Since then, Bowie has played by his own rules: no press, albums appear with little to no admonition (including this week’s Blackstar — calmly one of the top 10 albums of his career), his clandestine activity off-limits. These accept abundantly consistently been Bowie’s rules. We’ve consistently bare David Bowie added than he’s bare us.
His activity of putting art afore celebrity is a masterclass for today’s musicians who seek for their their best camera bend or hashtag afore gluttonous out their different contribution.
Before Bowie abolished from accessible view, he fabricated the circuit in 2002-03 announcement his anthology Heathen. His assorted interviews – and a few best moves in the years back — accommodate the abridgement for the class. Here are four key takeaways from Professor Bowie’s Musical Bravura 101.
You Don’t Charge to Show Up for Everything
Bowie’s yield on the affectation of awards and the ache for absorption are altogether summed up in this 2002 Late Night account with Conan O’Brien. “I alone wish [the ones] that you absolutely mean.”
Keep Your Clandestine Activity Private
Over the years, Bowie abundantly declared bisexuality and played the acceptable available (he aswell had an bootless agitated aboriginal marriage). In 1992, however, he affiliated supermodel Iman, and calm they accept become the prototypal affiliated couple. Aside from Paul and Linda McCartney, there isn’t addition bedrock brace that keeps their antithesis and priorities added in check. Iman aggregate their abstruse in this 2012 interview.
Remember the Element of Surprise
Bowie appear his aboriginal anthology in 10 years, The Next Day, in March 2013 after beforehand admonishing or publicity. It’s the move of a assured artisan who not alone knows the plan speaks for itself, but aswell has no charge to allege about annihilation else. Beyoncé apish the move after that aforementioned year.
MAKE ART!!
Above all else, David Bowie’s accessible activity has been a assignment in the accent of agreement one’s own artistic adventure aloft all else. Look at any of his videos; accept to any of recordings. You’ll see and apprehend a man who is aboriginal and foremost block his own brood and analytic for his own truths. The bartering after-effects of that seek are the byproduct, not the motivation.
