01/10/2025
FAME
DAVID BOWIE
1975
in 2016, two days after his 69th birthday, David Bowie bid this world goodbye. (How can it have been 9 years ago already?) "Fame" was Bowie's first big hit in the U.S., appropriately enough, making him famous.
Bowie gave his thoughts on fame in a 2003 interview with "Performing Songwriter" magazine: "Fame itself, of course, doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant. That must be pretty well known by now. I'm just amazed how fame is being posited as the be all and end all, and how many of these young kids who are being foisted on the public have been talked into this idea that anything necessary to be famous is all right. It's a sad state of affairs. However arrogant and ambitious I think we were in my generation, I think the idea was that if you do something really good, you'll become famous. The emphasis on fame itself is something new. Now it's, to be famous you should do what it takes, which is not the same thing at all. And it will leave many of them with this empty feeling. Then again, I don't know if it will, because I think a lot of them are genuinely quite satisfied. I know a couple of personalities over in England who are famous for being famous, basically. They sort of initially came out of the pop world, but they're quite happy being photographed going everywhere and showing their kids off and this is a career to them. A career of like being there and turning up and saying, 'Yes it's me, the famous girl or guy' (laughs).
The official music video for David Bowie's - Fame 90. Taken from Bowie's 9th studio album 'Young Americans' released in 1975, which featured the singles 'You...
