Strange Fascination Quotes

“Bowie drew our attention to the fact that a person could play the part of a rock star before actually becoming one.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“I tell you what completely took the biscuit for me – the song ‘Tonight’ with Tina Turner. Now she was really good, but I just thought, This record is so poppy.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“Being a (male) Bowie fan meant that your schoolmates branded you a ‘poof’, too.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“If Bowie ever fails, it’s almost always an interesting failure, which is the mark of a great artist.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“Bowie clearly at ease and enjoying himself. In Dublin he reportedly said to the 16,000 audience, ‘Tiocfaidh Ar Lia’, ‘our day will come’. ‘He said it near the start,”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“On 2 October 2002, Bowie returned, triumphantly, to the Hammersmith Odeon (now known as the Carling Apollo), a venue whose place in Bowie lore had been guaranteed”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“Maybe I was drinking and drugging more than I should have done. Well, in fact, I know I was for Black Tie White Noise and Let’s Dance.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“He did have Melissa at that point, and she was very nice. But he’s a very complex individual”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“If it was too windy sixty feet up, Bowie couldn’t perform the song for fear of toppling off his mounting and becoming a rock’n’roll casualty. For the 1987 tour, as if in a fit”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“I could only use the formula I knew. Which was, you call a song ‘China Girl’, it better sound Asian. You call a song ‘Let’s Dance’, you damn well better make sure people dance to it.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“outside of my family, the biggest thing in my life. I’d had fights over him, I’d got beaten up because of him.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“Invited round to meet Ava Cherry’s mother and father, Bowie finished off his meal by bringing out a phial of coke and snorting right in front of them.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“he had decided to record with the pint-sized but perfectly formed Scottish belter, Lulu. Lulu had been seriously hitless for more than a wee while (in fact, since 1969, when she was advocating the joys of ‘Boom Bang-A-Bang’), and her career had slipped into the variety twilight zone of guest slots on the Morecambe and Wise Show and suchlike.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“crouching on his hands and knees, peering through a magnifying glass and pointing out sites where UFOs were going to land.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“Eno’s cards contained such directives as ‘Listen to the quiet voice’, ‘Fill every beat with something’, ‘Emphasize the flaws’, ‘Mute and continue’ and ‘Use an unacceptable colour’. One of Eno’s most apposite maxims was ‘Honour thy error as a hidden intention’. During the recording of the Bowie/Eno triptych (Low, “Heroes” and Lodger), mistakes, chance and random influences were to be built into the compositional processes as if they had been intended.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“While Bowie was the great photogenic pop icon, his work about characters and masks, Eno’s art was in disappearance: ‘… Eno’s object was to eliminate himself from his work, to minimise his “degree of participation”, to cleanse his art of the idea of the individual artist,’ wrote Simon Frith and Howard Horne in their book Art Into Pop. Eno was interested in systems music, music that almost played itself and followed repetitive patterns. Bowie was interested in dramatic gestures and melodic sweeps.”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story

“Art is the one place where we can crash our plane and walk away from it. BRIAN ENO When”
― David Buckley, Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story