I found this very interesting and moving..from David J (Love and Rockets/Bauhaus/etc) Facebook
David J
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I met David Bowie on the set of 'The Hunger' in 1982. There was a great old 1950's jukebox outside his dressing room. I was looking at the list of 45's and deciding what to play when I became aware of a looming presence behind me. "Mind if I pick one?" It was Bowie! "Eh, no, please be my guest." I mumbled. He punched in 'Grooving With Mister Bloe' an instrumental from 1970 by, yes, Mister Bloe and then started to dance! It was just me and Bowie there at the time. Surreal! He was dressed in the sharp dark blue shark skin suit that he is seen wearing in the first scene of the movie and had on those matching blue shades. He was smiling all the while and well . . . grooving with Mister Bloe. Somehow I summoned up the audacity to make a statement. "This reminds me of something." To which D.B. responded: "Oh, yeah? What's that then?" "It's one of yours!" "Yeah? Which one?" "It's off of 'Low." "Yeah? Well, which track?" "Eh, 'A New Career In A New Town?"
And with that, Bowie put a finger to his lips, winked and carried on dancing!
When I played 'Blackstar' on headphones the night that he died and it came to the last track, 'I Can't Give Everything Away', in which he alludes to the same harmonica part that he cribbed from 'Mister Bloe', I made the astonishing connection that the 'new town' was the afterlife and the 'new career', well . . . what ever it was that Bowie would be doing there! At that point, lying on my bed in the Crystal Hotel in Portland at midnight on January 10 and recalling that cherished personal memory of our meeting, I lost it and collapsed under a deluge of tears.
(The writing of my little tribute song followed shortly thereafter.)
https://vimeo.com/168032558
