Hanif Kureishi on David Bowie
Great Lives
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The Manipulativeness of David Bowie
I think lots of people say Bowie was manipulative, that he would take people and suck the best out of them. But I tend to think of him like a football manager. He just gathered great people around him for particular projects. So in short, I'm a bit suspicious of this performance art. Well, actors, they put on clothes where they perform. You might have noticed that if you go to the opera, they turn up in their shorts and they're in there indeed in their pajamas. And he existed partly to be looked at. It wasn't strictly true - his half-brother Terry had serious mental health issues who did commit suicide in the early eighties. There were
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