David Bowie
David Bowie
David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1947
CityLondon, England
The media is either our salvation or our death.
Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.
When Brian and I came back together this time, we found that we'd gone through very similar psychological states during the course of the '80s.
I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.
I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.