The Man Who Sold the World (51 page)

200  “The idea was to fuck the sound up”: To Tony Horkins,
International Musician
, December 1991.

201  “They were mostly older producer”: To Howard Bloom,
Circus
, July 1973.

202  “a very cold person”: To Timothy Ferris,
RS
, November 9, 1972.

203  “I don't think Aladdin is as clearly”: To C. S. Murray,
NME
, January 27, 1973.

203  “my interpretation of what America”: To Howard Bloom,
Circus
, July 1973.

203  “Aladdin Sane was a schizophrenic”:
Cracked Actor
TV documentary.

204  “I thought [Aladdin] would probably”: To Kurt Loder,
RS
, April 23, 1987.

205  “a musical in one act”: To Martin Hayman,
Sounds
, August 4, 1973.

206  “I feel as though I'm on a tightrope”: To Mary Campbell, Associated Press, September 1972.

206  “I'm not too sure when”:
Fan Magazine
, April 1973.

206  “David's retirement was first talked”: 1987 interview.

206  “There was a time when what”: Quoted in Buckley,
Strange Fascination
, p. 149.

207  “You start on this trail”: BBC radio interview, 1993.

207  “In the end it was almost”: 1987 interview.

208  “His manager decided just before”: To Peter Harry,
RM
, April 13, 1974.

208  “various activities that have very little”: To C. S. Murray,
NME
, July 7, 1973.

208  “The star was created”: To C. S. Murray,
NME
, August 11, 1973.

209  “Maybe I'm not into rock'n'roll”: To C. S. Murray,
NME
, June 9, 1973.

217  “I don't know whether I want to be”: To C. S. Murray,
NME
, August 11, 1973.

218  “It sometimes looked as if the originality”: Shrapnel,
The Seventies
, p. 84.

218  “[Bowie's] in show business”: To Tony Stewart,
NME
, March 9, 1974.

220  “a composer, arranger, singer, dancer”: Press release.

220  “David Bowie has taken his best shot”: To Rob Partridge,
MM
, January 12, 1974.

221  “I honestly can't remember Mick”: To Chris Charlesworth,
MM
, March 13, 1976.

221  “I just gave up trying”: To Ben Fisher,
Mojo
, October 1997.

228  “I'm an awful pessimist”: To C. S. Murray,
NME
, August 11, 1973.

228  “After what I've seen of this world”:
Circus
, October 1973.

228  “If I ever wrote about it”: Ibid.

229  “Mrs Orwell refused”: Ben Edmonds,
Circus
, April 27, 1976.

229  “Rejected applicants inevitably”: Spurling,
The Girl from the Fiction Department
, p. 151.

233  “mix your own linguistic virus”:
IT
, August 31–September 13, 1967.

234  “Cut up everything in sight”:
IT
, April 28–May 12, 1967.

234  “My thought forms are already fragmented”:
RS
, February 1976.

238  “a premeditated rewrite”:
NME
, February 2, 1974.

239  “what was now happening”: Orwell,
Nineteen Eighty-Four
, p. 174.

240  “‘We are the dead,' he said”: Ibid., p. 252.

241  “black-haired, black-moustachio'd”: Ibid., pp. 18–19.

241  “little sandy-haired woman”: Ibid., p. 19.

242  “a hideous, grinding screech”: Ibid., p. 14.

243  “
You're
doing it to
me
, stop it”: To Robert Hilburn,
MM
, September 14, 1974.

243  “I started fiddling around”: Buckley,
Strange Fascination
, p. 187.

245  one rock journalist: Charles Shaar Murray (
NME
).

246  “we used the Keypex”: To Ron Ross,
Circus
, December 1974.

247  “conceptualises the vision”: Press release.

247  “I wanted to make a film”: To Angus MacKinnon,
NME
, September 13, 1980.

248  “my usual basket”: To Paul Du Noyer,
Mojo
, July 2002.

248  “simplistic and murky”: Ken Emerson,
RS
, August 1, 1974.

248  “Mick was silly”: To Cameron Crowe,
Playboy
, September 1976.

249  “Lulu's got this terrific voice”:
Rock Magazine
, June 1974.

249  “I set out on a very successful crusade”: To Cameron Crowe,
Playboy
, September 1976.

250  “White rock has lost its contact”:
NME
, February 22, 1975.

250  “Any artist who will mean as much”:
Circus
, February 1975.

251  “Every British musician has a hidden desire”: Ibid.

251  “It's only now that I've got the necessary”: To Robert Hilburn,
MM
, September 14, 1974.

252  “the Pimpmobile Pyramid-Heel”: Wolfe,
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine
, pp. 206–7.

252  “it was an attempt to turn”: To Paul Du Noyer,
Mojo
, July 2002.

254  “He seems to be kicking and screaming”:
NME
, October 26, 1974.

254  “the crossroads of multiple and confused”: Quoted in booklet of 2010 DVD.

256  “a non-singer of the Lou Reed school”: quotes from
Milwaukee Journal
, October 14, 1974;
New York Times
, November 2, 1974;
Boston Globe
, November 15, 1974;
Philadelphia Bulletin
, November 25, 1974.

256  “You'd give him something to eat”: To Peter Harry,
RM
, April 13, 1974.

256  “almost ravaged, beyond belief”: Lisa Robinson,
NME
, December 28, 1974.

256  “self-destruct time”: Gillman and Gillman,
Alias David Bowie
, p. 382.

257  “I nearly threw myself”: To Al Rudis,
Sounds
, April 10, 1976.

257  “moving very strangely”: Lisa Robinson,
NME
, December 14, 1976.

265  “endless numb beat”: To Cameron Crowe,
Playboy
, September 1976.

265  “It obviously threatened”: Quoted in Kaufman,
American Culture in the 1970s
, p. 133.

267  “Really, I'm a one-track person”: To Robert Hilburn,
MM
, September 14, 1974.

267  “Strong emotion”: Huxley,
Brave New World Revisited
, p. 76.

267  “Hitler induced the German masses”: Quoted in Heller,
Iron Fists
, p. 14.

267  “It could be argued”: Ibid.

271  “one of the occult arts”: Brennan,
Occult Reich
, p. 32.

274  “I never really knew what he was”: Peebles,
The Lennon Tapes
, p. 66.

275  “I wouldn't inflict fame”: To Moby,
Mojo
, July 2002.

275  “some Stevie Wonder middle eight”: Peebles,
The Lennon Tapes
, p. 65.

277  “There's no gratification”: To C. S. Murray,
NME
, August 11, 1973.

277  “psychic vampires”: Gillman and Gillman,
Alias David Bowie
, p. 399.

278  “the definitive plastic soul”: To Cameron Crowe,
Playboy
, September 1976.

278  “Basically, I haven't liked a lot”: Ibid.

279  “It wasn't a matter of liking them”: Ibid.

279  “I think he's very much a 70s artist”: To Timothy Ferris,
RS
, November 9, 1972.

280  “His frame was impossibly slight”: Tevis,
The Man Who Fell to Earth
.

280  “poems from outer space”: Ibid.

281  “very strange and different”: Burroughs,
Burroughs Live 1960–1997
, p. 421.

281  “It required non-acting”: To Chris Charlesworth,
MM
, March 13, 1976.

281  “unembodied” self: Laing,
The Divided Self
, p. 80.

282  “I just wish Dave”: Quoted in Pegg,
The Complete David Bowie
, p. 388.

282  “I've had short flirtations”: To Cameron Crowe,
Playboy
, September 1976.

283  “old vacuum-cleaner nose”:
RM
, June 14, 1975.

283  “David has an extreme personality”: Gillman and Gillman,
Alias David Bowie
, p. 383.

283  “I'd found a soulmate”: To Paul Du Noyer,
Mojo
, July 2002.

283  “Give cocaine to a man”: Quoted in Durlacher,
Agenda Cocaine
, pp. 32–34.

283  “A very Aryan, fascist-type”: To Timothy White,
Crawdaddy
, February 1978.

283  “can be very charming”: Ibid.

284  “dramatically erratic behaviour”: Ibid.

284  “Everywhere I looked”: To Angus MacKinnon,
NME
, September 13, 1980.

284  “pulled me off the settee”:
NME
, January 14, 1978.

285  “partly autobiographical”:
RM
, August 2, 1975.

285  “I've decided to write”:
RS
, February 1976.

286  “All the references within the piece”: To David Cavanagh,
Q
, February 1997.

290  “when I felt very much at peace”: To Robert Hilburn,
MM
, February 1976.

290  “There were days of such psychological”: To Angus MacKinnon,
NME
, September 13, 1980.

291  “He also asked to have”: To Timothy White,
Crawdaddy
, February 1978.

291  “I'd been pretty godless”: Ibid.

293  “the high mountain of fabrication”: Ibid.

294  “That was recorded very much”: Buckley,
Strange Fascination
, p. 235.

295  “has an original timbre”: James Roos,
Miami Herald
, November 18, 1972.

296  “I really, honestly and truly”:
RS
, February 1976.

297  “I have serious problems”: Quoted in Buckley,
Strange Fascination
, p. 234.

297  “I was out of my mind totally”: To Angus MacKinnon,
NME
, September 13, 1980.

297  “a miserable time to live through”: To David Cavanagh,
Q
, February 1997.

297  “
Station to Station
is probably the first”: To Ben Edmonds,
Circus
, April 27, 1976.

297  “This time I'm going to make some”: To Chris Charlesworth,
MM
, March 13, 1976.

298  “I'm trying to get over”: Ibid.

298  “a bunch of lights”: To Adrian Deevoy,
Q
, June 1989.

299  “Two superstars of their time”: Press release.

300  “I could have been Hitler in England”: To Cameron Crowe,
Playboy
, September 1976.

301  “the best way to fight an evil force”: To Timothy White,
Crawdaddy
, February 1978.

301  “did some good because”: US radio interview, 1978.

301  “an idiot's dream”: Ibid.

303  “He'll never make it”: To Tina Brown,
Sunday Times Magazine
, July 1975.

303  “a cross between James Brown”: To Lisa Robinson,
NME
, October 9, 1976.

305  “He was getting into his King”: To Mac Garry,
ZigZag
, March 1976.

305  “totally riveted and fettered”:
NME
, April 2, 1977.

306  “He was, in my opinion”: To Timothy White,
Crawdaddy
, February 1978.

307  “People simply can't cope”: To Allan Jones,
MM
, October 29, 1977.

307  “David works very fast”: To Miles,
NME
, November 27, 1976.

307  “fucks with the fabric of time”: Visconti,
Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy
, p. 235.