Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 08. Januar 1947 |
Geburtsort | London |
Todesdatum | Sonntag, 10. Januar 2016 |
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Beschreibung | David Bowie (* 8. Januar 1947 als David Robert Jones in London; † 10. Januar 2016 in New York City) war ein britischer Musiker, Sänger, Produzent und Schauspieler. In seiner annähernd 50 Jahre dauernden Karriere war er mit 26 Studioalben einer der einflussreichsten Musiker der Rock- und Popmusik und mit rund 140 Millionen verkauften Tonträgern auch kommerziell sehr erfolgreich. |
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
