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DAVID: Time.
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One of the most
complex expressions.
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Memory made manifest.
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It's something that
straddles past and future
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without ever quite
being present.
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Or rather, it at first seems
indifferent to the present.
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There's a tension of a most
unfathomable nature.
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The word desires
to be understood.
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To have meaning.
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But you somehow feel
that it's not you yourself
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that the word is addressing.
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It washes over you,
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holding a dialogue
with something arcane
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that's maybe not mortal.
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And you feel intrigued.
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Captured even.
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You're aware
of a deeper existence.
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Maybe a temporary reassurance
that indeed
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there is no beginning, no end.
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And all at once,
the outward appearance
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of meaning is transcended.
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And you find yourself
struggling to comprehend
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a deep and formidable mystery.
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All is transient.
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Does it matter?
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Do I bother?
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[INCHWORM SONG]
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♪ Inchworm, Inchworm ♪
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♪ Measuring the marigolds ♪
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♪ You and your... ♪
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DAVID: All those moments
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will be lost in time
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like tears...
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Dust...
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Cover me moon dust.
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Cover me...
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[HALLO SPACEBOY SONG]
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♪ Space boy, you're sleepy now ♪
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♪ Your silhouette
is so stationary ♪
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♪ You're released,
but your custody calls ♪
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♪ And I want to be free ♪
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♪ Don't you want to be free ♪
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♪ Do you like girls or boys? ♪
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♪ It's confusing these days ♪
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♪ But Moondust will cover you ♪
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♪ Cover you ♪
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♪ So bye bye love ♪
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♪ Yeah bye bye love ♪
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♪ Hallo, Space boy ♪
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♪ This chaos is killing me ♪
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♪ Hallo, Space boy ♪
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NEIL: Ground to Major,
bye bye, Tom.
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DAVID:
♪ This chaos is killing me ♪
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NEIL: ♪ Dead the circuit,
countdown's wrong ♪
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DAVID:
♪ This chaos is killing me ♪
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NEIL: Planet Earth,
is control on?
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DAVID: ♪ So sleepy now ♪
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NEIL: ♪ Do you wanna be free? ♪
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BOTH:
♪ Don't you wanna be free? ♪
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♪ Do you like girls or boys? ♪
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♪ It's confusing these days ♪
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DAVID:
♪ But moon dust will cover you ♪
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♪ Cover you ♪
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♪ So bye bye love ♪
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♪ Yeah, bye bye love ♪
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♪ Hallo Space boy ♪
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♪ Space boy, Space boy... ♪
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WOMAN: I wanted to see him.
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MAN:
What are you so upset about?
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GIRL: I wanted to see him.
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They said he was
coming round the back.
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I've been waiting
for ages to see him.
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MAN: Why are you so upset?
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GIRL: He's smashing.
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GIRL 2: I kissed him!
I kissed his hand!
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[HALLO SPACEBOY SONG]
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DAVID: ♪ Hallo Space boy ♪
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♪ Hallo, hallo. ♪
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DICK CAVETT: Rumors
and questions have arisen,
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such as who is he, what is he,
where did he come from?
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Is he a creature
of a foreign power?
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Is he a creep? Is he dangerous?
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Is he smart, dumb,
nice to his parents,
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real, a put-on, crazy,
sane, man, woman, robot?
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What is this?
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Ladies and gentlemen,
David Bowie.
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[WILD EYED BOY
FROM FREECLOUD SONG]
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♪ Solemn faced ♪
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♪ The village settles down ♪
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♪ Undetected by the stars ♪
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♪ Hangman plays the mandolin ♪
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♪ before he goes to sleep ♪
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♪ And the last thing
on his mind ♪
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♪ Is the Wild Eyed Boy
imprisoned ♪
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♪ 'Neath the covered
wooden shaft ♪
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♪ Folds the rope into its bag ♪
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♪ Blows his pipe of smolders ♪
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♪ Blankets smoke into the room ♪
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♪ And the day
will end for some ♪
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♪ As the night begins for one ♪
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♪ Staring through the message
in his eyes ♪
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♪ Lies a solitary son ♪
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♪ From the mountain
called Free cloud ♪
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♪ Where the eagle dare not fly ♪
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♪ And the patience in his sigh ♪
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♪ Gives no indication ♪
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♪ For the townsmen to decide ♪
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♪ So the village
dreadful yawns ♪
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♪ Pronouncing gross diversion ♪
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♪ As the label for the dog ♪
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♪ Oh, "It's the madness
in his eyes" ♪
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♪ As he breaks
the night to cry ♪
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♪ It's really me ♪
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♪ Really you and really me ♪
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♪ It's so hard
for us to really be ♪
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♪ Really you and really me ♪
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♪ You'll lose me,
though I'm always ♪
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♪ Really free ♪
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♪ Yeah... ♪
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[ALL THE YOUNG DUDES SONG]
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♪ Jimmy rapped all night
about his suicide ♪
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♪ How he'd kick it in the head
when he was 25 ♪
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♪ All that speed jive ♪
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♪ Don't want to stay alive
when you're 25 ♪
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♪ Lucy's stealing clothes
from unlocked cars ♪
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♪ Freddy's got spots ♪
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♪ from ripping off the stars
from his face, honey ♪
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♪ A funky little boat race ♪
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♪ The television man is crazy ♪
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♪ Saying we're juvenile
delinquent wrecks ♪
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♪ But, man, I need a TV
when I've got T. Rex ♪
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♪ Hey, brother, you guessed ♪
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♪ I'm a dude ♪
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♪ All the young dudes ♪
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♪ Carry the news ♪
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♪ Boogaloo dudes ♪
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♪ Carry the news ♪
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♪ All the young dudes ♪
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♪ Carry the news ♪
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♪ Boogaloo dudes Yeah ♪
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♪ Carry the news ♪
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[OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS SONG]
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♪ Wake up you sleepy head ♪
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♪ Put on some clothes,
shake up your bed ♪
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♪ Put another log
on the fire for me ♪
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♪ I've made some
breakfast and coffee ♪
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♪ I look out my window
what do I see ♪
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♪ A crack in the sky
and a hand... ♪
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♪ Reaching down... ♪
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♪ To me... ♪
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♪ All the nightmares
came today ♪
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♪ And it looks as though
they're here to stay... ♪
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[LIFE ON MARS? SONG]
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♪ It's a God-awful
small affair ♪
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♪ To the girl with
the mousy hair ♪
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♪ But her mummy
is yelling, "No" ♪
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♪ And her daddy
has told her to go ♪
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♪ But her friend is
nowhere to be seen... ♪
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MAN: He's just
another fella, you know?
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WOMAN: No, he's not.
He's different.
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MAN: Well, nobody like
him can produce the music.
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MAN 2:
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WOMAN:
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MAN: Davie's the greatest,
and I'll say it again.
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Dave's the greatest,
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and I'll say it again,
Dave's the greatest.
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And I seen him onstage,
and he was fantastic.
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I'll follow that bloke anywhere
'cause he's the greatest.
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And I'll say it again,
he's the greatest.
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MAN 2: Listen, you don't have
to be bent to wear makeup.
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It looks good,
so why not wear it?
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WOMAN: Even if it's camp,
but he's sexy, isn't he?
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Sort of thing, really.
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DAVID: If I can
tart it all up enough,
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maybe people will see that it
has a lot to do with just them.
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INTERVIEWER:
What, with reflection?
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DAVID: Yeah, that it is really
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a reflection
of what they're like.
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HOST: Mr. Powell, Mr. Jenkins.
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[indistinct]
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Businessmen in general...
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Best watch it.
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INTERVIEWER: How are you?
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DAVID: I'm very well,
thank you. How are you?
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INTERVIEWER I'm fine.
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DAVID: Good. How are you?
How are you?
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INTERVIEWER: You, uh,
have to get the gear on
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in order to project yourself.
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I mean, were you a nobody
who suddenly thought,
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"Jesus, I must get into
the scene by some other way"?
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DAVID: I never asked
Jesus for a think, no.
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It was always
on my own initiative.
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And...
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When I was 14, I became a Mod,
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and it just carried
on from there.
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I've always dressed
in what I considered clothes
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that are exciting for me,
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um, to prevent me
becoming humdrum
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so that I would receive
reaction from people
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which would
encourage me to write.
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INTERVIEWER: You will have
obviously as many men followers
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- as you have women followers.
- DAVID: Yes.
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INTERVIEWER: I mean,
you haven't been shy about
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declaring a certain
air of bisexuality.
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DAVID: Not at all.
I know quite a few men.
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WOMAN: Some people feel you're...
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By saying you're bisexual.
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By... by kind of flaunting
that in a way...
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DAVID: Who's flaunting it?
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INTERVIEWER: Why do
you think that bisexuality in,
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say '72, '73 has become
a common... not a common,
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but an accepted kind of deal.
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Why do you think we
have moved into that
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era of liberal behavior?
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DAVID: Once upon
a time, your father,
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my father, everybody's
father, I presume,
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wanted a good job, with a good
income, or reasonable income.
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Some chance of promotion
to secure their family life.
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Um, where's the camera?
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You're probably fine there,
and that's where it ended.
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But now, people
want a role in society.
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They want to feel that
they have a position.
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They want to be an individual,
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and I think there's
a lot of searching to find
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the individual within oneself.
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INTERVIEWER: Right,
and how about the shoes?
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Are those men's shoes,
or women's shoes,
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or bisexual shoes?
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DAVID: They're
shoe shoes, silly.
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DAVID: There was a feeling
of excitement and titillation
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about moving in areas
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which were forbidden
to the rest of society.
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From micro to macro,
from yin to yang,
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from male to female,
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there is no scissor cut.
No absolute.
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I believe that there was
an unconscious move to create
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a high priest form from
the line of the Greek gods
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who could procreate themselves.
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Somebody who
was at a super level
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to we regular mortals, because
of his androgynous nature,
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being somebody that incorporated
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both feminine
and masculine attributes.
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[MOONAGE DAYDREAM SONG]
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♪ I'm an alligator ♪
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♪ I'm a mama-papa
comin' for you ♪
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♪ I'm the space invader ♪
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♪ I'll be a rock 'n' rollin'
bitch for you ♪
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♪ Keep your mouth shut ♪
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♪ You're squawking
like a pink monkey bird ♪
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♪ And I'm bustin' up my
brains for the words ♪
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Know I am.
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♪ Keep your 'lectric eye
on me, babe ♪
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♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪
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♪ Press your space
face close to mine, love ♪
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♪ Freak out in a moon age
daydream, oh yeah! ♪
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♪ Don't fake it baby ♪
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♪ Lay the real thing on me ♪
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♪ You know,
the church of man, love ♪
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♪ Is such a holy place to be ♪
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♪ Don't fake it, baby ♪
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♪ Make me know you really care ♪
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♪ Make me jump into the air ♪
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♪ If you dare ♪
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♪ Keep your 'lectric eye
on me, babe ♪
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♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪
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♪ Press your space
face close to mine, love ♪
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♪ Freak out in a moon age
daydream, oh yeah! ♪
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DAVID: It was
a pudding, you know?
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It was a pudding of new ideas.
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I think we took it
on our shoulders
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that we were creating
the 21st century in 1971.
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We wanted to just blast
everything in the past.
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Question all the established
values, all the taboos.
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Everything is rubbish
and all rubbish is wonderful.
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[MOONAGE DAYDREAM SONG
CONTINUES]
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♪ Keep your 'lectric eye
on me, babe ♪
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♪ Put your ray gun to my head ♪
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♪ Press your space
face close to mine, love ♪
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♪ Freak out in a moon age
daydream, oh yeah! ♪
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♪ Freak out ♪
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♪ Far out ♪
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♪ In a... ♪
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WOMAN: I just didn't... to this.
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I've never seen anything
like this before.
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WOMAN 2: See, I'm just a space
cadet, he's the commander.
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MAN: What universe is that?
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MAN 2: Bowie universe.
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WOMAN: Now nobody's scared
to walk around like that,
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are they?
He's done it, ain't he.
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He's broke through
a barrier, now, ain't he?
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WOMAN 2: I guess I'm living
my fantasy, you know?
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MAN: What's your fantasy?
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WOMAN 2: Oh, Bowie.
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MAN: I like people
who are AC/DC.
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You know what I mean?
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INTERVIEWER: Do the clothes,
you are trying to say,
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are the clothes expressed
now your own personality?
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DAVID: Um, no, that I've
never been quite clear about.
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I've never been sure
of my own personality.
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INTERVIEWER:
That's very refreshing.
301
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That's a very refreshing thing
to hear somebody say that.
302
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Very. But can you fill us
in on the barest outlines?
303
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DAVID: I'm a collector.
304
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Um, and I've always just
seemed to collect personalities,
305
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um, ideas. I have
a hodge podge philosophy
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which really is very minimal.
Um, [indistinct] what?
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INTERVIEWER: [indistinct]
Do you believe in God?
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DAVID: Um, I believe
in an energy form.
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I'm not... I wouldn't put a
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I wouldn't like to
put a name to it.
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INTERVIEWER: Do you
indulge in any form of worship?
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DAVID: Um, uh, life.
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I love life very much indeed.
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DAVID: My strivings to have
some kind of spiritual base
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were really, really
strong all my life,
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and I think I tried
to amalgamate
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my own bedrock of spirituality.
318
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I mean, I was
a Buddhist on Tuesday,
319
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and I was into
Nietzsche by Friday.
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INTERVIEWER: Some time
flirting with Buddhism,
321
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and spending some
time in a Buddhist retreat.
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DAVID: I mean, I felt at
the time that I was, you know,
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um, Buddha's answer to
everything he wanted man to be,
324
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but I'm... the one thing that
hung over from that time
325
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was the feeling
of impermanence and transience.
326
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That was the one thing
that really struck home
327
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about everything
that I was learning.
328
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Nothing's gonna
stay around very long.
329
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I mean, you know,
everything changes
330
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different rates.
331
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Some seem to me sort
of established for a bit,
332
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but they're only moving at
a slower rate than other things
333
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and they're all inevitably
sort of a change-over.
334
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For me, there's always
been a thread of merely,
335
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um, a search.
336
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Generally, I think the subject
matters always come back
337
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to this singular question
of nearly every artist,
338
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which is what's my
relationship with the universe?
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Whatever other form
it takes that's basic,
340
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I think that's probably
the essential question
341
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that all of us ask ourselves.
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A lot of us probably
on that last few minutes.
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INTERVIEWER: What's Ziggy?
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DAVID: Ziggy, I wanted...
I wanted to define
345
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the archetype
"Messiah Rock star."
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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
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mime technique,
and fringe New York music.
349
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[LOVE ME DO SONG]
350
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♪ Love, love me do ♪
351
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♪ You know I love you ♪
352
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♪ I'll always be true ♪
353
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♪ So please ♪
354
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AUDIENCE: ♪ Love me do ♪
355
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DAVID: ♪ Loves to be loved ♪
356
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DAVID: Ziggy was for
me a very simplistic thing:
357
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What it seemed to
be, an alien rock star,
358
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but other people reread him
359
00:23:34,555 --> 00:23:36,951
and contributed more
information about Ziggy
360
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than I'd put into him.
361
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DAVID:
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DAVID: You know, we've
set ourselves up as such.
363
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We want it all.
364
00:24:11,823 --> 00:24:13,592
You know, we want
all the adulation,
365
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and people to read the lyrics,
and read and everything
366
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just to play the game.
367
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DAVID:
368
00:26:52,016 --> 00:26:54,060
DAVID: When I was really
young, one of the mysteries,
369
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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
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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
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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. ♪