Bowie famously had difficulty in remembering things...He once admitted to being 'so out of it', that he couldn't remember recording 'Station to Station', later adding "I know it was in LA because I've read it was". 🤣🤣🤣
I remember Bowie being asked questions on what songs of his appeared on which albums and he got a few wrong! But still surprised he got the year wrong as it's ingrained into every rock music fans brain as is when Lennon died.
The Best Rock’n’Roll Star Ever. So lovely when he’s reflecting on the artists he loved & admired. Now, he’s gone too. Must be some amazing gigs going on in Heaven now.
So smart ~ adorable ~ humble ~ inside and outside The good look was only a Reflection of a extraordinary Human ~ Love and Respect are remaining ~ for a Great creative Artist ~ 💌🦜🎶🕊🎶🦜💌
I miss Bowie every day, and that's the truth. I didn't know him, but feel as though I did. Perhaps psychiatrists have an explanation for it. He's the only celebrity I've ever truly grieved over.
Don't need psychiatrists to explain it. He produced great music that many could really relate to, and that has stood the test of time. Beside the music, he had some many other wonderful things going on. Out of all artists of all media, he is my favourite. Few of us knew the man personally, but many know the legend.
I think the explanation of that is Bowie and Freddie Mercury we’re simply in a class of their own. Just a little bit more than, and a little bit other than.... everyone else. And neither wasted their opportunity.
To me it felt like someone told me God had died and we’d be on our own now. He just always been there as a guiding light and I hadn’t considered the planet with out him. It was truly shocking. My heart sank to my stomach so viscerally that my knees buckled a little. It was weird. Never knew there was a physical version of that before.
@@KarmasAbutch You nailed it. His music especially Man Who Sold the World album kept me company on driving ti and from nightshift work. Felt like a friend had departed but also someone from a alternative, non mainstream background who had attained the heights and continued to glance down at the musical landscape.
He should have thought a bit deeper then. Marc Bolan died in a car crash on the 16th September 1977. You'd think a " close friend " would remember the year.
Gotta love Bowie. Cool as you like. A magical soul. Very down to earth one minute and then in another universe the next. I like him best when he reminds me that he's sometimes just like me. An earthling.
Ren Jay Bowie... The most beautiful elegant talented man... I can't find the words to express how magical and dynamic... I think I have in a way. So special.
I met him once for a brief exchange of words, I asked him how things were going down in Bromley-It was so funny he burst out laughing,”I haven’t been down there in ages!” He exclaimed 😂😂
awww, he called Marc his brother from T Rex.. and his son Duncan posted recently a tweet saying that grandfather (i.e. David) would be proud to see that his grandson is growing up to look like Marc
He called Marc Bolan up in late 74 when Marc was then living in the South of France, Monte Carlo and asked Marc if he could fly out to Switzerland. He wanted Bolan's approval of The Man Who Fell to Earth script before accepting the part. Marc of course very much approved and told him to just be himself. That is how so close Marc Bolan and David Bowie had been. I miss them both. Oh and it was Iggy Pop who told me that story.
Yes its all to easy to take day to day life for granted, now in my later years when I wake up in the morning the first thought is great I get another day to see what I can make of it, sure never think well its just another day to do the same old shit again.
David's closest friend in the music business was most undoubtedly Marc Bolan. They didn't speak to each other from 70 to late 1973 though because of a misunderstanding in the recording studio during the recording of The Prettiest Star. David asked Marc to do another take on the lead guitar work. However, Marc's partner, June dragged him out of studio saying Marc is too good for the recording.
Also, Marc lost lots of friends for a few years there - including Tony Visconti and most of the T Rex bandmates, because he became a drugged out jerk. But Bowie never cut him off entirely. They stayed close till the end.
Spud M Murphy and became very close friends towards the end of Marc's life. In an interview Bowie himself spoke that Bolan was his best friend at that time. I wish I could find which interview that was. I heard it very recently when u-tube goes off and selects for you and I forgot to save it!
He looks to me more like his Great Great Great Grandfather James. Little known fact- he was actually named after one of James’s mates, a certain Mr Crockett
I remember crying and wanting the day off school but not allowed. The mean class teased me horribly as they knew I was a huge fan since 72. Summer wasn't Heaven in 77 it was a bummer.
bowie became much more immense than bolan,, bolan's ego fucked him up,, he treated people like shit ,, he got rid of tony v,, that was his biggest mistake,, bowie up staged him,, especially internationally,,
Geez yall are getting so worked up about the year...he had been around since the late 60s, so many events took place in his career can he not make one mistake about a date? Lol
Nonsense. Bowie loved Bolan. He quietly paid to put Roland Bolan, Bolan's son, through school - Bolan's son was just a baby when Marc died, and Bowie essentially financially supported him until adulthood, and it remained a secret until just a few years ago when Roland publicly thanks him. Bowie played Marc's guitar on Blackstar - knowing it was the last album he'd ever make, and wanting to have a bit of Marc on his final record. So he got a date wrong in the interview. Big deal.
Ok I'm worried.. Bowie got the year wrong.. its 1977 not 1978.. Someone commented on here saying his name was Marc Nolan.. I thought it was Bolan.. Now someone says his son is called Roland, I thought it was Rolan, without the D on the end! Is anything real anymore.. can we trust what we see or hear.. I'm going into hiding until this entire mess is sorted out.. see you in 2039.. TRUST NO ONE!
Bowie had a lot on his mind when that interview took place in 1980's,hence the mistake about the date Marc Nolan died,he probably realized he had mispoken.
He seems to have to squint because of bright sunshine; it's not directly at him, but there are obviously reflectors/diffusers (or bright fill-lights) used, as there are no shadows on his face at all. A poor choice of location/angle by the person who organized it.
It's from the US TV show 'Extreme Close Up'...Not sure if anyone has uploaded it on YT...I have a full 23 min video of it, but it's in very poor quality, and strangely I think this part was edited out of the fuller broadcast show...
PLEASE tell me where the rest of this is!!! The lady interviewing him is the daughter of one of the Neville Brothers and eventually went to work on FOX News.
@@alexkx8599 If I knew where it was, or what it was called I would have been very happy to help you when you asked 2 years ago. I no longer have any desire to go through boxes and boxes of video tapes.
@@joebowieaddick Thank you for responding! As a fan this has been a three decade issue for me. It was so impactful I have not forgotten since I was 15 years old then. Can you at least make sure someone gets them before they are all thrown away? This is a problem for everyone in the situations...in some ways myself sad to say. It concerns me what is being lost in this world. I feel this interview should be included in a re-issue of the l.p. in some Super Deluxe Edition...if you have any idea what I am talking about. I wonder if I should try contacting Arthel herself through Fox News, huh? Really strange stuff, eh. This interview was extremely shocking with the things he was saying...to the extent where it fascinates me how it didn't destroy his career and that it even got aired! Which MIGHT (though not necessarily) explain why it has not been properly accessible for so long.
@@neptunestardust Yes, but Bolan was first with this glam rock image, appearing on was it Top of the Pops with stars and glitter on his head, face and cock.
He didn't have longevity (not in the dead way) he also didn't have the charisma he didn't have the body of work and he couldn't right for or produce other artist's. Bowie had all of that even by the mid 70s.
Well he had cancer so he probably needed strong painkillers which usually means opiates. So no, he probably wasn't clean, poor guy. Hopefully he didn't go through too much pain. I expect he had expert medical care at the end.
While you kept on working with the same bunch of bloody studio technicians for decades.......after having given the Spiders the boot after a mere five years, your main income was from your impeccable 70's output ... Nice bloke ofcourse,....his post '87 work ? a 'bit' pretentious though...
Actually Marc died in '77.
Bowie famously had difficulty in remembering things...He once admitted to being 'so out of it', that he couldn't remember recording 'Station to Station', later adding "I know it was in LA because I've read it was".
🤣🤣🤣
Lol that isn't why he doesn't remember....
Mother of God, I have difficulty remembering things
I remember Bowie being asked questions on what songs of his appeared on which albums and he got a few wrong! But still surprised he got the year wrong as it's ingrained into every rock music fans brain as is when Lennon died.
Well, he was only out by one year. I've seen other interviews where he got the decade wrong. It's a helluva drug etc etc.
Why did the glasses make me swoon? Oh, my, he's gorgeous.
Bowie had a magnificent profile. A very handsome man. Oh and a great singer/artist too.
Bowie a class act, a legend honoring two other legends and respectfully. How can you not like him and his talent and his respect for other artists.
old Bowie is a gent ...all that south London manner......too rare now
Bowie is so genuinely classy
David Robert Jones was an extraordinary gifted individual.
Bowie's quite handsome here.
Good start. Next listen to Hunky Dory if you haven't already. That's handsome for the ears
eewww gay
Everywhere. Not just here.
The Best Rock’n’Roll Star Ever.
So lovely when he’s reflecting on the artists he loved & admired.
Now, he’s gone too.
Must be some amazing gigs going on in Heaven now.
The old “heaven” thing. Jesus.
It is a shame...what a pointless way to die...no fault of his own either
So smart ~ adorable ~ humble ~ inside and outside
The good look was only a Reflection of a extraordinary Human ~
Love and Respect are remaining ~ for a Great creative Artist ~
💌🦜🎶🕊🎶🦜💌
nice words from the legend...
God I wish he was still here 💔🥹
I miss Bowie every day, and that's the truth. I didn't know him, but feel as though I did. Perhaps psychiatrists have an explanation for it. He's the only celebrity I've ever truly grieved over.
Me too,hun. Me too.
Don't need psychiatrists to explain it. He produced great music that many could really relate to, and that has stood the test of time. Beside the music, he had some many other wonderful things going on. Out of all artists of all media, he is my favourite.
Few of us knew the man personally, but many know the legend.
I think the explanation of that is Bowie and Freddie Mercury we’re simply in a class of their own. Just a little bit more than, and a little bit other than.... everyone else. And neither wasted their opportunity.
To me it felt like someone told me God had died and we’d be on our own now. He just always been there as a guiding light and I hadn’t considered the planet with out him. It was truly shocking. My heart sank to my stomach so viscerally that my knees buckled a little. It was weird. Never knew there was a physical version of that before.
@@KarmasAbutch You nailed it. His music especially Man Who Sold the World album kept me company on driving ti and from nightshift work. Felt like a friend had departed but also someone from a alternative, non mainstream background who had attained the heights and continued to glance down at the musical landscape.
What a beautiful man and beautiful words to x
David Bowie was always a deep thinker and so intelligent !! 🤨
He should have thought a bit deeper then. Marc Bolan died in a car crash on the 16th September 1977. You'd think a " close friend " would remember the year.
Gotta love Bowie. Cool as you like. A magical soul. Very down to earth one minute and then in another universe the next. I like him best when he reminds me that he's sometimes just like me. An earthling.
I Love David Bowie very much!!
Ren Jay Bowie... The most beautiful elegant talented man... I can't find the words to express how magical and dynamic... I think I have in a way. So special.
I met him once for a brief exchange of words, I asked him how things were going down in Bromley-It was so funny he burst out laughing,”I haven’t been down there in ages!” He exclaimed 😂😂
Him and bolan both legends
those glasses 😍
I love this man with every beat of my broken 💔
Lennon, Bolan and Bowie...my LOVE
awww, he called Marc his brother from T Rex.. and his son Duncan posted recently a tweet saying that grandfather (i.e. David) would be proud to see that his grandson is growing up to look like Marc
Yes, I remember reading that tweet…Mentioning the “curly hair”.😉
What a beautiful man! I'm 😢 crying! Love u David!
Presley, Berry, Lennon, Kemp, Reed, Bolan, Iggy, Taylor, Odam, Yamamoto, Eno: the men who shaped Bowie
You missed out Little Richard, much more of an influence than Chuck Berry.
@@annwhite2346 Yeahm Lil' Richy too
your being silly now aint you ..?
I love you Mr bowie
Really super extraordinary human
He called Marc Bolan up in late 74 when Marc was then living in the South of France, Monte Carlo and asked Marc if he could fly out to Switzerland. He wanted Bolan's approval of The Man Who Fell to Earth script before accepting the part. Marc of course very much approved and told him to just be himself. That is how so close Marc Bolan and David Bowie had been. I miss them both. Oh and it was Iggy Pop who told me that story.
Bolan died on 16 September 1977
What a gift Bowie was ❤ He's so classy
Gorgeous.
Thanks for bringing to my notice. It's lovely to hear again. Cheers
Yes its all to easy to take day to day life for granted, now in my later years when I wake up in the morning the first thought is great I get another day to see what I can make of it, sure never think well its just another day to do the same old shit again.
You hear that echo at the beginning? I always knew Bowie was an alien.
Wise words, David you are sadly missed.
They're all gone.💔
The wisdom that comes through the clarity of hindsight of a trial by fire life lived
The delay at the start is legendary
We have to thank a glitch in Lightworks for that😊
David's closest friend in the music business was most undoubtedly Marc Bolan. They didn't speak to each other from 70 to late 1973 though because of a misunderstanding in the recording studio during the recording of The Prettiest Star. David asked Marc to do another take on the lead guitar work. However, Marc's partner, June dragged him out of studio saying Marc is too good for the recording.
Also, Marc lost lots of friends for a few years there - including Tony Visconti and most of the T Rex bandmates, because he became a drugged out jerk. But Bowie never cut him off entirely. They stayed close till the end.
Spud M Murphy and became very close friends towards the end of Marc's life. In an interview Bowie himself spoke that Bolan was his best friend at that time. I wish I could find which interview that was. I heard it very recently when u-tube goes off and selects for you and I forgot to save it!
@@susankirkland3852 give it a try and upload it.
Marc Bolan died in '77
Bowie Lennon & Bolan all together again 💙
His voice was so deep here that my speakers are fucking trembling!
What an interesting man, incredible IQ
thx
'When Lennon was shot it left a huge hole'.
Bowie was a real comedian on the quiet.
He means hole in his heart dummy they were good mates he's not mocking him
Bowie was a very cool guy. Bolan was from another universe.
John Lennon was the leader of The Beatles that's all!
Paul is crying now, because of you
Lennon was a revolutionary.
He looks a lot like his father here!
Hey creep, how do you know what his father looks like? What are you some kind of a pervert.
Totally does. I usually see him more like his mother but you're right.
He looks to me more like his Great Great Great Grandfather James.
Little known fact- he was actually named after one of James’s mates, a certain Mr Crockett
Rumour has it Bowie's Harry Potter period only lasted for three days
😂
Dressed like a Lloyds broker and still looks cool as fuck
Marc Bolan passed in 1977
I remember crying and wanting the day off school but not allowed. The mean class teased me horribly as they knew I was a huge fan since 72. Summer wasn't Heaven in 77 it was a bummer.
In his Max Headroom phase..
Rip
Marc bolan was quite the rock star,almost the perfect rock star.
he was an imitation
@@mysterylittlebhoy1482 Of what pray tell?
bowie became much more immense than bolan,, bolan's ego fucked him up,, he treated people like shit ,, he got rid of tony v,, that was his biggest mistake,, bowie up staged him,, especially internationally,,
If it wasn't for Marc Bolan, Ziggy Stardust would have never existed ("Ziggy" character was inspired by Marc Bolan). It's simple as that!
Not true. ZS was inspired by Vince Taylor, Iggy Pop, Legendary stardust cowboy and Lindsey Kemp.
@@annwhite2346 Are you gay or what
@@annwhite2346 He referred to a song - Lady Stardust, probably. which was about Marc.
You have to disentangle the falsities from the truth's in that Stardust monstrosity of a film.
Geez yall are getting so worked up about the year...he had been around since the late 60s, so many events took place in his career can he not make one mistake about a date? Lol
I agree, when David passed, it was the end… so darn sad, marc, John, david
Can't even get the year right. Bowie rode Marc's coattails all the way to the bank and never looked back.
nkotb 82. So, then Bolan died and Bowie was all washed up? Uh, no.
Nonsense. Bowie loved Bolan. He quietly paid to put Roland Bolan, Bolan's son, through school - Bolan's son was just a baby when Marc died, and Bowie essentially financially supported him until adulthood, and it remained a secret until just a few years ago when Roland publicly thanks him. Bowie played Marc's guitar on Blackstar - knowing it was the last album he'd ever make, and wanting to have a bit of Marc on his final record. So he got a date wrong in the interview. Big deal.
Ok I'm worried.. Bowie got the year wrong.. its 1977 not 1978..
Someone commented on here saying his name was Marc Nolan.. I thought it was Bolan..
Now someone says his son is called Roland, I thought it was Rolan, without the D on the end!
Is anything real anymore.. can we trust what we see or hear..
I'm going into hiding until this entire mess is sorted out.. see you in 2039.. TRUST NO ONE!
@@davidlomax4028 The year was 1977. His name was Marc Bolan. His son is named Rolan.
Bowie had a lot on his mind when that interview took place in 1980's,hence the mistake about the date Marc Nolan died,he probably realized he had mispoken.
Marc " Nolan "?? The lost Nolan brother! 🤣🤣🤣
Did you have a lot on your mind too?
@@CB-xr1eg I'm larfing me hed off wiv wot you said funny as f@*#
He seems to have to squint because of bright sunshine; it's not directly at him, but there are obviously reflectors/diffusers (or bright fill-lights) used, as there are no shadows on his face at all. A poor choice of location/angle by the person who organized it.
Ah, the last time he sported the international banker look.
Pity Bowie didn't get along with Elton and vice versa. Still love you Marc.
I'd say Eltons a nuisance
Elton's a prick, I'd have been disappointed if Bowie had liked him.
What interview is this from? Would like to watch the rest
Was Marc bolan/t Rex big in the states?
He was big all over the world...but for some unknown reason America never got him.??
@@joebowieaddick That's because he never attended Cher's show in 1975
😢
Can you please tell me where I can find the rest of this interview in its entirety AND who is doing the interviewing?
It's from the US TV show 'Extreme Close Up'...Not sure if anyone has uploaded it on YT...I have a full 23 min video of it, but it's in very poor quality, and strangely I think this part was edited out of the fuller broadcast show...
@@joebowieaddick upload it then and never mind the quality.
PLEASE tell me where the rest of this is!!! The lady interviewing him is the daughter of one of the Neville Brothers and eventually went to work on FOX News.
Somewhere in my collection, which is in need of a good tidy up.🥴
@@joebowieaddick I guess one of us has to die from old age before it is...
@@alexkx8599 If I knew where it was, or what it was called I would have been very happy to help you when you asked 2 years ago. I no longer have any desire to go through boxes and boxes of video tapes.
@@joebowieaddick Thank you for responding! As a fan this has been a three decade issue for me. It was so impactful I have not forgotten since I was 15 years old then. Can you at least make sure someone gets them before they are all thrown away? This is a problem for everyone in the situations...in some ways myself sad to say. It concerns me what is being lost in this world. I feel this interview should be included in a re-issue of the l.p. in some Super Deluxe Edition...if you have any idea what I am talking about. I wonder if I should try contacting Arthel herself through Fox News, huh? Really strange stuff, eh. This interview was extremely shocking with the things he was saying...to the extent where it fascinates me how it didn't destroy his career and that it even got aired! Which MIGHT (though not necessarily) explain why it has not been properly accessible for so long.
77 not 78
1977
Marc Bolan, in his own way, had genius and charisma that exceeds Bowie's work
But Bowie took it to the next level
@@allanfarran364they were friends but also rivals
They are both amazing in every aspect both very different ofc but really revolutionary
@@neptunestardust Yes, but Bolan was first with this glam rock image, appearing on was it Top of the Pops with stars and glitter on his head, face and cock.
He didn't have longevity (not in the dead way) he also didn't have the charisma he didn't have the body of work and he couldn't right for or produce other artist's. Bowie had all of that even by the mid 70s.
He looks like his father
He got Bolan's death date wrong.
Bowie often admitted that he was bad remembering dates...The white diet he was on leading up to that period probably didn't help.😉
I’m surprised he couldn’t remember the correct year his ‘friend’ Marc died. It was 1977.
He looks like an early 20th century German school teacher
If Benedict cumberbatch and younger Johnny depp starred in a movie.
Marc Nolan died in 1977
Who is Marc Nolan? 😂
Bolan
@@spudmmurphy9839 He's the long lost Nolan brother!😂
ok
he's right ..john lennonz passing left a few holes son!
Did he die clean and sober? and if so how many years did he get clean?
Who?
bowie
Oh certainly.. he stopped taking drugs DECADES before he died.
Well he had cancer so he probably needed strong painkillers which usually means opiates. So no, he probably wasn't clean, poor guy. Hopefully he didn't go through too much pain. I expect he had expert medical care at the end.
Liver cancer is a bitch. I watched my non-smoking, teetotalling father in law die from it 20odd years ago.
Uh...David Bowie is so intelligent and thoughtful !! (nobody like Bowie !)
Imagine being such a dick as to start a comment with.." Uh ". I mean seriously...
bolan = 77
While you kept on working with the same bunch of bloody studio technicians for decades.......after having given the Spiders the boot after a mere five years, your main income was from your impeccable 70's output ...
Nice bloke ofcourse,....his post '87 work ? a 'bit' pretentious though...
We know David was a little jealous of Marc .
Other way round.
@@annwhite2346 if you knew their history starting back in the late 60's you'd see that Bowie idolized Marc......
David Bowie would have made a super kewl nazi,in a war movie.
Have not played one song since he died I just can't, tried but to much. RIP Bowie 🙏
I thought Blackstar was a masterpiece, but I couldn’t play it for many months after he passed.
Jesus. Really. That's serious. Let the music heal you.
@@allisnotwhatitseems. tried to play heroes on the old acoustic got to the g chord and that was it luv on ya