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I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superman."</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie" class="extiw" title="w:David Bowie">David Robert Jones</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/8_January" class="mw-redirect" title="8 January">8 January</a> <a href="/wiki/1947" class="mw-disambig" title="1947">1947</a> - <a href="/wiki/10_January" class="mw-redirect" title="10 January">10 January</a> <a href="/wiki/2016" class="mw-disambig" title="2016">2016</a>), known under his stage name <b>David Bowie</b>, was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg/220px-David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg/330px-David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="342" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about "old and other times" as though I had a lot of years behind me.</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Heathen_Tour_Bowie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Heathen_Tour_Bowie.jpg/220px-Heathen_Tour_Bowie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Heathen_Tour_Bowie.jpg/330px-Heathen_Tour_Bowie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Heathen_Tour_Bowie.jpg/440px-Heathen_Tour_Bowie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="463" data-file-height="617" /></a><figcaption>Heathenism is a state of <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> … I'm referring to one who does not see his <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>. He has no <a href="/wiki/Mental" class="mw-redirect" title="Mental">mental</a> <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>. He <a href="/wiki/Destroys" class="mw-redirect" title="Destroys">destroys</a> almost unwittingly. He cannot <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a> any <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">Gods</a> presence in his <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. He is the 21st century man.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a>. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superman."</b> <ul><li>Quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/rs206-david-bowie/">this interview</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" class="extiw" title="w:Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> #206 (12 February 1976); a slightly altered version of the quote has appeared in various sources such as <i>Fas Ferox - A Modern Day Mythology - World Walkthrough</i> (2006), edited by Anna Young and James Curcio: "I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a <a href="/wiki/Superhuman" class="mw-redirect" title="Superhuman">superhuman</a>.'"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=iHXT8olyMAsC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=instant+star">Quoted in the chapter on Bowie</a> in <i>Valentines & Vitriol</i> (1978) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Reed" class="extiw" title="w:Rex Reed">Rex Reed</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I suppose I’ve been knocking on heaven’s door for about 11 years now, with one sort of high or another. The only kinds of drugs I use, though, are ones that keep me working for longer periods of time. I haven’t gotten involved in anything heavy since ’68. I had a silly flirtation with smack then, but it was only for the mystery and enigma of trying it. I never really enjoyed it at all. I like fast drugs. I’ve said that many times. I hate falling out, where I can’t stand up and stuff. It seems like such a waste of time. I hate downs and slow drugs like grass. I hate sleep. I would much prefer staying up, just working, all the time. It makes me so mad that we can’t do anything about sleep or the common cold. <ul><li>As quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/david-bowie-playboy-magazine/">this interview</a> in <i>Playboy</i> magazine (September 1976)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians. <ul><li>1983 Comment, quoted in <i>Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies</i> 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I'm terribly intuitive—I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but <b>I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time</b>, that the majority of the stuff that I do is totally intuitive, totally about where I am physically and mentally at any moment in time and I have a far harder time than anybody else explaining it and analysing it. That's the territory of the artist anyway: to be quite at sea with what he does, and working towards <i>not</i> being intuive about it and being far more methodical and academic about it. <ul><li>"Sermon From the Savoy", <i>New Musical Express</i> (29 September 1984)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I think <a href="/wiki/Fame" title="Fame">fame</a> itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. <ul><li>Interviewed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="w:Q (magazine)"><i>Q</i> magazine</a> (April 1990)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">Music</a> has given me over 40 years of extraordinary experiences. I can't say that life's <a href="/wiki/Pains" class="mw-redirect" title="Pains">pains</a> or more tragic episodes have been diminished because of it. But it's allowed me so many <a href="/wiki/Moments" class="mw-redirect" title="Moments">moments</a> of <a href="/wiki/Companionship" title="Companionship">companionship</a> when I've been lonely and a sublime means of communication when I wanted to touch <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>. It's been both my <a href="/wiki/Doorway" class="mw-redirect" title="Doorway">doorway</a> of <a href="/wiki/Perception" title="Perception">perception</a> and the house that I live in.</b> <br /> I only <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> that it embraces you with the same lusty <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> <a href="/wiki/Force" title="Force">force</a> that it graciously offered me. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.berklee.edu/commencement/past">Commencement Address for the Berklee College of Music, at Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts (8 May 1999)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[While filming 'Ashes to Ashes'] So we're on the beach shooting this scene with a giant bulldozer. The camera was on a very long lens. [The camera is along way away, but the artist fills the frame] In this video I'm dressed from head to toe in a clown suit. Why not. I hear playback and the music starts. So off I go, I start singing and walking, but as soon as I do this old geezer with an old dog walk right between me and the camera... Well, knowing this is gonna take a while I walked past the old guy and sat next to camera in my full costume waiting for him to pass. As he is walking by camera the director said, excuse me Mr do you know who this is? The old guy looks at me from bottom to top and looks back to the director and said... "Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit." That was a huge moment for me, It put me back in my place and made me realize, yes I'm just a cunt in a clown suit. I think about that old guy all the time. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://tonythegigguy.com/queen-bitch-beat-city-bowie-special-sleeve-notes">http://tonythegigguy.com/queen-bitch-beat-city-bowie-special-sleeve-notes</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Never play to the gallery</b>... Never work for other people in what you do. Always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt that if you could manifest in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you co-exist with the rest of society... I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfil other people's expectations. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspirations_(film)" class="extiw" title="w:Inspirations (film)">Inspirations</a></i> (1997), quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-advice-young-artists/">"Looking back at David Bowie's invaluable advice for young artists"</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Ageing is an extraordinary process</b>... If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist … I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been. <ul><li>quoted by Aaron Hicklin in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.out.com/music/2016/1/11/david-bowie-obituary">"David Bowie: An Obituary"</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Livewire_interview_(2002)"><span id="Livewire_interview_.282002.29"></span>Livewire interview (2002)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Livewire interview (2002)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iman_and_David_Bowie_at_the_premiere_of_Moon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Iman_and_David_Bowie_at_the_premiere_of_Moon.jpg/220px-Iman_and_David_Bowie_at_the_premiere_of_Moon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Iman_and_David_Bowie_at_the_premiere_of_Moon.jpg/330px-Iman_and_David_Bowie_at_the_premiere_of_Moon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Iman_and_David_Bowie_at_the_premiere_of_Moon.jpg/440px-Iman_and_David_Bowie_at_the_premiere_of_Moon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2557" data-file-height="2036" /></a><figcaption>I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a> about things. But my <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a> does it for me, it really does.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.concertlivewire.com/interviews/bowie.htm">Livewire interview (16 June 2002)</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about "old and other times" as though I had a lot of years behind me.</b> Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory. When you're young, you're still "becoming", now at my age I am more concerned with "being". And not too long from now I'll be driven by "surviving", I'm sure. I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. <b>Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.</b> I didn't like writing "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathen_(The_Rays)" class="extiw" title="w:Heathen (The Rays)">Heathen</a>". There was something so ominous and final about it. It was early in the morning, the sun was rising and through the windows I could see two deer grazing down below in the field. In the distance a car was driving slowly past the reservoir and these words were just streaming out and there were tears running down my face. But I couldn't stop, they just flew out. <b>It's an odd feeling, like something else is guiding you, although forcing your hand is more like it.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly.</b> He cannot feel any <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">Gods</a>' presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.</b> There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. <b>The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.</b> <br /> What is very enlightening for me right now is that I sense that I'm arriving at a place of peace with my writing that I've never experienced before. I think I'm going to be writing some of the most worthwhile things that I've ever written in the coming years. I'm very confident and trusting in my abilities right now. But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Johnson">Robert Johnson</a> only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Song_lyrics">Song lyrics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Song lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bowie-DD-1974-10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Bowie-DD-1974-10.jpg/220px-Bowie-DD-1974-10.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Bowie-DD-1974-10.jpg/330px-Bowie-DD-1974-10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Bowie-DD-1974-10.jpg/440px-Bowie-DD-1974-10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="553" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>All the young dudes<br /> Carry the news…</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Bowie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_Bowie.jpg/220px-David_Bowie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_Bowie.jpg/330px-David_Bowie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_Bowie.jpg/440px-David_Bowie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="511" data-file-height="514" /></a><figcaption>As long as you're still smiling there's nothing more I need.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>All the young dudes<br /> Carry the news<br /> Boogaloo dudes<br /> Carry the news. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Young_Dudes_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:All the Young Dudes (song)">All The Young Dudes</a></i>, performed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_the_Hoople" class="extiw" title="w:Mott the Hoople">Mott the Hoople</a><i></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If our love song<br />Could fly over mountains,<br />Could laugh at the ocean,<br />Just like the films,<br />There's no reason<br />To feel all the hard times,<br />To lay down the hard lines.<br />It's absolutely true.<p>Nothing much could happen<br />Nothing we can't shake<br />Oh we're absolute beginners<br />With nothing much at stake<br />As long as you're still smiling<br />There's nothing more I need<br />I absolutely love you<br />But we're absolute beginners.<br />But if my love is your love<br />We're certain to succeed. </p><ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Beginners_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Absolute Beginners (song)">Absolute Beginners</a></i> (1986)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Space_Oddity_(1969)"><span id="Space_Oddity_.281969.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Space Oddity (album)">Space Oddity</a></i> (1969)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Space Oddity (1969)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ground Control to Major Tom.<br />Ground Control to Major Tom.<br />Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Space Oddity (song)">Space Oddity</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is Major Tom to Ground Control.<br />I'm stepping through the door,<br />And I'm floating in a most peculiar way.<br />And the stars look very different today.<p>For here<br />Am I sitting in a tin can,<br />Far above the world.<br />Planet Earth is blue,<br />And there's nothing I can do. </p><ul><li><i>Space Oddity</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I'm the cream<br />Of the great <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopia</a> dream.<br />And you're in the gleam<br />In the depths of your banker's spleen. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unwashed_and_Somewhat_Slightly_Dazed" class="extiw" title="w:Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed">Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World_(1970)"><span id="The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World_.281970.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World" class="extiw" title="w:The Man Who Sold the World">The Man Who Sold the World</a></i> (1970)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Man Who Sold the World (1970)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the corner of the morning in the past<br />I would sit and blame the master first and last.<br />All the roads were straight and narrow<br />And the prayers were small and yellow.<br />And the rumour spread that I was aging fast.<br />Then I ran across a monster who was sleeping<br />By a tree.<br />And I looked and frowned and the monster was me. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Width_of_a_Circle" class="extiw" title="w:The Width of a Circle">The Width of a Circle</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Day after day<br />They send my friends away<br />To mansions cold and grey.<br />To the far side of town<br />Where the thin men stalk the streets<br />While the sane stay underground.<p>Day after day,<br />They tell me I can go.<br />They tell me I can blow<br />To the far side of town<br />Where it's pointless to be high,<br />'Cause it's such a long way down. </p><ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Madmen_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:All the Madmen (song)">All the Madmen</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man is an obstacle, sad as the clown<br />(Oh by jingo)<br />So hold on to nothing, and he won't let you down. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_All_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:After All (David Bowie song)">After All</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Live to your rebirth and do what you will<br />(Oh by jingo)<br />Forget all I've said, please bear me no ill. <ul><li><i>After All</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when<br />Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend<br />Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes<br />I thought you died alone, a long long time ago. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:The Man Who Sold the World (song)">The Man Who Sold the World</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When all the world was very young<br />And mountain magic heavy hung<br />The supermen would walk in file<br />Guardians of a loveless isle. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supermen" class="extiw" title="w:The Supermen">The Supermen</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hunky_Dory_(1971)"><span id="Hunky_Dory_.281971.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunky_Dory" class="extiw" title="w:Hunky Dory">Hunky Dory</a></i> (1971)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Hunky Dory (1971)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tunnels_of_Time.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Tunnels_of_Time.jpg/220px-Tunnels_of_Time.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Tunnels_of_Time.jpg/330px-Tunnels_of_Time.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Tunnels_of_Time.jpg/440px-Tunnels_of_Time.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1991" data-file-height="1858" /></a><figcaption>I turned myself to face me<br />But I've never caught a glimpse<br />Of how the others must see the faker<br />I'm much too fast to take that test.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Still don't know what I was waiting for<br />And my time was running wild.</b><br />A million dead-end streets and<br />Every time I thought I'd got it made<br />It seemed the taste was not so sweet.<br /><b>So I turned myself to face me<br />But I've never caught a glimpse<br />Of how the others must see the faker<br />I'm much too fast to take that test.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Changes (David Bowie song)">Changes</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I watch the ripples change their size<br />But never leave the stream<br />Of warm impermanence.<br />So the days float through my eyes<br />But still the days seem the same.<br /><b>And these children that you spit on<br />As they try to change their worlds<br />Are immune to your consultations.<br />They're quite aware of what they're going through.</b> <ul><li><i>Changes</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes<br /> Turn and face the strange. <ul><li><i>Changes</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It's a god-awful small affair<br />To the girl with the mousy hair<br />But her mummy is yelling "No"<br />And her daddy has told her to go<br />But her friend is nowhere to be seen<br />Now she walks through her sunken dream<br />To the seat with the clearest view<br />And she's hooked to the silver screen.<br />But the film is a saddening bore<br />'Cause she's lived it ten times or more. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars%3F" class="extiw" title="w:Life on Mars?">Life on Mars?</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars_(1972)"><span id="The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars_.281972.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars" class="extiw" title="w:The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars">The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</a></i> (1972)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing<br />News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in.<br />News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying<br />Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Years" class="extiw" title="w:Five Years">Five Years</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There's a starman waiting in the sky<br />He'd like to come and meet us,<br /> But he thinks he'd blow our minds. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Starman (song)">Starman</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind<br />Like a leper messiah.<br />When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggy_Stardust_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Ziggy Stardust (song)">Ziggy Stardust</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ziggy played guitar. <ul><li><i>Ziggy Stardust</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>(Hey man) oh leave me alone you know<br />(Hey man) oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta<br />(Hey man) I gotta straighten my face<br />This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_City" class="extiw" title="w:Suffragette City">Suffragette City</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket<br />Back from Suffragette City<br />Oh don't lean on me man<br />'Cause you ain't got time to check it<br />You know my Suffragette City<br />Is outta sight...she's all right ...Ah wham, bam, thank you ma'am! <ul><li><i>Suffragette City</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aladdin_Sane_(1973)"><span id="Aladdin_Sane_.281973.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Sane" class="extiw" title="w:Aladdin Sane">Aladdin Sane</a></i> (1973)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Aladdin Sane (1973)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Who'll love Aladdin Sane?<br />Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise. <ul><li><i>Aladdin Sane</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Diamond_Dogs_(1974)"><span id="Diamond_Dogs_.281974.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Dogs" class="extiw" title="w:Diamond Dogs">Diamond Dogs</a></i> (1974)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Diamond Dogs (1974)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>This ain't rock'n'roll. This is genocide! <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Dogs_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Diamond Dogs (song)">Diamond Dogs</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You've got your mother in a whirl<br />She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl.<br />Hey babe, your hair's alright.<br />Hey babe, let's go out tonight.<br />You like me, and I like it all.<br />We like dancing and we look divine.<br />You love bands when they're playing hard.<br />You want more and you want it fast. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Rebel" class="extiw" title="w:Rebel Rebel">Rebel Rebel</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress.<br />Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess.<br />Rebel Rebel, how could they know?<br />Hot tramp, I love you so! <ul><li><i>Rebel Rebel</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Young_Americans_(1975)"><span id="Young_Americans_.281975.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Young Americans (album)">Young Americans</a></i> (1975)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Young Americans (1975)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Do you remember, your <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">President Nixon</a>?<br />Do you remember, the bills you have to pay?<br />Or even yesterday? <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Young Americans (song)">Young Americans</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fame, (fame) makes a man take things over<br />Fame, (fame) lets him loose, hard to swallow<br />Fame, (fame) puts you there where things are hollow<br />Fame (fame)<p>Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame<br />That burns your change to keep you insane (sane). </p><ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fame_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Fame (David Bowie song)">Fame</a></i>, written with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alomar" class="extiw" title="w:Carlos Alomar">Carlos Alomar</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Station_to_Station_(1976)"><span id="Station_to_Station_.281976.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_to_Station" class="extiw" title="w:Station to Station">Station to Station</a></i> (1976)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Station to Station (1976)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel<br />Come get up my baby.<br />Look at that sky, life's begun<br />Nights are warm and the days are young<br />Come get up my baby. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Years_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Golden Years (song)">Golden Years</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Low_(1977)"><span id="Low_.281977.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Low (album)">Low</a></i> (1977)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Low (1977)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>You're such a wonderful person<br />But you got problems oh-oh-oh-oh<br />I'll never touch you. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Glass_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Breaking Glass (song)">Breaking Glass</a></i>, written with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Davis" class="extiw" title="w:Dennis Davis">Dennis Davis</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Murray" class="extiw" title="w:George Murray">George Murray</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Heroes"_(1977)"><span id=".22Heroes.22_.281977.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_album)" class="extiw" title="w:"Heroes" (David Bowie album)">"Heroes"</a></i> (1977)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: "Heroes" (1977)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I, I <a href="/wiki/Wish" class="mw-redirect" title="Wish">wish</a> you could swim <br /> Like the <a href="/wiki/Dolphins" title="Dolphins">dolphins</a> <br /> Like dolphins can swim <p> <b>Though <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nihilism" title="Nihilism">nothing will keep</a> us <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">together</a> <br /> We can beat them, <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">forever</a> and <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">ever</a> <br /> Oh, we can be <a href="/wiki/Heroes" title="Heroes">heroes</a> just for one day.</b> </p><ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Heroes (David Bowie song)">"Heroes"</a></i>, written with <a href="/wiki/Brian_Eno" title="Brian Eno">Brian Eno</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I, I will be king.<br />And you, you will be queen.<br />Though nothing will drive them away.<br />We can beat them, just for one day.<br />We can be heroes, just for one day. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Heroes (David Bowie song)">"Heroes"</a></i>, written with <a href="/wiki/Brian_Eno" title="Brian Eno">Brian Eno</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scary_Monsters_(1980)"><span id="Scary_Monsters_.281980.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Monsters_(and_Super_Creeps)" class="extiw" title="w:Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)">Scary Monsters</a></i> (1980)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Scary Monsters (1980)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it<br />More idols than realities, ooh-ooh...<br />Yeah, yeah, yeah, up the hill backwards<br />It'll be alright, ooh-ooh <ul><li><i>Up the Hill Backwards</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I've never done good things<br />I've never done bad things<br />I never did anything out of the blue, whoa whoa<br />Want an axe to break the ice<br />Wanna come down right now<br />Ashes to ashes, funk to funky<br /> We know Major Tom's a junkie<br /> Strung out in heaven's high<br /> Hitting an all-time low.<br />My mama said to get things done<br />You'd better not mess with Major Tom <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song)">Ashes To Ashes</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Well, I've been breaking these rocks<br /> And cutting this hay<br /> Yes, I've been breaking these rocks<br /> What's my price to pay?<br /> Well, the river's so muddy, but it may come clear<br /> And I know too well what's keeping me here<br /> I'm just a slave of a burning ray<br /> Oh, give me the night, I can't take another sight <ul><li><i>Kingdom Come</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Because you're young<br /> You'll meet a stranger some night<br />Because you're young<br />What could be nicer for you<br />And it makes me sad<br />So I'll dance my life away<br />A million dreams, a million scars<br />...Left him nearly out of his mind<br />They're people I know - people I love<br />They seem so unhappy - dead or alive <ul><li><i>Because You’re Young</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Silhouettes and shadows<br />Watch the revolution<br />No more free steps to heaven<br />Just walkie-talkie<br />Heaven or hearth<br />Just big heads and drums<br />Full speed and pagan<br /> And it's no game <ul><li><i>It's No Game</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cat_People_(Putting_Out_Fire)_(1982)"><span id="Cat_People_.28Putting_Out_Fire.29_.281982.29"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(Putting_Out_Fire)" class="extiw" title="w:Cat People (Putting Out Fire)">Cat People (Putting Out Fire)</a> (1982)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (1982)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Black_Panther.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Black_Panther.JPG/220px-Black_Panther.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Black_Panther.JPG/330px-Black_Panther.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Black_Panther.JPG/440px-Black_Panther.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3056" data-file-height="2040" /></a><figcaption>See these eyes so green… <br /> I can stare for a thousand years…</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blackleopard.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Blackleopard.JPG/220px-Blackleopard.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Blackleopard.JPG/330px-Blackleopard.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Blackleopard.JPG/440px-Blackleopard.JPG 2x" data-file-width="493" data-file-height="292" /></a><figcaption>Those who feel me near <br /> Pull the blinds and change their minds.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small> Theme song for the film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1982_film)" class="extiw" title="w:Cat People (1982 film)"><i>Cat People</i> (1982)</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>See these eyes so green… <br /> I can stare for a thousand years <br /> Colder than the moon <br /> It's been so long… <br /> And I've been putting out fire… <br /> <i>With gasoline!</i></b></li></ul> <ul><li>See these eyes so red <br /> Red like jungle burning bright <br /> <b>Those who feel me near <br /> Pull the blinds and change their minds</b>.</li></ul> <ul><li>Still this pulsing night <br /> A plague I call a heartbeat <br /> Just be still with me <br /><b> Ya wouldn't believe what I've been thru.</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Let's_Dance_(1983)"><span id="Let.27s_Dance_.281983.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Dance_(David_Bowie_album)" class="extiw" title="w:Let's Dance (David Bowie album)">Let's Dance</a></i> (1983)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Let's Dance (1983)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bowie_1983_serious_moonlight_blu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Bowie_1983_serious_moonlight_blu.jpg/220px-Bowie_1983_serious_moonlight_blu.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Bowie_1983_serious_moonlight_blu.jpg/330px-Bowie_1983_serious_moonlight_blu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Bowie_1983_serious_moonlight_blu.jpg/440px-Bowie_1983_serious_moonlight_blu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1337" data-file-height="925" /></a><figcaption>Let's dance — put on your red shoes and dance the blues…</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Never gonna fall for<br />Modern love — walks beside me.<br />Modern love — walks on by.<br />Modern love — gets me to the church on time.<br />Church on time — terrifies me.<br />Church on time — makes me party.<br />Church on time — puts my trust in God and man.<br />God and man — no confessions.<br />God and man — no religion.<br />God and man — don't believe in modern love. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Love_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Modern Love (song)">Modern Love</a></i> — <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8vhgGpKu4">YouTube video</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My little China Girl<br />You shouldn't mess with me.<br />I'll ruin everything you are.<br />I'll give you television.<br />I'll give you eyes of blue.<br />I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:China Girl (song)">China Girl</a></i>, written with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop" class="extiw" title="w:Iggy Pop">Iggy Pop</a> —<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A34kCOtegQ">Video at YouTube</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let's dance — put on your red shoes and dance the blues.<br />Let's dance — to the song they're playin' on the radio.<br />Let's sway — while colour lights up your face.<br />Let's swa —, sway through the crowd to an empty space. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Dance_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Let's Dance (David Bowie song)">Let's Dance</a></i> — <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NelPivNLPZ8">Video at YouTube</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And if you say run, I'll run with you<br />And if you say hide, we'll hide.<br />Because my love for you<br />Would break my heart in two.<br />If you should fall<br />Into my arms<br />And tremble like a flower. <ul><li><i>Let's Dance</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let's dance for fear your grace should fall <br /> Let's dance for fear tonight is all <ul><li><i>Let's Dance</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Earthling_(1997)"><span id="Earthling_.281997.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthling_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Earthling (album)">Earthling</a></i> (1997)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Earthling (1997)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>God is an American.<br />I'm afraid of Americans.<br />I'm afraid of the world.<br />I'm afraid I can't help it.<br />I'm afraid I can't <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Afraid_of_Americans" class="extiw" title="w:I'm Afraid of Americans">I'm Afraid of Americans</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Heathen_(2002)"><span id="Heathen_.282002.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathen_(David_Bowie_album)" class="extiw" title="w:Heathen (David Bowie album)">Heathen</a></i> (2002)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Heathen (2002)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Steel on the skyline <br /> Sky made of glass <br /> Made for a real world <br /> All things must pass</b> <br /> Ooo <br /> Waiting for something <br /> Looking for someone <br /> Is there no reason? <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathen_(The_Rays)" class="extiw" title="w:Heathen (The Rays)">Heathen (The Rays)</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reality_(2003)"><span id="Reality_.282003.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_(David_Bowie_album)" class="extiw" title="w:Reality (David Bowie album)">Reality</a></i> (2003)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Reality (2003)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>And there's never gonna be enough money <br /> And there's never gonna be enough drugs <br /> And I'm never ever gonna get old <br /> There's never gonna be enough bullets <br /> There's never gonna be enough sex <br /> And I'm never ever gonna get old <br /> So I'm never ever gonna get high <br /> And I'm never ever gonna get low <br /> And I'm never ever gonna get old <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Get_Old" class="extiw" title="w:Never Get Old">Never Get Old</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The tragic youth was going down on me<br />(...)<br />I've been right and I've been wrong<br />Now I'm back where I started from<br />Never looked over reality's shoulder</b> <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Reality (David Bowie song)">Reality</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Soon there'll be nothing left of me</b><br /><b>Nothing left to release</b> <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_Me_the_Disco_King" class="extiw" title="w:Bring Me the Disco King">Bring Me the Disco King</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Next_Day_(2013)"><span id="The_Next_Day_.282013.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Day" class="extiw" title="w:The Next Day">The Next Day</a></i> (2013)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: The Next Day (2013)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Where are we now?</b> <br /> Where are we now? <br /> The moment you know <br /> You know, you know <br /> As long as there's <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> <br /> As long as there's sun <br /> As long as there's <a href="/wiki/Rain" title="Rain">rain</a> <br /> As long as there's rain <br /> As long as there's <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a> <br /> As long as there's fire <br /> <b>As long as there's me <br /> As long as there's you</b> <ul><li>"Where Are We Now?" (2013)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>First they give you everything that you want <br />Then they take back everything that you have <br />They live upon their feet and they die upon their knees <br />They can work with satan while they dress like the saints <br /> They know god exists for the devil told them so <br /> They scream my name aloud down into the well below<br /> <ul><li>The Next Day (2013)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blackstar_(2016)"><span id="Blackstar_.282016.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstar_(David_Bowie_album)" class="extiw" title="w:Blackstar (David Bowie album)">Blackstar</a></i> (2016)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Blackstar (2016)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Black_star_with_rainbow_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Black_star_with_rainbow_stripe.svg/220px-Black_star_with_rainbow_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Black_star_with_rainbow_stripe.svg/330px-Black_star_with_rainbow_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Black_star_with_rainbow_stripe.svg/440px-Black_star_with_rainbow_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="150" data-file-height="150" /></a><figcaption>How many times does an <a href="/wiki/Angel" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel">angel</a> fall? <br /> How many people <a href="/wiki/Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Lie">lie</a> instead of talking tall? <br /> He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd <br /> (I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar, I’m not a gangster)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen <br /> Stands a solitary <a href="/wiki/Candle" class="mw-redirect" title="Candle">candle</a>, ah-ah, ah-ah <br />In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all <br />Your <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a> <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstar_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Blackstar (David Bowie song)">Blackstar</a>" · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw">Video at YouTube</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Something happened on the day he <a href="/wiki/Died" class="mw-redirect" title="Died">died</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">Spirit</a> rose a metre and stepped aside <br /> Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried <br /> (I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)</b> <p> <b>How many times does an <a href="/wiki/Angel" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel">angel</a> fall? <br /> How many people <a href="/wiki/Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Lie">lie</a> instead of talking tall?</b> <br /> He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd <br /> (I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar, I’m not a gangster) </p><ul><li>"Blackstar"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Look up here, I’m in <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a> <br /> I’ve got scars that can’t be seen <br /> I’ve got drama, can’t be <a href="/wiki/Stolen" class="mw-redirect" title="Stolen">stolen</a> <br /> Everybody <a href="/wiki/Knows" class="mw-redirect" title="Knows">knows</a> me <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a></b> <p> Look up here, man, I’m in <a href="/wiki/Danger" title="Danger">danger</a> <br /> I’ve got <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a> left to <a href="/wiki/Lose" class="mw-redirect" title="Lose">lose</a><br />I’m so high it makes my brain whirl <br /> Dropped my cell phone down below </p><p> Ain’t that just like me </p><ul><li>"Lazarus" · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8">Video at YouTube</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This way or no way <br /> You know, I’ll be free <br /> Just like that bluebird <br /> Now ain’t that just like me <ul><li>"Lazarus"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Saying more and feeling less <br /> Saying no but meaning yes <br /> This is all I ever meant <br /> That's the message that I sent <ul><li>"I Can't Give Everything Away"</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tibetan_Monastery_nr_Hunsur.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tibetan_Monastery_nr_Hunsur.jpg/220px-Tibetan_Monastery_nr_Hunsur.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tibetan_Monastery_nr_Hunsur.jpg/330px-Tibetan_Monastery_nr_Hunsur.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tibetan_Monastery_nr_Hunsur.jpg/440px-Tibetan_Monastery_nr_Hunsur.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Bowie nearly became a <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_monasticism" title="Buddhist monasticism">Buddhist monk</a> when he was 19, and he specified in his will that his ashes should be scattered "in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> rituals." It's quite possible that he believed in <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> ~ Judy Berman </figcaption></figure> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Bowie">Quotes about Bowie</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Quotes about Bowie"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I met him only once, it was 1973 or 1974. I was the producer of a record of a folk-rock band Steeleye Span. They wanted David Bowie to play a sax solo on one of the songs. I managed to get his phone number, I called him and said 'You don't know me, but some people which album I'm producing ask you if you'd like to play sax for them'. And Bowie asked - 'Okay, where and when?'. I replied - 'Whenever you can'. And he said - '3 o'clock this afternoon?'. I was frightened and thought he'd want 2000£ for that. He came at 3, smiling. He played just like we wanted, never asking about money, then shook everyone's hand and left. It was the only time we met. David taught me one beautiful thing. If you can and want to help somebody, do it for free. That's why I never asked anyone for money. By lending a hand in that way you give just a bit of what you do in your life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Anderson" class="mw-redirect" title="Ian Anderson">Ian Anderson</a>, interviewed by Piotr Kaczkowski in 1997 (Przy mikrofonie, Prószyński i S-ka, Warsaw, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8370528066" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 83-7052-806-6</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is a glimmer of <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> in the choice to quote an old song about new beginnings, and it isn't the only moment on the album that suggests a cycle of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rebirth" title="Rebirth">rebirth</a>. Buried in the bleakness of "Blackstar" is an airy, suspiciously earnest passage that imagines the <a href="/wiki/Transmigration_of_the_soul" class="mw-redirect" title="Transmigration of the soul">transmigration of souls</a>: "Something happened on the day he died / Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside / Somebody else took his place and bravely cried / 'I'm a black star.'" Bowie nearly became a <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_monasticism" title="Buddhist monasticism">Buddhist monk</a> when he was 19, and he specified in his will that his ashes should be scattered "in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> rituals." It's quite possible that he believed in <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> <ul><li>Judy Berman, in The 2016 Canon: David Bowie's Blackstar Was Not Just a Final Album—It Was an Omen, <i>Esquire magazine</i> Dec 12, 2016</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly <a href="/wiki/Inspiration" title="Inspiration">inspirational</a> both visually and musically.</b> He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of it and it was so good. There are great people who make great work but who else has left a mark like his? No one like him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/17/david-bowie-as-seen-by-deborah-harry-chris-kate-bush-stein-carlos-alomar-julien-temple-edwyn-collins">"David Bowie, as remembered by…" in <i>The Guardian</i> (17 January 2016)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While a majority of posthumous music is released by an artist's estate, David Bowie organized new music to be released after his death himself. Bowie believed in <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a>, and through the <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> of his many different personas and music styles, he became the king of reinvention. First he was a folk singer, then a glam rocker, next he was a new romantic; He was constantly changing and evolving in both his sound and his look. <ul><li>Julia Kai, David Bowie: The King of Reinvention and Reincarnation, <i>Intersect magazine</i>, 9 Feb 2021</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Bowie&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wikipedia"><img alt="Wikipedia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/50px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/75px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/100px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a><figcaption>Wikipedia</figcaption></figure></div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article about: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:David Bowie">David Bowie</a></b></i></div> </div> </div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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