Most of the film's stories are based on real-life adaptations, but quite a few changes have been made. For example, David Bowie and Iggy Pop didn't have a relationship with each other, and their record cooperation has been very successful. David Bowie did not self-destruct his future by the fake assassination. On the contrary, he changed his image and began to create another peak of his career. For Todd Haynes' films, change may mean a kind of betrayal, but for the music itself, David Bowie did nothing wrong. The change was not because he wanted to regain his idol status through betrayal, but because his music hobby shifted to other fields.
Death of Glitter
movie: Jack Fairy and other Glam rockers held the last Glam farewell performance: Death of Glitter, with Jack Fairy, Flaming Creatures and Curt Wild.
Reality: This concert actually contains two historical realities. There was indeed this Death of Glitter concert, but it was held in Los Angeles earlier in 1970 with Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls. As Glam's rock farewell performance was another show, the "Hollywood Street Revival and Dance" concert held at the Hollywood Palladium in 1974. Participants included Iggy Pop and his assistant band ( Stooges, the New York Dolls, Marc Bolan and his T.Rex. At that concert, Marc Bolan announced: Glam rock is dead.
Digression: The death of Glam Rock was announced by the person who created Glam Rock-a statement full of symbolism.
Looking at the masters of Glam, Marc Bolan actually focuses on the gloomy classical feel, which is more like Gothic. Roxy Music (Roxy Music) is a bright image of a man, and only Brian Eno is dressed up and feminine. And David Bowie is a typical neutral dress.
That kiss, David Bowie and Lou Reed rivalry
movie: Curt Wild and Brian Slade drinking, "wedlock", then whispered into his Oscar Wilde's sentence: world change because of you, because you are ivory and gold Created, the curve of your lips will rewrite history. They kissed like no one else.
Reality: That happened in 1972, when David Bowie held a press conference at the Dorchester Hotel in London. The general saying is that the three of them were together, but it was not Iggy Pop who kissed David Bowie, but Lou Reed.
The reporter's report was: Lou Reed walked in when David Bowie answered his question. The reporter hoped Lou Reed could join their conversation, but Lou Reed just walked directly in front of David Bowie and kissed him. Then leave.
Many people suspect that it is a show. When the record is released, in the case of many reporters, it is a good opportunity to make a sensation. However, in many photos of Lou Reed and David Bowie looking at each other, both of them have a pure and beautiful feeling. Just like Mick Rock said in 1999 (a famous photographer, he took the most famous photos of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop hugging each other in the 70s):
We were all young at that time, not much older than our children. . You see, David Bowie was 25 years old, I was 24, and Iggy Pop was 23 years old, Lou Reed was the oldest, he was 28 years old (actually Lou Reed was 30 years old). However, we are still young people in their twenties.
Mick Rock emphasizes youth.
In 1973, another reporter caught a photo very close to "kissing" in a cafe. The protagonists were still Lou Reed and David Bowie. When someone mentioned it twenty years later, David Bowie reluctantly clarified: We didn't kiss at all. Take a closer look. Behind us is Mick Jagger (the lead singer of Rolling Stones, a good friend of David Bowie), and I was just whispering to him at the time.
Ratio of 18: 1973 "kiss" photo
and David Bowie announced: Lou Reed even if only one person in this world, I would not kiss him.
Lou Reed and David Bowie are more like a pair of happy friends, always in a mess of good and bad. David Bowie was very excited when he met Lou Reed for the first time. He created a new song "Queen Bitch" as a tribute to The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground) dedicated to Lou Reed, and Lou Reed felt that this person could become his new The source of creation. But, nevertheless—the two are probably at odds with each other, and there are frequent rumors of a split relationship. Later, when David Bowie refused to make an album for Lou Reed, Lou Reed slapped David Bowie in the mouth, saying that he was "possessed". But after David Bowie issued the declaration "Don't do Lou Reed at the end of the world", Lou Reed, his 50th birthday party, came to join him again, and the two were affectionate. In any case, David Bowie still regards Lou Reed as his idol, and "always will be."
When the reporter asked Lou Reed about these things, Lou Reed downplayed: We are good friends, and it is inevitable for good friends to have disputes.
Digression: David Bowie was very active in helping Iggy Pop to get rid of drugs, but in the end he also became addicted to drugs. It would be a bit wrong to say that Iggy Pop was dragged into the water, but it seems that Iggy Pop didn’t bring him anything good anyway. Influence. David Bowie suffered a lot from taking drugs-he and Iggy Pop caused trouble with the police because of harbouring drugs, and they were also greatly embarrassed in the live broadcast. In the end, he made great efforts to finally get rid of the drugs. This experience had a deep impact on him.
David Bowie really appreciates Iggy Pop. He has been saying: Iggy Pop has a true self. Lou Reed's statement about Iggy Pop's crazy performance is: Iggy Pop is very cute, very cute, but also very stupid. However, David Bowie seems to appreciate that kind of "stupidity."
The closer you get to the truth, the more you begin to realize that although on the surface, David Bowie is a very avant-garde person, it is Lou Reed or Iggy Pop who is really crazy and unruly. At the reception where Lou Reed kissed David Bowie, it was more like a compromise between Lou Reed's free will and David Bowie's accommodation. In essence, David Bowie is a shy, shy person-shy people will show their inner madness after wearing a mask, but throughout David Bowie's music career, he is reserved and restrained, he This is true of singing and typhoon. He never lost his mind. Such people are easily influenced, and although his favorite people and music seem to be influenced by him with heavy makeup, they actually affect David Bowie's own words, deeds and lifestyle. The other side of David Bowie seems to be the one he aspires to be, a truly wild and arbitrary personality like Lou Reed or Iggy Pop, but he can never do it. He was attracted to them, like someone looking at another world, he tried to touch, as long as he got close. Later, he approached, and later, he began to realize that this kind of madness was overwhelming and not suitable for him, so he got rid of these influences a little bit.
In my opinion, this is the real bond between David Bowie and Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.
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