Chords for David Bowie interview - 2003 - part1

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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ Picking up from something you said, I always wanted to be a 5'2 black musician, Little Richard.
That's what you wanted to be?
Yeah, surgery wouldn't have helped at all.
_ I met Little Richard.
He's not little, he's about 7 feet high.
That's the other Little Richard.
That's his big brother.
Big Little Richard.
[Gm] But he's got funny eyes.
[Eb] He's got [F] these.
He's got [D] my eyes. Has he?
Yes, the deal we made.
[G] _ Laughing eyes.
Nice book of poetry.
That first poem is really funny.
[D] That's really good.
Music to my ears.
[F] The book of my enemy is being reminded.
Yes!
[N] It was a true emotion.
It's a very rock and roll kind of thing, that sentiment.
What, his album?
Oh no, really?
Nobody's buying it?
Yes!
[G] It's really horrible.
Very human trait.
Do you ever write poetry yourself?
[Eb] _ No, [G] no.
I'll just stay with the rock lyric.
[Gb] It's what I do best.
[G] The poetry that I have written always looks like it needs a melody with it.
That's what ends up.
This time it'll be a poem.
It [Ab] goes down like a poem, but then I thought, [F] and I end up reading it like that.
But I can't write on tour, because I'm touring at the moment.
I [G] know that.
It's not [C] anything I can do on tour.
I can't imagine that you hold, you know, your what?
I've got 17 three weeks [Eb] time.
Something like that.
So I'm doing better than both of you, yeah?
You're 50.
Do you know, I thought about that.
It's only 13 years for me to be 70.
And that's only as long as I've been [G] married to my wife.
That's 13 years.
So I looked at, well, how long's that going to feel from now till 70?
So I went backwards through time, 13 years to when I first [C] met Lola.
Do you know, it's not long.
It's not, is it?
No, it's really just around the corner.
As you [Gm] get older, things gulp away from you, like the years gulp away.
They certainly do.
Friends and everything.
But there's one big advantage.
[E] There's one big advantage, which [Ab] he's not going to need.
There's one big advantage, and you're not going to admit to, and that's the bus [G] pass.
I just got mine.
I can travel far.
Find [F] your own bus.
It's easier.
Have a rock and roll.
Do [A] _ _
_ you ever imagine touring as long as you've been touring?
No, I mean, you know, I had this poetic, romantic, kind of juvenile idea that I would be dead by 30.
You know, because that's all artists think.
I'll be dead by 30.
You know, I'm going to get TV and die and loss of blood, Audrey Beardsley and all that.
But you don't, you know.
You get past it, and then suddenly you're 30 and you're [F] 40.
And then you're 50 and 57 and all that.
And it's a new land, you know.
I'm a pioneer.
Me and my kind.
That's right.
Christian worship.
Me and my kind.
Just sort of scraping the edge of what this thing is about being a rock and roller at 57.
But my revenge is all these bands that are below us.
They've got to do this.
So they're kind of saying, yeah, they're like really old.
But secretly they're thinking, I better watch how he does it because I'm going to get this.
Because there's no precedent for it.
Travis, you know.
_ I bet he dyes [N] his hair.
That's never [G] planned. _
_ [Ab] Those two of you are the first generation, [G] of course.
No precedent.
Do you know, it's funny you're talking about toupes, toupees.
I wonder if I should name him.
No, I better not.
Celebrity, no, I can't do that.
It's not my thing.
My hairdresser used to work for him and was sacked because he didn't glue his toupee down properly for stage one night.
And he has a fan in front like we all do to keep us cool, you know.
And the fan was going, he [F] was doing something very attractive and highly sensitive on the guitar.
And his toupee was like a little, it was dancing furry animal on the top of his head.
And the [D] audience were like, it fits.
[Am] They were falling into the aisles [Gm] from the sensitive, you know, [Eb] very socially serious kind of writer.
And he went, I ain't shit.
[C] _ I used to have, I mean, I sat opposite and peered at some of the best [Gm] toupes in the business, if you can imagine.
I used to have you in my job.
And I used to have this irresistible urge to pull one off.
I used to have to sit on my hands at times because I'd sit there thinking.
You have to make sure that they've got one because [C] sometimes they look as if they've got one.
[G] I could see the canvas.
This is the days when the toupes were not like that.
See, Ronald Reagan did not wear a toupe.
Ronald Reagan, they used to take him at night while he was asleep and dip him upside down in a bath full of ink.
So his hair was black.
Somebody once said he was prematurely orange.
But I tell you one thing about him for sure.
He did not wear a wig.
He just [Eb] looked as if he wore one.
You could make a very bad wig.
Whereas I saw a child of Heston once in Hollywood.
He wasn't really a president.
He just looked as if he was.
_ _ [Gm] Okay.
What about the, I mean, [G] what's the difference now touring now and touring as that manifestation over that [Gm] Ziggy?
What's the difference?
The big difference probably [G] Jordan's breasts are even bigger now.
_ [N] In Ziggy's style, I guess.
Well, you know, this [G] God came to me and he said, let there be Ziggy.
And I said, what's he going to look [E] like?
Like Eddie [G] Izzard without the breasts. _ _
I was half.
[Gm] He wasn't around.
[G] Eddie came to the show the other night.
And you know what?
We didn't talk about high heel shoes.
We talked about machine guns and different types of artillery.
And was he in female mood?
I mean, was he?
No, no, no.
He was Eddie mode.
I suppose.
He was just a simple nail varnish and cashmere sweater.
He was thoroughly charming.
But he's violence crazy.
You know, he's like totally into the army thing.
And he loves talking about, you know, operations and how you defeat the enemy and with lipstick and a handbag.
But what was it about?
I mean, what was that game?
Martian?
It was, but on the premise was men from Mars.
I'm from [G] Bromley.
_ I'm just a bit different from other men in that way.
You know, and I just saw the world in a bit of another kind of fashion.
And it was it was sort of I don't know.
It was about pushing together all the pieces and all the things that fascinated me culturally.
Everything from Kabuki theater to sharp Braille, you know, to [Ab] Little Richard to drag acts.
And everything about it was sort of a [G] hybrid of everything I liked.
_ Because it seemed to me that rock and roll was such a fundamentally an American thing that they believe in.
They still do believe it to have an intrinsic American value, you know.
And I knew it wasn't English.
So it wasn't we weren't really rock and roll as we were kind of just playing around with the idea of rock and roll.
I thought, well, I thought, well, let's take that to the next stage.
How far can you talk about rock and roll?
But we're using rock and roll.
It got quite arty in that way.
What about the I mean, it's very, very