In the seventies gave David Bowie us who were teenagers floored by the record player with “Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars.” Now here we are 40 years later at the computer, watch the video to “Lazarus” with same floored. David Bowie went as he came: with a proper magaslag. He never ceased to surprise.
Through an over 40-year career has Bowie’s importance in popular culture stretched far beyond the purely musical. He has influenced fashion, film, design, video and computer games. But – how was it like? Where did it come from? Who was Bowie before he became Bowie and what was it that made him Bowie?
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My meeting with Bowie was Ziggy through album he released in 1972. With the he kicked open the door to the glam rock with makeup, feminine costumes and forbidden sexuality – a door at the time admittedly already stood slightly ajar. Men had discovered skirt, makeup and high heels but the special with David Bowie was that he not only shocked. He managed the feat to raise everything clatter to a level where it was important, so-called Zeitgeist, and some people took seriously. It made him an icon for all those who did not feel totally at ease in the mainstream, whether we were confused teenagers in search of identity, or gays and Skrull that was not spoiled by watching male rock stars simulate oral sex on guitarist’s publicly.
“I’m striving to entertain and could not dream of just go up on stage and recite me some songs. I had not endured. I’m the last one standing there and pretend that I’m a radio. I’d much rather be a color television, “said Bowie himself when he was asked about the wonderful sceneantrekkene he was designed to both himself and his band in 1972. There is no delusion to argue that the visual whole time has been just as important as the music .
Just two years ago created the Victoria and Albert Museum in London a large, retrospective Bowie exhibition titled “Bowie ice.” Through showing all artist pages and early influences were thought to come a little closer to the man behind. The curators claimed stubbornly that first key word was that he was a typical Briton and the Bowie phenomenon could not have arisen anywhere else than in England, specifically in the suburbs in Kent. Such things are always easy to say afterwards, but the point parts are reasonably. It is not difficult to imagine the young art enthusiasts David Robert Jones standing by the window upstairs in the terraced house and look out on the sleepy street in Bromley where all the houses are alike, all gardens are alike, all school uniforms are similar and dream ” Where fat it was not to be a real dandy? “.
As young he liked William S. Burroughs, Bertolt Brecht, Andy Warhol and George Orwell, people he felt he had more in common with them than contemporary pop stars. Little Richard was the first rock star that opened my eyes that rock was ready for something new: rock vocalist as an androgynous and flamboyant hero. Pantomime theater, kabuki and Japanese culture was another source of inspiration, and early music career consumed his Japanese fashion magazines, fell in love with Masayoshi Sukit photographs and fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto design. He learned to add classical kabukisminke and in its most heavy Ziggy Stardust period he will have spent up to two hours to get ready for each concert.
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It was so exciting with Bowie was that he was new for each album. Some of us fell off when he was brown and bland and disco-like with “Let’s dance,” but he has he continued to inspire new generations. His many shapes are perfect for the fashion industry, where ziggymanien somehow will never end. A number of famous models such as Kate Moss and Norwegian Iselin Steiro has posed as Bowie in fashion magazine VOGUE and STEIRO interpretation so successful that she also got to play Bowie in one of his videos.
To listen to “Lazarus” and know that David Bowie fought against cancer for 18 months makes me cry over the keyboard. Producer and collaborator Tony Visconti says that it is a farewell. I cried to twelve o’clock. So I drove on “Aladdin Sane” album at full throttle. “Gean Genie,” “Cracked Actor”, “The Prettiest Star,” “Panic in Detroit,” “Lady Grinning Soul,” “Let’s spend the night together,” incidentally best cover ever. And then – “Time”. And a line of text that are allowed to give a final freeze: “Time – he’s waiting in the wings. He speaks of senseless things. His script is you and me, boys … “
Now, someone turned off color television. We mourn David Bowie.
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