🔸⭐𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 "𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒", 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎⭐🔸

⭐...𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯
𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴, 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨...⭐
(𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎 "𝙵𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜")

I dedicate my post today to a song that Brian probably delighted his friend, mentor and dare I say surrogate father David Bowie with.

He did a live cover of David's song about the impending apocalypse... what a fitting theme for Brian, right?

I would start with a very nice review published by FarOut magazine in March 2020:

🔹𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞'𝐬 '𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒' 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐲🔹

When David Bowie passed away in 2016 he left a rather large hole in the music scene. The singer had been a beacon of creativity for nearly six decades before he departed and he had an unfathomable influence on one person, in particular, Placebo’s Brian Molko.
The singer had found a kindred spirit in the Starman and his passing in 2016 provoked an emotional reaction, “He was my friend and my mentor. He gave me a lot of advice. I’m meditating more on how he was quite a sage and quite a raconteur as well.”

It’s not hard to imagine, Bowie had that effect on most people. The Thin White Duke had always been lauded as one of the most influential artists in pop history but the difference here was that Bowie was just as enamoured with Placebo and Molko.
Bowie always had his finger on the pulse of new music and as well as picking out DEVO as a band of the future, he also gravitated towards Molko’s subversive alt-rock band, Placebo during the nineties. Bowie was in an industrial phase when he first came across the band and soon enough he had them open for his Outsider Tour in 1995.

They would quickly begin working with each other in the studio too. The band welcoming Bowie on the 1998 single release of the title track of their second record Without You I’m Nothing. With some backstage footage that Placebo shared after his death, highlighting Molko’s adoration of the star, gleefully looking up at him with wonder.
The pair enjoyed an enriching relationship onwards from there. Sharing the stage in 1999 at the BRIT Awards, as they performed a tribute to Marc Bolan with a cover of T-Rex’s ’20th Century Boy’. But the footage below comes a few years after in 2004 as Placebo were welcomed to French TV to perform Bowie’s iconic song, ‘Five Years’.

It’s not easy covering Bowie. Ask the countless artists who have tried and failed. But perhaps emboldened by his connection to the star or perhaps relying on the honesty of that connection in the first place, Molko delivers an impassioned and touching cover of the track.
Shot years before Bowie’s death, rather than a cover that is haunting or brittle, we see Molko engage with the track on a level of warmth and recognition. What’s more, he does so with a heavy dose of talent and an even larger serving of appreciation for the source material.

So sit back and enjoy this touching cover of David Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ from Placebo’s Brian Molko.
🔹✨🔹✨🔹✨🔹

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Nice review, what do you think?Let's talk about the song itself and its creator:

"𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒" is a song written by 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐄 and was originally released on his concept album "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬" in 1972.


As the opening track, the song introduces the overarching theme of the album: an impending apocalyptic disaster will destroy Earth in five years and the being who will save it is a bisexual alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust.
🔹💬 '𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 1970𝘴, 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨.'
(𝙽𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝙿𝚎𝚐𝚐, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎, 𝟸0𝟷𝟼)

Screenshots from the video / edit by Silke

To better understand Bowie's idea, I share with you an excerpt of 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒:

𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨: Could you explain this Ziggy Stardust image of yours? From what I can see it has to do with the world being on the eve of destruction within five years.

𝘽𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙚: The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. [The album was released three years ago.] Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock & roll band and the kids no longer want rock & roll. There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. “All the Young Dudes” is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.

𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨: Where did this Ziggy idea come from, and this five-year idea? Of course, exhaustion of natural resources will not develop the end of the world. It will result in the collapse of civilization. And it will cut down the population by about three-quarters.

𝘽𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙚: Exactly. This does not cause the end of the world for Ziggy. The end comes when the infinites arrive..../***/
(𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎, 𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝙵𝚎𝚋 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟺)


So the idea for this opening song of the album is clear. It sets in motion the whole story that was unfolding in David's head, which he then took to the theatre stage.

His Ziggy is still immortal, don't you think?

🔹🎶 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 '𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭' 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒
https://bit.ly/3PenY7d

Photo credit:  Adam Bielawski

𝙈𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 "𝙁𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙔𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙎" 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.

𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑟 𝐾𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚𝑠:

🔹💬 ⭐Having worked with both the Beatles (he was an Abbey Road engineer throughout the ‘60s) and David Bowie, producer Ken Scott is in the ideal position to compare the working methods of the two, and in a new interview with Strombo on Apple Music Hits, he’s been discussing the key thing that they had in common.

“I compare him to the Beatles in one respect and that's how brave they were in their ability to not care what people thought,” says Scott. “If they suddenly wanted to change direction, they would do it no matter what. And there are a lot of artists that won't do that.”

Ken Scott, who was David Bowie’s co-producer for four albums, recalled that the musician was in tears as he completed his performance of the opening track on groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
Scott explained that, while it can’t be heard as well in the final mix, he’s used an alternative version to demonstrate to fans just how much Bowie gave while he was working. “Five Years,” and an isolated vocal version, can be heard below.
He continued: “The first track on Ziggy, Five Years, by the end of the take he was bawling his eyes out, there were tears rolling down his face. Now, unfortunately when one is mixing, doing a final mix, you're trying to be dramatic should we say, and put everything across as best you can. And when you do that sometimes these little bits and pieces get a little lost. And you do hear that there's emotion in his voice at the end there. But now quite often in my talks, I will play the ending of 'Five Years'. It starts off with just the regular track, I've laid that down so it's just David and acoustic guitar, and I've had members of the audience that have heard this, they've started to bawl their eyes out. It is so moving. And that's what he gave every single time.”

“Of the four albums I co-produced with David, about 90% of the vocals were first take beginning to end,” he reveals. “I would run the take, get the level for his vocal, go back, hit record on the take, and what he did that one time through is what we still hear today. And that's no Auto-Tune, that's no cut and pasting things, no moving anything around. It was one performance that came from his heart every time.”
“With all of the top name artists I’ve worked with, and vocalists, I've never come across anyone quite like that,” the producer told Music Radar in a recent interview, adding of Bowie’s performances: “a friend of mine said they're perfect in their imperfection. And that's what it is. They're not totally in tune. They're not totally in time, but they come from your soul. He's putting across himself in every one of those.”


Here you can listen to both original versions of this song, which Ken Scott has made available as a lovely reminder of his time with David.

🔹🎶 David Bowie’s Full Version of ‘Five Years’
https://bit.ly/3BVLCTg

🔹🎶 David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals on ‘Five Years’
https://bit.ly/3bHwOwz

Screenshot from the video

⭐𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒⭐
Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing (sighing)
News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in (cry in)
News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying (dying)
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying (lying)
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat, skinny people
And all the tall, short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the Black hadn't have pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor
Drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
🔹✨🔹✨🔹✨🔹

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Brian performed the shared cover version at 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐕 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒,it was the only time that he played this song live on stage.

The show was presented and produced by Guillaume Durand, it was aired from 2002 to 2005.

I love this David song and I love Brian's live performance. Just look at the presenter enjoying that song about the end of the world... 😊

Brian's energy and the vibrancy of his voice, as if his tone belies this dystopian vision of the future... Like he's singing '...yeah, folks, in five years our end will come, it's clear and inevitable, so let's finally live to the fullest, let's fulfill our dreams so we don't leave this world feeling useless...

...and who knows, maybe then the harsh reality will change... if we start living in more joy...'
I know, it's a utopia as big as the universe...😊

Dear friends, I'll say goodbye with David's quote, which is a guide to life for all of us:

🔹"𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈, “𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝑰 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.”🔹
(𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎, 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚐. 𝚂𝚎𝚙 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟼)

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⭐⭐ 𝙎𝙄𝙓 𝙔𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝘿𝘼𝙑𝙄𝘿 𝘽𝙊𝙒𝙄𝙀: 𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙄𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙎𝘼𝙍𝙔 𝙊𝙁 𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙋𝘼𝙎𝙎𝙄𝙉𝙂 ⭐⭐

"𝑯𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅." (𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭)

🔸Today is a special day for all of us, Placebo fans and for all music lovers. David Bowie passed away six years ago. Let's take a moment to remember this extraordinary man ✨ 🌠

Credits at the end of tbe post, edit by Laetitia

🌟 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗲 ~ 'shining star'

🔸David Bowie is a major artist, an innovator and an eccentric, who has touched many generations with his songs. By blending rock with many other musical influences, he continues to be a global success, inspiring artists of many generations. For almost fifty years, David Bowie has been one of the best known and most iconic artists in international music. In all, he has sold more than 140 million albums worldwide, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and is listed as "𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 39 𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑇𝑜𝑝 100 "𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒". (𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘸𝘪𝘬𝘪.𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰)

🔸David Bowie was born in London on 8 January 1947. His father gave him a saxophone when he was 12 years old, and this is how he discovered the music of Little Richard, Jimmy Reed and Chuck Berry. In 1962 he formed his first band, the Kon-Rads. After having formed several bands that never broke through, he took the pseudonym of David Bowie, because of the singer Davy Jones from the band The Monkees.

Photo credot: Greg Gorman

🔸David then met producer Tony Visconti and recorded 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑂𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑦 in 1969. It was the artist's first big success, thanks in particular to its broadcast during the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. David Bowie's career was launched. The following year, David and Tony teamed up with guitarist Mick Ronson to release the album 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑, which featured David posing in drag on the cover. From the beginning, he provoked the media and continued to invent eccentric characters throughout his career, mixing genres, which earned him the nickname of chameleon, which surprised him. "𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘. 𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠?" (𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 - 𝘌𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦, 2004)

🔸In 1971, the glam album 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑦 𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑦 was released, featuring David with red hair. This was followed by 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑍𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑠, for which Bowie played the character of Ziggy, a world-famous androgynous rock star who unleashed the crowds at each of his live performances. He took advantage of his success to release 𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑛𝑒 with pianist Mike Garson. This record was also a hit.


🔸Ziggy Stardust is one of the most enduring images of David Bowie. Its story is that of a 'ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠' (𝘞𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢). The singer decided to kill his character on 3 July 1973, on stage at Hammersmith Odeon, declaring: "𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒'𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜."

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𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒁𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕
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🔸After the Ziggy Stardust period, David returned to a more classic sound. He decided to produce other artists, such as Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and Mott The Hoople. He then invented a futuristic universe for his album 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑜𝑔𝑠 (1974).


🔸In 1977, he left for Berlin to record a trilogy with Brian Eno. 𝐿𝑜𝑤, 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑒𝑠 and 𝐿𝑜𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑟reflect his taste for German electronic music, which was opposed to the punk wave vibe of the time. He became the most innovative artist of his time and managed to attract a new audience. In the 80s, David had many hits such as 𝐴𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑇𝑜 𝐴𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙.

𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒐 𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 (𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒔)
🎥 https://bit.ly/3mkqUne🎵

Photo credit: Claude Gassian

🔸In 1989, he formed a rock band, Tin Machine, which released two albums, without much success.

🔸With several albums released in the 1990s, the songs on 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 (1999) were used in the video game 𝑂𝑚𝑖𝑘𝑟𝑜𝑛: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙. He collaborated for a year with the Parisian studio Quantic Dream on the production of the video game between 1998-1999. David Cage, the video game creator seemed overcome by David's kindness, professionalism and cheerfulness.

"𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑂𝑚𝑖𝑘𝑟𝑜𝑛. 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒. 𝑊𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒'𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠! 𝐴𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑, ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒'𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠! 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 "𝑦𝑒𝑠" 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 '𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠'... 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚, 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝑊𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚, 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑖𝑛 3𝐷 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒, 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒... 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜, ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑠, 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟... 𝐻𝑒'𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑡, 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑, 𝑎 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑." (𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢.𝘧𝘳)

This was followed in 2002 by 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 and in 2003 by 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, all three produced by his lifelong friend Tony Visconti.


🔸In 2004, 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟 ended prematurely due to a stroke. This put a stop to his career. In 2013, he returned to music. David Bowie released a new album entitled 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑦 on his 66th birthday. He repeated the experience on 8 January 2016, his 69th birthday, with a final studio album: 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟. Suffering from cancer for two years, he died two days after the release of his last album, on the 10th January 2016.

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🌟 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 ~ 'little wonder'

🔸David Bowie's sexuality has been much talked about. He broke taboos. As early as the early 1970s, he explained that he was bisexual, at the same time as he introduced his public to the character of Ziggy Stardust, who never stopped mixing genders and appearing ever more feminine. "𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑏𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑎𝑙. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝐼 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒". (𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘺 - 1976).

This quote undeniably makes me think of Placebo. And I can only understand why he was dazzled by Brian's talent through the lyrics of 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘺 and the music that went against the grain of what was fashionable in those years.


🔸David Bowie once said: "𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐿𝑜𝑢 𝑅𝑒𝑒𝑑, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐼𝑔𝑔𝑦 𝑃𝑜𝑝. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚." (𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴, 1993)

Later on, he could have added Placebo to his list! 😊

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“𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙, 𝐵𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝐴𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟, 𝑠𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒, “𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜, 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑒?” (𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘑𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 2010)

These two quotes side by side complement each other, don't you think so? It is undeniable that they 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 meet and work together 🎶 🔥


🔸The members of Placebo have consistently praised David throughout their career, even calling him a mentor. “𝐼’𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑥 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑡. 𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟. 𝐻𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒. (...) 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟.” (𝘕𝘔𝘌 - 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 5𝘵𝘩, 2017)


🔸Who better than a member of Placebo to talk about David Bowie with the right words, full of love and respect? When David passed away in 2016, Stefan and Brian both shared a touching tribute.

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⭐ 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧
📖 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓

I feel like I've lost a loved one. He was a great artist and offered a place for our young band. He gave of his time. He gave it to each of us individually. David Bowie was one of those people who cared deeply for others, who took the time to listen to them. For all these reasons, I am terribly sad. One particular anecdote comes to mind. David Bowie was a seducer. When he spoke to you, he had a piercing look in his eyes, he flirted with his interlocutors...

The relationship between Bowie and Placebo started in 1996, before the release of our first album. He was on tour in Italy and had just heard one of our demos. He had never heard us before, nor played on stage. Despite this, he asked us to open for him. At the time we were playing to audiences of 300 people. The day we joined David Bowie in Italy, we found ourselves in front of 7000 people. It was a shock. We had to learn very quickly to perform in front of an audience of that size.

It was scary. I was twenty years old at the time. We had one more beer before we went on stage. David came to reassure us. When you start a career as an artist, you are convinced that your art is not worth much, David gave us confidence. He made it possible for us to feel capable of producing beautiful things. That day he told us a sentence that I will never forget: "Never be lazy, as an artist go beyond yourself, all the time, don't be afraid to confront yourself".

We regularly had dinner together, and we also spent a lot of time in the backstage area when he asked us to open for him. And then, twice, we went on stage with him. At that moment, we were above the clouds, lulled by adrenaline, as powerful as a drug. We felt that something crazy was happening, something magical. You were standing on the same stage as a magician, an exceptional artist, an extraordinary human being.

I have many memories with David Bowie. Like the one where when the album Without you I'm nothing was released, he called us and said, "I want to sing a song from this album. I have to do it."

We said "ok of course" and proposed to turn it into a duet between Brian Molko and David Bowie.

I am very sad, I was closer to him than some of my family members. It's a terrible day. I feel like I've lost a loved one. He was a great artist and offered a place to our young group. He gave of his time. He gave to each of us individually. David Bowie was one of those people who cared deeply for others, who took the time to listen to them. For all these reasons, I am terribly sad.

One particular anecdote comes to mind. David Bowie was a seducer. When he spoke to you, he had a piercing look in his eyes, he flirted with his interlocutors. The day we got together to hear him record a song from our album Without you I'm nothing, no one knew what song he had chosen and, more importantly, no one had rehearsed with him. I was a little freaked out. I was thinking "damn, I hope he's good, because if the song sucks, we can never tell him."

We were in the studio and Bowie told us he was going to sing the eponymous song from the album. He started whispering the harmony in my ear. My feet went off the floor. I knew he was going to blow it up.

Something broke inside me on that Monday, January 11. Six months ago, I was talking to Brian about the avant-garde jazz he was giving to his latest album Blackstar. We said to each other that at almost 70 years old, this man was still doing new and surprising things. Right up to the end of his life, he had this requirement not to be guided by a road already mapped out, not to follow trends, but to constantly question what he was capable of creating.

He loved to tell stories, he had tons of them. His story is not finished. 📕
(𝘩𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵.𝘧𝘳)

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⭐ 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧
📖 “Dearest David

Wherever you are now, I miss you. Not only do I miss you but my heart is broken. You were my idol, then you became my mentor and my friend. I learnt so much from you, just by being in your presence, the conversations we had and, of course, watching you perform. You always had time for me. My band and I were tiny when we first met. Nonetheless , you took us under your wing. You believed in us and gifted us with so many fantastic opportunities. Without you, your tutelage and your wisdom, I don’t think I would be where I am today, as an artist but also as a person. For that I will be eternally grateful.

Float around the ether, David. Bounce gracefully off planets light-years away as you become one with the Universe, as you dive into the Great Unknown.

My sincere and heartfelt condolences to Iman, Lexi and Duncan, whose hearts I know are far more broken than mine. As for me, I will treasure every memory of every moment we spent together.

Dear David, beautiful man and force of nature, you are immortal. You live beyond the veil of the big sleep. Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo.

Namaste"

Brian Molko 📕

(𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 - 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 11, 2016)

Screenshot from Blackstar

🌟 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗲 ~ 'heroes'

🔸 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐼'𝑚 𝑁𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔

David was captivated by Without You I'm Nothing so that he asked the band if they wanted to record the song with him.

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅.
🎥 https://bit.ly/3yKHpy1
⭐Quite funny actually 😊

𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒂 𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 29, 1999
🎥 https://bit.ly/3mqWyiX 🎵

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰'𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒂 𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 29, 1999
🎥 https://bit.ly/3EhAxt7 🎵

The last video, filmed by Stefan, was kindly shared by Placebo as a tribute to David when he passed away. Respect, complicity and passion for music are all that shine through in this clip.


🔸 20𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑜𝑦

At the Brits Awards on February 16, 1999, Placebo, who were nominated for the British Video of the Year with 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, performed 20𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑜𝑦 with David. Originally a song by T.Rex, a great friend of David's during the glam era, this performance establishes David as the bridge between a bygone era and the new musical era that is coming.

20𝒕𝒉 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒚 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 1999
🎥 https://bit.ly/3sjK6W6 🎵

Credit: thesource.com

✨ I'll end this sad anniversary with these words: David, you are no longer physically part of this world, but your sublime art, your enchanting and exceptional spirit will live on beyond the stars and will defy time. The legacy you leave us, whether to music lovers or to musicians themselves, is an immeasurable gift.

𝑾𝑬 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑬 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑫𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑫, 𝑭𝑶𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹. ♾️ ✨ 💕

🔸I'd like to share one of my favorite song from this genius mind and a song I still have some difficulties to listen to...

𝑴𝒂𝒋𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒐𝒎
🎥 https://bit.ly/3qjdSYr 🎵

𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓
🎥 https://bit.ly/3Fi0BFz 🎵


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