David Bowie Bewlay Brothers

@hinder90 - 'Fakers' it is.
He was so far ahead of his time and some of those images of him with the gold circle on his forehead are amazing. I wish I could have seen him then, but I saw him on 3 occasions later on, but he was still great!
'Lay me place and bake me pie, I'm starving for me gra-vy' - Delivered in a broad Cockney accent is quite amusing as well. He was not without humour and was often funny in interviews.

Bowies step-brother terry a schizophrenic was the inspiration for the bewlay brothers along with aladdin sane all the madmen and jump they say.The song is about many things not just terry so as not to misrepresent the song he come up with the word bewlay named after the brand of pipe he smoked. Terry commited suicide in 1985...

They thought we were fakirs...

Bowie was the penultimate freak. Nothing ever came close, ever. Godly.

happy birthday to the original young dude led the way in fashion and music for 30 years

its about amphetamine

i think there are druggy overtones too as Gravy used to be a nick name for heroin i believe. Just slip away etc. Thats how i read it anyway

I think Bowie can't really remember this one too well because it's a repressed memory. The lyrics sound to me like him missing the days of him and his brother being normal. The second verse: "I was stone and he was wax, so he could scream..." Is Terry, his brother, starting to lose it for the last time before never coming back.
"My brother lays upon the rocks..." Him looking at his brother after being institutionalized.
I might slip away,
just for the day.

u ar spot on

ay it was the press that cos that shit

yeah that's the widely believed theory.