Brilliant interview. Obviously great warmth and respect on both sides. Charlie really let Bowie talk and reveal as much as he wanted to. Really terrific.
I could listen to him speak forever. I have a great appreciation for an interviewer that doesn't ask the same boring questions and actually allows the interviwee to speak.
... he's the type of person who should have lived a long old age, because I think he had so much more things he wanted to create, in one way or enougher. 69 is no age when you think about it, just think what he would have continued to do had he lived a lot older.
I like to think that he now is. I have never heard his music and I absolutely love how his mind works I’m binge watching all his interviews after I got recommended one of them
Celebrity gives one an opportunity to teach many in a non authoritative way. International platform. International students. Legacy = continued education. That's why we're watching the interview 🫶
It is a brilliant interview. I found myself, however, drawn to melancholy because this bright spark of a person has left us too soon, in my view. I know it is unrealistic think that we should all live forever, but I could have watched and listened to David Bowie progress through his life for decades more than he was allowed.
Such an iconic human being...so cool that Barbie just released the 2nd David bowie inspired doll...in death he still changes the way we look at the world...David you are missed!
Sometimes Charlie overtalks ad nauseum, but this is very good. Losing Bowie was like losing a bit of rock history. He really did it all, and quite well. I could watch the live in Japan version of “Station to Station” with Powell and Belew a hundred times and never grow tired of it.
I think it was Gail Ann Dorsey or Reeves Gabrels that mentioned in an interview that when touring, he used to drag the band along to museums and being a great and extremely knowledgeable guide.
Bowie didn't realize it, but that insatiable curiosity he speaks of is a sign of a person who is a genius. David himself would have scoffed at the idea, but all his real friends mention first, "Well, you know David was a genius, he truly was." And he was. I miss him so much!
It's pretty fascinating listening to artists talk about what they anticipated art will be in the future when the era that was subject to their speculations has nearly arrived at our doorstep... As a side note, this interview is how I discovered the album "Outside", which is actually quite a remarkable album. It really encapsulates the amalgam of interests he had during that time period.
Yes. I loved how he was describing not truly enjoying the process, but just wanted to complete it and move on. I'm so that type. Even in art school, I found the actual process grueling.
How interesting about the English/British musicians often passing through some sort of art school or training, thus influencing the music. I had never made the connection but it certainly explains a lot about the many qualities of English music from the 60's and 70's.
In the sixties many nations tried advanced education systems, usually based on German/Prussian models. England was one of the many lucky countries treated to a derivative of the German Bauhaus system. Art, design, engineering. This is where beatles haircuts and the SNL satire 'Sprockets' was derived from, also the scene in "My own Private Idaho" where the German motorcycle salesman "performs." You'd be surprised how much German art school ideas and the product of said ideas have been in your life all these years.
He wore dark glasses a lot in the 90s. I think they may have been prescription sunglasses, so he could skip the contact lenses while still maintaining his rock star cool.
Charlie Rose give David Bowie space and respect, yes. Mutual respect is going down, though, while they are talking with five people, interrupting each other constantly. The four alpha males from some point on don´t get a notion that they are collectively pushing aside the only person who continues to show respect, Karen Wright, and does not elbow herself to the front. Also the name dropping about who is a really great artist, now and over time, is pretentious and we can be happy that David Bowie breaks it from 48:14 on, saying: “But you´re already suggesting that history is known and carved in stone. That´s not necessarily true. I think that threads of history are so entangled, they start to detangle at a certain point. … And that happens continually, that the emphasis changes. Quantifying ´great´ is almost non-sensical, because it´s periodic” and “Is the emphasis, though, of this conversation possibly wrong, because it´s all about who is gonna be there at the end of the game and it´s like this kind of Olympics game .… Shouldn´t it evolve around ´is it useful?´ … , ´can we do anything with it?´ ” Anyway it´s good Charlie Rose set the emphasis on the artist David Bowie, not just on the musician.
Karen Wright should have pushed herself forward to make herself heard, she should have elbowed her way through. Women need to be encouraged to assert themselves, to make themselves heard. These 'gentlemen' were never going to give her the opportunity to speak, she might as well not have bothered showing up. I mentioned in a previous comment that she was spoken over, non of the alpha males including Bowie showed her any respect. This discussion depicted the patriarchal society at its best, priveleged white males with no respect to what women contribute, be it art or anything else. Charlie Rose has been under investigation for sexual assault of several women by the way, Google it.
At 5:59 Bowie admits that he is not a musician. I appreciate his honesty. So we can't call Bowie "one of the greatest musicians of all time" because he isn't a musician. Artist - for sure. But NOT a musician.
He IS a musician as he plays the Drums, Piano, Guitar, keyboards and Sax. He is humble and considers song writing his main talent. He's also a fantastic singer and he will say he isn't. "Such a Humble Man..."
"To say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading)" (Piero Scaruffi) www.scaruffi.com/vol3/bowie.html
Their is no point in making a distinction between musician or artist Musician is merely a discipline within the wider art umbrella like painting or acting
Funny him mentioning the aids biscuits. I used to buy them, they didn't work though. I was a 14 yr old who thought I was fat, but I wasn't. But an unfortunate name for a biscuit. Well before HIV & AIDS.
If anyone can help me here I’ll be very obliged. I saw this interview long ago and felt certain that at some point Bowie tells Rose that what he hates most about facing death one day is having to leave his children behind, in particular his daughter (as she was still a young child at the time). Is that moment not in this interview? If it is I somehow just missed it. If it’s in a different interview I’ll be extremely grateful if anyone can guide me to it. Thanks, everybody.
@@ivankaramasov The randomness of where it occurred (and the fact that it occurred at all) feels like a tribute to the cut-up techniques of Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Bowie that only your happy accident could have given us, so let’s go with that!
Wow it’s been many years since I’ve seen Charlie Rose, we used to watch him all the time and thought him very good - granted there were few if any other extended interviews around. I’m shocked at how awkward, fake and uncomfortable he seems - maybe he was extra star struck by Bowie… But Bowie is very thoughtful about creativity as always.
Why was David wearing sunglasses in a dark studio? Also nice to see the old boys network in full swing with the token woman who was spoken over, talking about painters who were all men. Wasn't Charlie Rose more recently under investigation for inappropriate behaviour? This discussion was just over 20 years ago but depicts the patriarchal society at its finest....
I hate people that wanna be friends with you just because you're worth something money wise. I would not have wanted to be friends with him because of that. I dare a rich person to be friends with me and be true and not care what anybody says.
33:'47 It's kinda of true nowadays , maybe you can change romanticism by another word like political correctness . This was in 1999 i believe , he predicted it !
Marlboro Lights. You can see the cigarette packet on the table. You can also see he is smoking a regular cigarette when the camera focuses on his hands at one point.
Charlie Rose.. only the best of the best. That's all. An intellectual, as was Bowie. I think maybe some don't really get either one of them. Or they're hung up on their anti-establishment thing. heh... cheerio.
An intellectual perhaps but Rose has had a number of women accuse him of sexual assault and lewd behaviour, I wonder whether Bowie would have wasted his time if he knew. Still the whole discussion set up with one token woman and the alpha males talking over her and acting like she wasn't there pretty much sums up the general attitude towards women (Bowie included) at that time..... Our wonderful patriarchal world where women were and still remain without a voice.
Brilliant interview. Obviously great warmth and respect on both sides. Charlie really let Bowie talk and reveal as much as he wanted to. Really terrific.
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I could listen to him speak forever. I have a great appreciation for an interviewer that doesn't ask the same boring questions and actually allows the interviwee to speak.
... he's the type of person who should have lived a long old age, because I think he had so much more things he wanted to create, in one way or enougher. 69 is no age when you think about it, just think what he would have continued to do had he lived a lot older.
"I've chachacha changed" lol
He would have been a great teacher.
He was
5:25... and a comedian.
I like to think that he now is. I have never heard his music and I absolutely love how his mind works I’m binge watching all his interviews after I got recommended one of them
Every interview of his on CZcams basically serves as a lecture that kids can take notes on, it’s a such great thing
Celebrity gives one an opportunity to teach many in a non authoritative way. International platform. International students. Legacy = continued education. That's why we're watching the interview 🫶
It is a brilliant interview. I found myself, however, drawn to melancholy because this bright spark of a person has left us too soon, in my view. I know it is unrealistic think that we should all live forever, but I could have watched and listened to David Bowie progress through his life for decades more than he was allowed.
Very well said. A he shared a fascinating and wonderful journey through life with us.
Such an iconic human being...so cool that Barbie just released the 2nd David bowie inspired doll...in death he still changes the way we look at the world...David you are missed!
I love that they changed his title from musician to artist 👨🎤
Hearing Bowie mention drum 'n' bass blew my mind.. Total visionary
Charlie could interview a cucumber and I would tune in. This is one of his best. Rest in peace David.
David Bowie is unguarded and organic in this interview.
That's good because I like my musicians how I like my apples
"they say you're worth 800,000,000..." (laughs) "i'm still waiting on the cheque"
Great lesson again holo...loving seeing you ...
Sometimes Charlie overtalks ad nauseum, but this is very good. Losing Bowie was like losing a bit of rock history. He really did it all, and quite well. I could watch the live in Japan version of “Station to Station” with Powell and Belew a hundred times and never grow tired of it.
I would LOVE to go to a museum with Bowie. He would be such fun, and I would learn so much.
I think it was Gail Ann Dorsey or Reeves Gabrels that mentioned in an interview that when touring, he used to drag the band along to museums and being a great and extremely knowledgeable guide.
@@ivankaramasov Massive fringe benefit.
Fantastic interview. A great glimpse into the way a true artist thinks/creates/lives.
Bowie didn't realize it, but that insatiable curiosity he speaks of is a sign of a person who is a genius. David himself would have scoffed at the idea, but all his real friends mention first, "Well, you know David was a genius, he truly was." And he was. I miss him so much!
Bowie rocks! What an outstanding interview. upbeat, humorous and inspiring. Great Art world chat too. 😉
I so get when he speaks about mans irrational need to have 1,000 different types of chairs. Happy Birthday David, you will always live on.
Yes!
It's pretty fascinating listening to artists talk about what they anticipated art will be in the future when the era that was subject to their speculations has nearly arrived at our doorstep...
As a side note, this interview is how I discovered the album "Outside", which is actually quite a remarkable album. It really encapsulates the amalgam of interests he had during that time period.
Small plot of land is an amazing track that encapsulates so much energy and dread, almost like a time in the future that never was
David had such a beautiful mind I can listen to him all day 😍
Great interview. Especially the section with just Charlie and David. So sad that Bowie is gone. So unique.
f a s c i n a t i n g to hear them talking about where art would be in 2050 from 2020
As and artist myself, I couldn't say it better. There's something a little crazy about being an artist.....Miss you so much, David
True, I love art, though I'm not so good around people. Prefer a canvas, my dog, paints, and solitude.
Yes. I loved how he was describing not truly enjoying the process, but just wanted to complete it and move on. I'm so that type. Even in art school, I found the actual process grueling.
He does have the attention span of a grass hopper though 7:00
Amazing interview, thanks for posting RIP DB ❤️❤️❤️
How interesting about the English/British musicians often passing through some sort of art school or training, thus influencing the music. I had never made the connection but it certainly explains a lot about the many qualities of English music from the 60's and 70's.
In the sixties many nations tried advanced education systems, usually based on German/Prussian models.
England was one of the many lucky countries treated to a derivative of the German Bauhaus system.
Art, design, engineering.
This is where beatles haircuts and the SNL satire 'Sprockets' was derived from, also the scene in "My own Private Idaho" where the German motorcycle salesman "performs."
You'd be surprised how much German art school ideas and the product of said ideas have been in your life all these years.
I Love Bowie, Ziggy and the Duke. He was so massively talented.
This is more like 1998 as his hair was quite long in 1999
Mike West I thought he quit smoking in the late 90s.
He says he's 51, therefore, must be 1998
I think he smoked sporadically his whole life.
Mike West seriously his hair length...
Mike West It had to be after his 50th birthday concert.
Such a dense influence artistically. We all owe Bowie so much. All of my art is partially if not totally for the Starman. RIP I know you're watching.
Bowie seems to disparage his work through the eighties. I however enjoy everything I've ever heard from him.
Bowie should’ve made Duran Duran type music instead of what he did
Although I have never met you, I still Love and miss you, David!!!
There's the stardust at 5.23...magical :)
The only person making true sense about art (i.e. visual here) is David Bowie.
He's truly inspirational...
RIP David, I love you :)
So true! You are spot on!
Damn, Davids music taste was broad. I love Goldies 90's drum and bass tracks!
It's so cool when they settle down and raise up the family.
Miss and love u amazing man ❤️
He like alternates from bass to treble in inhumane time
very insightful
My mantra my everything!
It's all good. From 25.15 to 26.15 is golden!
33:48 "the cynicism is passing and we'll go back to an age of romanticism. WATCH"
I love you Bowie!
Forever and ever...
❤⚡👨🎤⚡❤
Bowie and elvis share a birthday
RIP💜
Would have been nice to see his eyes...
He wore dark glasses a lot in the 90s. I think they may have been prescription sunglasses, so he could skip the contact lenses while still maintaining his rock star cool.
I do that when I can!
Charlie Rose give David Bowie space and respect, yes.
Mutual respect is going down, though, while they are talking with five people, interrupting each other constantly. The four alpha males from some point on don´t get a notion that they are collectively pushing aside the only person who continues to show respect, Karen Wright, and does not elbow herself to the front.
Also the name dropping about who is a really great artist, now and over time, is pretentious and we can be happy that David Bowie breaks it from 48:14 on, saying:
“But you´re already suggesting that history is known and carved in stone. That´s not necessarily true. I think that threads of history are so entangled, they start to detangle at a certain point. … And that happens continually, that the emphasis changes. Quantifying ´great´ is almost non-sensical, because it´s periodic” and “Is the emphasis, though, of this conversation possibly wrong, because it´s all about who is gonna be there at the end of the game and it´s like this kind of Olympics game .… Shouldn´t it evolve around ´is it useful?´ … , ´can we do anything with it?´ ”
Anyway it´s good Charlie Rose set the emphasis on the artist David Bowie, not just on the musician.
Karen Wright should have pushed herself forward to make herself heard, she should have elbowed her way through. Women need to be encouraged to assert themselves, to make themselves heard. These 'gentlemen' were never going to give her the opportunity to speak, she might as well not have bothered showing up. I mentioned in a previous comment that she was spoken over, non of the alpha males including Bowie showed her any respect. This discussion depicted the patriarchal society at its best, priveleged white males with no respect to what women contribute, be it art or anything else. Charlie Rose has been under investigation for sexual assault of several women by the way, Google it.
What a Fuckin Hero..
cool shades
the old avant guard
At 5:59 Bowie admits that he is not a musician. I appreciate his honesty.
So we can't call Bowie "one of the greatest musicians of all time" because he isn't a musician.
Artist - for sure. But NOT a musician.
He IS a musician as he plays the Drums, Piano, Guitar, keyboards and Sax. He is humble and considers song writing his main talent. He's also a fantastic singer and he will say he isn't. "Such a Humble Man..."
"To say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true,
but misleading)" (Piero Scaruffi)
www.scaruffi.com/vol3/bowie.html
quickthunder86
Well he played alot of instruments but that was not his number one thing - just one of many. Miss him
Is the thumb a finger??
Their is no point in making a distinction between musician or artist
Musician is merely a discipline within the wider art umbrella like painting or acting
what year was this.
worth it just for Matthew Collings
He reminds me of Andrew Eldritch from Sisters of Mercy. Was he channeling Eldritch, or was it vice versa?
Eldritch adored Bowie
@@ivankaramasov Has Andrew Eldritch died?
Funny him mentioning the aids biscuits. I used to buy them, they didn't work though. I was a 14 yr old who thought I was fat, but I wasn't. But an unfortunate name for a biscuit. Well before HIV & AIDS.
If anyone can help me here I’ll be very obliged. I saw this interview long ago and felt certain that at some point Bowie tells Rose that what he hates most about facing death one day is having to leave his children behind, in particular his daughter (as she was still a young child at the time). Is that moment not in this interview? If it is I somehow just missed it. If it’s in a different interview I’ll be extremely grateful if anyone can guide me to it.
Thanks, everybody.
Can't be in this interview. This is pro😢from 1997, his daughter was born in 1999
@@ivankaramasov Thank you! That helps, and I appreciate it very much.
@@GrantTarredus The emoji was unintended😆
@@ivankaramasov The randomness of where it occurred (and the fact that it occurred at all) feels like a tribute to the cut-up techniques of Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Bowie that only your happy accident could have given us, so let’s go with that!
DAVID BOWIE
08 DE ENERO DE 1947
10 DE ENERO DE 2016
76 AÑOS
69 AÑOS
07 AÑOS
Wow it’s been many years since I’ve seen Charlie Rose, we used to watch him all the time and thought him very good - granted there were few if any other extended interviews around.
I’m shocked at how awkward, fake and uncomfortable he seems - maybe he was extra star struck by Bowie…
But Bowie is very thoughtful about creativity as always.
Ayds Was actually like fudge.
I remember them. I never tried them but they were marketed at one point.
I tried them before. They tasted like caramel to me.
The only people that really knew what they are talking about was Matthew Collings & the Woman that wisely switches towards staying out of it.
who is Julian ? Julian Priest from The Hunger (character) ?
Julian Schnabel who directed Basquiat.
7:35 :D
I dont think I've seen someone smoke on Charlie Rose before.
Jules Naudet who recorded footage of 9/11 into a documentary was also smoking.
Gang life in liver pool
50:11 😅
genesis
"Much more voices" ?
33:47
While it hasn't figured itself out yet (typical) yes.
Why was David wearing sunglasses in a dark studio? Also nice to see the old boys network in full swing with the token woman who was spoken over, talking about painters who were all men. Wasn't Charlie Rose more recently under investigation for inappropriate behaviour? This discussion was just over 20 years ago but depicts the patriarchal society at its finest....
It’s possible his eyes could have been bothering him.
He had a damaged pupil, which probably made it uncomfortable with too much light, as in a TV studio
I hate people that wanna be friends with you just because you're worth something money wise. I would not have wanted to be friends with him because of that. I dare a rich person to be friends with me and be true and not care what anybody says.
his only peer intellectually as a rock star was jim morrison.
21- jfk
I've been a fan of Bowie all my life, but he couldn't paint or act to save his life.
33:'47 It's kinda of true nowadays , maybe you can change romanticism by another word like political correctness . This was in 1999 i believe , he predicted it !
So basically, graphic designer - wannabe Artist ending up as a pop musician but still wannabe Artist 😢
A slimming biscuit that is no more.
Ironic.
I usually liked Charlie Rose's interviews but he's so desperate to laugh with Bowie - it's painful for me to listen to.
im sad bowieart dotcom is a porn site now :
What’s so funny?
What is he smoking?
Take a wild guess.
Marlboro Lights. You can see the cigarette packet on the table. You can also see he is smoking a regular cigarette when the camera focuses on his hands at one point.
cock?
Sure, to every bitch with no sense of humor.
Dumbfucking question to begin with; hope neither of you procreate.
Was there an AIDS joke in there?! 😅
Aids was the name of a "slimming biscuit" bowie did ad copy for, back in the day....
I genuinely thought it was a bad joke! @@noochinator
why would DB waste an hour of his time talking with Rose? oh well.
Charlie Rose.. only the best of the best. That's all. An intellectual, as was Bowie. I think maybe some don't really get either one of them. Or they're hung up on their anti-establishment thing. heh... cheerio.
Rose might be the worst "high profile" interviewer on television...for three decades
An intellectual perhaps but Rose has had a number of women accuse him of sexual assault and lewd behaviour, I wonder whether Bowie would have wasted his time if he knew. Still the whole discussion set up with one token woman and the alpha males talking over her and acting like she wasn't there pretty much sums up the general attitude towards women (Bowie included) at that time..... Our wonderful patriarchal world where women were and still remain without a voice.
boring
Google says he was worth 230 million at his passing in 2016. So not 800 and not 900 million, but no paltry amount either.
I really hope he left some to Mick Ronsons daughter.
At the time of his death, Mick's estimated net worth was $5 million.