PART 3 : GOLDEN YEARS - THE DAVID BOWIE STORY.
SATURDAY 25TH MARCH!
RADIO 2 (FM 88 - 90.2 MHz)
7.00 - 8.00pm GMT
( EST 2.00pm )
Mark Goodier concludes the three-part documentary exploring the career of David Bowie. In this programme, Bowie discusses his life and career from 'Scary Monsters' up to his latest album, 'Hours...'. With contributions from Boy George, Hanif Kureishi, Rick Wakeman, Roger Taylor and Bob Geldof.
The programme is also web-cast here (this is the live stream, so check in during showtime, 7pm to 8pm GMT, Saturday night).
Part 2 of this revelatory, and in parts surreally funny, career retrospective, proved among other things that db missed a second career as a stand-up comedian! Move over Eddie Izzard and Billy Connolly! Make room for Crazy Daisy Jones! If there was a listener who didnÃÂt honk with sudden, unexpected laughter when David was describing working with Nic Roeg, please write to Dr B.B. Total for your Prozac prescription !
The more serious parts of the programme showed a David Bowie who has searched for the meaning of the more difficult times of his life, accepted these difficulties, and moved to a place where he can reflect on them, sometimes with pain, but also with affection and humour.
Although some of the stories told here have been aired previously, what is rather special about this series of shows is they reveal how David feels about his past, right now, in the year 2000. Once again there was supreme homage paid to DavidÃÂs talents, by some very well respected friends and collaborators.
"If you were in music, you HAD to be aware of what Bowie was doing, and you HAD to like it, because you would just go ïGod, where did THAT come out of? That is AMAZING!" - Bob Geldof
"And for me it doesnÃÂt matter if an artist is jazz, classical, pop, rock or folk, if they have that special magic, which, at the level he has it, thereÃÂs maybe only five or ten in any given generation, and heÃÂs one of them, thereÃÂs no question about it." - Mike Garson
"For some reason, I donÃÂt write successfully in peaceful environments. I BECOME my environment tremendously, and if IÃÂm in the Caribbean, I just become that silly. floppy, sunburnt lying about person with a lemon juice and a book, you know, and no more interesting than that." - David Bowie
For more about Part 2 of 'The Golden Years', click here for more stories, and click here for images. Click here for a Part 1 recap.
Enjoy!
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