2011年12月29日

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Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969) is an American musician, artist and former music journalist known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band, Marilyn Manson.

  was born in Canton, Ohio. He is the only child of Barb (née Wyer) and Hugh Warner. The seemingly outrageous styles for which Marilyn Manson models and the controversy surrounding his lyrics have led to his very pronounced public appeal.

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Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969) is an American musician, artist and former music journalist known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band, Marilyn Manson.

  was born in Canton, Ohio. He is the only child of Barb (née Wyer) and Hugh Warner. The seemingly outrageous styles for which Marilyn Manson models and the controversy surrounding his lyrics have led to his very pronounced public appeal.

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Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969) is an American musician, artist and former music journalist known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band, Marilyn Manson.

was born in Canton, Ohio. He is the only child of Barb (née Wyer) and Hugh Warner. The seemingly outrageous styles for which Marilyn Manson models and the controversy surrounding his lyrics have led to his very pronounced public appeal.

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Marilyn Manson Biography

Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969) is an American musician, artist and former music journalist known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band Marilyn Manson. His stage name was formed from juxtaposing the names of two 1960s American cultural icons, namely actress Marilyn Monroe and convicted multiple murder mastermind Charles Manson as a critical and, simultaneously, laudatory appraisal of America and its peculiar culture. Marilyn Manson has a long legacy of being depicted in the media as a detrimental influence on young people. The seemingly outrageous styles for which Marilyn Manson models and the controversy surrounding his lyrics have led to his public appeal.

Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson
Early life

Marilyn Manson was born in Canton, Ohio. He is the only child of Barb (née Wyer) and Hugh Warner. Manson is of German descent on his father's side, and is a fourth cousin twice removed of Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan. In his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, he detailed his grandfather's sexual fetishes (including bestiality and sadomasochism) influence to the forming of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids. The environment in his childhood made him vulnerable to further abuse and he was molested several times by a neighbor. The trauma put him on a path of rebellion.

As a child, he attended his mother's Episcopalian church, though his father was Catholic. Warner attended Heritage Christian School from first grade to tenth grade. He later transferred to Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Marilyn Manson graduated from high school in 1987, and became a student at Broward Community College in 1990. He was working towards a degree in journalism and gaining experience in the field by writing music articles for a South Florida lifestyle magazine, 25th Parallel. He would soon meet several of the musicians to whom his own band would later be compared, including My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

Career

Music
Manson formed Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids in Florida in 1989 (the name was shortened to Marilyn Manson in 1992). While with The Spooky Kids, he was involved with Jeordie White (also known as Twiggy Ramirez) and Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. (also known as Madonna Wayne Gacy) in two side-projects: Satan on Fire, a faux-Christian metal ensemble where he played bass guitar, and drums in Mrs. Scabtree, a collaborative band formed with White and then girlfriend Jessicka (vocalist with the band Jack Off Jill) as a way to combat contractual agreements that prohibited Marilyn Marilyn Manson from playing in certain clubs. In the summer of 1993, the band drew the attention of Trent Reznor. Reznor produced their 1994 debut album, Portrait of an American Family and released it on his Nothing Records label. The band began to develop a cult following, which grew larger with the release of Smells Like Children in 1995. That EP yielded the band's first big MTV hit with "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)," a cover of the 1983 Eurythmics hit. Antichrist Superstar (co-produced by Trent Reznor) was an even greater success.

In the US alone, three of the band's albums have been awarded platinum certification, three more gold, and the band has had five releases debut in the top ten, including two number-one albums. Manson first worked as a producer with the band Jack Off Jill. He helped name the band and produce most of the band's early recordings, and also played guitar on the song "My Cat" and had the band open most of his South Florida shows. Marilyn Manson later wrote the liner notes to the band's album Humid Teenage Mediocrity 1992-1995, a collection of early Jack Off Jill recordings. Manson has appeared as a guest performer on DMX's album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood and on Godhead's 2000 Years of Human Error album — the only album released on his vanity label Posthuman. In 2011 it was revealed that Marilyn Manson was to appear on the singer Skylar Grey's album "Invinsible" on the track entitled "Can't Haunt Me".

Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson
Film and television
Marilyn Manson made his film debut in 1997, as an actor in David Lynch's Lost Highway. Since then he has appeared in a variety of minor roles and cameos, including Party Monster; then-girlfriend Rose McGowan's 1998 film Jawbreaker; Asia Argento's 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things; Rise; and The Hire: Beat The Devil, the sixth instalment in the BMW Films series. He was interviewed in Michael Moore's political documentary Bowling for Columbine discussing possible motivations for the Columbine massacre and allegations that his music was somehow a factor. He has appeared in animated form in Clone High and participated in several episodes of the MTV series Celebrity Deathmatch, becoming the show's unofficial champion and mascot; he often performed the voice for his claymated puppet, and contributed the song "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" to the soundtrack album. In July 2005, Marilyn Manson told Rolling Stone that he was shifting his focus from music to filmmaking – "I just don't think the world is worth putting music into right now. I no longer want to make art that other people — particularly record companies — are turning into a product. I just want to make art."

Johnny Depp reportedly used Marilyn Manson as his inspiration for his performance as Willy Wonka in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Marilyn Manson himself expressed interest in playing the role of Willy Wonka in the film.

He had been working on his directorial debut, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, since 2004, with Marilyn Manson also set to portray the role of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Initially announced as a web-only release, it was later decided to give the estimated $4.2 million budget film a conventional cinema release, with a slated release date of mid-2007. The film was to have an original music soundtrack with previously unreleased songs. Production of the film had been postponed indefinitely until after the Eat Me, Drink Me tour. In 2010, studio bosses shut down production on the project, reportedly due to viewers responses over the violent content of clips released on the internet. The film was later officially put on "indefinite production hold". However, will portray metalband lead singer Lars in the upcoming slasher Splatter Sisters, for which he will also contribute an original soundtrack.

Art
Marilyn Manson claimed in a 2004 interview with i-D magazine to have begun his career as a watercolor painter in 1999 when he made five-minute concept pieces and sold them to drug dealers. On September 13–14, 2002, his first show, The Golden Age of Grotesque, was held at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Centre. Art in America's Max Henry likened them to the works of a "psychiatric patient given materials to use as therapy" and said his work would never be taken seriously in a fine-art context, writing that the value was "in their celebrity, not the work". On September 14–15, 2004, Manson held a second exhibition on the first night in Paris and the second in Berlin. The show was named ‘Trismegistus’ which was also the title of the center piece of the exhibit – a large, three-headed Christ painted onto an antique wood panel from a portable embalmers table.

Marilyn Manson named his self-proclaimed art movement Celebritarian Corporation. He has coined a slogan for the movement: “We will sell our shadow to those who stand within it.” In 2005 he said that the Celebritarian Corporation has been "incubating for seven years" which if correct would indicate that Celebritarian Corporation, in some form, started in 1998.

Celebritarian Corporation is also the namesake of an art gallery owned by Manson, called the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art in Los Angeles for which his third exhibition was the inaugural show. From April 2–17, 2007, his recent works were on show at the Space 39 Modern & Contemporary in Florida. 40 pieces from this show traveled to Germany's Gallery Brigitte Schenk in Cologne to be publicly exhibited from June 28 – July 28, 2007. Manson was refused admittance to Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral), when he was in the city to attend the opening night. This was, according to Marilyn Manson, due to his makeup.

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Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson revealed a series of twenty paintings in 2010 entitled Genealogies of Pain, an exhibition the artist collaborated on with David Lynch. The series is being showcased in Vienna's Kunsthalle gallery.

Other
Marilyn Manson made an appearance in the video game Area 51 as Edgar, a Grey Alien. His song "Cruci-Fiction In Space" is featured in a commercial for a video game, The Darkness. His likeness is also featured on the Celebrity Deathmatch video game for which he recorded a song for the soundtrack (2003). The song "Use your fist and not your mouth" was the credits score of the game Cold Fear as well as Spawn: Armageddon.

Personal life
Marilyn Manson launched "Mansinthe," his own brand of Swiss made absinthe, which has received mixed reviews ranging from critics who compared the drink's odor to sewage water and described the taste as being "as bad as piss" to coming second to Versinthe in an Absinthe top 5 and winning a Gold medal at the 2008 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

was engaged to actress Rose McGowan from February 1999 to January 19, 2001.

In 2007, attention was brought to Manson's love life again when a relationship with actress Evan Rachel Wood was made public. Manson and Wood reportedly maintained an on-again off-again relationship for several years. Manson proposed to Wood during a Paris stage performance in January 2010, but the couple broke off the engagement later that year. After media comments from Manson that he wears his signature black leather pants 24/7, animal rights group PETA added Marilyn Manson to PETA’s ‘Worst-Dressed Celebrities of 2008’.

2011年12月28日

Is David Bowie to blame for the credit crunch?

He's always been a trendsetter. But could  have caused the latest fad sweeping the nation - the credit crunch?
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Evan Davis: Blame Bowie
It may sound like a ridiculous question, but it's not as mad as it seems. Even when it comes to finances Bowie leads the way - and back in 1997 he did something called 'securitisation'.
He thought: 'I have a lot of money coming in over the next ten years from my back catalogue, but I'd rather have the cash now and not have to wait.'
He produced some bits of paper - Bowie Bonds - and said: 'Whoever buys these gets my royalties.'
It meant he no longer had the money coming in but instead had a lot up front. His investors were guaranteed a decent income. It was a good deal all round.
And the banks were catching on to the idea. They thought: 'We have billions out there in mortgages which are going to pay us back very slowly. Why don't we sell those and get the money now?'
So the banks started doing what Bowie had done - in a big way.
It was a complete rebuilding of what a bank does. Normally, a bank borrows from people like you and I, then lends it out. But now the bank was lending the money - and selling the loan on elsewhere.
For example, a bank loans out £100,000 for a mortgage, and does the same for 10,000 people. They've now lent £1bn and will be getting the cash back over the next 25 years.
So the bank creates a piece of paper, a security, and says whoever owns it will have the income from the mortgages.
It then sells the security - effectively the bundle of mortgages - for £1bn to perhaps a pension fund, which then has the mortgage income - and the bank has £1bn to lend out again.
Everybody is happy: the banks are able to lend more and more as mortgages, and there's a conveyor belt where they lend a billion, receive a billion and sell the mortgages on.
Northern Rock were the market leaders in the UK for this kind of thing.
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Your fault: The Thin White Duke set the trend for bankers to follow
But then it started to go wrong. As the banks were selling the loans, any bad risk became someone else's problem. So the banks didn't have to worry so much who they were lending to. Problem number two was that it wasn't just their standards that dropped - the banks just lent far too much. And thirdly, the banks looked at these securities and said: 'These are so good we want to buy some ourselves.' Having got rid of a lot of loans and risks, they ended up buying them back in.
It all went pear-shaped for American securities because the banks had lent to people who couldn't repay them. No one wanted securities, their value plummeted and the banks, having bought so many, lost a lot themselves.
Securitisation was a kind of magic bullet for banks. It looked a fantastic way of making them more profitable with less risk.
But they fired this magic bullet at themselves.
They became too dependent on it and then investors decided they didn't like securities because they didn't know what was in them and the loans were often bad.
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No one wanted to buy securities even if they weren't bad - which Northern Rock's were.
It was fashionable when did it once. Ten years later, it wasn't. Suddenly the banks didn't have any money coming in, so they couldn't lend any more - that's the credit crunch.
Now the economy is in a vicious circle. The banks loan less, so the economy has money sucked out of it. With less money, there's less spending and job losses, which cause less spending, and the vicious spiral continues downwards.
So how do we get through the credit crunch?
The obvious thing to do is pump more money into the banking system, from the Bank of England or the Government. Or the Government can guarantee loans to encourage lending because the banks are so fearful about doing so.
So far, in return for shares in the bank, the Government has given them more capital but probably not quite enough.
The truth is the most sensible thing for people to do is be a bit cautious with money at the moment.
But it would be nice if we all tried not to be too cautious, because if everybody saves simultaneously, it causes a tidal wave which will drown the economy.
• Evan Davis presents The City Uncovered on BBC2 tonight at 9pm
 

Nokia signs up Bowie as it wages music war on the iPod

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Nokia calling: The Finnish mobile phone company has signed up David Bowie to promote its new service
Nokia is to take on Apple and Microsoft in an online music download war. The Finnish mobile phone company has signed up to promote its new service, which is to be launched tomorrow.

It hopes to challenge Apple's dominance of the online market by making it easy for people to download music to their phone.
Nokia has also signed up 40 key record stores around the world to recommend music. "We've recruited the most knowledgeable people, from the best record shops around the world, whose day jobs are to listen to thousands of tracks every week and recommend the best," said David Robertson of Nokia. "It's like an online store of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity 40 times over."
Each song from Nokia's site, which will include rare and difficult-to-find tracks, will cost 10p more than songs from Apple. However, the company hopes the calibre-of the record stores and  will persuade consumers to pay more.
Experts say Nokia, despite having sold more than 80 million mobile phones with music-playing capacity, could struggle against Apple and its iPod. The company has more than 80 per cent of the UK download market.
"Nokia has a really tough battle on its hands," said James Beechinor-Collins, the editor of gadget magazine T3. "Online music is really controlled by Apple, and they have a bigger range of music, and are cheaper.
"But the Nokia service is offering something different-for the more discerning listener". Music fans can sign up to musicrecommenders.com for free and receive personalised recommendations every month.
"I think that services like iTunes are t he supermarket of the online world, with lots of content but no guidance for consumers," said Simon Singleton of Pure Groove Records in London, one of the stores taking part.
"What this offers is hand selected music that is the best in its genre. For instance, we will be picking tracks from up and coming bands in the British indie and dance scene that aren't even available on iTunes."
 

My night in Bowie's bed

In 1969 as a smitten schoolgirl, Lesley-Ann Jones knocked on  's door. No, nothing happened, but it was to be the start of an extraordinary 40-year friendship.
The afternoon sunlight was bright on our faces as my friend Tashi and I got off the 227 bus and walked down Beckenham High Street towards our first encounter with The Man Who Fell To Earth.
In our Friday dregs of uniform, we walked down Southend Road in Kent until we reached what we had been told to look for: the scariest house on the street.
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bowie Icon:  's weird looking alter ego Ziggy Stardust
A sign proclaimed "Haddon Hall", number 42. It was a red-brick cross between a church and the Addams Family mansion, gothic and weird, with stained-glass windows, mangled balconies and strange turrets. I remember my eyes straining to look for bats.
It was the summer of '69, our last summer as children. Tashi and I, classmates from prim Bromley Grammar, had for some time been secretly aware of  , aka local lad Davie Jones.
He'd dropped the Jones to avoid confusion with Davy Jones from The Monkees, and had been quietly building a name for himself as a singer, songwriter, sax and guitar player and mime artist with his own Arts Lab studio in the back room of a pub, the Three Tuns, on Beckenham High Street.
It was there that we'd first seen Bowie and we couldn't take our eyes off his. His right pupil was so massive it almost obliterated the iris. One eye was luminously blue, the other a dull tawny grey.
He wore a washed-out pink T-shirt over a blouse with a pattern like wallpaper, one half of his hair ruffled, almost curled, the other side swept straight back, and he had the strangest teeth.
Lesley-Ann Jones with daughter Mia in Mustique
We'd never seen anyone look like that before, and we were smitten at first sight. We made a pact to find out where he lived.
Little could I have known, aged 12, the extent to which  would influence my life, my career, my future.
Nor that, a quarter of a century later, I'd find myself a guest at his fantasy island home on Mustique, actually sleeping in his bed.
The autograph we were on the hunt for back in 1969 took several attempts - Bowie was never at home. Three or four times his American girlfriend Angela, later briefly his wife, chatted to us on the doorstep.
She was bleachedlooking, sexy, beautiful - despite an odd nose and huge hands. She gave us signed photos. But Tash and I remained determined to obtain the real McCoy.
Luck landed on our side one summer Friday afternoon. David answered the door in his dressing gown, a bottle of nail polish in his hand.
"Come on in, scruffs," he grinned, showing us into a huge Christmas- coloured room, all bottle green walls and red velvet furnishings.
Angie wasn't around. David excused himself, returned from the bathroom after a couple of minutes, lay down on the floor on some stale pillows and resumed decorating his nails, applying the varnish with a cocktail stick for want of a proper brush.
He could not have been more friendly. We sat there gushing on about astrology, reincarnation, karma, Tibet - all the mystic stuff that bewitches pre-teenage girls. We were trying way too hard to look intelligent. If he noticed, he didn't let on.
He asked if we believed in UFOs, and what we thought of his pal Marc Bolan. He told us about his failed auditions for Hair, the risque stage musical of the moment. Tashi asked about Space Oddity, his new single.
Bowie said he was "out of his gourd" and "totally flipped" over it. It was later chosen as the theme track for Apollo 11's televised moon landings.
Tashi then said, incredibly: "How does it feel to share a birthday with Elvis?" David had been born on January 8, 1947, 12 years after the King himself.
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bowie A more conventional looking David Bowie with wife Iman
"Got no idea, kiddo," drawled David, unabashed. "Ask him." His pale face seemed to hang out of place, as if attached to the wrong neck.
All these thoughts came flooding back to me last week when I saw a startling picture of Bowie in the Mail, showing how he'd lost several stone in the wake of recent heart surgery.
Even so, as if having reinvented himself yet again, he continues to defy time - looking nothing like a man who turned 60 in January.
And the irony is that these days he's not only as slim as he ever was, he's as cool as he ever was.
My daughter Mia, a drama student at Exeter University, told me how a campus vote revealed Bowie's Heroes to be the students' all-time favourite rock song.
It sounds as fresh, groundbreaking and innovative today as it did when it was released in 1977, nearly a decade after I found myself - to my amazement - lounging in his living room.
In the September of 1969, a few months after our first meeting, Bowie was already well on his way to becoming the most iconic and enduring rock superstar in history, with a string of alter egos and hits unlike anything we'd heard before.
He would also achieve massive success as an actor, with movies like Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth and stage roles such as The Elephant Man on Broadway.
Against the odds, in July 1973, aged 16, Tashi and I obtained tickets for the legendary gig at Hammersmith Odeon at which an already burnt-out, drugabused Bowie, backed by guitarist Jeff Beck as well as Mick Ronson, retired his fantastical persona Ziggy Stardust and his Spiders from Mars, to the distress of his millions of fans worldwide.
Before he went, he treated us to our all-time favourites - Changes, Life On Mars, Ziggy Stardust, I'm Only Dancing, All The Young Dudes, Suffragette City and Space Oddity, re-released as a single that year.
Tashi and I attended the gig wearing lots of glitter, David's initials etched in brass studs into the leather of our platform boots.
Eight years elapsed before I saw him again. By then, I'd spent three years at college in London.
Determined to make my name as a rock columnist, I had immersed myself in the London music scene and was doing freelance work in the press office at London's Capital Radio.
In 1981 I flew to Switzerland with Capital's star DJ, the late Roger Scott, to assist at a interview with Freddie Mercury and Queen in their Mountain Studios on the shores of Lake Geneva at Montreux.
When we arrived, David Bowie - a neighbour - was with them, recording well into the night a song which would become the number one hit Under Pressure - which Bowie later claimed to have loathed.
He failed to recognise me, of course. Egged on by the others, I told him that as a schoolgirl I had stood on his doorstep begging for an autograph.
"Blimey," he said, "did I give you one?" Queen drummer Roger Taylor tittered, and Bowie lunged at him with a swipe.
"Bloody hell," Bowie said. "Show the lady some respect. We're not all sewer-rats like you, Taylor!"
"No," responded Roger, "and we're not all bisexual poofs like you, either!" Freddie Mercury was the first in the room to laugh.
Two years later, life had come full circle. I found myself backstage at the Birmingham NEC for the start of Bowie's Serious Moonlight European tour to promote his massive hit album Let's Dance.
By now a fully-fledged rock writer, I was there to interview Bowie in my own right.
The spangled, half-strangled, androgynous weirdo who had vanished from the scene five years earlier had metamorphosed into an athlete filming an ad for breakfast cereal.
He was barely recognisable: cool, elegant, clean-cut, his hair baby-blond to offset a classy light suit. Instead of the tombstone bits and pieces, he now flashed perfect teeth.
"I was tired of the idea of being a freakish cult figure", he told me. "I wanted to do something more accessible, more soulful, a bit more R & B, and I've been overwhelmed by the response.
"I certainly didn't expect this much limelight. It's a joy to me. I have never performed like this before in my life. I feel so much more relaxed, now that I'm not carting some character around with me any longer.
"At long last, I think I have learned how to be myself."
By this time, his stormy marriage to wannabe actress Angie was dead and buried, Bowie was involved with his personal assistant Corinne Schwab.
It was obvious to everyone that he and "Coco" were lovers, but he didn't want to talk about it.
Anyway, she was in the room. I found myself staring at a woman with pale lank hair and a frosty smile, trying to fathom the attraction.
A band member read my mind. "She does everything for him," he explained. "I mean everything. Ange never did, and it was a revelation to him. David just sits back and lets her do it."
The way David himself put it to me later was: "She is a very good friend; she became the most important person in my life in the mid Seventies.
"My whole lifestyle at that time made me quite bonkers, and I had a complete breakdown. Coco was the one person who told me what a fool I was becoming and she made me snap out of it.
"I'm glad to say, sex is not all there is. There really have to be relationships in your life to make it all worthwhile."
He talked about his 12-year-old son Duncan, known as Zowie, of whom he had won custody and with whom he shared his life in a New York apartment and in a house in Lausanne, Switzerland.
They skied together there, he told me. Skiing was Bowie's only sport.
I saw him backstage at Live Aid two years later, then at the premiere of the flop movie Absolute Beginners in 1986. Each time, we exchanged a brief kiss, and he came out with his catchphrase for me: "You again!"
It was those repeated meetings which I guess convinced him to give me an exclusive interview to mark his 1987 Glass Spider World Tour.
At the time, I was seven months pregnant, and when I arrived to meet him before his concert in Rotterdam, his eyes fell on my enormous bulge.
"What happened to you?" We exchanged an old-fashioned look. He then pinched my cheek with a twinkle - and fell about laughing.
I had inserted one green, one brown contact lens, in homage.
"Very bloody funny. Come on, shall we get this thing over with?"
What thrilled me at the time, and has always enchanted me since, was that my baby girl, now 20, attended her first-ever Bowie rock concert several weeks before she was born.
The show was brilliant, breathtaking, the ultimate stadium rock spectacle. It was choreographed by Toni Basil of Oh-Mickey-You're-So-Fine fame and a culmination of all the performing skills Bowie had honed over the years.
Even Peter Frampton, Bowie's old school chum from Bromley Tech, had joined him to play lead guitar.
Caught up in the excitement, I remembered afterwards that I hadn't made arrangements to get myself back into town. A cab ride to the stadium from the hotel had been a doddle, but for the return journey there were no cabs to be had.
I stepped outside into a milling throng of some 80,000 fans, all trying to make their way home. Beyond the stadium lay the kind of estates a girl didn't want to venture into after dark - let alone a massively pregnant one.
I wandered back inside and lurked a bit, wondering what the hell to do next. Suddenly, David poked his head round the door of his dressing room.
"You again! Haven't you had enough? What's up?"
I explained. Within minutes David dispatched a minder, who returned with a couple of Dutch policemen.
Negotiating with them patiently, he personally arranged a police escort to deliver me back in one piece to my hotel.
It is those qualities - his spontaneity, his kindness, his sardonic humour - which I'll always remember and rate, along with the great legacy of his music.
That, and the magical month I spent with my daughter at his exquisite Balinese home on Mustique, to which I escaped for a month in November 1995, to begin work on my biography of Freddie Mercury.
Mercury had died of an Aids-related illness in 1991. In 1992, David Bowie performed outstandingly at his Wembley Tribute concert.
That same year, in Florence, he married Somalian supermodel Iman Abdulmajid (with whom he now has a seven-year-old daughter Alexandria Zahra.)
The Mustique home had become surplus to requirements, and before he sold it - which he did to publisher and entrepreneur Felix Dennis - David wanted as many people as possible to experience the place.
Built on a peak above Britannia Bay looking out towards St Vincent, the house, with its infinity pools, was a tropical paradise. Time seemed on hold and everything else, whatever you wanted, was just a phone call away.
I remember climbing into David Bowie's own bed that first night, shattered from the long journey from London but ecstatic at the thought of where I was.
The gauche little Bromley schoolgirl who had idolised a rock star since childhood was now enjoying the fruits of his labour, his global success, in the Caribbean home he had built himself.
The next day, the house chef took us to visit Mick Jagger at his place on the beach, then later let us in to Princess Margaret's old house, Les Jolies Eaux, where we cheekily read her letter files, jumped on her beds and played hide-and- seek in her wardrobes.
Down at Basil's Bar on the beach that night, we toasted David Bowie with the cocktail he always referred to as a "Penis Coladis", and drank to his long, against-all-odds health.
"Wow, Mummy," said Mia, who was only eight. It doesn't get better than this."
And it didn't.

2011年12月27日

The Woman Who Fell to Earth: Tilda Swinton evokes classic Bowie film in photo shoot

To say there's something other-worldly about her is an understatement, so if there was anyone ever equipped to play an extra-terrestrial in a fashion shoot, it's Tilda Swinton.
And the 50-year-old executes it with aplomb in the August edition of W magazine, where she evokes the spirit of  's 1976 performance in cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Bowie, 64, plays a humanoid alien searching for water in the Nicholas Roeg directed classic, and is Swinton's doppelganger with razor sharp cheekbones and a strikingly androgynous beauty.
Otherworldly: Tilda Swinton looks astonishing in the August edition of W magazine
Otherworldly: Tilda Swinton looks astonishing in the August edition of W magazine
Otherworldly: Tilda Swinton looks astonishing in the August edition of W magazine
Swinton posed for the stunning shoot to accompany an interview about her new film, We Need to Talk About Kevin.
But despite what the photo narrative might suggest, it's not a sci-fi thriller, but rather the story of a mother coming to terms with the 'evil' of her son, after he murders seven of his classmates and his English teacher.
Swinton and W are using the alien theme as a metaphor for how a mother feels to never bond with her child, who in the movie - based on the Lionel Shriver novel of the same name - is a psychopath.
Shot in a futuristic Icelandic landscape by photographer Tim Walker, Swinton, whose father was the lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, poses in masculine and military inspired clothes, with cropped hair or a completely bald head.
In the interview, the mother-of-two opened up about playing the role of mother to a violent, disturbed child:  'It’s every pregnant woman’s nightmare to give birth to the devil.  And every mother worries that she won’t connect to her children... When I first saw [my] twins, I really liked them. And, at the same time, there was a ghost over my shoulder saying, What if I hadn’t liked them?'
Spitting Image: David Bowie in the 1976 film
Spitting Image: David Bowie in the 1976 film
Spitting Image:  in the 1976 film
Handsome: Swinton said she never wanted to be pretty
Handsome: Swinton said she never wanted to be pretty
Handsome: Swinton said she never wanted to be pretty
The Orlando star also revealed how she's always drawn to male clothing, she said: 'From childhood, I remember more about [my father’s] black patent, gold livery, scarlet-striped legs, and medal ribbons than I do of my mother’s evening dresses.
'I would rather be handsome, as he is, for an hour than pretty for a week.'
The Academy winner also spoke about bagging Best Supporting Actress in 2007, she admitted: 'Yes, that was lovely, but I have to admit that I’d never seen the Oscars on television and really had no idea that it was so important. It was a very long show, but it did move me up from the children’s table, professionally, in Hollywood.'
She added: 'After winning, I went straight to Milan and started I Am Love. Since then, I haven’t done another Hollywood film... When I brought my Oscar home and showed the children, nobody knew what it was.”

Uniform: Swinton's style has been inspired by her military background
Uniform: Swinton's style has been inspired by her military background
Uniform: Swinton's style has been inspired by her military background
Directed by Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, with John C Reilly as the naive husband and 18-year-old Ezra Miller as the murderous son, the film is tipped to huge when it's released in the UK in October, though a US release date has yet to be set.
Miss Swinton has teenage twins Xavier and Honor with her former partner, playwright and artist  John Byrne.
She met her current lover, German artist Sandro Kopp, who is 17 years her junior, on the set of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
Miss Swinton starred as the White Witch and Kopp was an extra. When discussing Kopp and Byrne in a 2008 interview, Miss Swinton said: ‘We are all a family.’
Gender Roles: Swinton blurs these like David Bowie
Gender Roles: Swinton blurs these like David Bowie
Gender Roles: Swinton blurs these like David Bowie
 

Mossy does Ziggy: Kate is barely recognisable as she channels David Bowie for Vogue cover

She certainly has the striking cheekbones, not to mention a notoriously similar hunger for the life of excess. And now she’s got the look too.
Kate Moss transformed herself into 1970s-era  for French Vogue.
With her blonde hair styled into a distinctive mullet, the 37-year-old model is a note-perfect copy of the Aladdin Sane character Bowie created for his 1973 album of the same name.
Kate Moss Channels David Bowie
Kate's new look? Sporting a spiky orange mullet cut and no eyebrows - a look heavily inspired by  circa 1972 -  the supermodel is virtually unrecognisable on the latest cover of Vogue Paris

The record – a pun on ‘a lad insane’ – was the follow-up to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie also adopted the look for his Ziggy Stardust tour in 1972 and 1973.

Miss Moss has long been a fan of the singer, who turns 65 next month. In 2003, the pair even appeared together on the front of Q magazine.

 
She has one of the most famous faces in the world, but is virtually unrecognisable on the latest cover of Vogue magazine with her spiky orange mullet cut and no eyebrows.
The model and the singer share piercing bright eyes and chiseled cheek bones on the shoot.
However, Kate's famous anchor tattoo on her wrist gives away her identity.
Ziggy Stardust was a concept album, written and performed by Bowie, loosely based on the story of a rock star of the same name. It is often cited as one of the best rock albums of the Seventies.
Inspiration: David Bowie dressed as his alter-ego Ziggy Stardust
Inspiration: David Bowie dressed as his alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, and Kate showing her fondness of rock-chick fashion
Inspiration:  dressed as  Ziggy Stardust, and Kate showing her fondness of rock-inspired fashion
Kate - who has a well documented fondness for rock stars - is no doubt a big fan of Bowie's music. It is not the first time she has imitated his look.
The 37-year-old has appeared on the covers of various editions of Vogue more than 30 times, and for this French issue she seems to have revisited Vogue UK in May 2003.
On that cover a black and white photo of Kate was superimposed with Ziggy Stardust's famous red and blue lightening bolt.
This time she looks like she has gone even further by also adopting Bowie's spiky orange haircut - although we suspect that it just might be a wig.
The reason behind this second reincarnation is that the magazine issue is dedicated to music.
Paris Vogue's cover line states that the December edition will share Debbi Harry, Bryan Ferry, Ciara, Kanye West, Boy George, Janelle Monae, Lou Reed and Lenny Kravitz's choices of Christmas songs. Armenian-French singer Charles Aznavour's selections are also included.
The cover tops off a great year for Kate who married her rocker boyfriend, Jamie Hince, on July 1.
The model wore a stunning, vintage-inspired John Galliano dress to the wedding. The photos, taken by Mario Testino, graced the cover of US Vogue's September issue.

'I've never needed to use my father's name': Hollywood's hottest director Duncan Jones on growing up with David Bowie

He is a blockbuster movie director in his own right – which is why he’s never given a full account about growing up with his father. Until now...

'In many ways it was an incredible childhood. We travelled all over the world,' said Duncan Jones
'In many ways it was an incredible childhood. We travelled all over the world,' said Duncan Jones
When Bafta-winning film director Duncan Jones was a little boy, his dad tried, tried and tried again to get him excited about music. His father is  so Jones’s musical genes must be first-rate.
‘He really, really wanted me to learn an instrument,’ says Bowie’s son.
‘He tried to get me to learn the drums but I didn’t want to. The saxophone? No. Piano? No. Guitar – no thanks! Bless him. He kept on trying and nothing was happening. Nothing would take. I don’t know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on; if there was something in me that didn’t want to learn an instrument – because I couldn’t have been that incompetent! He’d say, “You have to practise…” and I was like, “But I don’t want to practise…” It didn’t interest me so it wasn’t going to happen.’
Stubborn resistance to his legendary father’s vocation didn’t stop there. Aged 11, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones (Bowie’s real surname) changed his name to his nickname ‘Joe’ before, aged 18, settling on his resolutely ordinary first name, Duncan. It doesn’t require a therapist to observe that Jones has determinedly avoided trading on his heritage.
‘I’ve certainly never used my father’s name as a way of getting a meeting,’ says Jones. ‘And fortunately, I’ve never needed to…’
That said, Jones clearly adores his dad and throughout our interview he talks of him with genuine affection, sharing anecdotes of a unique childhood spent loitering in the wings of vast stadia, while his father defined the musical tastes of a generation.
But Jones is not, and never wanted to be, Bowie Mark II. Music wasn’t his passion – film-making is. And it is testimony to Bowie that he nurtured and supported his son, helping him find his own creative path through life.
'Often I'd sit around being bored backstage at a concert': Duncan on life with dad David Bowie
'Often I'd sit around being bored backstage at a concert': Duncan on life with dad 
It paid off. At 40, Jones is the hottest director in Hollywood, thanks to two sci-fi films. The first is his award-winning debut, Moon, a tiny £3 million-budget, exquisitely shot, nightmarish tale of an astronaut on the last days of his mining mission.
The Bafta Jones received for Moon provided the perfect calling card to major Hollywood studios, swiftly resulting in the critically acclaimed Source Code. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, to date the £19m film has grossed more than £75m worldwide.
At first glance, you wouldn’t mark Jones as a player. He slips through the reception area of the plush, discreet and trendy London hotel where we meet without attracting a second glance. His ensemble – brown stubble, dishevelled light blond hair, scruffy jeans, a T-shirt emblazoned with the iconic anti-hero Sid Vicious – shouts ‘geek’ rather than Hollywood power broker, and there isn’t any immediate physical similarity with his father.
Indeed, there are times when I have to remind myself how easily Jones could have been a selfish, spoilt rock brat rather than the down-to-earth, affable man who settles back into his chair and politely orders a coffee.
‘Well, thank you. I think...’ he laughs when I compliment him on his seemingly well-adjusted outlook.
‘I don’t know why but for whatever reason that side of life – the celebrity and the spectacle – has never interested me. I love my work but I don’t like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that’s for sure.’
Performing centre-stage to anthems like Diamond Dogs and Starman was always the proclivity of his father, while Jones prefers to observe: either behind the lens directing (today) or watching from the wings (back then).
'I love my work but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor'
'I love my work but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor'
‘That’s where I feel completely at home,’ he says. ‘You know, it was work. Dad was working. And it was like any kid going to watch his dad at work, no matter what they do. We were just waiting for the concert to be over so we could go home. I could hear the noise up front but I’d spend most of my time hanging out with the roadies and playing with them. You know those big crash cases that they put the equipment in? Big, thick metal boxes with foam padding – well, I’d stand inside one of them and get the roadies to push me around like I was in a go-kart.
‘In many ways it was an incredible childhood. We travelled all over the world and we got to do some amazing things.
'I remember one time going to see a sumo wrestling show in Japan when I was a little kid and being amazed. There were a lot of unique things that I got to do and not a lot of people get to experience things like that. And I treasure those memories. But often I’d sit around being bored backstage at a concert.’
The one negative from accompanying Bowie on tour, Jones confesses, is his discomfort being photographed.
‘That dislike of being photographed stems from my childhood. There were always photographers everywhere and a big reaction that came when anyone tried to take a picture of me. It was like: “Hide him!” I was really uncomfortable with it.
‘Every night when we’d leave a concert I can remember the big hullabaloo – security guards and me being whisked into the car before my dad came out separately so that they couldn’t get a picture of us together. The woman who was looking after me would have her arms wrapped around my head so that they couldn’t get my picture. It was a big event just to get in the car and go home at the end of the day. It obviously affected me.
‘I’m much better now but it took me a while to get used to it. Fortunately my girlfriend Rodene Ronquillo is a photographer so she is slowly desensitising me.’
The critically acclaimed Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was made for £19m and has grossed more than £75m worldwide
The critically acclaimed Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was made for £19m and has grossed more than £75m worldwide
It also seems a neat dose of self-help that Jones, in becoming a director, took control of the camera.
Bowie’s love for acting and films sparked a much more interactive relationship between father and son.
‘It was the opposite for me on a film set,’ says Jones, suddenly animated. ‘That was like going to Disneyland. I’d see the amazing sets being built, how the make-up worked. In The Hunger (the vampire classic co-starring Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve), Dad had to age at one point to become an old man and I remember him scaring the **** out of me.
'I hung out with Dad when he was doing Labyrinth. And I remember the amazing Fifties Soho set on Absolute Beginners. All that made a huge impression on me.’
Jones says some of his fondest memories are of watching movies with his dad when they were living high above Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where Bowie was a tax exile in the late Seventies.
Source Code is a striking sci-fi thriller with Gyllenhaal as Colter Stevens, a U.S. soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man travelling in a train that's about to be targeted by a terrorist
Source Code is a striking sci-fi thriller with Gyllenhaal as Colter Stevens, a U.S. soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man travelling in a train that's about to be targeted by a terrorist
‘Dad really enjoyed introducing me to new things in literature, music and films.
‘I was about seven and we’d watch these big adventure movies like The Sea Hawk, a pirate movie with Errol Flynn, or James Cagney movies on video. I absolutely loved those films. Dad introduced me to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and the original Baron Munchausen. He’d say, “You’ll love this! It’s amazing – you haven’t seen anything like this before.” I was eight when he showed me A Clockwork Orange. I remember he was sitting with me on the sofa with his arm around me, explaining everything.’
A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick’s hugely controversial film about a futuristic thug with a passion for rape and ‘ultra-violence’, is not the kind of film that most parents would screen for their young children. 
‘I know!’ laughs Jones. ‘But Dad talked me through it. He was very responsible about it and he knew what he was doing.
At 40, Duncan is the hottest director in Hollywood, thanks to Source Code and his award-winning debut, Moon, a nightmarish tale of an astronaut on the last days of his mining mission
At 40, Duncan is the hottest director in Hollywood, thanks to Source Code (above) and his award-winning debut, Moon, a nightmarish tale of an astronaut on the last days of his mining mission
‘Around that time my dad showed me how to use an 8mm camera. It had the little Kodak cartridges that you stick in, and I remember it had the ability to shoot one-stop animation. I loved it and I’d take it with me when I went off on tour with him. I’d use my Star Wars figures, Smurfs toys, whatever I had, and make these little animated films. Dad would help.
‘He taught me, in a lovely way, the basics of making a movie, like how to do storyboards, write a script, do the lighting. He also taught me how to use a splicer – cutting the film and sticking it back together in the projector. I had this big blue box that was full of my storyboards and scripts. I’d make these little sets and I’d set up backstage with my Star Wars and Smurfs toys. While Dad would go on stage I’d be making my little movies.’
Michelle Monaghan stars in Source Code
Michelle Monaghan stars in Source Code
Jones’s mother, former American model and actress Angie Bowie (born Mary Angela Barnett), is notably absent from all of his anecdotes. Her drug-taking, bisexual exploits at the time have been well documented. She and Bowie divorced in 1980 and Jones hasn’t seen his mother, who now lives in Arizona, for years.
‘We stopped communicating when I was 13 and it was the right choice then and I’m convinced it’s still the right choice now,’ he tells me firmly.
‘She’s a woman who didn’t have a very positive effect on my upbringing so I think it was the right move.’ It’s clearly a painful area and he won’t go into any more detail.
At 14, Bowie sent Jones to Scottish public school Gordonstoun – nicknamed ‘Colditz in kilts’ by one former inmate, Prince Charles.
‘I was there for five years before I was asked to leave one week before we were meant to after I had slept through most of my A-levels. I was so stressed out. I’ve never really gone into it with Dad as to why he decided Gordonstoun was the right place for me to go. If I’m honest, it wasn’t a great fit for me. It was fairly austere and they still maintained that disciplined regime – the morning runs and the cold showers. I didn’t feel comfortable. I was just trying to survive.’
Ultimately, Jones took American SATS examinations and studied philosophy at Wooster College, Ohio.
A procession of celebrities – and accompanying newspaper headlines detailing lurid stories about Bowie’s own bisexuality and drug abuse – trooped through their lives, but true to Jones’s nonchalant attitude to fame, they made little or no impression.
‘I do remember Suggs from Madness,’ he proffers when I insist he recall some A-list names.
Duncan won a Bafta for Outstanding Debut for a Writer, Director or Producer for Moon
Duncan won a Bafta for Outstanding Debut for a Writer, Director or Producer for Moon
'He was a lovely guy. I remember him coming out to Switzerland to see Dad and I was a huge Madness fan – I wanted the black-and-white clothes they used to wear. There were a lot of people about but it didn’t interest me and to be honest  I didn’t pay much attention.’
He says he was protected from the wilder side of his father’s life – not finding out about it until he was an adult.
‘I was massively kept away from that kind of thing.’
Film school in London followed, then several industry jobs working in production houses, at a special-effects company, and finally in advertising (making commercials for Heinz Ketchup, French Connection and McCain Oven Chips), before Jones felt he was ready to make his first feature film.
Too many rejections to mention – ‘I don’t want to embarrass them by putting their names out there, but I did start to wonder, God, is this ever going to happen?’ – led to him raising the money for Moon, starring Sam Rockwell. The rest, as they say, is history.
‘I remember the night that Sam said he would do the film. I was sharing a flat with three guys in London and had a conference call with my producer and Sam’s agent in New York, working out the final details, and then it was like, “OK, Sam’s in.” I was calling everyone, including my dad. He was thrilled for me, but a little nervous too.’
Released to universal acclaim in 2009, Moon went on to earn Jones a Bafta for Outstanding Debut for a Writer, Director or Producer. In his acceptance speech, Jones was clearly overwhelmed and close to tears.
'She's a woman who didn't have a very positive effect on my upbringing so I think it was the right move,' said Duncan of his mother Angie Bowie who he hasn't had any communication with since he was 13
'She's a woman who didn't have a very positive effect on my upbringing so I think it was the right move,' said Duncan of his mother Angie Bowie who he hasn't had any communication with since he was 13
‘It meant everything to me,’ he says. ‘And it couldn’t have come at a better time. I’d just got involved in Source Code and I was trying to find my way in dealing with a host of producers, many of whom had contradictory opinions about what the film should be and all of whom wanted to let me know about it. Winning the Bafta was a huge help because all of a sudden I was “Bafta-winning director” and my opinions became a lot more valid.’
Source Code is a striking sci-fi thriller with Gyllenhaal as Colter Stevens, a U.S. soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man travelling in a train that’s about to be targeted by a terrorist. After the bomb explodes Stevens is sent back again and again to re-live the last eight minutes before the attack until he can stop the bomber. The film consolidated Jones’s meteoric Hollywood rise.
‘I do have a long-term goal,’ he admits. ‘That is to get to the point where I can work in the same way that guys like the Coen Brothers and Tarantino do – people who write their own material and are able to get the budget to be able to do it justice. That’s where I want to get.’
Most of the industry thinks he’s already arrived. The day after we meet Jones is due to fly to Hollywood where a series of meetings await him and he will decide on his next project. We agree to catch up just before our interview is published to let me know the latest news.
Some very big doors have opened up,’ he tells me on the phone.
Angie Bowie (in yellow dress), Zowie Bowie (Duncan) and David at a press conference in 1974 after receiving an Edison Award for the album Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Angie (in yellow dress), Zowie Bowie (Duncan) and David at a press conference in 1974 after receiving an Edison Award for the album Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
‘I went to some meetings for Wolverine and if there were any comic book movies that could lure me in, it was that one. But there’s already been a Wolverine movie and a number of X-Men movies. There are a lot of comic-book fims coming out right now.’
Jones has, he says, just committed to his next project.
‘I can’t give you specifics but I can say that I now know what I’m doing next. It’s an original script that I’m writing myself, set in a big sprawling, urban environment here on Earth in a sort of Blade Runner-inspired future. I would love to have it run parallel to Moon so that even though they are completely separate stories they happen within the same universe.’
Duncan and David at the New York premiere of Moon in April 2009
Duncan and David at the New York premiere of Moon in April 2009
At the moment Jones lives, works and breathes Los Angeles.
‘I like hanging out with my girlfriend and my friends in LA where we live, watching movies and going out to eat fish and chips on the beach in Malibu. And I am a bit of a geek; I still like playing computer games – Assassin’s Creed. Amazing!’ But he’s adamant that he feels like a Brit abroad, not an American in the making.
‘I’m definitely a Brit. I was born in Britain and I’ve lived here for most of my life. I think in some ways the more you travel the more you want everyone to know where you are from. When you go abroad, you’re more British than you are at home. A lot of my friends are Brits – in fact it’s like Little Britain out here! But I wouldn’t want to bring up kids here. If I have a family I’d want to be in the UK or New York, where my father is.’
He sees Bowie as much as possible.
‘We Skype every weekend and whenever I get the chance to go to New York we meet up. He doesn’t get to see an early cut of my films. He sees it when it’s finished. But he’s very supportive and always has been.
'He’s just a wonderful guy and father and I think he understands that I’m a creative person in my own right. He gave me the time and the support to find my feet and the confidence to do what I do.’
The one regret Jones has from his childhood is, ironically, that he never did learn to play an instrument.
‘Of course, I greatly regret it now,’ he sighs ruefully.
‘I’d love to be able to play the guitar or something else but I just don’t have the time to learn…’
‘Source Code’ is out on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow