1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,680 This programme contains some strong language. 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,800 # Something happened on the day he died 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,640 # Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,760 # Somebody else took his place 5 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,200 # And bravely cried... # 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,840 Always remember that the reason that you initially started working 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,080 was that there was something inside yourself that you felt 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,320 that if you could manifest it in some way, 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,040 you would understand more about yourself 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,920 and how you coexist with the rest of society. 11 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,400 # How many times does an angel fall? 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,800 # How many people lie instead of talking tall?... # 13 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,520 People have either really accepted what I do or they absolutely 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,600 sort of push it away from them. I guess that's what I am, you know? 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,880 But I would love to feel that what I did 16 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,280 actually changed the fabric of music. 17 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,560 Even though I seem to superficially change such a lot, 18 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,720 a style does come through. 19 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:21,000 By virtue of the fact that I'm getting older, 20 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 it's given me quite a scope on what I can draw from 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,160 within my own catalogue of albums. 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,400 # Look up here 23 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:41,800 # I'm in heaven 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,920 # I've got scars that can't be seen... # 25 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,160 Hello, hello, hello! 26 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,960 # It's your lucky day!... # 27 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:11,440 # Where are we now? Where are we now?... # 28 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,320 I think that David's music is totally autobiographical. 29 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,280 He's telling you everything if you just know what to look for. 30 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,240 # The moment you know You know, you know... # 31 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,880 He was a kind of provocateur. 32 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,360 # Where in the fuck did Monday go? # 33 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,440 He offered an alternative to people. 34 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,080 And that, to me, is a great artist, you know, 35 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,280 someone who can offer that for generations to come. 36 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:48,240 This is one human being who has single-handedly changed 37 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,200 basically the course of my life. 38 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,920 And you can't say that about most people. 39 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,240 # Loving the alien... # 40 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,760 # Watch that man 41 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,920 # Oh, honey, watch that man... # 42 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:14,320 # Blue, blue, electric blue That's the colour of my room... # 43 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,920 # I'm looking for a vehicle I'm looking for a ride 44 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:21,640 # I'm looking for a party I'm looking for a side... # 45 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:24,440 # We can be heroes 46 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,800 # Just for one day. # 47 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,560 CHEERING 48 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,400 I had this poetic, romantic, kind of juvenile idea 49 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,240 that I would be dead by 30. 50 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,840 Suddenly you're 30 and you're 40, then you're 50 and 57 and all that, 51 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,280 and it's a new land, you know, I pioneer. 52 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,560 # You've got your mother in a whirl 53 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,800 # She's not sure if you're a boy or girl 54 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,000 # Hey, baby, your hair's all right 55 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,160 # Hey, baby, let's stay out tonight... # 56 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,200 - It's a big tour you're starting, isn't it? - Yes, it's going to go on 57 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,560 for months and months, but I think we're up for it. 58 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,520 How do you feel right now? 59 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,520 Pretty relaxed, you know. 60 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,360 I enjoy the songs a lot, so I'm going to have a good time. 61 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,560 I'm going to be honest with you, 62 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,600 the happiest I've ever seen that man 63 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,480 in 42 years that I've spent 64 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,920 on and off with him, was that tour. 65 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,320 I'd never seen him like that before. 66 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,640 - You! - # Rebel, rebel 67 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,320 # You've torn your dress 68 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,920 - # Rebel, rebel - Your face is a mess 69 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,160 - # Rebel, rebel - How could they know? 70 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:54,920 - # Hot tramp, I love you so... # - You bet! 71 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,880 At a certain time in your life, you get to a point where 72 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:00,800 you do feel freer and you don't 73 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,760 really care what people think 74 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,160 and you can be yourself 75 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:05,600 and you can laugh at things 76 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,320 and you can not take things maybe so seriously. 77 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,680 # Hey, baby, let's stay out tonight... # 78 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,080 When it came to the Reality tour 79 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,160 I think he had decided that he was going to take down 80 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,480 that kind of screen, if you like, and be David Bowie. 81 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,280 Not in a cheesy way, 82 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:27,920 but he allowed more access to himself. 83 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,120 On guitar, from Dublin, fair city, Gerry Leonard. 84 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,400 CHEERING 85 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,200 Actually, he's from Tunbridge Wells, 86 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,040 but it always gets a good applause when I say that. 87 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,920 I'm not really very keen to put on much of a theatrical show, you know, 88 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,800 in terms of big sets and elephants and fireworks and things like that. 89 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,680 But of course, it doesn't mean that I won't go back on my word 90 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,600 because that's part and parcel of what I do for you. 91 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,280 It's part of my entertaining factor, is lying to you. 92 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,320 His sense of humour was on. 93 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,120 He always had one anyway, 94 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,640 but publicly he didn't show it as much, you know what I mean? 95 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,160 There was that serious artist thing going on, you know, 96 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,080 during some of the tours. 97 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,880 The Reality tour wasn't like that because there were some nights 98 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:19,960 I was falling down laughing at some of the shit 99 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,800 that he would say or do or that happened. 100 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,560 These must be albums that nobody ever bought, 101 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,520 - so they're going real cheap. - Did you see the guy last night? 102 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,600 They've got Lodger and Tin Machine... That figures. 103 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,240 We're that some truck stop up in Montana 104 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,560 and I'm at...you know those machines 105 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,320 that you never win at, or you put in the quarter 106 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,600 and then the claw comes down and picks up the stuffed animal? 107 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:43,920 THEY CHEER 108 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,720 I do it and I actually get the thing out. 109 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,440 And it's the two of us, 110 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,760 it's this competition of who's going to get the stuffed animal. 111 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,680 I think it's a kind of a 50-50 thing. So I'll take that one. 112 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,200 That's just not the David that I had known in earlier years. 113 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:02,720 That's brilliant. 114 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,880 Some of the fun and games that were going on, 115 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,920 I think that really was who he was, you know. 116 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:09,160 There you go. 117 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,960 The real David was the one that you saw 118 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,320 at the time of the Reality tour. 119 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,360 He was always funny, he always ...
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