So am I. He’s so handsome, humble, down to earth, so funny, and interesting, incredibly talented. But it’s his lovely personality that is most endearing. He comes across as a really ordinary guy.
danger ross I heard someone say that they couldn't believe he was dead because they never thought he could die and weird as it sounds, I totally agree with this. Not something you can say about many people but I suppose as time marches on, we're going to "lose" a lot more beloved people since we've reached that stage where multi media and technology has brought more artists etc into our lives.
You're right..I am the perfect example. I knew him before.. But. I think I was too young to understand him. Now, I'm absolutely a fan, but I always have to remind myself, that he is dead :'(
This ain't no fooling around.. Yes, but this interview wasn't near the very end at all. This interview is from late 1999 (over 16 years before his death).
What I love about this is that he was being so enthusiastically silly with every single question-- except for when the one woman asked him to tell her about a favorite song of his, and then it was like he just couldn't help himself from slipping back into serious artist mode for a few moments to rhapsodize about how beautiful Shipbuilding is. He was right, of course. It's unbelievable how often that man was right.
Now that you mention it...That album with sailors fighting in the dance hall got me through my 16th year, where I got kicked out of high school and found out what kind of work I qualified for. Waitress at a Zeller's lunch counter. That music lifted me to a better plane.
@@hearts_ease I started buying his albums in 1974 in a small town in Iowa, they got me through my teen years. Still can't listen to them since he died, it's too emotionally painful.
David had a wonderful sense of humour which can be described as uniquely British. His comic influences can be traced back to the late 60's & early 70's of Spike Milligan & the duo Pete & Dud. Classic British humour delivered by Bowie, a master of the surreal & perfect comic timing.
I recently listened to a brilliant interview from 1997 in which David kept randomly going into his Peter Cook Pete and Dud voice whenever he was telling a story of something that had happened to him. I think the American interviewer wondered what was going on which made it all the more funny, he included some great Marc Bolan and John Lennon impressions too, along with great Yorkshire and Hull accents. One of his funniest times for one liners was in his Tin Machine days. I saw a Tin Machine interview in which the guys were messing around and to get back on track the interviewer asked in all seriousness “ have you got any concrete plans?” and David replied “ We’re gonna lay some crazy paving man” and laughed. Unfortunately no one else laughed, it went completely over their heads. I thought it was hilarious. I can’t believe how many people didn’t get his humour.
@@andalltheangelssay212 Bowie could certainly do a very credible impersonation. Have you seen the David Bowie Impersonates video on here? It was recorded by former sound engineer Mark Saunders & captured David fooling around in the studio, in 1985.
@@711honved yes I’ve seen the one where he does singing impersonations of Marc Bolan, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and others, I think that’s the one you’re probably talking about xx
Since David Bowie left this planet I have cried to some of his beautiful music, but even MORE than that I have actually laughed out loud while seeing his witty mind at work on clips like this. Damn, he brings me GOODNESS!! Not everyone can do that, especially people I've never met. I feel only love when I think of him. If that makes me crazy then so be it!
His role in Labyrinth taught me how to love and what real love is. I was abused as a child and late when no one was around I watched David in that movie and today I am a very loving person. Thank you David I sure didn't learn how to Love from my parents!!
Sory for my late reply. I just wanted to say that I am happy to know that David Bowie brought you comfort, if only from a distance. I hope that the abuse you had to go through has let its chains off you. I hope that you are free from that pain.
David was a star and he just goes back to live with others stars somewhere in the emptyness of the universe....Please David , carry on writing clever songs as you did all your life on mars oh sorry..... on earth , and say hello to John Lennon Syd Barrett and a few other more that we both liked for a long time...
I lost all my saved Bowie vids when my hard drive crashed and I've been slowly replacing them, you have NO IDEA how long I've been searching for this!!! Thank you for posting, it's such a chestnut of an interview - he was in fine comedic form, as always! XD
Also posted as "noveltypike"... I randomly bought the 33-year-old single of" Ship building" in Oxfam last week, then immediately picked up my "Blackstar" album from the Post Office a week after Mr Bowie's passing.. The single, with it's beautiful cover, has been sitting atop my record deck ever since, and I haven't been able to put it away. Then I come across this interview and find out it's David's favourite song of all time! My mind is blown by the synchronicity of this event. It doesn't change the world, but means the world to me.
+kevturbs Your post is almost identical to another user's down below.... I replied to you at first, saying it's an amazing story but eh... starting to think it's bullshit to be honest.
+My Biz I respectly ask you to retract that statement, as the other comment posted as "noveltypike" is also me! It's an anagram of my real name, and the post was added twice under both my RU-vid avatars by accident. Or maybe the exact same story happen to two separate people on exactly the same day in a bizarre universal alignment of synchrodestiny? Eh, no...that definitely is BS! I have also added a note to the other comment to cross reference with this one.
Bowie really was annoying. I always knew he was this titan of the music world but in most interviews he comes across as a razor sharp wit plus a great sense of humour. Some people throw a double 6 in the great dice game of life!
+Scott Waker What I meant was............ Due to his legendary status Bowie could have easily been like Madonna, a complete self absorbed idiot. But unlike her, he was a personable, affable, decent human being, who would be as at home talking to a plumber as he would with a head of state. He was annoying because he seemed to have it all. I think this is lost in translation somehow.
I can't help thinking that this is a piss take, just the way the fan questions are set up- the guy with the weird haircut asking for his haircut inspiration, the guy witht he fish tank asking for pets 6 the guy with the computers asking about producing...
You're right good observation. It's possible the shows producers asked him to take part in a comedy(ish) sketch. I've watched the guy for years and this is not his usual style.
Posted also as "kevturbs"...I randomly bought the 33-year-old single of" Ship building" in Oxfam last week, then immediately picked up my "Blackstar" album from the Post Office a week after Mr Bowie's passing.. The single, with it's beautiful Stanley Spencer cover art, has been sitting atop my turntable ever since, and I haven't been able to bring myself to put it away. Then I come across an interview (below) with David and find it's his favourite song of all time! My mind is blown by the synchronicity of this event. It doesn't change the world, but means the world to me. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NMM_s4Tezc0.html … at 51 seconds
I got into Bowies music in 1972 as a highly impressionable thirteen year old. Part of his mesmerising appeal was his chilly , alien , otherworldliness. I never associated him in any way with a sense of humour. Surely you wouldn't need one living on the second ring of Saturn(!) But , strike me down with a feather , he was very playful and more than willing to laugh at himself and sometimes even gently mock his less successful musical enterprises. Anyone for a bit of Tin Machine?
I HAVE ENJOYED ALL OF THE VIDEOS I HAVE WATCHED AS OF NOW. IAM A BIT BEHIND. I HAVE A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO. I HOPE DAVID WILL CONTINUE TO USE HIS Extraordinary TALENT AND CONTINUE TO PERFORM FOR ALL OF HIS OLD AND NEW FANS. ALL OF MY LOVE AND BEST TO YOU JACQUELIN
they get the chance to ask DB a question and come with the most stupid fatuous silly ones except for the guy about Bowie's bad albums of the 80's period ( except for scary monsters I guess ) . However DB has mentioned this so many times in interviews about what he called his '' Phil Collins years " , meaning the low standards of mainstream music and public ! No wonder he gets bored and annoying !
I love how that one girl just wanted to tell David Bowie what her favourite song is to try to impress him, but he didn't care what it was and just proceeded to answer the question she fired in with it.
Yeah his humour was the kind of humour you shared with friends after you’ve been watching Monty Python or Pete and Dud. Apparently he and Brian Eno would spend days in their Pete and Dud routine. People who knew David well and worked with him said that out of an hour session they’d spend 40 -50 minutes rolling around the floor laughing. He would just be having a laugh with mates, not trying to be funny. Also I’ve seen many interviews where his English humour has gone over the heads of the interviewer and everyone else in the room, for example, when an interviewer was annoyed with his messing about in the Tin Machine days and tried to get him serious by saying “have you got any concrete plans?” David replied “we’re going to lay some crazy paving man” and laughed, unfortunately not one person laughed with him, it went right over their heads.
I have been looking sice you have said that, and there are a few people who THINK that he has had a transplant, but there are more who say it is his hair. I have known people with great heads of hair all of their lives, my dad for one. I don't see why Bowie isn't one of them with good hair genes. I am not going to argue about it, but look at the people we KNOW have had transplants, like Elton and John Travolta, and their hair looks doesn't look good. Only Iman knows or sure! lol
