Canadian journalist, Avi Lewis interview w/ David Bowie on Canada's Much Music TV show in 1997 Extract from: • Video Made w/ CZcams Vid Editor / editor
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
I think Bowie's Berlin period was his greatest music period. I feel like his voice had a kind of matured beautiful sound to it compared to his earlier work.
@@mister3566 Hauptstrasse 155, just 2 mins walk from Kleistpark U-Bahn. I was there last week. I also tried to find it 21 years ago when I lived in Berlin, but it's much easier now they put up a memorial plaque, plus we have wikpedia... ;)
Did it all on my own! It was awesome. Just walked on in and nobody asked any questions. Then the the bar next to his old apartment... and Potsdamer Platz/KaDeWe 😂 (this was just after "Where Are We Now?" came out...
@@davidprime6080 i know i know i've been interested in those bands since 30 years ago now...very different bands...the Berlin School : Tangerine dream, Klaus Schulze,...the Düsseldorf sound: Kraftwerk, NEU! (my favourite band) and then people like the great Conny Schnitzler,...
@@mikescott433 No,... that was Edgar Froese, from Tangerine dream,...he helped Bowie also to leave his multiple addictions in his own flat, you can read this and many more about it in Edgar's autobiography "Tangerine dream: Force majeure" (sorry for my poor english Mike)
Bowie was charming and totally engaging in this clip. However his talking about drugs and the kinds of 'special' creative people who are drawn to the life of addicts is utter bollocks. For every one Iggy, Bowie or Cobain you have millions of ordinary folks who create nothing of value whilst living repetitive, unproductive, ordinary, squalid lives after getting lured into drugs and vapid social scenes for a variety of mental health reasons and personality issues and then see themselves devolve into..well, it's not kind to say. People like Bowie are artistic legends and pop culture icons for a multitude of reasons. It's very sad that drugs will always been linked to creative genius and thus, will always seem like a gateway or part of the romantic package for these wannabe 'special' creative personalities. The allure is the tragedy but I think it will be this way for a great many decades to come. Redefining 'coolness' and devaluing danger-seeking in youth...good luck.
@curtis allen because he did some pretty decent stuff after he got got clean lmao. Bowie was a very creative and gifted artist. But drugs kinda played their role tho. Can you imagine "Revolver" by the Beatles without LSD for example?
@@fractale4322 i did more than that and there's a zillion interviews in which he basically has many regrets about the drug consumption. He's a very open person. He was high in this interview..
"I certainly had a personality crisis because of the catastrophe of drugs addiction and its aftermath. I used to slip easily into deep, deep depressions, really manically depressed. I’d then swing the other way and become incredibly euphoric. I wasn’t in control of it at all. I often get pangs of isolation and all that, particularly in the very early morning, but it doesn’t haunt me as such any more. I was a kid that loved being in my room reading books and entertaining ideas. I lived a lot in my imagination. It was a real effort to become a social animal. That’s why I loved drugs so much. On drugs, once you started talking you never stopped - whether there was anybody with you or not! And you’d wake up with a very sore jaw. Now I don’t have a problem going to dinner with people. I always refused before, because I didn’t know what to say and I didn’t think I was terribly interesting." -- bowie
When he was a teenager he got in a fight with one of his mates (over a girl of course!) and was hit in the eye, which ended up causing one pupil to permanently dilate :)
@@wloonie I believe he used it just don't think hevwas full blown h addict. He could have been I've never heard him talk about heroin but coke and qualudes
Great music that period but you cant make me believe that Bowie ever straightened up before the mid to late 1990's if that. There is just no way. And each to their own. He disappeared after his heart attack in 2004 and never toured again... It was certainly something worse than just a heart attack. Then liver cancer. As i said each to their own. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
No, I think he felt that the heart attack was a warning he had better heed - also, he had been touring and recording for all of his adult life at that point. He was near sixty, likely he felt that it was time to wind down a bit. Touring with your music and a stage show that way is as demanding and energetic as directing a big movie, it really takes a toll.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
I think Bowie's Berlin period was his greatest music period. I feel like his voice had a kind of matured beautiful sound to it compared to his earlier work.
Going to Berlin was the best thing Bowie could have done, definate life saver
Shame you can't see who likes your comments
Berlin is an amazing city, some beautiful people there too
Never got to see David and Iggy's apartment but one day I will go back
@@mister3566 Hauptstrasse 155, just 2 mins walk from Kleistpark U-Bahn. I was there last week. I also tried to find it 21 years ago when I lived in Berlin, but it's much easier now they put up a memorial plaque, plus we have wikpedia... ;)
@@pixelfrenzy I wish I'd have gone but mine was a whirlwind visit to Berlin, just 3 nights.
I love David Bowie. He is a true English gentleman. A real musician with a heart of gold
Certainly a very literate guy, and truly English without being parochial. Both English and European actually.
If you go to Berlin do the Bowie Berlin walk tour, and the HansaTon Studio tour. Fascinating.
Did it (brillinat tour of the studios) ... Shame the (W)Berlin of Bowie and Iggy is all gone....
Did it all on my own! It was awesome. Just walked on in and nobody asked any questions. Then the the bar next to his old apartment... and Potsdamer Platz/KaDeWe 😂 (this was just after "Where Are We Now?" came out...
@@dafyddil My ex lives in bowies old apartment and works at the bar "neues ufer" :)
@@hom0s4cer you're kidding! How amazing is that -- I met a nice guy who was tending the bar when I went there... maybe in his 30s
@@hom0s4cer Cool bar. I did the Bowie walking tour the year before he passed away and we finished at that bar. Dug it!
I miss Bowie
Fascinating.
Miss this man!!
Briliant opening that made me crack up immediately too: "Is it coke or speed? I can't tell!" (he probably could. but never mind)
This was the second time he went to and stayed in Berlin, he lived their previously for a while in the mid ‘70’s.
Love him. Iggy still performing at 76 yrs old, this time will never ever come back. Forget the wanna be rapper from 2023.
Station to Station is my favourite
l adore!
Uh...David Bowie is witty and interesting !! 👍
Man born n educated in my area. He was a Global superstar.
@Joe Box good for you
He never sold as many records as the spice girls.😃
Ben Mayhew
Wasn't he desperate to escape the suburban environment of his upbringing though?
@@mickymac6571 and ? he still left a bigger impact on the world and remained relevant till his death , and more
@@abook2141 agreed, he just wasn't as successful.
The places Bowie stayed in Berlin are now gentrified hell holes
Nah. I live a few blocks away. Just a regular neighborhood.
i was waiting for david to light that cigarette
...and the krautrock bands David,...and the krautrock bands,...
The main krautrock bands weren't from Berlin. Can was from Cologne, and Neu! and Kraftwerk were from Dusseldorf
@@davidprime6080 i know i know i've been interested in those bands since 30 years ago now...very different bands...the Berlin School : Tangerine dream, Klaus Schulze,...the Düsseldorf sound: Kraftwerk, NEU! (my favourite band) and then people like the great Conny Schnitzler,...
@@logonazo ...btw. and i heard 'klaus schulze' helped him a lot at the beginning, to find a flat etc...
@@mikescott433 No,... that was Edgar Froese, from Tangerine dream,...he helped Bowie also to leave his multiple addictions in his own flat, you can read this and many more about it in Edgar's autobiography "Tangerine dream: Force majeure" (sorry for my poor english Mike)
@@logonazo ...oh yes, you're right! THX
Bowie was charming and totally engaging in this clip. However his talking about drugs and the kinds of 'special' creative people who are drawn to the life of addicts is utter bollocks. For every one Iggy, Bowie or Cobain you have millions of ordinary folks who create nothing of value whilst living repetitive, unproductive, ordinary, squalid lives after getting lured into drugs and vapid social scenes for a variety of mental health reasons and personality issues and then see themselves devolve into..well, it's not kind to say. People like Bowie are artistic legends and pop culture icons for a multitude of reasons. It's very sad that drugs will always been linked to creative genius and thus, will always seem like a gateway or part of the romantic package for these wannabe 'special' creative personalities. The allure is the tragedy but I think it will be this way for a great many decades to come. Redefining 'coolness' and devaluing danger-seeking in youth...good luck.
Sad because he didn't need the drugs. He really was naturally amazingly talented without any special effects needed..
@curtis allen because he did some pretty decent stuff after he got got clean lmao.
Bowie was a very creative and gifted artist.
But drugs kinda played their role tho. Can you imagine "Revolver" by the Beatles without LSD for example?
I got the impression Bowie was saying going through a "junkie period;" if you came through it intact, could make you a better artist.
Don't think you really listened to him
@@fractale4322 i did more than that and there's a zillion interviews in which he basically has many regrets about the drug consumption. He's a very open person. He was high in this interview..
"I certainly had a personality crisis because of the catastrophe of drugs addiction and its aftermath.
I used to slip easily into deep, deep depressions, really manically depressed. I’d then swing the other way and become incredibly euphoric. I wasn’t in control of it at all. I often get pangs of isolation and all that, particularly in the very early morning, but it doesn’t haunt me as such any more.
I was a kid that loved being in my room reading books and entertaining ideas. I lived a lot in my imagination. It was a real effort to become a social animal. That’s why I loved drugs so much. On drugs, once you started talking you never stopped - whether there was anybody with you or not! And you’d wake up with a very sore jaw.
Now I don’t have a problem going to dinner with people. I always refused before, because I didn’t know what to say and I didn’t think I was terribly interesting." -- bowie
If iggy can quit,so can i.....its a matter of holding your nuts.
_Why...Did I Leave Berlin?_
Totally unaware lol ...
0:26 what does it mean when one pupil is fully dialated and one is not ? stroke ?
When he was a teenager he got in a fight with one of his mates (over a girl of course!) and was hit in the eye, which ended up causing one pupil to permanently dilate :)
One eyes addicted to heroin the others addicted to cocaine 😜
Scratches as he talks about heroin 🤣
Don't think heroin was David's drug that much. He loved cocaine vodka and cigarettes. I don't think iggy was a heroin addict. He loved shooting coke.
@@matthewjdouglas6471 True about David, false about Iggy. Iggy was into heroin since Stooges years.
@@matthewjdouglas6471 Iggy was into pretty much everything. Dude probably even shot aspirin back in those days.
@@wloonie I believe he used it just don't think hevwas full blown h addict. He could have been I've never heard him talk about heroin but coke and qualudes
Withnail and I, but with tallent.
Great music that period but you cant make me believe that Bowie ever straightened up before the mid to late 1990's if that. There is just no way. And each to their own. He disappeared after his heart attack in 2004 and never toured again... It was certainly something worse than just a heart attack. Then liver cancer. As i said each to their own.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
No, I think he felt that the heart attack was a warning he had better heed - also, he had been touring and recording for all of his adult life at that point. He was near sixty, likely he felt that it was time to wind down a bit. Touring with your music and a stage show that way is as demanding and energetic as directing a big movie, it really takes a toll.
he perfectly can plays Joker in movie
He died 5 years ago! :( so sad. Would’ve been a good choice otherwise!
Fuck off.
@@maeranni what A matter with you?
@@tomaszswierzbinski9012 Bowie never played The Joker.
@@maeranni he means that he could’ve, watch ur tone
Biggest haul in history!
Visions of swastikas in my head, and plans for everyone. U-100, know what I mean?
Talk about the baby groupies too...
Berlin is so Overrated i would prefer any town in Bavaria !!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is fking weird bro no one in germany likes it down under
@@johnnyklaus7124 speak for yourself you are not speaker for 83 million germans !!!
okay snowflake
@@eggcillfoley5130 ok idiot !!!
@@dzonnyblue3065 xDD I got you good
Fool
bowies such a douche
all he's saying is that going through adversity builds character. and he's right
why?
Yet you're here watching him and listening to what he has to say. Douche.
Only a true douche would think so