In the same issue of the German Rolling Stone Magazine, that voted Bowie Nr. 1 solo artist, he is featured in another article entitled "Hello & Goodbye", for which artists, musicians, actors, directors and industry-moguls from Jerry Yang (Yahoo) to David Geffen, from Oliver Stone to Johnny Depp and from Alanis Morissette to our own favourite gave their opinions, reviews and previews of the passing and the coming century.
Here's what David had to say:
Pop music is more and more a tool of passing on information and less this sparkling spiky vocabulary of the new. Rock 'n' roll is a dying religion. It is no longer revolutionary or daring. One can also gauge that on the fact that in the past ten or twelve years not one artist has found new ways of expression.
Modern music was put in categories: Rap, HipHop, Grrrrl Power. The only ones who made it big are people like Garth Brooks or Ricky Martin, who at best represent the enjoyment in making music that is accessible to a large public. I can't really think of a great innovater. This job was taken over by the internet. The potential of the internet is really phenomenal - the possibilities are unbelievably diverse. Unfortunately so are also it's disadvantages - but that's what we call democracy.
We have the power to choose the site. We are the sites that we choose, and we have to look at them more closely before we judge them as all foul commerce. But there are many lazy users - most of them are actually. All slaves of the mainstream - aren't they?
WORTH PRESERVING: One of the most important bands, the all woman outfit Fanny, has disappeared without a trace. At their time - around 1973 - they were one of the best bands around. They wrote all their own songs, played like hell, but no one knows them and no one ever talks about them. A very important band but it just wasn't their time.
HEROES: Einstein, Freud, Nietzsche - they've really given us enough good stuff to last the whole century. With their essential statements on time, ego and god those three have influenced every debate on earth. And they gave us a knowledge that we never had before: that we are living in chaos. And to accept that and feel comfortable with it is our task for the next century.
PROPHECY: The skirts will get longer.