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posted by davidt
on Monday September 15 2003, @08:00AM
H-Man writes:
The new re-release of David Bowieīs "Black Tie White Noise", the album which contains the cover version of "I Know Itīs Gonna Happen Someday", includes a bonus DVD with an interview from 1993 in which Bowie explains why he recorded that song.
Bowie: "I always thought of the English singer/songwriter Morrissey as a sort of a asexual Alan Bennett, the British playwright, because of his attention to detail. He will take a small subject matter and make a very grandeur statement of it. His last album, "Your Arsenal", was produced, ironically, by Mick Ronson (Ronson played in Bowieīs band in his Ziggy Stardust-Years). Mick sent me a copy of the tape and I couldnīt but notice that one of the songs on the album, "I Know Itīs Gonna Happen Someday", was kind of a parody of one of my earlier songs, "Rockīn Roll Suicide". And so I sort of thought it would be fun to take that song and do it the way I would have done it. 1964ish."
Bowies words are followed by a filmed studio performance of him singing that very song.
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