'David Bowie' album interview 25.10.69.
Jan 31, 2012 14:25:48 GMT
Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 31, 2012 14:25:48 GMT
The following I scanned from a Bowie Bureau fanzine into rich text format (to correct the grammar)then copied and pasted here.So If there's any anomalies in any of the text blame my text formatting software. 
Jack
P.S.Quite why Letter To Hermione is missed out I don't know?
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DISC AND MUSIC ECHO from October 25th 1969
'Space Oddity Man talks about his new album.'
On hearing a new L.P called David Bowie someone remarked,"Well it's very nice but do you think he's a lasting talent?"
The answer is yes!!
Not just on the strength of this album but merely because"Space Oddity" is not the be all and end all of his talents and because David Bowie has been around singing some very good songs for the past four years.
Unheralded and to a great extent unnoticed except by the Bowie believers and devotees.
'David Bowie' took six months to write.
"This has been a good writing period for me and I'm very pleased with the outcome, I just hope everyone else is too."says Bowie.
The album is out at the begining of next month.On it David had arranged all the tracks and is helped along in some almost semi-classical sounds by Juniors Eyes.
The atmosphere of the album is rather doomy and unnerving but Bowie's point comes across like a latter day Dylan.
It is an album a lot of people are going to expect a lot from.
I don't think they'll be dissappointed."
Here David goes through the tracks...
SPACE ODDITY
"This is slightly longer than the single.The sad thing about the record was that not all the copies were in stereo, This is definately a stereo sound and you lost a lot of impact on the single.This is how it's supposed to sound."
UNWASHED AND SOMEWHAT SLIGHTLY DAZED
"This is a rather weird little song I wrote because one day when I was very scruffy I got a lot of funny stares from people in the street. The lyrics are what you hear - about a boy who's girlfriend thinks he is socially inferior,I thought it rather funny really."
CYGNET COMMITTEE
"I wanted this track out us a single but nobody else thought it was a good idea.Well it is a bit long I suppose.It's basically three separate points of view about the more militant section of the Hippie movement.
The movement was a great ideal but somethings gone wrong with it now.I'm not really attacking it but pointing out that the militants have still got to be helped-human beings -even if they are going about things all the wrong way."
JANINE
"This is a bit hard to explain without sounding nasty.It was written about my old mate George and is about a girl he used to go out with."
AN OCCASIONAL DREAM
"This is another reflection of Hermione,who I was very hung up about."
WILD EYED BOY FROM FREECLOUD
"I must say I seem to say most things the longway round.I suppose that's why a lot of my numbers are long and very involved.
The Wild Eyed Boy lives on a mountain and has developed a beautiful way of life.He loves the mountain and the mountain loves him.
I suppose in a way he's rather a prophet figure.
The villagers disaprove of the things he has to say and they decide to hang him.
He gives up to his fate but the mountain tries to help him by killing the village.
So in fact everything the boy says is taken the wrong way both by those who fear him and those who love him and try to assist."
GOD KNOWS I’M GOOD
"Communication has taken away so much from our lives that now it's almost totally involved in machines rather than ordinary human beings.
There's nobody to talk your troubles over with these days,so this track is about a woman who sneaks a can of stew,which she desparatley needs but can't afford, from a supermarket and gets caught.
The machines look on "Shrieking on the counter" and "Spitting by my shoulder."
MEMORY OF A FREE FESTIVAL
"Well we go out on an air of optimism,which I believe In.
Things will get better.
I wrote this after the Beckenham Festival when I was very happy."
JackP.S.Quite why Letter To Hermione is missed out I don't know?
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DISC AND MUSIC ECHO from October 25th 1969
'Space Oddity Man talks about his new album.'
On hearing a new L.P called David Bowie someone remarked,"Well it's very nice but do you think he's a lasting talent?"
The answer is yes!!
Not just on the strength of this album but merely because"Space Oddity" is not the be all and end all of his talents and because David Bowie has been around singing some very good songs for the past four years.
Unheralded and to a great extent unnoticed except by the Bowie believers and devotees.
'David Bowie' took six months to write.
"This has been a good writing period for me and I'm very pleased with the outcome, I just hope everyone else is too."says Bowie.
The album is out at the begining of next month.On it David had arranged all the tracks and is helped along in some almost semi-classical sounds by Juniors Eyes.
The atmosphere of the album is rather doomy and unnerving but Bowie's point comes across like a latter day Dylan.
It is an album a lot of people are going to expect a lot from.
I don't think they'll be dissappointed."
Here David goes through the tracks...
SPACE ODDITY
"This is slightly longer than the single.The sad thing about the record was that not all the copies were in stereo, This is definately a stereo sound and you lost a lot of impact on the single.This is how it's supposed to sound."
UNWASHED AND SOMEWHAT SLIGHTLY DAZED
"This is a rather weird little song I wrote because one day when I was very scruffy I got a lot of funny stares from people in the street. The lyrics are what you hear - about a boy who's girlfriend thinks he is socially inferior,I thought it rather funny really."
CYGNET COMMITTEE
"I wanted this track out us a single but nobody else thought it was a good idea.Well it is a bit long I suppose.It's basically three separate points of view about the more militant section of the Hippie movement.
The movement was a great ideal but somethings gone wrong with it now.I'm not really attacking it but pointing out that the militants have still got to be helped-human beings -even if they are going about things all the wrong way."
JANINE
"This is a bit hard to explain without sounding nasty.It was written about my old mate George and is about a girl he used to go out with."
AN OCCASIONAL DREAM
"This is another reflection of Hermione,who I was very hung up about."
WILD EYED BOY FROM FREECLOUD
"I must say I seem to say most things the longway round.I suppose that's why a lot of my numbers are long and very involved.
The Wild Eyed Boy lives on a mountain and has developed a beautiful way of life.He loves the mountain and the mountain loves him.
I suppose in a way he's rather a prophet figure.
The villagers disaprove of the things he has to say and they decide to hang him.
He gives up to his fate but the mountain tries to help him by killing the village.
So in fact everything the boy says is taken the wrong way both by those who fear him and those who love him and try to assist."
GOD KNOWS I’M GOOD
"Communication has taken away so much from our lives that now it's almost totally involved in machines rather than ordinary human beings.
There's nobody to talk your troubles over with these days,so this track is about a woman who sneaks a can of stew,which she desparatley needs but can't afford, from a supermarket and gets caught.
The machines look on "Shrieking on the counter" and "Spitting by my shoulder."
MEMORY OF A FREE FESTIVAL
"Well we go out on an air of optimism,which I believe In.
Things will get better.
I wrote this after the Beckenham Festival when I was very happy."
