David Bowie in New York
In an extraordinarily candid interview, David Bowie discusses songwriting, creativity, fatherhood, spirituality and death with John Wilson in New York, 2002.
In 2002, as he prepared to release his latest album, David Bowie met ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4βs John Wilson in a rehearsal room in New York City.
Over the course of an extraordinarily candid conversation, Bowie revealed his creative processes and inspirations behind some of his best loved albums. He looked back at how he created alter-ego characters, including Ziggy Stardust, through which he explored recurring themes in his work. βItβs all despondency, despair, fear, isolation, abandonmentβ, Bowie admitted. And he explained how the spaceship motif that often travelled through his songs was βan interior dialogue manifested physically .. itβs my own little space writ largeβ. David Bowie, speaking just months after the 9/11 attacks on New York, also revealed how he had been seeking solace in spirituality as the prospect of death was weighing heavily on his mind.
Presented and produced by John Wilson.
