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- I'm very much a character
when I go on stage

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and believe in my part
all the way down the line,

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right the way down.

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But I do play it
for all it's worth

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because that's the way
I do with my station.

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That part of what Bowie
is supposedly all about.

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I'm an actor.

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- David Bowie,

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one of the greatest pioneer
artists and rock stars

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of the 20th century,

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a visionary, an
innovator, a provocateur,

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extravagant and controversial.

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He transcended music,
fashion, and art.

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A genuine songwriter,

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whose songs reached
unprecedented heights
around the world.

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A man who kept
expanding, exploring,

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and evolving
throughout his life.

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Inspiring and teaching
generations of musicians

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about blending different
styles of music,

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changeable and unpredictable.

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He remains immortal
in the hearts of many.

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- Music is like a
journey through your life

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and his music punctuated my
life in terms of question marks

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and exclamation
marks and everything.

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That's wonderful about music.

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I kinda followed it through.

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So yesterday is a tragic day

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for a lot of music lovers

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and he's about light
and music and love

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and everything that's
wonderful in the world

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when there's so much
dark in the world

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that some like barriers
they're creative

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and they can just lift anybody.

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So that's why I find
it so sad really

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that someone so special is gone.

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- Listen to the chords he used,

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they are so
unbelievably difficult.

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The song structures
are just incredible.

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He didn't write three
minute pop songs,

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he wrote pieces of art
that we could listen to.

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- David Bowie was
a rock and roll revolution,

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driven, fierce, and always
wanting to escape conformity,

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an outsider, an adventurer,

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a man out of this world.

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David Bowie was born
David Robert Jones

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on January 8th, 1947 in
Brixton, South London.

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He came from a
working class family.

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He had strong bonds with
Terry, his half-brother,

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but he grew up in an
unconventional household.

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A dark cloud roamed
over his family.

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A number of his mother's
relatives were touched

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by mental illness and
suffered from schizophrenia.

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Some also committed suicide.

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Terry's mental health
deteriorated later on

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and Bowie was scared
that he would also

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eventually be affected
by this illness.

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In fact, some even said that
the different personalities

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that David created
throughout his life was a way

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of coping with his latent
schizophrenia tendencies.

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He grew up a complicated man.

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When he was just 15 years old,

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a traumatic event
happened to him.

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Bowie got in a fight over a
girl and got punched in the eye.

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This led him to four months
of hospital treatment,

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after which doctors
came to the conclusion

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that young David wasn't going

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to see completely clearly again.

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He was left with a
permanently dilated pupil.

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The incident gave Bowie those
unique extra terrestrial eyes

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and his most iconic feature.

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At 17 David was already
different and determined.

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He wore his hair long, really
long considering the times.

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After so many insults thrown
his way about his hairstyle,

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he decided he just wasn't
going to take it anymore.

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He formed a society called the

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Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Long-Haired Men.

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This move was his first
step on the path to fame

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that he would achieve
within five years.

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- Well, I think, we're
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but over the last two years
we've had comments like darling

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and can I carry a
handbag, thrown at us.

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I think you just
have to stop now.

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No, I like it, and I think
we all like long hair

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and we don't see why

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other people persecuted
us because of this.

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England has a marvelous
habit of being able

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to dissipate everything
through this marvelous media

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and long hair quickly
got dissipated.

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I mean, I used to be able
to stop traffic quite easily

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by just walking down the street,

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no move, not just that,
'cause I had long hair.

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- A year
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David Jones adopted
the name David Bowie

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and from then on, he
dreamed of reaching fame.

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Bowie was fascinated by
space travel and inspired

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by the British
rocker, Vince Taylor,

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the legendary Stardust cowboy,

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who after taking too many drugs

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and an emotional
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he was an alien god on earth.

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He created an androgynous

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and flamboyant persona
called Ziggy Stardust.

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The name Ziggy came
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he had seen from a train window.

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Bowie took Ziggy Stardust
as a stage persona.

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Ziggy was for him an
alien rockstar sent

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to earth as a messenger.

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His intention was to
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who looks like he's
landed on Mars.

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With flame red hair and
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he quickly developed
his own style

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and looked extraordinary
out of this world.

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His appearance
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his feelings of
being an outsider.

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He said that he
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and alienated from
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but that seemed to
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It made him relatable because
he had something for everyone

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and appeal to people who
thought they were outsiders too.

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They were grateful
to him for that.

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He made them feel like it
was okay to be different.

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- Whenever I
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he always had the 20
different costumes and so on.

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He was very different and he
gave people the opportunity to,

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he made people understand that
it was okay to be different.

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And a lot of kids when
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certainly in the
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they weren't sure not only
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but of lots of things,
lots of kids are loners,

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and not just said,
"Well, I'm different.

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You can be different

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and just get out there
and be your self."

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And I think he encouraged
a lot of people to do that.

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And the fact that people
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but in a way I think, he
was an inventor as well,

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an originator, and he never
made the same album twice.

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I think when we were
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we felt we were part
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our parents were horrified

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that we would go and see a
man who dressed like that.

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Bowie was always quite an
underground artist anyway.

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I mean, he was mainstream
because the tabloids

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in the UK were kind of
appalled by the way he looked

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and so it was easy for
them to put a splash

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on the front cover
and criticize him.

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These are all papers now
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about how great he was.

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But at the time they
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- It became obvious to me
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at some point in their
life thinks of themselves

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as the other, the
outsider, the freak.

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And they had found in at least
one of Bowie's many personae,

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the other, the
outsider, the freak.

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They related to that,
it gave them hope.

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Bowie had something
for everyone,
including black people.

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Very important in the
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that soul album,
"Young Americans" and
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and also in a famous
confrontation on MTV
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he criticized them for not
playing enough black music.

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The widest range of people
for the widest variety

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of reasons related to and
felt grateful to this man.

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And I think that that is
the lasting legacy of Bowie

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more so than any particular
song or any particular album.

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- Just five days
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in 1969, Bowie released
"Space Oddity".

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It became his first
top five entry

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on the UK single chart
after its release.

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♪ This is Ground
Control to Major Tom ♪

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♪ You've really made the grade

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♪ And the papers want to
know whose shirts you wear ♪

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♪ Now it's time to leave
the capsule if you dare ♪

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In 1972, he released the
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which reached number
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♪ Is there life on Mars

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- There was magic

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and mystery in his
music and lyrics.

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his Ziggy Stardust tour
catapulted him to stardom

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as he toured over the UK and
the USA for a year and a half.

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This started a cult of Bowie
and a long lasting fandom.

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- I'm really trooping, you know.

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This is my life really,
writing or performing.

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I don't know, there's
not much else I want.

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- It was at that
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that his previous
releases started flooding
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And in late 72 and 73
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where everything he'd done was

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in the chart at the same time.

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And it was a very
giddy period for people

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who had not known his
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suddenly like this is the most
productive man of the year.

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finally a hit single
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Of course, "Space Oddity" was
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that the BBC played it in
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- Just when Starman
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just when the Ziggy Stardust
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I saw him playing the
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and it was so popular
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And I was working that night,
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So I went along to see
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and it was just astounding.

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I heard four people on stage
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And the presence that the
man had it was uncanny.

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It had them tight audience
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And I seem to remember
in my memory of it

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'cause it gets colored
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my memory was completely
exciting, vibrant show.

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In reality, it was four guys
on stage brilliant music

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and a few flashing
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but it was something I'd
never experienced before.

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It changed my opinion
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♪ There's a starman
waiting in the sky ♪

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♪ He'd like to
come and meet us ♪

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♪ But he thinks he'd
blow our minds ♪

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♪ There's a starman
waiting in the sky ♪

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- Bowie became
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but also for his appearance,

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something that the whole
world talked about.

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He looked strange, but he
was made to be in history.

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Bowie married Angie Barnett
in 1970, his first wife.

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She was the one who
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to feel confident in
dressing more feminine.

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They had a son they
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now known as Duncan Jones,
who was born in 1971.

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But it was more of a
marriage of convenience,

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a show business marriage.

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Their love was doomed
from the beginning.

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He ended up getting tired

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of her wanting to
direct his career.

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Their golden years
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and they divorced in 1980.

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Bowie declared himself
gay in an interview

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in 1972 coinciding with his
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which was deemed
very courageous.

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On other occasions, he declared
himself bisexual in 1976

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and in 1993, a closet hetero.

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He did say that these
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of the times than
his own feelings.

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He knew that this would allow
him to get more attention

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from the media and draw
more audiences to his music.

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His goal was super stardom,
to reach worldwide success,

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and to be moving the culture.

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He refused to be
put in a category

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so that he could
have room to work in

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and could remain creative.

249
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No label could describe him.

250
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Some declare that he
was more transgressional

251
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than he was ever really gay,
heterosexual, or bisexual.

252
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He probably liked
experimenting out of curiosity,

253
00:15:04,662 --> 00:15:08,010
the same way he experimented
everything else in his life.

254
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Bowie was never politically
engaged or an activist,

255
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but by being a queer icon,

256
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he did a lot for the sexual
revolution of the 1970s.

257
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His influence was even
above the activists.

258
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- You often heard the word
visionary used about Bowie

259
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and he was, throughout the
1970s into the early 80s,

260
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ahead of everybody's curve.

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It's very interesting to
read a couple of comments

262
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by people from today's LGBT
community, trying to figure out

263
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how Bowie relates
to today's community

264
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by the standards of
today's community.

265
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Because everybody
notices, well, he didn't

266
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actually do any
political activism

267
00:15:57,301 --> 00:15:59,475
and that's because he was
above political activism

268
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and what he was doing
had a greater effect

269
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than political activism
because he didn't affect laws,

270
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he affected human beings
and he probably did as much

271
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for gay liberation
as any individual law

272
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during the time period

273
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because he liberated the
people in themselves.

274
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- He was weird.

275
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I mean, I have to say
working class kids growing up

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in Glasgow, quite a
hard city at the time,

277
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to see this androgyny on
national television was shocking

278
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and unbelievably exciting
'cause the music was great.

279
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The look of the
guy was fantastic.

280
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Him and Mike Ronson, he's
a guitarist sidekick,

281
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were just outstandingly
powerful, but brilliant music.

282
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So it kind of took that
whole, I don't know,

283
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we'll just call it glam rock,

284
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I'm not sure you'd
call it glam rock,

285
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that took that whole idea of
top of the pops been a bit fun

286
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and bubbly in water
and challenged

287
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that held a mirror
up to us all saying,

288
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"Okay, you know what you
think your life is okay,

289
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this is what we can
do, this is acceptable.

290
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This is okay to have
this bizarre presence
on your screen."

291
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Yeah, and you saw it,
you saw people react

292
00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,935
in very strange
and wonderful ways,

293
00:17:19,969 --> 00:17:24,008
but it was like a door opening
in the use of that period.

294
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It was a door opening that
exposed them to something

295
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that they had never
ever thought about.

296
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This fantastic, weird, almost
alien light character coming

297
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into your sitting room, it
was just incredibly exciting.

298
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- In 1972, he
released the lead single

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to his album "Aladdin
Sane" that would remain one

300
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of his signature tunes,
"The Jean Genie".

301
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It became Bowie's
biggest hit to date.

302
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♪ Jean Genie lives on his back

303
00:18:01,494 --> 00:18:05,187
♪ The Jean Genie
loves chimney stacks ♪

304
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♪ He's outrageous

305
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♪ He screams and he bawls

306
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♪ Jean Genie, let yourself go

307
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In July, 1973 Bowie and his
backing glam rock group,

308
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The Spiders from Mars, performed

309
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at the Hammersmith
Odeon in London.

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The sold out concert
was triumphant,

311
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but Bowie made the sudden
surprise announcement

312
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that the show would be the
last show he would ever do.

313
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Later understood to mean

314
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that he was retiring his
Ziggy Stardust persona.

315
00:18:38,531 --> 00:18:39,946
- It was the most exciting thing

316
00:18:39,980 --> 00:18:42,811
I'd ever seen on
stage to that day.

317
00:18:42,845 --> 00:18:47,850
Seeing Bowie marry that
theatricality in a way

318
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with rock music was something
nobody had had ever done.

319
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People were talking about
it for weeks beforehand

320
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and really, really
looking forward to it.

321
00:18:56,376 --> 00:18:59,103
And then on the night, so
many kids were dressed up.

322
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So many people wanted
look like Bowie

323
00:19:01,381 --> 00:19:03,280
and we'd all love to have Panart

324
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and various degrees of success.

325
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Your memory of it at the
time, you didn't have that

326
00:19:09,389 --> 00:19:12,392
to compare it to, you have
nothing to compare it to.

327
00:19:12,427 --> 00:19:16,776
And it was until and the most
exciting thing I've ever seen.

328
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I would still say it was one

329
00:19:18,191 --> 00:19:20,331
of the greatest
shows I've ever seen.

330
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♪ Ziggy played guitar

331
00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,855
♪ Jamming good with
Weird and Gilly ♪

332
00:19:26,889 --> 00:19:29,754
♪ And the Spiders from Mars

333
00:19:29,789 --> 00:19:31,929
♪ He played it left hand

334
00:19:31,963 --> 00:19:34,690
- It was some kind of
discovery in the 80s I think

335
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that a lot of what I
am is my enthusiasms,

336
00:19:43,009 --> 00:19:45,667
that I've always
been a very curious

337
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and enthusiastic person,

338
00:19:47,151 --> 00:19:49,912
again, it says from
when I was a teenager.

339
00:19:49,947 --> 00:19:52,329
And that it really
wasn't up to me

340
00:19:52,363 --> 00:19:55,366
to try and identify
exactly what that meant.

341
00:19:55,401 --> 00:19:58,266
I just had to accept
that I was a person

342
00:19:58,300 --> 00:19:59,750
who had a very short
attention span,

343
00:19:59,784 --> 00:20:02,649
who would move from one thing
to another quite rapidly.

344
00:20:02,684 --> 00:20:03,650
Throughout his career,

345
00:20:03,685 --> 00:20:05,549
he appeared in over 30 movies,

346
00:20:05,583 --> 00:20:08,655
television shows, and
theater productions.

347
00:20:08,690 --> 00:20:10,795
His love for acting manifested

348
00:20:10,830 --> 00:20:14,730
in the way he immersed himself
completely in the characters.

349
00:20:14,765 --> 00:20:17,595
He often stated that he
preferred dressing up as Ziggy

350
00:20:17,630 --> 00:20:19,218
rather than being David.

351
00:20:20,598 --> 00:20:22,842
His musical and film roles
added another dimension

352
00:20:22,876 --> 00:20:26,708
to his career, whatever
persona he was playing,

353
00:20:26,742 --> 00:20:30,159
the work was always
creative and imaginative.

354
00:20:31,747 --> 00:20:35,164
His theatricality and
creativity fascinated people.

355
00:20:36,304 --> 00:20:38,202
His shows like "Ziggy Stardust"

356
00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:42,275
and "Aladdin Sane" were filled
with shocking stage moments,

357
00:20:42,310 --> 00:20:45,934
where he looked almost as
if he was being possessed.

358
00:20:45,968 --> 00:20:48,281
As soon as he
walked on the stage,

359
00:20:48,316 --> 00:20:50,594
he unleashed this
crazy character,

360
00:20:51,733 --> 00:20:54,460
but off stage, he was
intensely private.

361
00:20:55,461 --> 00:20:56,945
- That's great.

362
00:20:56,979 --> 00:20:59,844
There must be moments where
the persona takes over,

363
00:20:59,879 --> 00:21:01,743
the character kind of dominate

364
00:21:01,777 --> 00:21:05,160
because all we ever get to
see, but then you see the guy

365
00:21:05,194 --> 00:21:08,163
behind it and it says
the character Manatee.

366
00:21:08,197 --> 00:21:12,305
So it's a vehicle for
him to express himself,

367
00:21:12,340 --> 00:21:13,858
but every time I ever met him,

368
00:21:13,893 --> 00:21:18,760
he was this funny, lovely,
warm, just great character.

369
00:21:20,451 --> 00:21:23,247
- I'm very much a character
when I go on stage.

370
00:21:23,282 --> 00:21:24,731
I feel it.

371
00:21:24,766 --> 00:21:26,250
Yeah, I believe in my part
all the way down the line,

372
00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:27,458
right the way down.

373
00:21:27,493 --> 00:21:30,047
But I do play it
for all it's worth

374
00:21:30,081 --> 00:21:31,531
because that's the way
I do with my station.

375
00:21:31,566 --> 00:21:35,708
That's part of what Beau
is supposedly all about.

376
00:21:35,742 --> 00:21:37,503
I'm an actor.

377
00:21:37,537 --> 00:21:41,714
- I think he was saying
tensely private off stage.

378
00:21:41,748 --> 00:21:46,753
And he can dress up and
be this outrageous figure

379
00:21:48,134 --> 00:21:52,069
of video and film on stage,
but off stage in a way,

380
00:21:53,208 --> 00:21:56,142
he was never much
of a public figure.

381
00:21:57,523 --> 00:21:58,731
- With his fame,

382
00:21:58,765 --> 00:22:00,526
came difficulties
and challenges.

383
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,183
Some of his singles and
albums didn't have the success

384
00:22:03,218 --> 00:22:06,290
that he was expecting and
he was often disappointed

385
00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:08,465
and angered by the
crowd's response.

386
00:22:09,362 --> 00:22:12,883
At 27, 1974, he was also broke

387
00:22:12,917 --> 00:22:15,955
and in serious financial trouble

388
00:22:15,989 --> 00:22:17,991
due to lack of
business management.

389
00:22:19,407 --> 00:22:20,442
- I need the money.

390
00:22:21,961 --> 00:22:24,101
I desperately need the money.

391
00:22:24,135 --> 00:22:27,484
I've been a silly boy about
my financial arrangement.

392
00:22:28,726 --> 00:22:30,314
And it's only over the
last couple of years

393
00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:32,351
that I've been able
to get back anything

394
00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:36,631
from almost 10 years
working publicly.

395
00:22:36,665 --> 00:22:40,428
So I really, I really
have to do this.

396
00:22:40,462 --> 00:22:44,155
I mean, it sits my job
when it sort of it's

397
00:22:44,190 --> 00:22:47,366
like carting your paintings
around the exhibitions

398
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:48,850
and the gallery is trying
to sell it for you,

399
00:22:48,884 --> 00:22:51,162
and for me, it's the
equivalent thing.

400
00:22:51,197 --> 00:22:52,336
- He also started

401
00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:54,269
to struggle separating
Ziggy Stardust

402
00:22:54,303 --> 00:22:56,892
from his own character off stage

403
00:22:56,927 --> 00:22:58,998
and his personality
became affected.

404
00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:01,897
Bowie was always striving

405
00:23:01,932 --> 00:23:05,694
for innovation, novelty,
and experimentation.

406
00:23:05,729 --> 00:23:07,731
And it turned out that
playing the same character

407
00:23:07,765 --> 00:23:09,767
over and over was exhausting.

408
00:23:10,734 --> 00:23:13,599
His enthusiasm started to fade.

409
00:23:25,576 --> 00:23:29,718
In 1975, at 28, he
relocated to Los Angeles

410
00:23:33,653 --> 00:23:36,138
leaving his Ziggy
alter ego behind.

411
00:23:39,487 --> 00:23:42,386
Bowie released his 10th
album "Station to Station"

412
00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:46,114
in 1976 with a new character.

413
00:23:46,148 --> 00:23:51,153
After Ziggy Stardust came
the elegant thin white Duke.

414
00:23:52,534 --> 00:23:54,605
Again, the persona was based
on a humanoid alien played

415
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,471
by Bowie in the film, "The
Man Who Fell to Earth",

416
00:23:58,506 --> 00:24:02,855
the album may the top five
in both the UK and US charts.

417
00:24:02,889 --> 00:24:05,651
And this put him back on
solid financial ground.

418
00:24:05,685 --> 00:24:09,482
♪ The return of the
Thin White Duke ♪

419
00:24:09,517 --> 00:24:14,522
♪ Throwing darts
in lovers' eyes ♪

420
00:24:16,006 --> 00:24:19,768
♪ Here are we, one magical
moment, such is the stuff ♪

421
00:24:20,873 --> 00:24:24,842
♪ From where dreams are woven

422
00:24:24,877 --> 00:24:26,637
- Again, he was so different

423
00:24:26,672 --> 00:24:29,260
and the influence of
soul on this music

424
00:24:29,295 --> 00:24:31,297
and the kind of music
he'd been listening to

425
00:24:31,331 --> 00:24:35,646
in the US made a
completely different album.

426
00:24:35,681 --> 00:24:39,892
But I loved that persona as
well The Thin White Duke period.

427
00:24:39,926 --> 00:24:42,895
I don't know if it again
it's because I saw him then

428
00:24:42,929 --> 00:24:46,830
and I was so young and it
kind of formed an impression,

429
00:24:46,864 --> 00:24:49,453
but it was so mysterious.

430
00:24:51,559 --> 00:24:53,837
But it was very exotic for me

431
00:24:53,871 --> 00:24:56,184
as a young child, it
was very exciting.

432
00:25:00,257 --> 00:25:01,603
- However,
the 70s were one

433
00:25:01,638 --> 00:25:04,019
of the worst
periods of his life.

434
00:25:04,054 --> 00:25:06,332
He became addicted to cocaine,

435
00:25:06,366 --> 00:25:09,508
which caused severe
weight loss and paranoia

436
00:25:09,542 --> 00:25:11,889
and it affected
his sanity deeply.

437
00:25:13,339 --> 00:25:17,308
He overdosed several times
during the year of 1976.

438
00:25:17,343 --> 00:25:20,208
He even claimed that
he was pro-fascism

439
00:25:20,242 --> 00:25:23,729
and compared Hitler to rock
stars, such as Mick Jagger,

440
00:25:23,763 --> 00:25:25,731
which he later on apologized for

441
00:25:25,765 --> 00:25:29,320
and blamed on his
psychosis from cocaine use.

442
00:25:29,355 --> 00:25:31,322
It was a time of huge emotional

443
00:25:31,357 --> 00:25:34,463
and inspirational
struggle for him.

444
00:25:34,498 --> 00:25:35,913
He claimed that
his drug addiction

445
00:25:35,948 --> 00:25:39,296
and delusional behavior
were due to Los Angeles,

446
00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:43,749
which he came to resent as he
felt the city alienated him

447
00:25:43,783 --> 00:25:46,545
and that he was living
like one of his characters.

448
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:49,686
He was falling apart,

449
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,137
but he realized it and
decided to make a change.

450
00:25:58,729 --> 00:26:00,938
- And as I really didn't
want to be by myself,

451
00:26:00,973 --> 00:26:03,354
I was living more and
more in the style of one

452
00:26:03,389 --> 00:26:07,566
of my characters who
wanted terrific success

453
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,879
because they're all Messiah
figures most of them,

454
00:26:10,914 --> 00:26:15,850
either light or dark shadowings.

455
00:26:18,059 --> 00:26:20,993
And so because I
knew, I really felt

456
00:26:21,027 --> 00:26:24,134
that the material aspect was
something that had to be done

457
00:26:24,168 --> 00:26:26,723
in Los Angeles because
it's driven into you.

458
00:26:26,757 --> 00:26:29,415
It's the food of Los
Angeles, Hollywood rather,

459
00:26:29,449 --> 00:26:31,900
not Los Angeles,
unfair on Los Angeles.

460
00:26:35,283 --> 00:26:37,216
And so I just packed
up everything one day

461
00:26:37,250 --> 00:26:39,459
and I moved back
to Europe again.

462
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,428
- He and his family
left California for Europe

463
00:26:42,462 --> 00:26:47,467
in late 1976 to improve his
physical and mental wellbeing.

464
00:26:48,468 --> 00:26:50,056
He moved to
Switzerland for a time

465
00:26:50,091 --> 00:26:51,920
where his cocaine use decreased

466
00:26:53,335 --> 00:26:56,200
There, he indulged in his
childhood passion of painting,

467
00:26:56,235 --> 00:26:58,237
which was a way for
him to make sure he was

468
00:26:58,271 --> 00:27:01,792
always doing something
productive and creative.

469
00:27:01,827 --> 00:27:04,519
He was also an art collector.

470
00:27:04,553 --> 00:27:07,004
That's the first thing I did
when I got back to Europe,

471
00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:10,111
was to sort of stop thinking
about music and performing

472
00:27:10,145 --> 00:27:13,010
for a bit and think about
something that I hadn't done

473
00:27:13,045 --> 00:27:14,702
for a long time,
which was paint.

474
00:27:16,117 --> 00:27:18,119
And that helped me get back
into music again actually.

475
00:27:18,153 --> 00:27:19,810
Whatever the job in hand is,

476
00:27:19,845 --> 00:27:21,640
is the style that
I tend to adopt.

477
00:27:21,674 --> 00:27:26,645
I'm pretty anti-consistency in
style much as I am in music.

478
00:27:28,060 --> 00:27:29,544
- Would you
give up music for art?

479
00:27:29,578 --> 00:27:32,651
- No, but neither would
I give up art for music.

480
00:27:32,685 --> 00:27:36,551
I am really fortunate
in having both the time

481
00:27:36,585 --> 00:27:38,242
and the inclination and

482
00:27:40,693 --> 00:27:45,111
possibly the talent
to work in both media.

483
00:27:45,146 --> 00:27:46,423
And I'm not a buyer of things.

484
00:27:46,457 --> 00:27:48,114
I think the only
thing that I buy

485
00:27:49,495 --> 00:27:52,809
addictively and obsessively
probably is art.

486
00:27:54,707 --> 00:27:58,262
I'm not really a house
man or a car man.

487
00:27:58,297 --> 00:28:00,644
The only nice car
I've ever bought

488
00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:05,684
for myself was a 1967
HR, one and half,

489
00:28:06,719 --> 00:28:09,135
which is I would get the half.

490
00:28:09,170 --> 00:28:13,243
And I don't know things,
I don't have a plane.

491
00:28:15,486 --> 00:28:17,592
I haven't got very much, Jone.

492
00:28:17,626 --> 00:28:19,007
I'm not a buyer of stuff.

493
00:28:20,043 --> 00:28:21,251
I do tend to regard money

494
00:28:21,285 --> 00:28:23,909
as the order to get
other things going.

495
00:28:25,324 --> 00:28:27,291
I feel more comfortable
with the money.

496
00:28:29,949 --> 00:28:33,263
- But he wasn't
completely over his drug use.

497
00:28:33,297 --> 00:28:36,991
He settled in West
Berlin in early 1977,

498
00:28:37,025 --> 00:28:39,131
joining his friend Iggy Pop

499
00:28:39,165 --> 00:28:41,720
to clean up and
revive his career.

500
00:28:43,135 --> 00:28:46,276
He felt we vitalized, even
though he struggled sometimes

501
00:28:46,310 --> 00:28:47,933
to stay clean and sober.

502
00:28:49,106 --> 00:28:51,074
While he was sharing
an apartment with Iggy,

503
00:28:51,108 --> 00:28:54,663
he started to gain more interest
in the German music scene

504
00:28:54,698 --> 00:28:58,150
and began focusing on
minimalistic ambient music.

505
00:28:59,703 --> 00:29:02,326
In October, 1977, he released

506
00:29:02,361 --> 00:29:05,088
his 12th studio album "Heroes".

507
00:29:05,122 --> 00:29:06,986
It became the best received work

508
00:29:07,021 --> 00:29:10,921
of his Berlin Trilogy
and a commercial success.

509
00:29:11,957 --> 00:29:15,857
♪ For ever and ever

510
00:29:15,892 --> 00:29:20,310
♪ We can be Heroes,
just for one day ♪

511
00:29:28,905 --> 00:29:33,910
♪ We can be Heroes

512
00:29:37,016 --> 00:29:39,916
♪ We can be Heroes

513
00:29:45,335 --> 00:29:48,165
- But Bowie not only knocked
it out of the park with heroes,

514
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,962
he made heroes seem like
an anthem for the day,

515
00:29:51,997 --> 00:29:53,999
we can be heroes
just for one day.

516
00:29:54,033 --> 00:29:57,347
The fact that people
still want to heroes,

517
00:29:58,555 --> 00:30:00,591
even though it was
novel at the time,

518
00:30:00,626 --> 00:30:03,008
shows it's a quality piece

519
00:30:03,042 --> 00:30:05,355
regardless of the fact
that it was innovative.

520
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:10,670
And similarly the whole
album still sounds great.

521
00:30:12,465 --> 00:30:13,846
- He's described his time here

522
00:30:13,881 --> 00:30:16,193
as the happiest
period of his life.

523
00:30:16,228 --> 00:30:18,989
The city seemed to correspond
with his personality

524
00:30:19,024 --> 00:30:22,199
from his interest in history
from the Weimar Republic

525
00:30:22,234 --> 00:30:25,202
to the Berlin he discovered
here in the 1970s,

526
00:30:25,237 --> 00:30:27,618
his passion for
discovery and innovation,

527
00:30:27,653 --> 00:30:30,449
his interest in art,
which whilst in Berlin,

528
00:30:30,483 --> 00:30:32,106
let him to take
up painting again.

529
00:30:32,140 --> 00:30:35,281
It was here that he seemed
to escape his demons to throw

530
00:30:35,316 --> 00:30:38,837
off creative burnout and
rejuvenate his inspiration.

531
00:30:40,286 --> 00:30:43,186
- By 1978, he'd
broken his drug addiction

532
00:30:43,220 --> 00:30:46,223
and was slowly recovering to
a healthy enough mental state.

533
00:30:47,431 --> 00:30:49,675
Isolar II world tour
was the first tour

534
00:30:49,709 --> 00:30:53,610
where he didn't have to take
copious quantities of cocaine

535
00:30:53,644 --> 00:30:55,129
before taking the stage.

536
00:30:56,544 --> 00:30:58,442
By the time he had reached 30,

537
00:30:58,477 --> 00:31:00,686
his marriage with
Angie had deteriorated.

538
00:31:01,825 --> 00:31:04,586
They reached a
breaking point in 1980

539
00:31:04,621 --> 00:31:07,072
and Bowie gained sole
custody of their son.

540
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,697
This was a bold move
and he was determined

541
00:31:11,731 --> 00:31:13,699
to be a good role model for him.

542
00:31:18,531 --> 00:31:21,431
In 1980, he moved to New
York and made his debuts

543
00:31:21,465 --> 00:31:23,778
in Broadway with "Elephant Man",

544
00:31:23,812 --> 00:31:27,437
where he played a man with a
grotesque disfiguring disease.

545
00:31:28,921 --> 00:31:32,200
He identified with the role
as he always had an attraction

546
00:31:32,235 --> 00:31:36,308
to alienated people,
feeling like one himself.

547
00:31:36,342 --> 00:31:38,966
His work was
critically acclaimed.

548
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,073
- But Bartholomew does
not care about Juliet,

549
00:31:44,454 --> 00:31:45,282
I care.

550
00:31:46,697 --> 00:31:50,287
- Does he take her pants,
does he get the doctor?

551
00:31:51,219 --> 00:31:52,634
Does you make sure?

552
00:31:53,497 --> 00:31:55,914
No, he kills himself.

553
00:31:57,329 --> 00:32:01,920
The illusion follows him because
he does not care about her.

554
00:32:03,404 --> 00:32:05,509
He only cares about himself.

555
00:32:06,717 --> 00:32:09,099
I always look for
characters who have

556
00:32:09,134 --> 00:32:11,308
either an emotional
or a physical limp.

557
00:32:12,723 --> 00:32:17,418
I find that for me not being,
I don't really see my future

558
00:32:18,798 --> 00:32:22,216
in acting to a greater extent
than my involvement now.

559
00:32:22,250 --> 00:32:24,252
So I really liked
to have characters

560
00:32:24,287 --> 00:32:26,772
that I can at least
play around with.

561
00:32:26,806 --> 00:32:31,501
In 1981, Bowie moved to the
new romantic and pop era.

562
00:32:31,535 --> 00:32:32,916
He paired with Queen

563
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,575
for one off single
release "Under Pressure",

564
00:32:36,609 --> 00:32:38,508
the duet was a hit.

565
00:32:38,542 --> 00:32:42,546
♪ Pressure, pushing down on me

566
00:32:42,581 --> 00:32:46,861
♪ Pressing down on
you, no man ask for ♪

567
00:32:46,895 --> 00:32:50,830
♪ Under pressure, that
burns a building down ♪

568
00:32:50,865 --> 00:32:52,971
♪ Splits a family in two

569
00:32:53,005 --> 00:32:54,144
♪ Puts people on streets

570
00:32:54,179 --> 00:32:57,596
He reached his prime at
36 with "Let's Dance"

571
00:32:57,630 --> 00:33:01,358
and other hits such as "Modern
Love" and "China Girl".

572
00:33:01,393 --> 00:33:04,637
"Let's Dance" reached number
one in the UK, the US,

573
00:33:04,672 --> 00:33:07,986
and various other
countries in 1983.

574
00:33:08,020 --> 00:33:11,334
It sold more than 10
million copies worldwide,

575
00:33:11,368 --> 00:33:14,268
making it Bowie's best-selling
album of all time.

576
00:33:15,786 --> 00:33:20,101
♪ Let's dance put on your red
shoes and dance the blues ♪

577
00:33:23,794 --> 00:33:28,799
♪ Let's dance to the song
they're playing on the radio ♪

578
00:33:30,111 --> 00:33:31,595
- If you were starting out now,

579
00:33:31,630 --> 00:33:33,183
I think did I read somewhere

580
00:33:33,218 --> 00:33:35,634
that you said if you were
19, you wouldn't go into
.

581
00:33:36,704 --> 00:33:37,843
- I think that's
probably quite right.

582
00:33:37,877 --> 00:33:41,260
I think I'd probably
just be a fan

583
00:33:41,295 --> 00:33:42,813
and a collector of records.

584
00:33:42,848 --> 00:33:44,160
What would you do?

585
00:33:44,194 --> 00:33:45,678
- I wanted to be a musician

586
00:33:45,713 --> 00:33:49,648
because it seemed rebellious,
it seems subversive.

587
00:33:49,682 --> 00:33:54,170
It felt like one could
affect change to a form.

588
00:33:55,447 --> 00:33:57,897
It was very hard to hear
music when I was young.

589
00:34:00,107 --> 00:34:02,040
When I was really
young, you had to tune

590
00:34:02,074 --> 00:34:05,629
into AFM radio to hear
the American records.

591
00:34:05,664 --> 00:34:07,045
There was no MTV,

592
00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:09,909
it wasn't sort of
wall-to-wall blanket music.

593
00:34:09,944 --> 00:34:13,189
And so therefore, it
had a kind of a call

594
00:34:13,223 --> 00:34:14,742
to arms kind of feeling to it.

595
00:34:14,776 --> 00:34:17,227
Is that this is the thing
that will change things.

596
00:34:17,262 --> 00:34:20,610
This is a dead dodgy
occupation to have.

597
00:34:20,644 --> 00:34:24,200
It still produce signs
of horror from people

598
00:34:24,234 --> 00:34:27,548
who you said you're, I'm in
rock and roll is my goodness.

599
00:34:27,582 --> 00:34:29,067
Now, it's a career opportunity.

600
00:34:30,516 --> 00:34:32,035
- His
fan base exploded

601
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,417
as he entered popular culture

602
00:34:34,451 --> 00:34:37,661
by becoming less underground
and controversial.

603
00:34:37,696 --> 00:34:39,387
He reached a wider audience

604
00:34:39,422 --> 00:34:42,632
and appeared more
accessible and mainstream,

605
00:34:42,666 --> 00:34:45,842
topping charts along with Tina
Turner and Michael Jackson.

606
00:34:45,876 --> 00:34:49,121
- I think his breakthrough
kind of crossover album is

607
00:34:49,156 --> 00:34:53,332
obviously "Let's Dance"
and that's when I felt

608
00:34:53,367 --> 00:34:55,852
he'd got a bit too
commercial for me.

609
00:34:55,886 --> 00:34:58,475
'Cause you kind of
like your artists

610
00:34:58,510 --> 00:35:00,236
to be unknown and be underground

611
00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:03,101
and you to be part of the
secret society almost.

612
00:35:03,135 --> 00:35:04,309
- David Bowie is great.

613
00:35:05,310 --> 00:35:06,173
- And ugly.

614
00:35:08,416 --> 00:35:09,693
- I'd like to embrace the idea

615
00:35:09,728 --> 00:35:12,869
that there's a new
demystification process going on

616
00:35:12,903 --> 00:35:14,871
between the artist
and the audience.

617
00:35:14,905 --> 00:35:17,770
I think when you look back
at say this last decade,

618
00:35:17,805 --> 00:35:21,257
there hasn't really been
one single entity, artist,

619
00:35:21,291 --> 00:35:23,811
or group that have personified

620
00:35:23,845 --> 00:35:27,159
or become the brand
name for the 90s.

621
00:35:27,194 --> 00:35:30,783
And like it was starting to
fade a little in the 80s.

622
00:35:30,818 --> 00:35:32,992
And in the 70s there were
still definite artists.

623
00:35:33,027 --> 00:35:34,960
In the 60s, there were the
Beatles and the Hendrix.

624
00:35:34,994 --> 00:35:37,169
In the 50s, there was Presley.

625
00:35:37,204 --> 00:35:39,585
Now it says
subgroups and genres.

626
00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:41,518
It's hip-hop, it's girl power.

627
00:35:42,968 --> 00:35:44,556
It's a communal kind of thing.

628
00:35:44,590 --> 00:35:45,971
It's about the community,

629
00:35:46,005 --> 00:35:48,836
it's becoming more and
more about the audience

630
00:35:48,870 --> 00:35:50,872
because the point
of having somebody

631
00:35:50,907 --> 00:35:53,599
who led the forces
has disappeared

632
00:35:53,634 --> 00:35:56,084
because of the capillary
of rock is too well known.

633
00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:59,950
It's a currency that is
not devoid meaning anymore,

634
00:35:59,985 --> 00:36:02,746
but he's certainly only a
conveyor of information.

635
00:36:02,781 --> 00:36:05,197
It's not a conveyor of rebellion

636
00:36:05,232 --> 00:36:07,406
and the internet has
taken on that as I say it.

637
00:36:07,441 --> 00:36:11,307
And so I find that a
terribly exciting era.

638
00:36:11,341 --> 00:36:14,206
So from my standpoint,
being an artist,

639
00:36:14,241 --> 00:36:17,209
I'd like to see what
the new construction is

640
00:36:17,244 --> 00:36:19,349
between artists and audience.

641
00:36:19,384 --> 00:36:23,353
There is a breakdown, there's
a personified, I think,

642
00:36:23,388 --> 00:36:26,045
by the rave culture
in the last few years,

643
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,772
where the audience is
at least as important

644
00:36:28,807 --> 00:36:31,810
as whoever is
playing at the rave.

645
00:36:31,844 --> 00:36:35,400
It's almost like the artist
is to accompany the audience

646
00:36:35,434 --> 00:36:36,987
and what the audience is doing.

647
00:36:37,022 --> 00:36:39,542
And that feeling is very
much permeating music.

648
00:36:39,576 --> 00:36:41,544
- However, he
eventually came to realize

649
00:36:41,578 --> 00:36:45,548
that being mainstream was
not what he was really after.

650
00:36:45,582 --> 00:36:47,446
He was more used
to being stubborn,

651
00:36:47,481 --> 00:36:50,000
obscure, and confrontational.

652
00:36:50,035 --> 00:36:51,726
- It's quite a relief, really.

653
00:36:51,761 --> 00:36:56,766
I feel a lot more free
in what I do.

654
00:36:58,077 --> 00:37:01,322
I just needed a positive
decision to only do what I want

655
00:37:01,357 --> 00:37:04,187
to do and not do things
for the sake of what

656
00:37:06,258 --> 00:37:09,779
either David Bowie or whoever
I was playing last time thing

657
00:37:09,813 --> 00:37:12,954
like juke or something,
what he was expected to do.

658
00:37:12,989 --> 00:37:15,750
- Bowie always
loved pushing limits,

659
00:37:15,785 --> 00:37:18,132
challenging himself.

660
00:37:18,166 --> 00:37:20,272
He in fact, believed
that a good artist has

661
00:37:20,307 --> 00:37:23,758
to go out of their depth to
become meaningful, and that

662
00:37:23,793 --> 00:37:27,348
it requires some kind of
social dysfunctional nature.

663
00:37:27,383 --> 00:37:32,388
- Incredibly interested artist.

664
00:37:33,561 --> 00:37:37,220
He was interested in
various kinds of music

665
00:37:38,601 --> 00:37:41,224
and of course the various arts.

666
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:45,366
And he picked up elements from
the avant-garde and all sorts

667
00:37:45,401 --> 00:37:48,921
of areas and incorporated
them into his own work.

668
00:37:48,956 --> 00:37:53,823
I got to a stage two
years ago where I found

669
00:37:53,857 --> 00:37:57,723
that the experimenting that
I was doing was eradicating

670
00:37:57,758 --> 00:38:00,416
a lot of the subject
matter of my writing,

671
00:38:00,450 --> 00:38:01,969
but now I feel for
the next few years,

672
00:38:02,003 --> 00:38:06,767
I'll be concentrating a lot
more basic kind of material.

673
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,155
- In January,
1985, during Bowie's prime,

674
00:38:16,190 --> 00:38:20,263
he received a devastating news
that would break his heart.

675
00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:23,197
His brother Terry had
committed suicide.

676
00:38:24,474 --> 00:38:27,443
It was a difficult and
tragic period for him.

677
00:38:27,477 --> 00:38:28,823
He would later on write a song

678
00:38:28,858 --> 00:38:32,033
about the death of his
brother called "Jump",

679
00:38:32,068 --> 00:38:34,588
but he had to put
his struggle aside.

680
00:38:37,384 --> 00:38:39,972
In 1988, he formed a new act,

681
00:38:40,007 --> 00:38:43,597
Tin Machine, a hard
rock supergroup.

682
00:38:43,631 --> 00:38:46,669
He wants more reinvented
rock and roll.

683
00:38:47,842 --> 00:38:51,432
However, it was hard to
top his previous hits.

684
00:38:51,467 --> 00:38:53,607
Tin Machine didn't
have as much success.

685
00:38:53,641 --> 00:38:57,542
As he had expected as he
was once again experimenting

686
00:38:57,576 --> 00:39:00,372
by doing different things
to challenge himself,

687
00:39:00,407 --> 00:39:02,961
he fell on it from many people.

688
00:39:04,583 --> 00:39:07,759
♪ You belong in rock 'n roll

689
00:39:07,793 --> 00:39:12,350
♪ You belong in rock 'n roll

690
00:39:12,384 --> 00:39:15,939
♪ Well so do I

691
00:39:15,974 --> 00:39:19,943
♪ I love how she moves me

692
00:39:19,978 --> 00:39:21,393
♪ It makes me

693
00:39:21,428 --> 00:39:24,534
The 1990s seem to be the
legend's forgotten decade,

694
00:39:24,569 --> 00:39:26,916
where his work was overlooked,

695
00:39:26,950 --> 00:39:28,538
but he didn't dwell
on the negatives

696
00:39:28,573 --> 00:39:31,541
and he was determined to move
on to the next adventure.

697
00:39:31,576 --> 00:39:33,198
- He had a lot from the 90s.

698
00:39:33,232 --> 00:39:36,960
He had his bad period
for a few years,

699
00:39:36,995 --> 00:39:38,721
but I think in my opinion,

700
00:39:38,755 --> 00:39:41,517
he came back, he
came through that.

701
00:39:41,551 --> 00:39:43,726
And I think in
his own admission,

702
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,591
he would say he was
often taking the money

703
00:39:48,455 --> 00:39:51,768
and his creativity
suffered massively.

704
00:39:51,803 --> 00:39:56,014
- In my tour of television
studios the day Bowie died,

705
00:39:56,048 --> 00:39:59,258
not a single person asked
me about Bowie in the 1990s.

706
00:39:59,293 --> 00:40:00,639
It's as if his work

707
00:40:00,674 --> 00:40:02,641
in that decade had
existed only for his fans.

708
00:40:02,676 --> 00:40:04,954
And even though one of his
albums did reach number one

709
00:40:04,988 --> 00:40:06,438
in Britain during that decade.

710
00:40:06,473 --> 00:40:10,718
But the curious thing is
that Bowie in the 90s was

711
00:40:10,753 --> 00:40:13,411
still an extraordinarily
influential person.

712
00:40:14,619 --> 00:40:17,173
- In 1992, he
married his second wife

713
00:40:17,207 --> 00:40:21,902
in Switzerland, the Somali
American fashion model, Iman,

714
00:40:21,936 --> 00:40:25,215
with whom he had one
daughter named Alexandria.

715
00:40:26,803 --> 00:40:30,289
In 1996, his musical success
was finally recognized

716
00:40:31,774 --> 00:40:34,432
and he was inducted into the
rock and roll hall of fame.

717
00:40:35,743 --> 00:40:38,781
This was a groundbreaking
accomplishment.

718
00:40:38,815 --> 00:40:40,368
- Mr. David Bowie.

719
00:40:49,377 --> 00:40:50,793
- While me and my
buddies are hanging out

720
00:40:50,827 --> 00:40:52,829
on the Hollywood
Entertainment Museum,

721
00:40:54,624 --> 00:40:58,248
I would've just whip out a
mirror on the opposite side,

722
00:40:58,283 --> 00:40:59,871
that's my star up there

723
00:41:01,044 --> 00:41:05,117
with my name written
backwards, divaD eiwoB.

724
00:41:07,637 --> 00:41:09,156
Thank you very much.

725
00:41:09,190 --> 00:41:10,709
If I make any more bad albums,
you can come all over here

726
00:41:10,744 --> 00:41:12,608
and walk all over me, all right?

727
00:41:19,131 --> 00:41:21,133
- He finally
had reached a stable,

728
00:41:21,168 --> 00:41:24,240
successful life, which
gave him more time to focus

729
00:41:24,274 --> 00:41:27,830
on both his passions,
music and painting.

730
00:41:29,141 --> 00:41:31,316
- I'm doing a music
for self gain.

731
00:41:31,350 --> 00:41:35,147
I'm doing a lot of
stuff on the internet.

732
00:41:35,182 --> 00:41:39,462
I'm doing a lot of painting
and a little bit of sculpting.

733
00:41:40,705 --> 00:41:43,121
I'm enjoying married
life tremendously.

734
00:41:43,155 --> 00:41:47,884
It was my 7th wedding
anniversary the
other day on the 6th,

735
00:41:47,919 --> 00:41:48,713
6th of June.

736
00:41:51,198 --> 00:41:54,546
The hub of my creativity comes
from what I do, where I go,

737
00:41:54,581 --> 00:41:58,239
and I put myself in places that
maybe I've never been before

738
00:42:00,552 --> 00:42:03,969
or that I feel there's a
certain tension involved.

739
00:42:04,004 --> 00:42:06,006
I can't really write
or produce much

740
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,353
if I'm in a place
that's relaxing.

741
00:42:08,387 --> 00:42:11,736
I have to have a set of
conflicts going around me,

742
00:42:11,770 --> 00:42:13,392
not necessarily of my own doing,

743
00:42:13,427 --> 00:42:16,188
I've learned that that
is particularly bad idea.

744
00:42:16,223 --> 00:42:17,673
- What do you mean?

745
00:42:17,707 --> 00:42:20,296
- Well, I don't create my
own conflicts in my own life.

746
00:42:20,330 --> 00:42:22,885
I think I might've done
that to quite an extent

747
00:42:22,919 --> 00:42:26,578
when I was young as actually
things are going too smoothly,

748
00:42:26,613 --> 00:42:29,823
being an addictive personality,

749
00:42:29,857 --> 00:42:32,032
I would be drawn
to create conflicts

750
00:42:32,066 --> 00:42:34,724
that would reduce the
attention necessary to write.

751
00:42:34,759 --> 00:42:39,211
Now, I find that I can do it
by observation more than being

752
00:42:40,350 --> 00:42:44,492
deeply involved in a
mess to become to write.

753
00:42:44,527 --> 00:42:46,391
- That means, at personal level,
you don't do drugs anymore.

754
00:42:46,425 --> 00:42:47,357
- No, absolutely not.

755
00:42:47,392 --> 00:42:48,600
- And you don't drink.

756
00:42:48,635 --> 00:42:49,808
- I don't
drink either, no.

757
00:42:49,843 --> 00:42:51,085
- Not even a glass
of wine or anything?

758
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,742
- No, it would kill me
if I start it again.

759
00:42:52,777 --> 00:42:54,295
- What do
you mean it would kill you?

760
00:42:54,330 --> 00:42:56,884
- I'm an alcoholic, so it
would be a kiss of death

761
00:42:56,919 --> 00:42:58,437
for me to start drinking again.

762
00:43:00,474 --> 00:43:04,754
My relationships with
my friends, my family,

763
00:43:04,789 --> 00:43:06,411
everybody around me, are so good

764
00:43:06,445 --> 00:43:08,482
and have been for
so many years now.

765
00:43:08,516 --> 00:43:13,452
I wouldn't do anything to
destroy that again, you know?

766
00:43:14,695 --> 00:43:15,903
It's very hard to
have relationships

767
00:43:15,938 --> 00:43:18,630
when you're doing
drugs and drinking.

768
00:43:18,665 --> 00:43:20,770
I felt for me personally anyway.

769
00:43:20,805 --> 00:43:25,603
And you become closed off,
unreceptive, insensitive,

770
00:43:25,637 --> 00:43:27,018
all the dreadful things
that you've heard

771
00:43:27,052 --> 00:43:28,916
every other pop
singer ever saying.

772
00:43:28,951 --> 00:43:32,230
And I was very lucky that
I found my way out of that.

773
00:43:34,922 --> 00:43:39,927
♪ A whisper of hope
that seems to fade ♪

774
00:43:40,997 --> 00:43:42,378
- In
1999, the front cover

775
00:43:42,412 --> 00:43:46,485
of "Hours" showed an older
Bowie with shoulder length hair.

776
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,212
From then on, he never
released anything

777
00:43:49,247 --> 00:43:51,905
as frenetic as he
did in the 1990s.

778
00:43:53,044 --> 00:43:55,356
- A lot of what I
am is my enthusiasm.

779
00:43:55,391 --> 00:43:57,635
That I've always
been a very curious

780
00:43:57,669 --> 00:43:59,015
and enthusiastic person.

781
00:43:59,050 --> 00:44:01,915
Again, this is from
when I was a teenager

782
00:44:01,949 --> 00:44:04,711
and that it really
wasn't up to me to try

783
00:44:04,745 --> 00:44:07,368
and identify exactly
what that meant.

784
00:44:07,403 --> 00:44:09,923
I just had to accept
that I was a person

785
00:44:09,957 --> 00:44:11,579
that had a very
short attention span,

786
00:44:11,614 --> 00:44:14,272
would move from one thing
to another quite rapidly

787
00:44:14,306 --> 00:44:16,930
when I got bored with the other.

788
00:44:16,964 --> 00:44:19,415
I became comfortable
with that and didn't try

789
00:44:19,449 --> 00:44:23,419
and identify myself or trying
to ask myself who I was.

790
00:44:23,453 --> 00:44:26,146
The less questioning
I did about myself

791
00:44:26,180 --> 00:44:29,667
as to who I was, the
more comfortable I felt.

792
00:44:31,116 --> 00:44:33,601
So now I have absolutely
no knowledge of who I am.

793
00:44:33,636 --> 00:44:36,052
I'm extremely happy.

794
00:44:36,087 --> 00:44:39,469
- In 2003, Bowie
performed his Reality Tour,

795
00:44:39,504 --> 00:44:41,679
which would become
his last tour.

796
00:44:42,921 --> 00:44:46,856
♪ And I'm never ever gonna get

797
00:44:46,891 --> 00:44:51,585
♪ And I'm never ever gonna get

798
00:44:51,619 --> 00:44:55,209
♪ Never ever gonna get old

799
00:45:02,182 --> 00:45:05,047
The show was cut short after
a blocked artery forced him

800
00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:07,497
to have emergency heart surgery.

801
00:45:07,532 --> 00:45:10,846
He retired from live
performing three years later

802
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,470
and stepped out of the public
eye to focus on his family,

803
00:45:14,504 --> 00:45:17,162
but he never stopped being
part of the music scene

804
00:45:17,197 --> 00:45:19,233
and continued to produce albums.

805
00:45:33,144 --> 00:45:35,767
On January 10th, 2016,

806
00:45:35,802 --> 00:45:39,322
the world was shaken
by heartbreaking news,

807
00:45:39,357 --> 00:45:42,705
David Bowie died
from liver cancer.

808
00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:44,707
He apparently had
been quietly battling

809
00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:47,399
with it for 18 months.

810
00:45:47,434 --> 00:45:49,919
He had told very
few people about it,

811
00:45:49,954 --> 00:45:53,958
focusing rather on creating
a new album "Blackstar",

812
00:45:53,992 --> 00:45:57,168
which would reveal itself
being a farewell album.

813
00:45:58,617 --> 00:46:00,723
Blackstar reflected
the theme of death

814
00:46:00,758 --> 00:46:04,313
and mortality and
mysticism of the afterlife.

815
00:46:04,347 --> 00:46:07,005
And he wanted his last
album to outlive him.

816
00:46:08,524 --> 00:46:11,389
Days before his death, people
didn't guess that he was ill.

817
00:46:12,562 --> 00:46:15,117
He put on a brave
face until the end.

818
00:46:15,151 --> 00:46:16,325
And even the press wrote

819
00:46:16,359 --> 00:46:18,845
that he looked very
well and healthy,

820
00:46:18,879 --> 00:46:22,745
but behind the podium from
his Lazarus musical premiere,

821
00:46:22,780 --> 00:46:25,403
he collapsed from exhaustion.

822
00:46:26,611 --> 00:46:29,372
Having kept his illness
a secret from the world,

823
00:46:29,407 --> 00:46:32,859
he died two days after
his 69th birthday

824
00:46:32,893 --> 00:46:37,173
and the release of his 25th
and final album "Blackstar",

825
00:46:37,208 --> 00:46:40,314
which took on a whole
new unexpected depth.

826
00:46:42,006 --> 00:46:47,011
♪ By the time I
got to New York ♪

827
00:46:49,565 --> 00:46:54,570
♪ I was living like a king

828
00:46:56,710 --> 00:47:01,197
♪ There I'd used
up all my money ♪

829
00:47:01,232 --> 00:47:05,512
- Obviously, the Blackstar
album, everybody's now,

830
00:47:05,546 --> 00:47:09,688
since he died, has seen
the meaning in the lyrics

831
00:47:09,723 --> 00:47:12,105
and it's really obvious now,

832
00:47:12,139 --> 00:47:14,279
but obviously without him dying,

833
00:47:14,314 --> 00:47:16,040
it wouldn't have been
that obvious at all.

834
00:47:16,074 --> 00:47:19,664
- He was just always out
there ahead extraordinary.

835
00:47:19,698 --> 00:47:23,219
And then the ultimate

836
00:47:24,358 --> 00:47:26,360
artistically planning
for his own death.

837
00:47:27,534 --> 00:47:30,295
When they were making
the album Blackstar,

838
00:47:30,330 --> 00:47:33,989
which actually was in
the first half of 2015,

839
00:47:35,887 --> 00:47:38,890
at one point, Tony
Visconti, his producer,

840
00:47:38,925 --> 00:47:42,929
looked to him and said, "You're
writing a farewell album,"

841
00:47:44,689 --> 00:47:45,724
and Bowie laughed.

842
00:47:47,174 --> 00:47:52,145
Tony Visconti was the first
to realize, this is goodbye.

843
00:47:54,181 --> 00:47:59,186
To make even your final
weekend a work of art.

844
00:48:00,567 --> 00:48:04,122
This is just off the
scale of performance art.

845
00:48:04,157 --> 00:48:07,954
It takes your breath
away, such courage,

846
00:48:09,162 --> 00:48:12,337
and the scene where
he walks backwards

847
00:48:12,372 --> 00:48:14,305
into the wardrobe
and closes the door.

848
00:48:34,152 --> 00:48:35,429
- All
his life, he dealt

849
00:48:35,464 --> 00:48:38,260
with personal and
professional struggles.

850
00:48:38,294 --> 00:48:41,919
And his career wasn't always
filled with successes,

851
00:48:41,953 --> 00:48:45,370
but he always overcame
what life through at him.

852
00:48:45,405 --> 00:48:46,751
- People were actually ringing

853
00:48:46,785 --> 00:48:50,272
in a state of shock
and incredibly upset.

854
00:48:50,306 --> 00:48:54,724
So many people were so touched
by it and so shocked by it

855
00:48:54,759 --> 00:48:58,659
because I think Bowie, because
he was quite over-worldly,

856
00:48:58,694 --> 00:49:03,250
you never really thought
he had the same mortality.

857
00:49:03,285 --> 00:49:06,081
And it was a shock, it
was a terrible shock.

858
00:49:06,115 --> 00:49:09,049
- You can never imagine
such a loss until it happens

859
00:49:09,084 --> 00:49:11,327
because he was a life force.

860
00:49:11,362 --> 00:49:14,158
And the reason why so
many people are touched

861
00:49:14,192 --> 00:49:19,128
by this news is because he
touched their personal lives.

862
00:49:20,371 --> 00:49:22,269
In the 1970s, with all
of those various images

863
00:49:22,304 --> 00:49:25,031
that he went through, he was
always doing some variation

864
00:49:25,065 --> 00:49:28,448
of the other, the outsider,
and every young person thinks

865
00:49:28,482 --> 00:49:31,140
of themselves as the other,
the outsider, the freak,

866
00:49:31,175 --> 00:49:34,661
and they latched on to one or
more of those Bowie images.

867
00:49:34,695 --> 00:49:36,628
And thus his loss
is very personal

868
00:49:36,663 --> 00:49:38,768
to so many people
watching at this moment.

869
00:49:40,184 --> 00:49:42,151
- Bowie channeled
his family's mental illness

870
00:49:42,186 --> 00:49:45,258
by expressing himself
through different personas.

871
00:49:45,292 --> 00:49:48,951
He overcame drug addiction
and found peace and stability.

872
00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:51,678
He never stopped
reaching for the stars

873
00:49:51,712 --> 00:49:54,301
and influenced generations.

874
00:49:54,336 --> 00:49:56,372
Family, frustration,

875
00:49:56,407 --> 00:50:00,238
and failure would shape
the icon we know today.

876
00:50:00,273 --> 00:50:01,412
- He's one of a kind.

877
00:50:03,517 --> 00:50:06,141
This is one reason why
the grief is so widespread

878
00:50:06,175 --> 00:50:10,145
and so deep is because
people know that this is it.

879
00:50:10,179 --> 00:50:11,180
That was it.

880
00:50:12,595 --> 00:50:15,150
Just to think that the earth
is billions of years old

881
00:50:15,184 --> 00:50:18,015
and you happen to live at
the same time as David Bowie.

882
00:50:19,188 --> 00:50:21,915
Well, we did see someone
unique that's for sure.

883
00:50:23,089 --> 00:50:24,987
- He did everything
and he never stopped.

884
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:28,646
He never stopped challenging
himself for his audience

885
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,441
and I think that's
incredibly special.

886
00:50:30,475 --> 00:50:31,821
I mean, when you look

887
00:50:31,856 --> 00:50:35,791
at today's artists no
one's pushing it like that.

888
00:50:36,964 --> 00:50:38,621
It just doesn't touch
people in the same way.

889
00:50:38,656 --> 00:50:39,967
- It's
magic, his music is magic.

890
00:50:40,002 --> 00:50:42,625
It takes you places,
it's other worldliness,

891
00:50:42,660 --> 00:50:44,938
it's so spiritualist in a sense,

892
00:50:44,972 --> 00:50:46,664
but it's about romance and love

893
00:50:46,698 --> 00:50:47,906
and everything that's
good in the world

894
00:50:47,941 --> 00:50:49,839
about being different
and being accepted.

895
00:50:49,874 --> 00:50:52,118
- He teaches us that
change is possible,

896
00:50:52,152 --> 00:50:54,051
that we're not fixed
as human beings,

897
00:50:54,085 --> 00:50:56,536
that we can be anything
that we wanna be.

898
00:50:56,570 --> 00:50:59,435
And he also really spoke
to people that are unique

899
00:50:59,470 --> 00:51:01,506
that don't quite fit
in because he was kind

900
00:51:01,541 --> 00:51:05,648
of this alien angel child that
came down to set us all free.

901
00:51:07,167 --> 00:51:11,068
- When he was at his peak, it
was completely all inspiring.

902
00:51:12,586 --> 00:51:16,694
And you go to see the shows and
they'd be utterly different.

903
00:51:18,282 --> 00:51:21,250
Not all of them successful,
but hey, it didn't matter

904
00:51:21,285 --> 00:51:25,082
because come back in six months
and there'd be a new one.

905
00:51:25,116 --> 00:51:26,497
And that's literally
the way it was.

906
00:51:26,531 --> 00:51:29,948
And this is how Bowie could
have the occasional mess

907
00:51:31,053 --> 00:51:32,503
and no one held that against him

908
00:51:32,537 --> 00:51:34,056
because they knew they're
trying something different

909
00:51:34,091 --> 00:51:36,023
and then he'd be back in six
months or something else.

910
00:51:36,058 --> 00:51:40,752
- When I was a teenager,
I had it in my mind

911
00:51:40,787 --> 00:51:43,341
that I would be a
creator of musicals.

912
00:51:43,376 --> 00:51:45,171
I sincerely wanted
to write musicals

913
00:51:47,104 --> 00:51:49,106
for the West End or
for Broadway, whatever.

914
00:51:49,140 --> 00:51:52,833
I didn't see much further
than that as a writer

915
00:51:52,868 --> 00:51:54,283
and I really had
the idea in my head

916
00:51:54,318 --> 00:51:56,492
that people would do my songs.

917
00:51:56,527 --> 00:51:58,632
And I was not a
natural performer.

918
00:51:58,667 --> 00:52:01,152
I didn't feel the
decency at all.

919
00:52:01,187 --> 00:52:03,913
I had created this one
character, Ziggy Stardust,

920
00:52:03,948 --> 00:52:06,675
that it seemed that I would
be the one that would play him

921
00:52:06,709 --> 00:52:08,642
because nobody else
was doing my songs

922
00:52:08,677 --> 00:52:09,919
and the chances of him

923
00:52:09,954 --> 00:52:12,681
actually getting musical
mounted were very small.

924
00:52:12,715 --> 00:52:15,477
And so I became Ziggy
Stardust for that period.

925
00:52:15,511 --> 00:52:18,721
And things sort of
led, I liked the idea

926
00:52:18,756 --> 00:52:20,447
and I felt really
comfortable going

927
00:52:20,482 --> 00:52:22,242
on stage as somebody else.

928
00:52:22,277 --> 00:52:27,282
And it seemed a rational
decision to keep on doing that.

929
00:52:28,904 --> 00:52:30,837
And so I've got quite
decided with the idea

930
00:52:30,871 --> 00:52:32,977
of just creating
character after character.

931
00:52:34,841 --> 00:52:36,946
And I think probably
there must've been a point

932
00:52:36,981 --> 00:52:39,811
in the late 70s,
or in otherwise,

933
00:52:39,846 --> 00:52:41,606
where I felt that
the characters were

934
00:52:41,641 --> 00:52:45,023
in fact getting in the
way of myself as a writer

935
00:52:45,058 --> 00:52:47,302
and I endeavored to
kind of kill them off

936
00:52:47,336 --> 00:52:52,341
and start writing for me as
just a singer songwriter.

937
00:52:53,584 --> 00:52:55,172
I'm not sure if I was
ever successful in that

938
00:52:55,206 --> 00:52:58,451
because I do take a
degree of theatricality

939
00:52:58,485 --> 00:52:59,900
when I go on stage all the time.

940
00:52:59,935 --> 00:53:03,110
It's sort of that's how I
deal with the stage situation.

941
00:53:03,145 --> 00:53:04,733
I'm still not
comfortable on stage.

942
00:53:04,767 --> 00:53:07,287
- But I mean David Bowie
himself is an invention.

943
00:53:07,322 --> 00:53:09,807
I mean, do you think
you've yourself as Bowie

944
00:53:09,841 --> 00:53:11,498
or David Jones
from South London?

945
00:53:13,431 --> 00:53:16,641
- Less and less Bowie,
Bowie, Bowie .

946
00:53:16,676 --> 00:53:21,543
- The astonishing body of work
that an amazing collection

947
00:53:21,577 --> 00:53:25,098
of music that is so
original all the time,

948
00:53:25,132 --> 00:53:28,239
and that sometimes draws on
what's around at the time

949
00:53:28,274 --> 00:53:31,277
and all the times kind
of sets the agenda

950
00:53:31,311 --> 00:53:33,244
for all the new musicians.

951
00:53:33,279 --> 00:53:35,453
I don't think there's a
single rock musician today

952
00:53:35,488 --> 00:53:38,422
who hasn't been influenced by
Bowie in some way or other.

953
00:53:40,044 --> 00:53:42,598
- He was a giant of
the music industry.

954
00:53:42,633 --> 00:53:46,464
Not just someone who had been
successful over a long period,

955
00:53:46,499 --> 00:53:48,949
which is a very
difficult thing to do,

956
00:53:48,984 --> 00:53:52,539
but someone who consistently
pushed the boundaries,

957
00:53:52,574 --> 00:53:55,404
who consistently challenged

958
00:53:55,439 --> 00:53:57,095
what people would
expect to hear.

959
00:53:58,856 --> 00:54:00,582
- He earned
our respect as he chose

960
00:54:00,616 --> 00:54:04,655
to stay true to himself
rather than commercially safe.

961
00:54:04,689 --> 00:54:07,830
- The odds against another
David Bowie are astronomical

962
00:54:07,865 --> 00:54:10,281
because of the
commercial pressures

963
00:54:10,316 --> 00:54:14,527
of the music industry forced
most artists to conform.

964
00:54:14,561 --> 00:54:16,805
Occasionally, there's someone
who stays true to themselves

965
00:54:16,839 --> 00:54:20,257
like Adele and the public
latch onto that and love it.

966
00:54:20,291 --> 00:54:22,397
But very few, even
of those kinds

967
00:54:22,431 --> 00:54:24,675
of artists have the
variety of interests

968
00:54:24,709 --> 00:54:26,746
and talents that Bowie did.

969
00:54:26,780 --> 00:54:29,231
Even now to watch him
in his film roles,

970
00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:32,510
whether they're great films
or not, he is charismatic,

971
00:54:32,545 --> 00:54:35,133
he is a presence
to contend with.

972
00:54:35,168 --> 00:54:37,688
And I think of so many
people watching right now

973
00:54:37,722 --> 00:54:40,069
who will in their minds have
an image of David Bowie,

974
00:54:40,104 --> 00:54:41,588
but it won't be the same image

975
00:54:41,623 --> 00:54:43,418
because he did so
many different things.

976
00:54:43,452 --> 00:54:45,040
Such a variety of styles

977
00:54:45,074 --> 00:54:48,906
and images can only come
from an inquiring mind.

978
00:54:48,940 --> 00:54:53,945
And that's what Bowie had an
intensely interested mind.

979
00:54:55,361 --> 00:54:56,534
He was always picking up
elements of the avant-garde

980
00:54:56,569 --> 00:54:58,674
and bringing them
into the mainstream.

981
00:54:58,709 --> 00:55:01,125
And thus in the 1970s alone,

982
00:55:01,159 --> 00:55:04,093
we had this amazing
progression, science fiction

983
00:55:04,128 --> 00:55:09,133
to bisexuality, to American
soul music, to electronic music,

984
00:55:10,307 --> 00:55:12,516
and the images, Ziggy
Stardust, Aladdin Sane,

985
00:55:12,550 --> 00:55:15,381
The Thin White
Duke, the Soul Look,

986
00:55:15,415 --> 00:55:17,452
the Berlin Electronic
Music Look.

987
00:55:17,486 --> 00:55:18,936
There was so much to digest.

988
00:55:18,970 --> 00:55:23,665
In the 1970s alone, 24
hits singles, 15 albums.

989
00:55:23,699 --> 00:55:25,149
This is amazing.

990
00:55:25,183 --> 00:55:26,702
And that's why people have
been digesting his work

991
00:55:26,737 --> 00:55:28,946
ever since, there's
just so much there.

992
00:55:30,361 --> 00:55:32,984
- My phone started
ringing at 7:00 o'clock

993
00:55:33,019 --> 00:55:36,678
in the morning that David
Bowie's death was announced.

994
00:55:36,712 --> 00:55:39,922
I have not had so many requests
for broadcast commentaries

995
00:55:39,957 --> 00:55:43,409
since John Lennon
day 36 years ago.

996
00:55:44,375 --> 00:55:45,721
That's phenomenal.

997
00:55:45,756 --> 00:55:48,862
That tells you the
widespread impact of Bowie

998
00:55:48,897 --> 00:55:51,417
amongst the current generation

999
00:55:51,451 --> 00:55:52,935
'just that hundreds
of millions of people

1000
00:55:52,970 --> 00:55:57,077
all had personal relationships
with David Bowie.

1001
00:55:58,665 --> 00:56:03,083
And this is what became so
movingly apparent so quickly.

1002
00:56:03,118 --> 00:56:05,879
This showed you that
somehow some aspect

1003
00:56:05,914 --> 00:56:10,021
of his life had affected
the widest possible range

1004
00:56:10,056 --> 00:56:11,782
of world personalities

1005
00:56:11,816 --> 00:56:14,129
and of course people
who were not famous.

1006
00:56:15,026 --> 00:56:17,097
I found this deeply moving.

1007
00:56:17,132 --> 00:56:20,825
Genius is an overused word,
but I think musically,

1008
00:56:20,860 --> 00:56:25,036
creatively, artistically
David Bowie was a genius.

1009
00:56:25,071 --> 00:56:26,797
For someone of my age,

1010
00:56:26,831 --> 00:56:29,420
he provided a lot of the
soundtrack of our life.

1011
00:56:29,455 --> 00:56:31,318
So we mourn the loss
of a great talent.

1012
00:56:31,353 --> 00:56:33,873
We think about his
family and friends

1013
00:56:33,907 --> 00:56:36,841
who've lost a loved
one too early,

1014
00:56:36,876 --> 00:56:40,776
but I think also we an
immense British talent

1015
00:56:40,811 --> 00:56:42,985
who has enriched
all of our lives.

1016
00:56:43,020 --> 00:56:45,056
- I grew up listening
to David Bowie.

1017
00:56:45,091 --> 00:56:46,644
My mom was really,
really loved him

1018
00:56:46,679 --> 00:56:49,406
and I suppose he was
my first introduction

1019
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,649
to sort of queerness
and outsider-ness

1020
00:56:51,684 --> 00:56:54,997
and just such a strong
joyful presence.

1021
00:56:55,032 --> 00:56:56,999
- Having him as an
influence from when

1022
00:56:57,034 --> 00:57:01,452
I was very young influenced
everything I've done really

1023
00:57:01,487 --> 00:57:04,800
from how I dress to
artwork to everything.

1024
00:57:04,835 --> 00:57:07,631
And just to being
confident in who I am.

1025
00:57:07,665 --> 00:57:10,806
He's done more for me
than anyone could really.

1026
00:57:15,846 --> 00:57:20,644
- I felt he just liberated so
people from mundane things.

1027
00:57:24,337 --> 00:57:25,821
He came from suburban,

1028
00:57:25,856 --> 00:57:28,410
just a lot of people
could relate to that.

1029
00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:32,897
And the how he just
made life just sexy

1030
00:57:32,932 --> 00:57:35,279
and vibrant
throughout his career.

1031
00:57:35,313 --> 00:57:38,144
It's gonna be a very different
world without Bowie in it.

1032
00:57:40,111 --> 00:57:42,389
I hadn't really given it a
lot thought about his passing,

1033
00:57:42,424 --> 00:57:43,874
'cause why would I?

1034
00:57:43,908 --> 00:57:47,291
It's like really thought he
would live forever, really.

1035
00:57:58,578 --> 00:58:00,580
- Few artists
mark the 20th century

1036
00:58:00,615 --> 00:58:02,651
like David Bowie did.

1037
00:58:02,686 --> 00:58:04,653
He was an astonishing,
passionate,

1038
00:58:04,688 --> 00:58:08,623
and eclectic performer that
didn't belong in a box.

1039
00:58:08,657 --> 00:58:11,211
Searching for change
was the only constant

1040
00:58:11,246 --> 00:58:13,351
that didn't change
throughout his life.

1041
00:58:14,698 --> 00:58:18,425
He was a true artist in
every sense of the word.

1042
00:58:18,460 --> 00:58:21,601
His art included not
only his music and sound,

1043
00:58:21,636 --> 00:58:26,641
but also his style
and appearance, his
films, and videos.

1044
00:58:27,814 --> 00:58:29,747
Bowie had a unique
vision and courage

1045
00:58:29,782 --> 00:58:33,475
and seem to turn
everything into art.

1046
00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:35,995
The Human League
Founder, Martyn Ware,

1047
00:58:36,029 --> 00:58:37,962
declared that he lived his life

1048
00:58:37,997 --> 00:58:40,655
as though he were
an art installation.

1049
00:58:40,689 --> 00:58:43,589
His influence is deep.

1050
00:58:43,623 --> 00:58:48,628
- His generosity, his energy,
his spirit, so full, so real.

1051
00:58:50,147 --> 00:58:53,391
That's the essence of being
alive because let's face it,

1052
00:58:53,426 --> 00:58:54,979
how many people can die

1053
00:58:55,014 --> 00:58:57,534
and have 28 albums sell
in large quantities.

1054
00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:02,297
- What he
did is absolutely timeless,

1055
00:59:02,331 --> 00:59:04,471
will be listening to
in 100 years' time.

1056
00:59:04,506 --> 00:59:07,854
Any musicians out there,
listen to the chords he used,

1057
00:59:07,889 --> 00:59:11,168
they are so
unbelievably difficult.

1058
00:59:11,202 --> 00:59:13,584
The song structures
are just incredible.

1059
00:59:13,619 --> 00:59:15,275
He doesn't write three
minute pop songs,

1060
00:59:15,310 --> 00:59:18,106
he wrote pieces of art
that we can listen to.

1061
00:59:18,140 --> 00:59:22,524
- If you were there in the
60s and 70s, you were there,

1062
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:24,146
if you weren't, you missed.

1063
00:59:25,354 --> 00:59:27,874
You can still love the
music, don't worry.

1064
00:59:27,909 --> 00:59:30,394
But to have been there
as well as to have lived

1065
00:59:30,428 --> 00:59:33,777
through a very special
moment in musical history,

1066
00:59:33,811 --> 00:59:37,574
and David Bowie is one of
the giants of the period.