Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Here's my piece on David Bowie for The New York Times.

Cutting room disjecta:

... "stars like Greek gods, cruel and controlling," Bowie's original idea for the video for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)"...

... at the start of the video, Bowie, looking and sounding like a doddery old gent, enters a grocery store and catches sight of a celebrity gossip magazine called Pantheon... 


... David Bowie Is, the intransitive title of the V & A exhibition, signifies “how wondrous it is to live in a world that contains this polymath genius” but also “fill in the blank space”. His career has seen that emptiness filled, then erased, then filled again, over and over and over...