the audience laughed when bowie said “Ladies and gentlemen, and others.” but the serious look on his face said that he was not joking at all. i love that man.
It’s the Grammys. A high musician is not going to surprise anyone. What’s more it was the 70’s. Craft services probably had a cocaine catering table backstage.
When that last massive line of coke kicks in just as you are about to try and speak as giant cardboard heads descend around you. Super-cool Bowie at the apex of stylishness
the others can be aliens, idiots , clowns , demons or maybe dealers , human beings and others what is so beautiful about it ? Cocaine makes you as cold as ice he was a troubled soul , Bowie was always open about the insanity in LA and Hollywood it almost killed him the drugs and madness like black magic , just look how skinny he is lived on just peppers and milk side effects of cocaine !
All of them had the look of "If I win I got to go up there and meet that guy, oh lord". It was said that Bowie was very insulted that Aretha made that comment about kissing Bowie, he was trying very hard to become more mainstream and "normal" in the US and he felt that set him back. I remember watching this live back when it was broadcast. This was at the height of Bowie's fling with cocaine, you can really tell too. And when he walked out, those guys in the orchestra pit were looking at each other like "what the hell?". Back then he was considered pretty much like an alien being.
@@LonesomeCowgirl I just looked it up, apparently he did take it that way. Based on how he described it, he said: “I ripped open the envelope and announced, “The winner is Aretha Franklin.” Aretha steps forward, and with not so much as a glance in my direction, snatches the trophy out of my hands and says, “Thank you everybody. I’m so happy I could even kiss David Bowie.” Which she didn’t! And she promptly spun around, swanned off stage right. So I slunk off stage left” Most of what he described didn’t happen the way he says but he gets a free pass because he was a coke addict at the time lol
@@diana3lade470 I had to watch it again and your explanation (or his) makes sense. I had missed her intonation and thought she'd meant it was so good BECAUSE she could kiss David Bowie, which didn't sound like that, but she realized it and added "I mean it in a good way". It was pretty akward, actually, but I think she could have made up for it if she had turned to him before she left and blown him a kiss or actually kissed him...
....the suit was made by OLA HUDSON....stylist to the stars...BOWIE dated her for quite a while...she is the mother of...Saul Hudson...but the world knows him better as SLASH....from GUNS AND ROSES....
0.45 is where my Dad made us turn the channel. He wasn't prepared. Frankly, it's sad how wasted Bowie is here though. I'm so glad he survived that period. Thanks.
To be fair, the poor bastard was also on a fad starvation diet of peppers and milk, so I have a feeling that a percentage of this is definitely malnutrition.
This man changed the world, and changed me, and changed thousands of 'others', maybe millions.... And this was the best DB, the one who gave us Station to Station. Killer Star!
Bowie was like an Ambassador from another world, doing service on earth. I wonder what doing that presentation was like from his stoned perspective? It would be cool to experience it from inside his head.
not so cool for the amounts DB took , a specialist showed him an x-ray of an coke addict's brain , the brain had big wholes in it which will never heal ! This is what Bowie said in an interview , wondering about his own brain ! No wonder when you snort big amounts with a stro , you feel it burning in your nose and often starts bleeding by snorting it too often ! Smart move was Berlin with Iggy .....
0:47 With his first words he had some women in the back just fawning... Honestly can relate tho, especially when he just walks out looking like his skinny fashionable self
Esse comportamento dele é assistido por todos, mesmo depois de tanto tempo, um real visionário. E essas vozes meus consagrados, angelicais, lindas e talentosas. Os br, ativem a tradução automática para entender
IMHO 'Woman 2 Woman' was clearly the most original and fresh-sounding composition of all the nominees, but Ms. Shirley Brown didn't have nearly the star power and influence of the ONLY Queen of Soul to sway the committee. The bias was real even then. Side comment: While David Bowie was one of the most 'conscious' artists of his day, but he was also high as a freekn kite during this presentation...LMBO!!! Respect and RIP.
Millie or Shirley should have won - Aretha posessed the most beautiful voice in recording history - but her material wasnt always the best. This was an injustice.
Well at least he managed to dust himself off, however the sniffing was a dead giveaway! Joking aside the guy survived this horrendous period of addiction and looked ten years younger within a couple of years!
Damn he's clearly coked up here, know exactly how he feels lol But yeah, it's painfully obvious to those who have experimented with the stuff even once "Ladies and gentleman, and others... *sniffs*"
