothing could fall ♪ 1068 01:11:28,723 --> 01:11:30,954 BAND: ♪ Nothing could fall ♪ 1069 01:11:30,989 --> 01:11:36,630 DAVID: ♪ And nothing and no one will help us ♪ 1070 01:11:38,766 --> 01:11:40,733 ♪ Maybe we're lying ♪ 1071 01:11:42,605 --> 01:11:44,407 ♪ Then you better not stay ♪ 1072 01:11:46,972 --> 01:11:52,415 ♪ We can be safer just for one day ♪ 1073 01:11:58,786 --> 01:12:01,754 ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1074 01:12:06,893 --> 01:12:10,895 ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1075 01:12:10,930 --> 01:12:13,601 ♪ We can be heroes ♪ 1076 01:12:14,901 --> 01:12:18,870 ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1077 01:12:18,905 --> 01:12:20,938 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1078 01:12:22,876 --> 01:12:26,812 ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 1079 01:12:26,847 --> 01:12:31,949 ♪ Just for one day. ♪ 1080 01:12:41,598 --> 01:12:44,192 REPORTER: Today, David Bowie is 33 years old. 1081 01:12:44,227 --> 01:12:46,964 He has recorded 17 rock albums, 1082 01:12:46,999 --> 01:12:48,966 produced a gallery full of paintings, 1083 01:12:49,001 --> 01:12:51,067 acted in two feature films, 1084 01:12:51,102 --> 01:12:53,003 and is the only rock star 1085 01:12:53,038 --> 01:12:55,709 ever to act in a play on Broadway. 1086 01:12:55,744 --> 01:12:58,580 Bowie never seems to stand still. 1087 01:12:58,615 --> 01:12:59,757 When he no longer feels challenged 1088 01:12:59,781 --> 01:13:01,616 by one art form, 1089 01:13:01,651 --> 01:13:04,652 he moves on to the next, and the next, and the next. 1090 01:13:04,687 --> 01:13:06,819 It's as if David Bowie learned to run 1091 01:13:06,854 --> 01:13:08,018 before he learned to walk. 1092 01:13:08,053 --> 01:13:09,987 [DJ SONG] 1093 01:13:14,829 --> 01:13:16,730 ♪ I'm home ♪ 1094 01:13:16,765 --> 01:13:18,600 ♪ Lost my job... ♪ 1095 01:13:18,635 --> 01:13:20,107 DAVID: You know, I've got a grasshopper sort of mind, 1096 01:13:20,131 --> 01:13:21,966 and I can't resist bringing things 1097 01:13:22,001 --> 01:13:24,639 to a conclusion like saying, "Well that's a piece in itself, 1098 01:13:24,674 --> 01:13:26,114 and now I move on to something else." 1099 01:13:30,141 --> 01:13:31,723 INTERVIEWER: You described yourself as a generalist. 1100 01:13:31,747 --> 01:13:33,076 - Is that... - DAVID: Yeah. 1101 01:13:33,111 --> 01:13:35,078 That's a freedom... Giving umbrella. 1102 01:13:35,113 --> 01:13:37,047 It gives me a chance 1103 01:13:37,082 --> 01:13:39,148 to do anything I want successfully 1104 01:13:39,183 --> 01:13:41,018 or unsuccessfully, without being tied down. 1105 01:13:44,628 --> 01:13:46,991 I want... I'm a generalist, 1106 01:13:47,026 --> 01:13:50,929 is really sort of my cliche way describing myself. 1107 01:13:50,964 --> 01:13:52,667 DAVID: David Bowie. Rank and file. 1108 01:13:53,868 --> 01:13:55,263 33 years old. 1109 01:13:55,298 --> 01:13:56,671 Generalist. 1110 01:13:56,706 --> 01:13:57,980 ANNOUNCER: Unlike most rock stars 1111 01:13:58,004 --> 01:13:59,674 who stick to a successful formula 1112 01:13:59,709 --> 01:14:01,907 when they get it, Bowie, when he does, 1113 01:14:01,942 --> 01:14:07,110 deliberately changes direction, and puts on yet another face. 1114 01:14:07,145 --> 01:14:11,851 ♪ Believing me ♪ 1115 01:14:13,756 --> 01:14:17,560 DAVID: I really sort of go in just pure, barbaric impetus. 1116 01:14:18,860 --> 01:14:21,531 I do get fired up for something 1117 01:14:21,566 --> 01:14:25,260 and it's not all cerebral at all, by any means. 1118 01:14:25,295 --> 01:14:26,965 A lot of it is pure instinct, 1119 01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,033 and knowing that I've found something 1120 01:14:29,068 --> 01:14:31,200 that I haven't found before. 1121 01:14:31,235 --> 01:14:36,975 (slurring speech) Sometimes I think my head is so big 1122 01:14:37,010 --> 01:14:40,682 because it is so full of themes. 1123 01:14:42,884 --> 01:14:47,051 ♪ I am a D.J., I am what I play ♪ 1124 01:14:47,086 --> 01:14:48,756 ♪ Can't turn around no ♪ 1125 01:14:48,791 --> 01:14:51,220 ♪ Can't turn around, no, oh, ooh ♪ 1126 01:14:51,255 --> 01:14:55,796 ♪ I am a D.J. I am what I say ♪ 1127 01:14:55,831 --> 01:14:59,965 ♪ Can't turn around no, can't turn around, no, oh no ♪ 1128 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,002 ♪ I am a D.J., I am what I play ♪ 1129 01:15:04,037 --> 01:15:06,840 ♪ I've got believers ♪ 1130 01:15:06,875 --> 01:15:10,877 ♪ Believing me, oh... ♪ 1131 01:15:10,912 --> 01:15:12,153 INTERVIEWER: What are you gonna do now? 1132 01:15:12,177 --> 01:15:13,352 Are you going back home to bed? 1133 01:15:13,376 --> 01:15:15,145 DAVID: Yes. Well, I don't know. 1134 01:15:15,180 --> 01:15:17,785 A bit in the mood to probably do a little writing 1135 01:15:17,820 --> 01:15:19,952 or painting or something. 1136 01:15:19,987 --> 01:15:21,954 INTERVIEWER: You're painting in large canvases? 1137 01:15:21,989 --> 01:15:23,252 Or small canvases? Or drawings? 1138 01:15:23,287 --> 01:15:25,353 DAVID: Yes. Quire large, acrylics. 1139 01:15:25,388 --> 01:15:27,630 I'm doing a lot of sculptures as well. 1140 01:15:27,665 --> 01:15:31,931 A sort of polythene and essential functional things. 1141 01:15:33,363 --> 01:15:35,737 INTERVIEWER: Why are you creative, David? 1142 01:15:35,772 --> 01:15:37,970 DAVID: I think it has something to do 1143 01:15:38,005 --> 01:15:42,975 with wanting to find the place where I can kind of set sail 1144 01:15:43,010 --> 01:15:46,044 and know that I won't really fall off the edge of the world 1145 01:15:46,079 --> 01:15:47,683 when I get to the end of the sea. 1146 01:15:47,718 --> 01:15:51,280 I find it an intoxicating parallel 1147 01:15:51,315 --> 01:15:53,656 to my perceived reality. 1148 01:16:13,975 --> 01:16:16,008 I'm not sure that I'm manifesting ideas 1149 01:16:16,043 --> 01:16:17,779 when I do my work. 1150 01:16:17,814 --> 01:16:20,815 It's just this inexhaustible supply 1151 01:16:20,850 --> 01:16:24,819 of extracurricular thoughts 1152 01:16:24,854 --> 01:16:26,348 that I have that don't actually apply 1153 01:16:26,383 --> 01:16:28,020 to the survival of life, 1154 01:16:28,055 --> 01:16:29,890 and I'm not quite sure what to do with them. 1155 01:16:29,925 --> 01:16:33,993 ♪ He used to be my boss and now he is a puppet dancer ♪ 1156 01:16:34,028 --> 01:16:38,360 ♪ I am the D.J., and I've got believers ♪ 1157 01:16:40,364 --> 01:16:43,101 ♪ I got believers ♪ 1158 01:16:44,709 --> 01:16:47,336 ♪ I got believers ♪ 1159 01:16:49,010 --> 01:16:53,947 ♪ I got believers, believing me... ♪ 1160 01:17:00,857 --> 01:17:02,450 DAVID: So rather than be pinned down, 1161 01:17:02,485 --> 01:17:05,860 my momentum was to hit and run very fast. 1162 01:17:05,895 --> 01:17:07,191 Once I'd done something, 1163 01:17:07,226 --> 01:17:09,160 and said it, drop it and move on. 1164 01:17:09,195 --> 01:17:11,932 [ASHES TO ASHES SONG] 1165 01:17:28,247 --> 01:17:31,116 DAVID: I feel quite at home in just about anywhere now, 1166 01:17:31,151 --> 01:17:32,887 on a temporary basis. 1167 01:17:32,922 --> 01:17:35,890 INTERVIEWER: Where do you spend most of your time? 1168 01:17:35,925 --> 01:17:37,331 DAVID: Again, what is "most of one's time"? 1169 01:17:37,355 --> 01:17:39,927 Over the last year, it's been London, 1170 01:17:39,962 --> 01:17:43,733 New York, South Pacific, Australia, Africa... 1171 01:17:43,768 --> 01:17:45,262 The nature of my life 1172 01:17:45,297 --> 01:17:48,331 is one of an old-fashioned beatnik traveler, 1173 01:17:48,366 --> 01:17:50,366 and more than anything else, 1174 01:17:50,401 --> 01:17:54,139 I spend very little time in musical circles. 1175 01:17:54,174 --> 01:17:57,747 I spend more time discovering the social life 1176 01:17:57,782 --> 01:17:59,914 of rather obscure places. 1177 01:18:01,445 --> 01:18:07,185 "♪" I'm happy, hope you're happy too ♪ 1178 01:18:07,220 --> 01:18:10,320 ♪ I've loved all I've needed, love ♪ 1179 01:18:10,355 --> 01:18:14,225 "a♪ Sordid details following" ♪ 1180 01:18:14,260 --> 01:18:17,393 ♪ The shrieking of nothing is killing, just ♪ 1181 01:18:17,428 --> 01:18:21,936 ♪ Pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I ♪ 1182 01:18:21,971 --> 01:18:25,467 ♪ Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair ♪ 1183 01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:34,080 ♪ But I'm hoping to kick, but the planet it's glowing ♪ 1184 01:18:37,283 --> 01:18:41,087 ♪ Ashes to ash, funk to funky ♪ 1185 01:18:41,122 --> 01:18:45,157 ♪ We know Major Tom's a junkie ♪ 1186 01:18:45,192 --> 01:18:48,193 ♪ Strung out in heaven's high ♪ 1187 01:18:48,228 --> 01:18:51,427 ♪ Hitting an all-time low... ♪ 1188 01:19:06,576 --> 01:19:10,083 MAN: This is your promised land is it not? 1189 01:19:10,118 --> 01:19:13,548 Roof, food, care, protection. 1190 01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:17,453 DAVID: Oh, right, Mr. Treves. 1191 01:19:17,488 --> 01:19:20,159 MAN: I'll bet you don't know what to call this. 1192 01:19:20,194 --> 01:19:22,293 DAVID: No, sir. I don't. 1193 01:19:22,328 --> 01:19:24,328 MAN: You call it... home. 1194 01:19:27,102 --> 01:19:29,399 Never had a home before. 1195 01:19:29,434 --> 01:19:30,906 MAN: You have one now. 1196 01:19:30,941 --> 01:19:32,072 Say it, John. 1197 01:19:32,107 --> 01:19:33,403 - Home. - Home? 1198 01:19:33,438 --> 01:19:35,306 MAN: No, no. I mean really say it. 1199 01:19:35,341 --> 01:19:37,440 "I have a home. 1200 01:19:37,475 --> 01:19:39,508 "This is my..." Come on. 1201 01:19:40,610 --> 01:19:42,049 DAVID: I have a home. 1202 01:19:43,184 --> 01:19:49,320 This is my home. 1203 01:19:49,355 --> 01:19:53,027 This is my home. 1204 01:19:53,997 --> 01:19:55,524 I have a home. 1205 01:19:56,659 --> 01:20:00,364 I have, for as long as I like. 1206 01:20:03,270 --> 01:20:06,040 MAN: That is what home is. 1207 01:20:16,613 --> 01:20:18,382 DAVID: I had always thought 1208 01:20:18,417 --> 01:20:20,956 that by this stage I would be settled down somewhere 1209 01:20:20,991 --> 01:20:23,156 with a house and grounds and everything, 1210 01:20:23,191 --> 01:20:24,993 but I never got to doing that. 1211 01:20:32,695 --> 01:20:34,431 Never... I've never bought a house, 1212 01:20:34,466 --> 01:20:36,400 and I still have no intention to buy 1213 01:20:38,668 --> 01:20:40,602 because with me, 1214 01:20:40,637 --> 01:20:44,144 the way I live is very much also part of the 1215 01:20:44,179 --> 01:20:45,508 what produces my work, 1216 01:20:45,543 --> 01:20:49,314 so I have to keep examining my life 1217 01:20:49,349 --> 01:20:52,086 to make sure that I am in constant change, 1218 01:20:52,121 --> 01:20:57,322 and not getting too bloated with philosophic opulence. 1219 01:20:57,357 --> 01:21:00,094 Keep sort of throwing bits and pieces away. 1220 01:21:00,129 --> 01:21:03,196 And by... to change countries is one way of doing that. 1221 01:21:10,139 --> 01:21:12,007 I'm not quite sure where to go now. 1222 01:21:12,042 --> 01:21:17,144 Um, the East beckons me. 1223 01:21:17,179 --> 01:21:18,585 I'm a bit scared of moving over there, you know? 1224 01:21:18,609 --> 01:21:20,213 INTERVIEWER: Japan? 1225 01:21:20,248 --> 01:21:22,446 DAVID: Yes, because I fall in love so much 1226 01:21:22,481 --> 01:21:24,481 with the lifestyle that I'll get very Zen about it. 1227 01:21:24,516 --> 01:21:27,352 [ALL THE YOUNG DUDES SONG BEING VOCALIZED] 1228 01:21:38,596 --> 01:21:41,597 JAPANESE INTERVIEWER: Please give us your special message 1229 01:21:41,632 --> 01:21:44,435 to the audience of our program, "Young Oh! Oh!" 1230 01:21:45,537 --> 01:21:47,240 Look at the camera, please. 1231 01:21:47,275 --> 01:21:49,605 DAVID: Uh, don't waste any day. Don't waste a minute. 1232 01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:51,376 INTERVIEWER: Yes. 1233 01:21:51,411 --> 01:21:53,345 [indistinct] Mr. David Bowie. 1234 01:21:53,380 --> 01:21:54,610 Thank you again. 1235 01:21:54,645 --> 01:21:55,710 [SPEAKS JAPANESE BRIEFLY] 1236 01:22:09,627 --> 01:22:11,660 DAVID: I hope that none of us are kind of static 1237 01:22:11,695 --> 01:22:13,332 throughout our lives. 1238 01:22:13,367 --> 01:22:16,401 I mean, I guess one has a formed personality 1239 01:22:16,436 --> 01:22:18,007 from quite an early age, 1240 01:22:18,042 --> 01:22:20,372 but it is tempered and subject to change. 1241 01:22:24,081 --> 01:22:26,180 I mean, we all to a certain extent 1242 01:22:26,215 --> 01:22:29,348 create our lives and create our culture daily, 1243 01:22:29,383 --> 01:22:31,119 as we live that 24 hours. 1244 01:22:31,154 --> 01:22:34,551 We'll choose a tie, or a haircut, or a chair, 1245 01:22:34,586 --> 01:22:35,794 not just because it's functional, 1246 01:22:35,818 --> 01:22:37,521 but for most of us 1247 01:22:37,556 --> 01:22:39,276 because it actually says something about us. 1248 01:22:41,527 --> 01:22:44,198 I still, you know, am sort of getting somewhere 1249 01:22:44,233 --> 01:22:47,036 that I quite like, but I'm still not. 1250 01:22:47,071 --> 01:22:48,471 We'll find out eventually, won't we? 1251 01:22:50,635 --> 01:22:53,075 I might now be cut out for all this, really, 1252 01:22:53,110 --> 01:22:55,110 at the end. 1253 01:22:55,145 --> 01:22:56,518 INTERVIEWER: Why did you change so often? 1254 01:22:56,542 --> 01:22:57,651 I mean, what was the need for it? 1255 01:22:57,675 --> 01:22:58,740 Was it just a gimmick? 1256 01:22:58,775 --> 01:23:00,346 DAVID: Being a Capricorn. 1257 01:23:00,381 --> 01:23:02,744 I didn't want to expose myself to the public, 1258 01:23:02,779 --> 01:23:05,087 so I developed a series of characters. 1259 01:23:05,122 --> 01:23:07,485 So, behind that all the time was a real David Bowie? 1260 01:23:08,290 --> 01:23:09,454 At times, yes. 1261 01:23:09,489 --> 01:23:11,060 I lost control a couple of times. 1262 01:23:12,525 --> 01:23:14,294 So you're not... This is really you. 1263 01:23:14,329 --> 01:23:16,569 This is not you just still sort of playing the role of... 1264 01:23:18,267 --> 01:23:19,530 One wonders. 1265 01:23:19,565 --> 01:23:21,829 I think that it's not at all mystifying 1266 01:23:21,864 --> 01:23:23,545 why you change your appearance as often as you do, 1267 01:23:23,569 --> 01:23:25,206 to my view by the way, 1268 01:23:25,241 --> 01:23:29,309 because I think you've used yourself as a canvas. 1269 01:23:29,344 --> 01:23:31,179 - Yes, very much so. - Is that right? 1270 01:23:31,214 --> 01:23:32,774 DAVID: Yes, very much so. 1271 01:23:32,809 --> 01:23:37,746 Um, I never wanted to appear as myself onstage ever, 1272 01:23:37,781 --> 01:23:39,418 at any time, until recently. 1273 01:23:39,453 --> 01:23:43,356 Were you hiding yourself from us by doing that? 1274 01:23:43,391 --> 01:23:46,227 DAVID: Partly, but I was enjoying it very much. 1275 01:23:46,262 --> 01:23:48,229 - And, you paint now? - Yes. 1276 01:23:48,264 --> 01:23:49,736 But your paintings, you're not willing 1277 01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:51,166 to let us see yet? 1278 01:23:51,201 --> 01:23:52,497 DAVID: Uh, no. 1279 01:23:52,532 --> 01:23:53,608 I've been offered two or three showings, 1280 01:23:53,632 --> 01:23:55,269 but I've turned 1281 01:23:55,304 --> 01:23:57,370 I've accepted two of them, and then I broke my word 1282 01:23:57,405 --> 01:23:59,504 and said I wouldn't show them. 1283 01:23:59,539 --> 01:24:01,374 I haven't yet bucked up the courage. 1284 01:24:01,409 --> 01:24:04,245 INTERVIEWER: Why not? What do you fear? 1285 01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:05,760 DAVID: Well, I know I'm a good writer. 1286 01:24:07,481 --> 01:24:09,448 I'm not sure about putting my paintings. 1287 01:24:09,483 --> 01:24:11,120 They're very personal to me, as well. 1288 01:24:11,155 --> 01:24:13,353 Um, they're all portraits, 1289 01:24:13,388 --> 01:24:15,388 and they're portraits of people in isolation. 1290 01:24:15,423 --> 01:24:19,161 Most of the paintings are Germans or Turks 1291 01:24:19,196 --> 01:24:20,855 who live in Berlin, 1292 01:24:20,890 --> 01:24:23,297 and they're either from East Berlin, 1293 01:24:23,332 --> 01:24:24,804 and who are now living in West Berlin, 1294 01:24:24,828 --> 01:24:26,234 and knowing their families 1295 01:24:26,269 --> 01:24:28,203 are on the other side of the wall. 1296 01:24:28,238 --> 01:24:31,437 And so, I tried to capture a lot of that isolation 1297 01:24:31,472 --> 01:24:33,802 and I put a lot of myself into the paintings as well. 1298 01:24:33,837 --> 01:24:35,144 They're very much part of me. 1299 01:24:53,692 --> 01:24:55,626 DICK: Well, I think the question is what... 1300 01:24:55,661 --> 01:24:58,761 You know, what you want to be for yourself and your life. 1301 01:24:58,796 --> 01:25:00,675 DAVID: I don't know whether that's important anymore. 1302 01:25:00,699 --> 01:25:02,897 I mean, what I want to do is just work well. 1303 01:25:02,932 --> 01:25:05,438 When I'm working well, I like my writing. 1304 01:25:05,473 --> 01:25:06,868 At the moment, especially. 1305 01:25:06,903 --> 01:25:08,705 More than at any other time, I think. 1306 01:25:08,740 --> 01:25:11,246 I mean, I was getting so bored with what I was writing. 1307 01:25:11,281 --> 01:25:13,545 I just, I felt inadequate, I thought my writing 1308 01:25:13,580 --> 01:25:14,909 was becoming monotonous. 1309 01:25:14,944 --> 01:25:16,845 I didn't take the kinds of chances 1310 01:25:16,880 --> 01:25:18,253 I was taking at one time. 1311 01:25:19,652 --> 01:25:21,751 I thought if I'm going to end up like, 1312 01:25:23,722 --> 01:25:27,394 um, a lot of other rock and roll celebrities, 1313 01:25:27,429 --> 01:25:28,857 inasmuch that I'm going to be trying 1314 01:25:28,892 --> 01:25:30,826 to retain the safe position, you know? 1315 01:25:30,861 --> 01:25:33,202 And that's not what I started out wanting to do. 1316 01:25:33,237 --> 01:25:35,281 DICK: But is it important to you to have a mass audience? 1317 01:25:35,305 --> 01:25:36,381 Do you want a lot of people to... 1318 01:25:36,405 --> 01:25:37,437 DAVID: No. No. 1319 01:25:37,472 --> 01:25:38,867 I want to work well. 1320 01:25:38,902 --> 01:25:41,573 I want to... I just have to work well. 1321 01:25:44,347 --> 01:25:46,479 I think it's an heroic act to take, 1322 01:25:46,514 --> 01:25:51,583 um... to be able to obtain enthusiasm 1323 01:25:51,618 --> 01:25:54,883 and joy from the actual process of living from day to day. 1324 01:25:54,918 --> 01:25:56,489 INTERVIEWER: [SPEAKING JAPANESE] 1325 01:25:56,524 --> 01:25:57,622 DAVID: Yes, very much. 1326 01:25:57,657 --> 01:26:01,494 I try. And it is, it is 1327 01:26:01,529 --> 01:26:03,661 I think it takes practice to, 1328 01:26:03,696 --> 01:26:07,302 and concentration, and exercise to enjoy it. 1329 01:26:07,337 --> 01:26:10,503 This is very easy to fall into the trap of looking 1330 01:26:10,538 --> 01:26:13,770 for one's dreams and always thinking of a future moment 1331 01:26:13,805 --> 01:26:15,508 when everything will be better. 1332 01:26:15,543 --> 01:26:17,642 And if the process is not enjoyed, 1333 01:26:17,677 --> 01:26:19,413 the dreams will never come to anything. 1334 01:26:19,448 --> 01:26:21,712 And by enjoying the process, 1335 01:26:21,747 --> 01:26:23,450 you are creating a dream come true. 1336 01:26:33,792 --> 01:26:36,991 I think I have an abundantly healthy curiosity about life. 1337 01:26:37,026 --> 01:26:39,829 About life around me, specifically. 1338 01:26:39,864 --> 01:26:43,536 And how, how we put ourselves together culturally, 1339 01:26:43,571 --> 01:26:46,341 and I think it's served me well as an artist, 1340 01:26:46,376 --> 01:26:50,741 in as much as I'm really inquiring continually 1341 01:26:50,776 --> 01:26:53,447 into how things are made and why we make them, 1342 01:26:53,482 --> 01:26:57,946 and the significance or meanings behind things. 1343 01:27:01,853 --> 01:27:05,954 I'd be really scared of feeling that I'd got somewhere, 1344 01:27:05,989 --> 01:27:09,430 because for me, art is about searching, 1345 01:27:09,465 --> 01:27:10,827 and if you come to a place 1346 01:27:10,862 --> 01:27:12,829 where you think you've made a discovery, 1347 01:27:12,864 --> 01:27:14,765 I think that really is... 1348 01:27:17,066 --> 01:27:19,341 God, that would be really demoralizing. 1349 01:27:19,376 --> 01:27:21,343 I think the search is the thing. 1350 01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:25,380 ♪ And you want to believe ♪ 1351 01:27:27,010 --> 01:27:29,010 ♪ And we want to believe ♪ 1352 01:27:30,486 --> 01:27:32,387 ♪ And we want to live ♪ 1353 01:27:33,819 --> 01:27:35,753 ♪ Oh, we want to live ♪ 1354 01:27:37,691 --> 01:27:39,361 ♪ We want to live ♪ 1355 01:27:41,563 --> 01:27:42,859 ♪ We want to live ♪ 1356 01:27:44,863 --> 01:27:46,533 ♪ We want to live ♪ 1357 01:27:48,438 --> 01:27:49,866 ♪ We want to live ♪ 1358 01:27:51,837 --> 01:27:53,672 ♪ We want to live ♪ 1359 01:27:55,511 --> 01:27:57,379 ♪ I want to live ♪ 1360 01:27:59,075 --> 01:28:01,009 ♪ I want to live ♪ 1361 01:28:02,815 --> 01:28:04,716 ♪ I want to live ♪ 1362 01:28:06,489 --> 01:28:08,654 ♪ I want to live ♪ 1363 01:28:10,460 --> 01:28:12,526 ♪ I want to live ♪ 1364 01:28:13,859 --> 01:28:16,024 ♪ I want to live ♪ 1365 01:28:18,501 --> 01:28:19,698 ♪ Live ♪ 1366 01:28:21,999 --> 01:28:23,933 ♪ Live ♪ 1367 01:28:25,772 --> 01:28:27,904 ♪ Live ♪ 1368 01:28:27,939 --> 01:28:29,939 [SINGING NOT AUDIBLE] 1369 01:28:51,963 --> 01:28:55,602 ♪ Ain't that just like me. ♪ 1370 01:30:28,994 --> 01:30:32,028 DAVID: There's a gradual shift when you reach mid 30s. 1371 01:30:32,063 --> 01:30:33,733 Uh, I think that there's a period 1372 01:30:33,768 --> 01:30:36,868 where you have to decide not to try 1373 01:30:36,903 --> 01:30:41,609 and grasp frantically for the feelings of desperation 1374 01:30:41,644 --> 01:30:44,744 and anger that you have when you're in your mid 20s. 1375 01:30:44,779 --> 01:30:49,243 And if you can relax into the idea that being mid 30s 1376 01:30:49,278 --> 01:30:50,981 is quite a nice place to be 1377 01:30:51,016 --> 01:30:52,818 with an amount of experience behind you, 1378 01:30:54,250 --> 01:30:56,184 I think the perspective changes. 1379 01:31:03,193 --> 01:31:04,203 INTERVIEWER: You said once that there's 1380 01:31:04,227 --> 01:31:06,062 so many shells around you 1381 01:31:06,097 --> 01:31:07,745 that you don't know what the p... looks like anymore. 1382 01:31:07,769 --> 01:31:09,109 DAVID: Yeah, well I've gone through that. 1383 01:31:09,133 --> 01:31:11,672 I'm pretty aware of what I'm like. 1384 01:31:11,707 --> 01:31:13,542 - INTERVIEWER: Really? - DAVID: Yeah, yeah. 1385 01:31:13,577 --> 01:31:16,677 I feel pretty-pretty happy about my own relationship 1386 01:31:16,712 --> 01:31:17,744 to the world, and... 1387 01:31:20,980 --> 01:31:25,653 We've got to be positive about our days on this planet. 1388 01:31:25,688 --> 01:31:28,084 INTERVIEWER: I never realized you were such an optimist. 1389 01:31:28,119 --> 01:31:29,690 DAVID: Well, I never was particularly. 1390 01:31:30,924 --> 01:31:32,286 INTERVIEWER: You're more romantic 1391 01:31:32,321 --> 01:31:35,025 than people give you credit for. 1392 01:31:35,060 --> 01:31:36,994 DAVID: I think I'm probably a lot more emotional 1393 01:31:37,029 --> 01:31:39,766 than people would think that I was. 1394 01:31:39,801 --> 01:31:42,604 I am emotionally very responsive to life and people. 1395 01:31:46,709 --> 01:31:49,237 I just wanted to come in touch with a common factor 1396 01:31:49,272 --> 01:31:51,173 because I feel a need at the moment to 1397 01:31:52,308 --> 01:31:54,847 be part of a society again, 1398 01:31:54,882 --> 01:31:56,310 and having traveled an awful lot, 1399 01:31:56,345 --> 01:31:59,181 feel more and more part of everything. 1400 01:31:59,216 --> 01:32:00,985 And I wish to express that feeling. 1401 01:32:01,020 --> 01:32:04,021 I don't want to seem as though I'm detached and cold 1402 01:32:04,056 --> 01:32:05,660 because I'm not. 1403 01:32:09,127 --> 01:32:11,061 INTERVIEWER: You seem very sure of yourself, 1404 01:32:11,096 --> 01:32:13,129 and very, sort of content, and... 1405 01:32:13,164 --> 01:32:14,735 You seem at ease with yourself. 1406 01:32:14,770 --> 01:32:16,210 DAVID: I'm at ease with myself, yeah. 1407 01:32:22,679 --> 01:32:23,887 INTERVIEWER: You've always been so good 1408 01:32:23,911 --> 01:32:26,109 at being convincing, you know? 1409 01:32:26,144 --> 01:32:28,716 - Whatever it was at the time. - DAVID: Yeah. I see. 1410 01:32:28,751 --> 01:32:30,685 INTERVIEWER: I mean, is it possible that this 1411 01:32:30,720 --> 01:32:34,282 - is just another role? - DAVID: I see what's going on. 1412 01:32:34,317 --> 01:32:36,691 I believe that there is a thread 1413 01:32:36,726 --> 01:32:38,924 of meaning running through my life at the moment, 1414 01:32:38,959 --> 01:32:40,695 that I have no wish at the moment to break, 1415 01:32:40,730 --> 01:32:42,059 and I feel it's leading 1416 01:32:42,094 --> 01:32:44,160 somewhere fulfilling and positive. 1417 01:32:44,195 --> 01:32:47,064 And if I feel that way, then I make every effort 1418 01:32:47,099 --> 01:32:49,671 to make that part of my music now. 1419 01:32:54,205 --> 01:32:56,370 It's the ultimate swing of the pendulum. 1420 01:32:56,405 --> 01:32:58,779 When things reach a point to one extreme, 1421 01:32:58,814 --> 01:33:00,242 there will be a natural gravitation 1422 01:33:00,277 --> 01:33:02,145 back to a point, 1423 01:33:02,180 --> 01:33:04,114 which is the antithesis of that one. 1424 01:33:04,149 --> 01:33:06,149 So, you've got a musical vocabulary, 1425 01:33:06,184 --> 01:33:10,252 which is high-tech, and icy. 1426 01:33:10,287 --> 01:33:13,222 There's gonna be sooner or later a swing back to, 1427 01:33:13,257 --> 01:33:16,126 well, what is the other side of that coin? 1428 01:33:16,161 --> 01:33:17,864 MAN: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. David Bowie. 1429 01:33:17,899 --> 01:33:20,229 [MODERN LOVE SONG] 1430 01:33:23,399 --> 01:33:26,235 DAVID: I'd like to, um, start off the 80s 1431 01:33:26,270 --> 01:33:29,172 in a positive, optimistic fashion. 1432 01:33:29,207 --> 01:33:32,076 I'll be undertaking, a world tour, 1433 01:33:32,111 --> 01:33:34,012 sometime around the middle of the year, 1434 01:33:34,047 --> 01:33:38,016 and it'll take me through to the autumn at least. 1435 01:33:38,051 --> 01:33:40,084 And he's back. David Bowie, 1436 01:33:40,119 --> 01:33:42,284 launching his first new album in three years, 1437 01:33:42,319 --> 01:33:45,221 preparing for his first British tour in five years, 1438 01:33:45,256 --> 01:33:47,256 and telling Newsnight's Robin Denselow 1439 01:33:47,291 --> 01:33:50,292 about his new and more emotional music style. 1440 01:33:51,867 --> 01:33:54,395 DAVID: I'm trying to write in a more obvious 1441 01:33:54,430 --> 01:33:56,100 and positive manner. 1442 01:33:56,135 --> 01:33:59,301 I've not gone quite into a corner 1443 01:33:59,336 --> 01:34:01,908 with experimentation of sound. 1444 01:34:01,943 --> 01:34:04,779 I'm not quite so concerned with cut-up exercise, 1445 01:34:04,814 --> 01:34:07,276 or using juxtaposition of lyrics, or whatever. 1446 01:34:07,311 --> 01:34:09,179 I'd like to do something positive. 1447 01:34:09,214 --> 01:34:11,951 Something that helps people, to use a cliche. 1448 01:34:13,350 --> 01:34:14,734 DAVID: This is probably the simplest music 1449 01:34:14,758 --> 01:34:16,054 I've ever done. 1450 01:34:16,089 --> 01:34:17,396 INTERVIEWER: What do you mean simple? 1451 01:34:17,420 --> 01:34:20,223 DAVID: It makes very warm, 1452 01:34:20,258 --> 01:34:22,192 understandable musical statements. 1453 01:34:22,227 --> 01:34:24,095 It has a warm response. 1454 01:34:24,130 --> 01:34:27,868 I hope that it's the most emotionally uplifting music 1455 01:34:27,903 --> 01:34:29,936 I've made in a long time. 1456 01:34:29,971 --> 01:34:31,432 It's very positive. 1457 01:34:31,467 --> 01:34:33,137 INTERVIEWER: Is that how you're feeling? 1458 01:34:33,172 --> 01:34:35,073 DAVID: Relatively. Oh yeah. 1459 01:34:35,108 --> 01:34:36,404 I'm very positive. 1460 01:34:37,781 --> 01:34:38,945 ♪ Never gonna fall for ♪ 1461 01:34:38,980 --> 01:34:40,144 ♪ Modern love ♪ 1462 01:34:40,179 --> 01:34:41,376 ♪ Walks beside me ♪ 1463 01:34:41,411 --> 01:34:42,817 ♪ Modern love ♪ 1464 01:34:42,852 --> 01:34:43,818 ♪ Walks on by ♪ 1465 01:34:43,853 --> 01:34:45,182 ♪ Modern love ♪ 1466 01:34:45,217 --> 01:34:48,790 ♪ Gets me to the church on time ♪ 1467 01:34:48,825 --> 01:34:50,891 REPORTER: British fans are overwhelming 1468 01:34:50,926 --> 01:34:53,190 the post office with more than four times 1469 01:34:53,225 --> 01:34:56,424 as many ticket requests as seats available. 1470 01:34:56,459 --> 01:34:59,031 This is the biggest demand ever. 1471 01:34:59,066 --> 01:35:01,033 BOY: We waited hours and hours to get tickets. 1472 01:35:01,068 --> 01:35:02,144 INTERVIEWER: Big Bowie fan? 1473 01:35:02,168 --> 01:35:03,233 MAN: Yeah, that's me. 1474 01:35:03,268 --> 01:35:04,377 WOMAN: He's totally evolved. 1475 01:35:04,401 --> 01:35:05,939 He knows what his fans want, 1476 01:35:05,974 --> 01:35:07,347 and that's what he's delivering now. 1477 01:35:07,371 --> 01:35:09,844 I love David Bowie! 1478 01:35:09,879 --> 01:35:11,351 REPORTER: Fans have been waiting a day and a half 1479 01:35:11,375 --> 01:35:12,781 in the stadium parking lot. 1480 01:35:12,816 --> 01:35:14,244 They open the gates at 5pm. 1481 01:35:14,279 --> 01:35:16,917 We want Bowie! 1482 01:35:18,382 --> 01:35:19,854 ♪ Modern love ♪ 1483 01:35:19,889 --> 01:35:20,921 ♪ Modern love ♪ 1484 01:35:22,386 --> 01:35:24,518 ♪ Modern love ♪ 1485 01:35:24,553 --> 01:35:27,422 EMCEE: Ladies and gentlemen. 1486 01:35:28,997 --> 01:35:32,328 David Bowie and his band! 1487 01:35:32,363 --> 01:35:34,429 [LET'S DANCE SONG] 1488 01:35:40,305 --> 01:35:41,480 MAN: What is it about David Bowie 1489 01:35:41,504 --> 01:35:43,339 that excites you so much? 1490 01:35:43,374 --> 01:35:44,846 - His style. - Yeah? 1491 01:35:44,881 --> 01:35:46,078 I like his makeup. 1492 01:35:46,113 --> 01:35:47,343 MAN: You like his makeup? 1493 01:35:47,378 --> 01:35:48,817 WOMAN: I like his music. 1494 01:35:50,348 --> 01:35:52,953 BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1495 01:35:52,988 --> 01:35:58,057 DAVID: ♪ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues ♪ 1496 01:35:58,092 --> 01:36:00,191 BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1497 01:36:00,226 --> 01:36:04,129 DAVID: ♪ To the song they're playin' on the radio ♪ 1498 01:36:05,627 --> 01:36:08,001 BAND: ♪ Let's sway ♪ 1499 01:36:08,036 --> 01:36:10,498 DAVID: ♪ While color lights up your face ♪ 1500 01:36:13,371 --> 01:36:15,844 BAND: ♪ Let's sway ♪ 1501 01:36:15,879 --> 01:36:19,573 DAVID: ♪ Sway through the crowd to an empty space ♪ 1502 01:36:22,578 --> 01:36:27,350 ♪ If you say run I'll run with you ♪ 1503 01:36:30,256 --> 01:36:33,092 ♪ And if you say hide ♪ 1504 01:36:33,127 --> 01:36:34,962 ♪ We'll hide ♪ 1505 01:36:37,362 --> 01:36:40,561 ♪ Because my love for you ♪ 1506 01:36:40,596 --> 01:36:44,598 ♪ Would break my heart in two ♪ 1507 01:36:44,633 --> 01:36:48,976 ♪ If you should fall into my arms ♪ 1508 01:36:49,011 --> 01:36:54,245 ♪ Trembling like a flower ♪ 1509 01:37:20,405 --> 01:37:23,175 BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1510 01:37:23,210 --> 01:37:27,014 DAVID: ♪ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues ♪ 1511 01:37:28,182 --> 01:37:30,380 BAND: ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1512 01:37:30,415 --> 01:37:34,153 DAVID: ♪ Under the moonlight ♪ 1513 01:37:34,188 --> 01:37:36,254 ♪ This serious moonlight ♪ 1514 01:37:36,289 --> 01:37:37,321 BAND: ♪ Let's sway ♪ 1515 01:37:43,329 --> 01:37:44,361 ♪ Let's sway ♪ 1516 01:37:51,007 --> 01:37:52,072 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1517 01:37:58,443 --> 01:37:59,574 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1518 01:38:06,154 --> 01:38:07,615 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1519 01:38:13,689 --> 01:38:15,029 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 1520 01:38:17,495 --> 01:38:19,561 DAVID: ♪ Let's dance, let's dance ♪ 1521 01:38:19,596 --> 01:38:21,937 ♪ Let's dance, Let's dance. ♪ 1522 01:38:33,148 --> 01:38:34,444 AUDIENCE: Bowie! 1523 01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:36,017 Bowie! 1524 01:38:36,052 --> 01:38:37,546 Bowie! 1525 01:38:37,581 --> 01:38:39,713 Bowie! Bowie! 1526 01:38:44,159 --> 01:38:45,697 INTERVIEWER: Do you think they phenomenal success 1527 01:38:45,721 --> 01:38:48,260 of the tour marks the rebirth of Bowie fever? 1528 01:38:49,428 --> 01:38:51,098 DAVID: No, I don't think that. 1529 01:38:51,133 --> 01:38:53,199 But I think it's just a Bowie acceptance now, 1530 01:38:53,234 --> 01:38:56,235 which is quite gratifying after all these years. 1531 01:39:11,087 --> 01:39:12,625 Didn't think I'd ever hear myself saying this, 1532 01:39:12,649 --> 01:39:14,352 but it's like the audience 1533 01:39:14,387 --> 01:39:16,255 and myself are just, like, together. 1534 01:39:16,290 --> 01:39:17,553 It's trying to come back 1535 01:39:17,588 --> 01:39:19,687 to being a person again in terms... 1536 01:39:19,722 --> 01:39:21,524 In the eyes of the audience, 1537 01:39:21,559 --> 01:39:23,262 and it certainly has no pretensions 1538 01:39:23,297 --> 01:39:25,330 to be a serious, 1539 01:39:25,365 --> 01:39:29,796 heavy statement-filled show, but I mean, 1540 01:39:29,831 --> 01:39:31,468 it's exactly what I want it to be. 1541 01:39:35,540 --> 01:39:37,180 INTERVIEWER: What do you most enjoy doing? 1542 01:39:37,212 --> 01:39:39,014 DAVID: In life, at the moment? 1543 01:39:41,216 --> 01:39:43,282 Waking up and feeling as though I've got a future. 1544 01:39:44,846 --> 01:39:48,155 I keep remembering that there is a tomorrow, 1545 01:39:48,190 --> 01:39:50,157 when that never really occurred to me before, 1546 01:39:50,192 --> 01:39:51,488 that there was a tomorrow. 1547 01:39:51,523 --> 01:39:54,293 Tomorrow was really, "This is it. 1548 01:39:54,328 --> 01:39:56,493 "This is now, this is important. 1549 01:39:56,528 --> 01:39:58,660 "Everything else is crazy, and static, 1550 01:39:58,695 --> 01:40:01,729 "and it means nothing, or everything's impermanent, 1551 01:40:01,764 --> 01:40:04,468 therefore I will just live for the second." 1552 01:40:06,241 --> 01:40:09,275 And one has to start taking very positive stands on things. 1553 01:40:15,283 --> 01:40:16,788 When you feel comfortable with yourself, 1554 01:40:16,812 --> 01:40:18,515 you can no longer write. 1555 01:40:18,550 --> 01:40:22,090 That seems to be the writer's great problem. 1556 01:40:22,125 --> 01:40:25,522 As I get more comfortable, I obviously have the feeling 1557 01:40:25,557 --> 01:40:29,163 that it's not so much that is my writing as good, 1558 01:40:29,198 --> 01:40:32,760 or as potent as it used to be, but do I need to write anymore? 1559 01:41:01,527 --> 01:41:05,298 MAN: His new album seems to be, to me, a step sideways. 1560 01:41:05,333 --> 01:41:06,376 INTERVIEWER: Why do you describe it 1561 01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:07,663 that... in that way? 1562 01:41:07,698 --> 01:41:09,269 MAN: Because I think he's not doing 1563 01:41:09,304 --> 01:41:10,831 anything particularly new, 1564 01:41:10,866 --> 01:41:14,142 and I suspect that for the first time ever, 1565 01:41:14,177 --> 01:41:18,509 the fans are up there with him and he's not ahead of the game. 1566 01:41:18,544 --> 01:41:21,809 He seems to me to have become something rather old fashioned, 1567 01:41:21,844 --> 01:41:24,185 which is to say a superstar. 1568 01:41:38,267 --> 01:41:41,235 If you've gone mainstream, there's only one way to do it, 1569 01:41:41,270 --> 01:41:43,171 and that's sell out three days a year. 1570 01:41:43,206 --> 01:41:44,271 MAN 2: Really do it. 1571 01:41:44,306 --> 01:41:45,734 MAN: Yeah, yeah. 1572 01:41:45,769 --> 01:41:47,340 He's done it in one big deal, hasn't he? 1573 01:41:50,807 --> 01:41:52,444 INTERVIEWER: This is the last stop 1574 01:41:52,479 --> 01:41:54,842 on what's been a pretty extensive tour for you. 1575 01:41:54,877 --> 01:41:57,284 DAVID: Uh, yeah, I'm not actually finishing in Auckland. 1576 01:41:57,319 --> 01:41:58,648 I'm going over now 1577 01:41:58,683 --> 01:42:00,914 to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. 1578 01:42:02,258 --> 01:42:04,456 ♪ I've nothing much to offer ♪ 1579 01:42:07,461 --> 01:42:10,462 ♪ There's nothing much to take ♪ 1580 01:42:22,278 --> 01:42:24,773 ♪ I'm an absolute beginner ♪ 1581 01:42:27,580 --> 01:42:32,550 ♪ But I'm absolutely sane ♪ 1582 01:42:36,391 --> 01:42:38,886 I'm not quite so stricken with the idea 1583 01:42:38,921 --> 01:42:40,954 of making a point. 1584 01:42:40,989 --> 01:42:43,297 I'm not quite sure that any point 1585 01:42:43,332 --> 01:42:45,794 that I have to make isn't being made quite as well 1586 01:42:45,829 --> 01:42:47,400 by other people. 1587 01:42:47,435 --> 01:42:50,799 Um, and that maybe the point, 1588 01:42:50,834 --> 01:42:52,306 my most important point, 1589 01:42:52,341 --> 01:42:53,967 is that I can entertain very well, 1590 01:42:54,002 --> 01:42:57,641 and I think I'm no longer finding it uncomfortable 1591 01:42:57,676 --> 01:43:01,645 to reach that conclusion. 1592 01:43:02,945 --> 01:43:05,748 That I now find I'm very comfortable 1593 01:43:05,783 --> 01:43:08,586 being an actor, an entertainer, 1594 01:43:08,621 --> 01:43:12,293 without too much all-encompassing stuff. 1595 01:43:12,328 --> 01:43:13,789 ♪ Time takes a cigarette ♪ 1596 01:43:15,925 --> 01:43:17,463 ♪ Puts it in your mouth ♪ 1597 01:43:19,500 --> 01:43:21,665 ♪ You pull on your finger ♪ 1598 01:43:21,700 --> 01:43:24,899 ♪ Then another finger then your cigarette ♪ 1599 01:43:26,408 --> 01:43:29,310 ♪ The wall-to-wall is calling ♪ 1600 01:43:29,345 --> 01:43:33,281 ♪ It lingers, but still you forget ♪ 1601 01:43:33,316 --> 01:43:36,350 ♪ Ohhh ♪ 1602 01:43:36,385 --> 01:43:38,616 ♪ You're a rock and roll suicide ♪ 1603 01:43:41,082 --> 01:43:42,983 ♪ You're too young to lose it ♪ 1604 01:43:44,855 --> 01:43:47,394 ♪ But you're too old to lose it ♪ 1605 01:43:49,497 --> 01:43:53,895 ♪ And the clocks waits so patiently on your song ♪ 1606 01:43:55,096 --> 01:43:58,471 ♪ Well, you walk past a cafe ♪ 1607 01:43:58,506 --> 01:44:01,507 ♪ But you can't eat when you've lived too long... ♪ 1608 01:44:01,542 --> 01:44:03,542 MAN: Pepsi continues to innovate, 1609 01:44:03,577 --> 01:44:05,379 by capturing what's new, 1610 01:44:05,414 --> 01:44:08,316 what's contemporary, and what's hot. 1611 01:44:08,351 --> 01:44:10,351 The Glass Spider Tour will be all of that. 1612 01:44:10,386 --> 01:44:14,047 ♪ Now the Chev brakes are snarling ♪ 1613 01:44:14,082 --> 01:44:15,884 ♪ As you stumble across the road ♪ 1614 01:44:17,624 --> 01:44:20,493 INTERVIEWER: You always have that segment of people 1615 01:44:20,528 --> 01:44:21,890 who are with you from the start 1616 01:44:21,925 --> 01:44:24,464 and if you know Bowie, you know he's sold out. 1617 01:44:24,499 --> 01:44:27,929 DAVID: I don't begrudge any artist for getting an audience. 1618 01:44:27,964 --> 01:44:31,064 I'm sorry, I never found that poverty meant purity. 1619 01:44:31,099 --> 01:44:32,967 INTERVIEWER: For a guy who doesn't like 1620 01:44:33,002 --> 01:44:35,475 to play it safe, though, as the audience gets larger, 1621 01:44:35,510 --> 01:44:37,444 it must be harder to take those chances. 1622 01:44:38,744 --> 01:44:41,613 ♪ Oh no, love, you're not alone ♪ 1623 01:44:43,144 --> 01:44:47,355 ♪ You're watching yourself but you're too unfair ♪ 1624 01:44:47,390 --> 01:44:50,424 ♪ You got your head all tangled up ♪ 1625 01:44:50,459 --> 01:44:53,922 ♪ But if I could only make you care ♪ 1626 01:44:53,957 --> 01:44:55,561 Here I was, making lots of money, 1627 01:44:55,596 --> 01:44:57,464 performing to these huge audiences, 1628 01:44:57,499 --> 01:44:58,960 and I thought that's it, you know? 1629 01:44:58,995 --> 01:45:01,699 I've come to the vacuum of my life. 1630 01:45:01,734 --> 01:45:05,472 ♪ No matter when or where you've seen ♪ 1631 01:45:05,507 --> 01:45:08,871 ♪ All the knives seem to lacerate your brain ♪ 1632 01:45:08,906 --> 01:45:13,777 ♪ I've had my share now I'll help you with the pain ♪ 1633 01:45:13,812 --> 01:45:15,350 ♪ You're not alone ♪ 1634 01:45:19,917 --> 01:45:23,556 ♪ Just turn on with me and you're not alone ♪ 1635 01:45:26,154 --> 01:45:30,398 ♪ Just turn on with me and you're not alone ♪ 1636 01:45:34,096 --> 01:45:37,702 ♪ Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful ♪ 1637 01:45:38,771 --> 01:45:40,573 ♪ I said ♪ 1638 01:45:40,608 --> 01:45:44,511 ♪ Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful ♪ 1639 01:45:47,516 --> 01:45:51,584 ♪ Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful ♪ 1640 01:45:53,082 --> 01:45:57,051 ♪ Cause you... Gimmie your hands ♪ 1641 01:45:57,086 --> 01:45:59,152 ♪ Cause you're wonderful ♪ 1642 01:46:01,695 --> 01:46:06,962 ♪ Gimme your hands 'cause you're wonderful ♪ 1643 01:46:06,997 --> 01:46:08,436 ♪ Gimme your hands ♪ 1644 01:46:11,507 --> 01:46:13,408 ♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪ 1645 01:46:18,778 --> 01:46:20,712 ♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪ 1646 01:46:25,851 --> 01:46:27,752 ♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪ 1647 01:46:32,858 --> 01:46:34,187 ♪ 'Cause you're wonderful ♪ 1648 01:46:34,222 --> 01:46:35,463 I'm a young man. 1649 01:46:36,796 --> 01:46:38,829 Do you understand? 1650 01:46:38,864 --> 01:46:40,633 I'm a young man. 1651 01:46:40,668 --> 01:46:42,129 ♪ 'Cause you're wonderful. ♪ 1652 01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:02,116 Thank you very much. Bye bye, we love you. 1653 01:47:31,752 --> 01:47:34,016 DAVID: Even though it was enormously successful, 1654 01:47:35,591 --> 01:47:37,921 there was no growth going on at all. 1655 01:47:43,566 --> 01:47:44,873 They were very hard years to get through 1656 01:47:44,897 --> 01:47:46,633 to find any sense of purpose. 1657 01:47:48,802 --> 01:47:50,703 I wasn't allowing myself 1658 01:47:50,738 --> 01:47:53,640 the service of being who I really am as an artist. 1659 01:47:55,006 --> 01:47:56,940 I'd given myself dreadful parameters 1660 01:47:56,975 --> 01:48:01,648 in confining myself to merely what I presumed people wanted. 1661 01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:07,214 I never wanted to do this. 1662 01:48:07,249 --> 01:48:09,788 I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. 1663 01:48:09,823 --> 01:48:11,691 I wanted to be really stubborn 1664 01:48:11,726 --> 01:48:13,759 and have people like what I like. 1665 01:48:13,794 --> 01:48:15,992 Not give them what they like. 1666 01:48:21,835 --> 01:48:25,199 It's very, very easy to become work-obsessed 1667 01:48:25,234 --> 01:48:27,608 for the reason of not having to look at oneself. 1668 01:48:31,746 --> 01:48:33,240 I think over the last few years, 1669 01:48:33,275 --> 01:48:35,209 I'm understanding 1670 01:48:35,244 --> 01:48:38,146 a very important thing in my life, 1671 01:48:38,181 --> 01:48:41,688 which is that I really have to come back 1672 01:48:41,723 --> 01:48:44,053 to what my life is about. 1673 01:48:44,088 --> 01:48:47,892 That my life is not about the work that I do. 1674 01:48:47,927 --> 01:48:49,630 My work is not me. 1675 01:48:49,665 --> 01:48:54,833 I am distinctly one entity that needs looking at. 1676 01:48:57,739 --> 01:48:59,101 When I first looked, 1677 01:48:59,136 --> 01:49:01,939 I just didn't understand that person, 1678 01:49:01,974 --> 01:49:04,238 because I'd never given myself the time, 1679 01:49:04,273 --> 01:49:05,976 nor the incentive 1680 01:49:06,011 --> 01:49:09,716 to want to really have a look at myself, deeply. 1681 01:49:12,754 --> 01:49:15,920 I think the first intrusion into one's own inner conflicts 1682 01:49:15,955 --> 01:49:18,021 is not the most pleasant of experiences. 1683 01:49:21,059 --> 01:49:23,356 But working through them 1684 01:49:23,391 --> 01:49:25,226 can really be one of the greatest adventures 1685 01:49:25,261 --> 01:49:26,997 of one's life, 1686 01:49:27,032 --> 01:49:31,265 and it takes a certain amount of bravado, 1687 01:49:31,300 --> 01:49:34,939 and need, and a realization 1688 01:49:34,974 --> 01:49:37,975 that you're missing out on your own life. 1689 01:49:39,275 --> 01:49:41,275 You are probably creating hazards 1690 01:49:41,310 --> 01:49:47,182 and disturbing experiences for others around you. 1691 01:49:47,217 --> 01:49:49,690 And the house must be put right. 1692 01:50:09,371 --> 01:50:11,085 INTERVIEWER: Do you have any room in your life 1693 01:50:11,109 --> 01:50:12,944 for any kind of real relationship like that? 1694 01:50:12,979 --> 01:50:14,659 DAVID: More room than I've ever had before. 1695 01:50:17,951 --> 01:50:20,149 INTERVIEWER: You've said that being in love, 1696 01:50:20,184 --> 01:50:21,359 you thought was like a disease. 1697 01:50:21,383 --> 01:50:23,185 DAVID: Yeah. 1698 01:50:23,220 --> 01:50:24,703 INTERVIEWER: Horrible, and it bred jealousy, and. 1699 01:50:24,727 --> 01:50:26,419 DAVID: I think I've... I think I've 1700 01:50:26,454 --> 01:50:30,830 I think I've grown to feel a distaste for that statement. 1701 01:50:55,857 --> 01:50:58,352 Then I met Iman, 1702 01:50:58,387 --> 01:51:01,861 and it was smack, right from the first night. 1703 01:51:01,896 --> 01:51:03,159 That was it. It was over. 1704 01:51:05,900 --> 01:51:06,932 It was incredible. 1705 01:51:10,432 --> 01:51:14,401 My life suddenly became rose-tinged. 1706 01:51:14,436 --> 01:51:16,073 [WORD ON A WING SONG] 1707 01:51:16,108 --> 01:51:18,812 ♪ In this age of grand illusion ♪ 1708 01:51:18,847 --> 01:51:21,078 ♪ You walked into my life ♪ 1709 01:51:21,113 --> 01:51:22,981 ♪ Out of my dreams ♪ 1710 01:51:25,953 --> 01:51:28,283 ♪ I don't need another change ♪ 1711 01:51:28,318 --> 01:51:30,054 ♪ Still you forced your way ♪ 1712 01:51:30,089 --> 01:51:32,991 ♪ Into my scheme of things ♪ 1713 01:51:36,964 --> 01:51:39,261 ♪ You say we're growing ♪ 1714 01:51:40,495 --> 01:51:44,035 ♪ Growing heart and soul... ♪ 1715 01:51:44,070 --> 01:51:46,004 I really started thinking about 1716 01:51:46,039 --> 01:51:49,975 where I was gonna go with it, and what I could do for her, 1717 01:51:50,010 --> 01:51:52,439 and how I could be 1718 01:51:52,474 --> 01:51:54,144 some kind of valuable contribution 1719 01:51:54,179 --> 01:51:56,212 to a relationship. 1720 01:51:56,247 --> 01:52:02,152 ♪ Sweet name you're born once again for me ♪ 1721 01:52:05,993 --> 01:52:11,799 ♪ Sweet name you're born once again for me... ♪ 1722 01:52:13,429 --> 01:52:16,199 It became a process over the first year or so, 1723 01:52:16,234 --> 01:52:18,971 trying to balance my life in terms of well, 1724 01:52:19,006 --> 01:52:21,138 how many of these precious moments 1725 01:52:21,173 --> 01:52:24,075 am I willing to give away at my age, 45? 1726 01:52:24,110 --> 01:52:27,045 Do I want to keep on inundating myself 1727 01:52:27,080 --> 01:52:29,476 with one work project after another, and sort of, 1728 01:52:29,511 --> 01:52:32,413 leave virtually no room for a real, solid, 1729 01:52:32,448 --> 01:52:35,856 wonderful relationship to start blooming? 1730 01:52:35,891 --> 01:52:39,827 ♪ Lord, I kneel and offer you ♪ 1731 01:52:39,862 --> 01:52:42,489 ♪ My word on a wing ♪ 1732 01:52:44,867 --> 01:52:46,900 INTERVIEWER: Tour plans. Any tour plans? 1733 01:52:46,935 --> 01:52:50,365 Unfortunately not. No, not this time. 1734 01:52:50,400 --> 01:52:53,940 As you know, I've only been married seven months, 1735 01:52:53,975 --> 01:52:57,438 and I really want to spend more time within the marriage. 1736 01:52:57,473 --> 01:53:00,243 I think the worst thing to do is run away for a year. 1737 01:53:01,444 --> 01:53:02,509 I really do. 1738 01:53:09,617 --> 01:53:10,858 ♪ Lord ♪ 1739 01:53:12,026 --> 01:53:13,355 ♪ Lord ♪ 1740 01:53:13,390 --> 01:53:16,160 ♪ My prayer flies like a word on a wing ♪ 1741 01:53:18,065 --> 01:53:20,934 ♪ My prayer flies like a word on a wing ♪ 1742 01:53:22,564 --> 01:53:25,939 ♪ Does my prayer fit in with your scheme of things? ♪ 1743 01:53:35,643 --> 01:53:38,919 DAVID: There's a certain buoyancy that you can develop 1744 01:53:38,954 --> 01:53:40,580 as you get older 1745 01:53:40,615 --> 01:53:43,990 if you are capable of absorbing that it's a finite life, 1746 01:53:44,025 --> 01:53:45,486 and a finite existence. 1747 01:53:46,687 --> 01:53:48,291 And it's a kind of a knowledge 1748 01:53:48,326 --> 01:53:51,294 that you cannot possibly entertain 1749 01:53:51,329 --> 01:53:53,098 when you're young. 1750 01:53:53,133 --> 01:53:56,662 You cannot entertain the real magnificence 1751 01:53:56,697 --> 01:53:59,269 and inevitability of the short span of years 1752 01:53:59,304 --> 01:54:00,666 that we spend on the earth. 1753 01:54:00,701 --> 01:54:02,536 And I think if you are really honest 1754 01:54:02,571 --> 01:54:04,076 with that reality, 1755 01:54:04,111 --> 01:54:06,474 you can have a kind of a freedom, 1756 01:54:06,509 --> 01:54:08,949 artistically, spiritually, and emotionally 1757 01:54:08,984 --> 01:54:10,577 that you don't have when you're young. 1758 01:54:10,612 --> 01:54:15,219 ♪ Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things ♪ 1759 01:54:15,254 --> 01:54:17,287 The idea of holding on to anything 1760 01:54:17,322 --> 01:54:21,588 that's manifested seems farcical. 1761 01:54:21,623 --> 01:54:23,425 There is nothing to hold onto. 1762 01:54:23,460 --> 01:54:25,328 Youth, physical things, or 1763 01:54:29,037 --> 01:54:30,201 definitely possessions. 1764 01:54:35,076 --> 01:54:36,977 The 20th century concern 1765 01:54:37,012 --> 01:54:40,244 is how we put our new god back together again. 1766 01:54:40,279 --> 01:54:43,379 I think that we're coming into an era of chaos, 1767 01:54:43,414 --> 01:54:45,513 and chaos has meaning in our lives, 1768 01:54:45,548 --> 01:54:47,988 and I think that we have to re-adapt 1769 01:54:48,023 --> 01:54:51,189 our interpretation of religion and spirituality 1770 01:54:51,224 --> 01:54:52,421 to suit our new millennium. 1771 01:54:53,721 --> 01:54:55,655 Chaos and fragmentation is something 1772 01:54:55,690 --> 01:54:58,493 that I've always been very comfortable with. 1773 01:54:58,528 --> 01:55:01,232 That obviously is my through-line. 1774 01:55:01,267 --> 01:55:03,003 Because I've always felt 1775 01:55:03,038 --> 01:55:05,533 that there's no real central one truth in life. 1776 01:55:05,568 --> 01:55:07,700 That the way we live is trying to make sense 1777 01:55:07,735 --> 01:55:12,078 of the endless vortex of fragments. 1778 01:55:12,113 --> 01:55:14,509 That essentially, we try and pull 1779 01:55:14,544 --> 01:55:17,050 these weedy little truths 1780 01:55:17,085 --> 01:55:19,547 and absolutes 1781 01:55:19,582 --> 01:55:23,584 out of this kind of mindless chaos, 1782 01:55:23,619 --> 01:55:25,619 which is the real universe. 1783 01:55:25,654 --> 01:55:28,358 There's something about the 90s that I really like. 1784 01:55:28,393 --> 01:55:30,327 There's something in the air that I recognize. 1785 01:55:30,362 --> 01:55:32,098 I think it's all the frag... 1786 01:55:32,133 --> 01:55:34,496 All the fragments flying around in the chaos. 1787 01:55:34,531 --> 01:55:37,268 It feels really... I kind of... I know this stuff. 1788 01:55:38,568 --> 01:55:40,370 [HALLO SPACEBOY SONG] 1789 01:56:04,363 --> 01:56:05,428 ♪ Space boy ♪ 1790 01:56:06,827 --> 01:56:08,266 ♪ You're sleepy now ♪ 1791 01:56:09,401 --> 01:56:10,697 ♪ Your silhouette ♪ 1792 01:56:12,404 --> 01:56:14,008 ♪ Is so stationary ♪ 1793 01:56:15,671 --> 01:56:18,342 ♪ You're released but your custody calls ♪ 1794 01:56:19,840 --> 01:56:21,411 ♪ And I want to be free ♪ 1795 01:56:25,351 --> 01:56:26,614 ♪ Don't you want to be free ♪ 1796 01:56:28,453 --> 01:56:30,222 ♪ Do you like girls or boys ♪ 1797 01:56:32,160 --> 01:56:34,589 ♪ Yeah, it's confusing these days ♪ 1798 01:56:35,856 --> 01:56:39,462 ♪ But Moondust will cover you ♪ 1799 01:56:39,497 --> 01:56:41,332 ♪ Cover you ♪ 1800 01:56:41,367 --> 01:56:43,499 ♪ This chaos is killing me ♪ 1801 01:56:48,440 --> 01:56:49,538 ♪ So bye bye love ♪ 1802 01:56:54,743 --> 01:56:56,149 ♪ Bye bye love ♪ 1803 01:57:01,453 --> 01:57:02,518 ♪ Bye bye love ♪ 1804 01:57:07,591 --> 01:57:08,722 ♪ Bye bye love ♪ 1805 01:57:26,445 --> 01:57:28,445 ♪ This chaos is killing me ♪ 1806 01:57:33,485 --> 01:57:34,682 ♪ Sweet sweet dove ♪ 1807 01:57:39,722 --> 01:57:41,260 ♪ Bye bye Space boy ♪ 1808 01:57:46,267 --> 01:57:47,464 ♪ Bye bye love ♪ 1809 01:57:53,736 --> 01:57:56,275 ♪ Moondust will cover you ♪ 1810 01:58:00,248 --> 01:58:02,413 ♪ Moondust will cover you ♪ 1811 01:58:06,221 --> 01:58:09,189 ♪ Moondust will cover you ♪ 1812 01:58:12,689 --> 01:58:15,360 ♪ Moondust will cover you ♪ 1813 01:58:19,300 --> 01:58:21,663 ♪ Moondust will cover you ♪ 1814 01:58:25,405 --> 01:58:27,405 [I HAVE NOT BEEN TO OXFORD TOWN SONG] 1815 01:58:27,440 --> 01:58:29,803 ♪ All is well ♪ 1816 01:58:29,838 --> 01:58:32,443 ♪ 20th century dies ♪ 1817 01:58:32,478 --> 01:58:34,808 ♪ Toll the bell ♪ 1818 01:58:34,843 --> 01:58:37,349 ♪ Pay the private eye ♪ 1819 01:58:37,384 --> 01:58:39,714 ♪ All is well ♪ 1820 01:58:39,749 --> 01:58:42,189 ♪ 20th century dies ♪ 1821 01:59:00,968 --> 01:59:03,507 [MAN SPEAKS FRENCH] 1822 01:59:03,542 --> 01:59:06,708 DAVID: I think, I think it has something to do 1823 01:59:06,743 --> 01:59:09,744 with being able to reach the end of any one day 1824 01:59:09,779 --> 01:59:12,648 and feel that you took from it 1825 01:59:12,683 --> 01:59:16,784 and gave back to it as much as possible. 1826 01:59:18,326 --> 01:59:20,524 I hate to waste days. 1827 01:59:29,271 --> 01:59:32,239 I've just been feeling a lot more comfortable 1828 01:59:32,274 --> 01:59:34,340 with life, and myself, and my writing 1829 01:59:34,375 --> 01:59:35,869 and everything as the years go by, 1830 01:59:35,904 --> 01:59:38,278 so it's... I just happen to be in a great place. 1831 01:59:38,313 --> 01:59:39,840 I'm really lucky in that way. 1832 01:59:39,875 --> 01:59:41,413 'Cause I look at some of my mates, 1833 01:59:41,448 --> 01:59:43,382 and some contemporaries, 1834 01:59:43,417 --> 01:59:46,517 and I know some of them feel, I don't know, tired, or bitter, 1835 01:59:46,552 --> 01:59:48,453 or you know, a number of things 1836 01:59:48,488 --> 01:59:51,819 that traditionally are supposed to go 1837 01:59:51,854 --> 01:59:53,293 with getting older, you know? 1838 01:59:53,328 --> 01:59:54,602 And I've just been very fortunate 1839 01:59:54,626 --> 01:59:56,362 that it just hasn't happened to me. 1840 01:59:56,397 --> 01:59:59,233 I just feel really... I'm pretty keen on everything. 1841 02:00:00,632 --> 02:00:02,500 I've just landed on my feet. 1842 02:00:02,535 --> 02:00:05,899 I've done and do everything I've always wanted to do, 1843 02:00:05,934 --> 02:00:07,637 you know? 1844 02:00:07,672 --> 02:00:08,672 That's been... 1845 02:00:09,872 --> 02:00:11,839 INTERVIEWER: That's a great thing. 1846 02:00:11,874 --> 02:00:13,357 DAVID: Oh, it's extraordinary. It really is extraordinary. 1847 02:00:13,381 --> 02:00:14,479 I've an incredible life. 1848 02:00:15,581 --> 02:00:17,449 It's been amazing. 1849 02:00:17,484 --> 02:00:19,253 I would love to do it again. 1850 02:00:21,983 --> 02:00:25,886 I was determined, ever since I was 16, 1851 02:00:25,921 --> 02:00:27,855 that I would have the greatest adventure 1852 02:00:27,890 --> 02:00:30,693 that any one person could ever have. 1853 02:00:30,728 --> 02:00:33,366 And I set my sails in the general direction 1854 02:00:33,401 --> 02:00:35,632 of uncharted waters. 1855 02:00:35,667 --> 02:00:38,305 I put myself through everything... 1856 02:00:38,340 --> 02:00:41,066 Absolutely everything, that came along. 1857 02:00:41,101 --> 02:00:45,576 It was very important for me to expand my horizons 1858 02:00:45,611 --> 02:00:47,314 and seeing just how... 1859 02:00:47,349 --> 02:00:49,712 Just how near to the line I could get. 1860 02:01:30,722 --> 02:01:32,920 I've been so eclectic all my life. 1861 02:01:32,955 --> 02:01:35,923 I've been admiring of so many different people 1862 02:01:35,958 --> 02:01:37,958 and so many different things that they've done, 1863 02:01:37,993 --> 02:01:41,797 I feel that I owe so many for the way that I think 1864 02:01:41,832 --> 02:01:42,832 and do things. 1865 02:01:44,131 --> 02:01:47,836 I guess anybody who's had the integrity 1866 02:01:47,871 --> 02:01:50,377 to kind of always work outside of the system, 1867 02:01:50,412 --> 02:01:52,511 has always appealed to me. 1868 02:01:52,546 --> 02:01:55,712 Whenever I'm teetering on sort of what I know 1869 02:01:55,747 --> 02:01:58,550 is what I do best, and what I really feel for, 1870 02:01:58,585 --> 02:02:00,717 and there's an area that I think that, 1871 02:02:00,752 --> 02:02:02,983 well, an audience I know would like this, 1872 02:02:03,953 --> 02:02:05,788 I just remember back 1873 02:02:05,823 --> 02:02:09,792 to how much I hate the center of the social strata, 1874 02:02:09,827 --> 02:02:11,959 how I hate being drawn into the middle, 1875 02:02:11,994 --> 02:02:14,434 to the middle of the road of anything, 1876 02:02:14,469 --> 02:02:17,063 to that which is most popular. 1877 02:02:17,098 --> 02:02:19,098 And if... The other thing I would say is that 1878 02:02:19,133 --> 02:02:21,936 if you feel safe in the area that you're working in, 1879 02:02:21,971 --> 02:02:23,740 you're not working in the right area. 1880 02:02:23,775 --> 02:02:25,940 Always go a little further into the water 1881 02:02:25,975 --> 02:02:27,909 than you feel you're capable of being in. 1882 02:02:27,944 --> 02:02:29,878 Go a little bit out of your depth, 1883 02:02:29,913 --> 02:02:31,079 and when you don't feel 1884 02:02:31,114 --> 02:02:33,112 that your feet are quite touching the bottom, 1885 02:02:33,147 --> 02:02:34,553 you're just about in the right place 1886 02:02:34,588 --> 02:02:35,950 to do something exciting. 1887 02:02:44,862 --> 02:02:46,433 Let me tell you one thing. 1888 02:02:47,733 --> 02:02:50,998 All people, no matter who they are, 1889 02:02:51,033 --> 02:02:53,704 they all wish they'd appreciated life more. 1890 02:02:56,071 --> 02:02:59,039 It's what you do in life that's important, 1891 02:02:59,074 --> 02:03:02,482 not how much time you have, or what you wish you'd done. 1892 02:03:02,517 --> 02:03:04,418 [BLACKSTAR SONG] 1893 02:03:45,087 --> 02:03:49,925 ♪ Something happened on the day he died ♪ 1894 02:03:49,960 --> 02:03:54,127 ♪ Spirit rose a meter then stepped aside ♪ 1895 02:03:54,162 --> 02:03:58,901 ♪ Somebody else took his place and bravely cried ♪ 1896 02:03:58,936 --> 02:04:01,805 ♪ I'm a black star ♪ 1897 02:04:01,840 --> 02:04:05,809 ♪ Oooooo... ♪ 1898 02:04:26,227 --> 02:04:28,535 There is no beginning, no end. 1899 02:04:29,835 --> 02:04:31,538 And all at once, 1900 02:04:31,573 --> 02:04:34,574 the outward appearance of meaning is transcended, 1901 02:04:34,609 --> 02:04:38,006 and you find yourself struggling to comprehend a deep 1902 02:04:38,041 --> 02:04:39,909 and formidable mystery. 1903 02:04:41,781 --> 02:04:42,846 I'm dying. 1904 02:04:44,014 --> 02:04:46,278 You are dying. 1905 02:04:46,313 --> 02:04:49,820 Second by second, all is transient. 1906 02:04:50,988 --> 02:04:53,824 Does it matter? Do I bother? 1907 02:04:55,058 --> 02:04:56,926 Yes I do. 1908 02:04:56,961 --> 02:04:58,961 Life is fantastic. 1909 02:04:58,996 --> 02:05:01,095 It never ends. It only changes. 1910 02:05:02,197 --> 02:05:05,572 Flesh to stone to flesh. 1911 02:05:05,607 --> 02:05:07,200 And round and round. 1912 02:05:08,940 --> 02:05:10,874 Best keep walking. 1913 02:05:38,739 --> 02:05:40,838 [MEMORY OF A FREE FESTIVAL SONG] 1914 02:05:42,776 --> 02:05:46,778 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1915 02:05:46,813 --> 02:05:49,374 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1916 02:05:49,409 --> 02:05:51,376 ♪ Uh-huh huh ♪ 1917 02:05:51,411 --> 02:05:55,248 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1918 02:05:55,283 --> 02:05:58,086 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1919 02:05:58,121 --> 02:05:59,758 ♪ Uh-huh huh ♪ 1920 02:05:59,793 --> 02:06:03,388 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1921 02:06:03,423 --> 02:06:06,358 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1922 02:06:06,393 --> 02:06:08,063 ♪ Uh-huh huh ♪ 1923 02:06:08,098 --> 02:06:11,836 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1924 02:06:11,871 --> 02:06:14,707 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1925 02:06:14,742 --> 02:06:16,236 ♪ Uh-huh huh ♪ 1926 02:06:16,271 --> 02:06:20,273 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1927 02:06:20,308 --> 02:06:24,409 ♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪ 1928 02:06:24,444 --> 02:06:28,754 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1929 02:06:28,789 --> 02:06:31,152 ♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪ 1930 02:06:32,826 --> 02:06:36,894 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1931 02:06:36,929 --> 02:06:40,964 ♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪ 1932 02:06:40,999 --> 02:06:44,902 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1933 02:06:44,937 --> 02:06:47,432 ♪ Whoa ho uh-ha ♪ 1934 02:06:47,467 --> 02:06:49,203 ♪ Na-na-na ♪ 1935 02:06:49,238 --> 02:06:52,943 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1936 02:06:57,081 --> 02:07:00,852 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1937 02:07:05,056 --> 02:07:08,893 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1938 02:07:08,928 --> 02:07:11,357 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1939 02:07:13,031 --> 02:07:16,802 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1940 02:07:16,837 --> 02:07:19,398 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1941 02:07:21,039 --> 02:07:24,271 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1942 02:07:24,306 --> 02:07:27,142 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1943 02:07:28,882 --> 02:07:32,147 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1944 02:07:32,182 --> 02:07:34,787 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1945 02:07:36,516 --> 02:07:40,089 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1946 02:07:40,124 --> 02:07:42,454 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1947 02:07:44,326 --> 02:07:47,767 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1948 02:07:47,802 --> 02:07:50,165 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1949 02:07:52,070 --> 02:07:55,841 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1950 02:07:55,876 --> 02:07:57,876 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1951 02:07:59,847 --> 02:08:03,178 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1952 02:08:03,213 --> 02:08:05,411 ♪ And we're gonna have a party ♪ 1953 02:08:07,250 --> 02:08:10,383 ♪ The Sun Machine is coming down ♪ 1954 02:08:10,418 --> 02:08:13,089 ♪ And we're gonna have a party... ♪ 1955 02:08:18,459 --> 02:08:20,294 [STARMAN SONG] 1956 02:08:29,272 --> 02:08:31,140 ♪ Hey, now now ♪ 1957 02:08:34,277 --> 02:08:36,178 ♪ Goodbye love ♪ 1958 02:08:39,348 --> 02:08:44,252 ♪ Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low-ow-ow ♪ 1959 02:08:44,287 --> 02:08:49,092 ♪ I leaned back on my radio-o-o ♪ 1960 02:08:49,127 --> 02:08:52,865 ♪ Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll ♪ 1961 02:08:52,900 --> 02:08:54,064 ♪ "Lotta soul" he said ♪ 1962 02:08:56,464 --> 02:09:01,038 ♪ Then the loud sound did seem to fade-ade-ade ♪ 1963 02:09:01,073 --> 02:09:05,878 ♪ Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase-ase-ase ♪ 1964 02:09:05,913 --> 02:09:10,212 ♪ That weren't no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jive ♪ 1965 02:09:14,284 --> 02:09:19,485 ♪ There's a star man waiting in the sky ♪ 1966 02:09:19,520 --> 02:09:21,993 ♪ He'd like to come and meet us ♪ 1967 02:09:22,028 --> 02:09:24,226 ♪ But he thinks he'd blow our minds ♪ 1968 02:09:24,261 --> 02:09:29,264 ♪ There's a star man waiting in the sky ♪ 1969 02:09:29,299 --> 02:09:31,299 ♪ He's told us not to blow it ♪ 1970 02:09:31,334 --> 02:09:33,598 ♪ 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile ♪ 1971 02:09:33,633 --> 02:09:37,437 ♪ He told me Let the children lose it ♪ 1972 02:09:37,472 --> 02:09:39,879 ♪ Let the children use it ♪ 1973 02:09:39,914 --> 02:09:42,112 ♪ Let all the children boogie ♪ 1974 02:09:58,658 --> 02:10:03,397 ♪ I had to phone someone so I picked on you-ou-ou ♪ 1975 02:10:03,432 --> 02:10:08,138 ♪ Hey, that's far out, so you heard him too-oo-oo ♪ 1976 02:10:08,173 --> 02:10:13,209 ♪ Switch on the TV, we may pick him up on channel two ♪ 1977 02:10:15,312 --> 02:10:20,150 ♪ Look out your window, I can see his light-ight-ight ♪ 1978 02:10:20,185 --> 02:10:24,550 ♪ If we can sparkle he may land tonight-ight-ight ♪ 1979 02:10:24,585 --> 02:10:26,288 ♪ Don't tell your poppa ♪ 1980 02:10:26,323 --> 02:10:29,357 ♪ Or he'll get us locked up in fright ♪ 1981 02:10:33,363 --> 02:10:38,465 ♪ There's a star man waiting in the sky ♪ 1982 02:10:38,500 --> 02:10:40,665 ♪ He'd like to come and meet us ♪ 1983 02:10:40,700 --> 02:10:43,107 ♪ But he thinks he'd blow our minds ♪ 1984 02:10:43,142 --> 02:10:48,145 ♪ There's a star man waiting in the sky ♪ 1985 02:10:48,180 --> 02:10:50,345 ♪ He's told us not to blow it ♪ 1986 02:10:50,380 --> 02:10:53,480 ♪ 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile, he told me ♪ 1987 02:10:53,515 --> 02:10:58,452 ♪ Let the children lose it Let the children use it ♪ 1988 02:10:58,487 --> 02:11:01,125 ♪ Let all the children boogie ♪ 1989 02:11:01,160 --> 02:11:05,096 ♪ Star man waiting in the sky ♪ 1990 02:11:05,131 --> 02:11:07,329 ♪ He'd like to come and meet us ♪ 1991 02:11:07,364 --> 02:11:09,463 ♪ But he thinks he'd blow our minds ♪ 1992 02:11:09,498 --> 02:11:14,435 ♪ There's a star man waiting in the sky ♪ 1993 02:11:14,470 --> 02:11:16,602 ♪ He's told us not to blow it ♪ 1994 02:11:16,637 --> 02:11:18,670 ♪ 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile ♪ 1995 02:11:18,705 --> 02:11:22,476 ♪ He told me Let the children lose it ♪ 1996 02:11:22,511 --> 02:11:24,984 ♪ Let the children use it ♪ 1997 02:11:25,019 --> 02:11:27,151 ♪ Let all the children boogie ♪ 1998 02:11:36,294 --> 02:11:39,493 ♪ La, la, la, la-la ♪ 1999 02:11:39,528 --> 02:11:44,168 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2000 02:11:44,203 --> 02:11:48,700 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2001 02:11:48,735 --> 02:11:53,375 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2002 02:11:53,410 --> 02:11:58,083 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2003 02:11:58,118 --> 02:12:02,516 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2004 02:12:02,551 --> 02:12:07,224 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2005 02:12:07,259 --> 02:12:11,624 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2006 02:12:11,659 --> 02:12:16,266 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2007 02:12:16,301 --> 02:12:21,106 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2008 02:12:21,141 --> 02:12:25,506 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la ♪ 2009 02:12:25,541 --> 02:12:29,147 ♪ La, la, la La, la, la, la-la. ♪ 2010 02:12:29,182 --> 02:12:31,710 [CHANGES SONG] 2011 02:12:37,520 --> 02:12:38,622 ♪ Oh yeah ♪ 2012 02:12:42,492 --> 02:12:43,492 ♪ Mmmm ♪ 2013 02:12:49,598 --> 02:12:53,402 ♪ Still don't know what I was waitin' for ♪ 2014 02:12:53,437 --> 02:12:56,372 ♪ And my time was running wild ♪ 2015 02:12:56,407 --> 02:12:58,671 ♪ A million dead-end streets and ♪ 2016 02:12:58,706 --> 02:13:01,773 ♪ Every time I thought I'd got it made ♪ 2017 02:13:01,808 --> 02:13:06,481 ♪ It seemed the taste was not so sweet ♪ 2018 02:13:06,516 --> 02:13:11,057 ♪ So I turned myself to face me ♪ 2019 02:13:11,092 --> 02:13:15,226 ♪ But I've never caught a glimpse ♪ 2020 02:13:15,261 --> 02:13:19,164 ♪ How the others must see the faker ♪ 2021 02:13:19,199 --> 02:13:22,464 ♪ I'm much too fast to take that test ♪ 2022 02:13:22,499 --> 02:13:24,367 ♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪ 2023 02:13:24,402 --> 02:13:26,798 ♪ Turn and face the strange ♪ 2024 02:13:26,833 --> 02:13:29,471 ♪ Ch-ch-changes ♪ 2025 02:13:29,506 --> 02:13:32,177 ♪ Don't want to be a richer man ♪ 2026 02:13:32,212 --> 02:13:33,838 ♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪ 2027 02:13:33,873 --> 02:13:36,313 ♪ Turn and face the strange ♪ 2028 02:13:36,348 --> 02:13:39,085 ♪ Ch-ch-changes ♪ 2029 02:13:39,120 --> 02:13:41,318 ♪ There's gonna have to be a different man ♪ 2030 02:13:41,353 --> 02:13:44,321 ♪ Time may change me ♪ 2031 02:13:44,356 --> 02:13:46,851 ♪ But I can't trace time ♪ 2032 02:13:46,886 --> 02:13:50,591 ♪ I said that time may change me ♪ 2033 02:13:50,626 --> 02:13:53,792 ♪ But I can't trace time. ♪ 2034 02:14:12,285 --> 02:14:13,614 DAVID: Well you know what? 2035 02:14:13,649 --> 02:14:15,715 This has been an incredible pleasure, 2036 02:14:15,750 --> 02:14:19,158 and, uh, you were really interesting. 2037 02:14:19,193 --> 02:14:20,731 I didn't know those things you were telling me 2038 02:14:20,755 --> 02:14:23,162 about yourselves. It's nice to have met you. 2039 02:14:23,197 --> 02:14:25,296 I'm glad we did finally meet at last. 2040 02:14:25,331 --> 02:14:28,200 And all I can say is, ♪ Goodbye ♪ 2041 02:14:28,235 --> 02:14:31,302 ♪ Goodbye We'll meet again ♪ 2042 02:14:31,337 --> 02:14:32,765 ♪ Some time ♪ 2043 02:14:32,800 --> 02:14:36,505 ♪ Somewhere fa-ta-ta ta-ta-ta-ta ♪ 2044 02:14:36,540 --> 02:14:37,540 ♪ Ta-da. ♪