chikon2000
Well-known member
(from NY Times)
“Lust for Life,” perhaps the most famous collaboration between you and Bowie, will appear in the coming “Trainspotting” sequel. What was that original collaboration like?
He wrote the chord progression and beat on ukulele. The inspiration had come from the American Forces Network television station in Berlin that had a call signal that went “beep beep beep — beep beep beep beep beep — beep beep beep.” We were sitting on the floor, and I taped it on a little Philips cassette recorder that I used to carry around. David told me to call it “Lust for Life.” I tried to sing a character song and to conflate myself with the William Burroughs character Johnny Yen, who is a green Venusian love boy. Sounds like fun, right? Who wouldn’t want to be a green Venusian love boy?
“Lust for Life,” perhaps the most famous collaboration between you and Bowie, will appear in the coming “Trainspotting” sequel. What was that original collaboration like?
He wrote the chord progression and beat on ukulele. The inspiration had come from the American Forces Network television station in Berlin that had a call signal that went “beep beep beep — beep beep beep beep beep — beep beep beep.” We were sitting on the floor, and I taped it on a little Philips cassette recorder that I used to carry around. David told me to call it “Lust for Life.” I tried to sing a character song and to conflate myself with the William Burroughs character Johnny Yen, who is a green Venusian love boy. Sounds like fun, right? Who wouldn’t want to be a green Venusian love boy?
