David Bowie • Brian Eno • Art Gallery Interview

[TealSkeletore]

Listening to David Bowie talking about art is like listening to some kind of deity.. so artgasmic.

[wileykinetics]

bowie's comedy is so underappreciated in this video. he's just cranking out very funny jokes, and no one is laughing. bad interviewer

[funkb0x]

What an awesome meaningful charity supported by great artists.

Brian Eno is right. All forms of art benefit people. Expression is a release of deep feelings. Anyone suffering from trauma or mental problems will benefit from some form of art. Where ever there is pain you see graffiti. People leave messages with spray cans to voice their feelings all over the world. Governments avoid art because it speaks the truth. Some people express the truth through different forms to avoid victimization.

[wreyoG]

circa? ? 95 96? Outside album era? anyone know? thanx

[MrDataCode]

I'm pretty sure he could afford surely?

[elzashan]

So you started off as an artist? No, I started out as a reck! XD lol, I love Bowie. x

[paddy9i99]

Bowie being his usual oblique self.

Probably putting off the happy-clappy Anthea Turner.

[vivemaker]

The interviewer is not interested at all. She fails to hide it.

These two legends deserve better.

[ShineOnCrazyDiamond1]

What amazing people. Both brilliant musicians.

[ajittffcure]

Very nice interview and it is nice to see two legends working for a much needed cause.

[etrapmela]

Am I the only one to see David Brent in Bowie's mannerisms and inflection during this interview? I couldn't stop myself from laughing.

[nooninho]

These men are very beautiful. Eno is a genius and a hell of a gent. Bowie is so sexy

[zarathustra1077]

great! My Heroes!!!

[opertain]

U wuld think some1 who creates something so.... Outhere would b so.... out there. But hes not, hes very down to earth.

Eno i meen.

[newnewly]

each in his or her own time, finds an outlet for the inner vision in relation to "talent"....what you git, you git, then, there, where ever...

[iggyono]

Gents, fess up, now. I know that all of the earlier comments were actually written by Bowie or Eno.

[wilhelmgras]

blablabla i was thinkign about buying something...but i bought an icecream instead... yay for me

[citic101]

Just write a cheque David youve got millions

[trylonperisphere]

Some people think we rely too much on celebrities to solve all our problems.

[GemandJoe]

Well, that's true but, surely if you are a celebrity you can do more than if you're not?

[ivankaramasov]

Probably the two only artists working within pop music who can properly be called geniuses. Seriously, I mean these two are in the same league as Picasso, Bach, James Joyce or Stanely Kubrick. Maybe you could say the same about Bob Dylan, but that is about it.

[Jitpring]

Bowie and Dylan are certainly the closest, but let's not get ridiculous. When you're talking of the likes of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, then Bowie and Dylan are the closest to them in the same way an ape, in relation to an amoeba, is closer to man.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply ignorant of the magnitude of Bach, Mozart's, and Beethoven's achievements.

Notice, by the way, that I didn't include Picasso, Joyce, or Kubrick in the same category as the three Bs. This was no accident.

[ivankaramasov]

If you are measuring them as composers I certainly agree with you. At least, when it comes to Bach and Beethoven (Mozart is terribly overrated and lacks depth). But the music is only a small part of their artistery. If I should mention someone who are in the same league as Bach and Beethoven in modern times, I would probably pick Bartok, Ligeti and Messiaen. But it is hard to compare.

[Jitpring]

"(Mozart is terribly overrated and lacks depth)."

This is among the most ignorant statements I've ever seen. Incredible.

"But the music is only a small part of their artistery."

I don't understand this assertion at all.

As for Bartok, Ligeti, and Messiaen being in the same league as Bach and Beeth., again such a statement can flow only from the darkest ignorance.

Alas, such is this age.

"O age, thou art shamed.* O shame, where is thy blush?**"

-Shakespeare, Julius Caesar,* Hamlet**

[ivankaramasov]

I see thay you prefer to call all views that are different from your own ignorant. I guess that is the mark of the genius. Oh, well. Considering my view on Mozart, I believe for example Glenn Gould might have agreed. But then again he was a very ignorant man. Obviously.

[Jitpring]

Gould was a nice player, but as a thinker he was inadequate - as are all those unequipped to recognize Mozart's Olympian genius.

[ivankaramasov]

Bach would have had only contempt for Mozart's music. Anyway, I can see from your interesing list of favourites that you obviously think that the golden age is behind us. Must be tragic to live thinking that. I don't think further discussion will lead anywhere.

[Jitpring]

False, but if so, he would have been wrong to have such contempt.

Have you too embraced the myth of progress and its chronological snobbery? This is what's truly tragic. Alas, those conformed to this dead age are a dime a dozen. One sure way to identify them is by looking for their brand. Yes, like cattle, incredibly, they brand themselves: with tattoos. Herds of "individuals" everywhere!

Google the following words for a page of mine on amazon:

Resist the Brave New World

[ivankaramasov]

No, I don't believe in progress. But I don't believe in decline either.

[Jitpring]

Well, you're halfway there. Read Theodore Dalrymple and you'll be on you way to being fully aware. The books I mentioned, plus google for these essays, for example:

Exposing Shallowness by Theodore Dalrymple

&

The Goddess of Domestic Tribulations by Theodore Dalrymple

Understand that this man has been called the Orwell of today. He's the greatest living essayist.

[jarvizcocker]

@ivankaramasov wow this comment is as pretentious as your username

[ivankaramasov]

@jarvizcocker Maybe I went a bit over the top. Or maybe up the hills backwards.

[tensago]

Ha! bowies expression at 5:33..."come on you silly cow!"...

[tensago]

quick witted bowie!

[welshuser]

"I'm just trying to check the reading ability"

Bowie's being such a sarky bugger here, but Anthea Turner is too bloody vapid to notice...

I wonder what happened to her? I don't think i've seen her in the mainstream media, since the whole chocolate bar/wedding snaps business...

And I can't believe how thin Emmon Holmes is at the end of the clip!

[marormedia]

when did this interview take place?

[simonbath]

thank you whatever truth helped butt that dreadful unwelcome and uninvited trashy woman out of main media. good luck to all forces conjuring her quick end. a great snapshot of the bbc's dreadful spirit. here here, eno n bowie!

[brendanrocks]

ITV, Simon.

[simonbath]

i bow corrected

[TeenageWildlife]

excellent vids!

[Casar1973]

i thought she handled it quite well

[Isolar]

Cool

[lifeismusic08]

you know...I don't know why, but in this particular interview, I can't even imagine Eno back in his Roxy Music days. He just seems like a totally different person. 

And Bowie seems to not like this interviewer at all.

[TRAFOZS]

Her name's Anthea Turner...

I remember Tin Machine on the Terry Wogan TV show

and db was a little dismissive of him too....

TRAFOZS

[beelzabubba]

@lifeismusic08 She walked in and completely ignored him (Bowie) and talked directly to Eno... a bit disrespectful I would say... she should have at least intoduced them both and then started with the inquisition.