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"When I was growing up, too many coloured people thought it was better to be white. And I don't know what it was, but I always felt I was born to do something for my people. Eight years old, ten years old; I'd walk out of my house at two in the morning, and look up at the sky for an angel or a revelation or God telling me what to do. I never got an answer. I'd look at the stars and wait for a voice, but I heard nothing. Then my bike got stolen and I started boxing, and it was like God telling me that boxing was my responsibility.

God made us all, but some of us are made special. Einstein wasn't an ordinary human. Columbus wasn't an ordinary human. Elvis Presley, the Wright brothers. Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right."

('Muhammed Ali: His Life And Times')

Marc Bolan

This poem, signed 'Marc Feld,' was sent to his girlfriend Theresa Whipman in the early-1960s:

Terry is the name of a girl / not unlike a million other girls / but looks ly / She's not beautiful, she's not ugly / yet her heart shaped face, / smilin resembles the / dawn. / rainbows, made by the gods, so are / some people: / I was, so was / terry / terry is the earthname for / sweetness.

In a 1970s interview, Marc was quoted as saying:

We're all from different planets.

David Bowie

According to the book 'Stardust,' Angela Bowie (then Mary Angela Barnett) was fourteen when she wrote an essay called 'The Light People,' which stated that '..the prophets, messiahs, and great historical characters were actually aliens or the offspring of alien beings.'

In her own book 'Backstage Passes' (1993), Angela discusses her concept and the feeling inside her which became a conviction that David Bowie was one of the Light People. She states that: 'This belief was an integral component of my attraction to him, and a powerful factor in the loyalty and trust I (mis)placed in him.'

Nina Hagen in a 1986 interview with Tony Parsons:

"One hundred miles in diameter," Nina exclusively reveals to the reporter. "And in there are thousands of small ships. They are the spacecraft that we see time and time again hovering over our planet. Now and then in history they have landed and mated with Earth women. That's why we have some Star People among us. And I say: David Bowie is definitely one of these."

Brian Eno

This is an excerpt from an article by Michael Bracewell, from The Guardian Weekend, June 14th 1997:

Here was a group who looked as if they came from not only another era - the fifties as they might be reconstructed in the 21st century - but also from another planet. Indeed, the keyboard and tape player Brian Eno, had claimed with straight-faced passivity that he was a visitor from the planet Xenon...

Roky Erickson

Formerly lead singer/guitarist of 13th Floor Elevators, his 1977 solo single originally included this information on the picture sleeve: 'I am an alien. I am from Mars.'

[Roky Erickson website]

Nina Hagen

"Star People already live secretly among us. Almost everyone has some close to them without noticing. In the near future they will help us out of the mess we're in. They know how you can build cars without petrol and waste. They are completely noble beings. David Bowie is one of them and so am I. But they can only help people who don't go on eating so much meat and don't fill their heads up with marijuana." (Bravo magazine interview, 1984.)

Deborah Harry

'I don't know exactly where I came from because I don't know who my natural parents are. Chris thinks I'm definitely an alien because I fit a description of a race of females who were put on this planet from space...' ('Making Tracks - The Rise of Blondie')

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix's brother, Leon, has said of their childhood together: "Jimmy would tell me about the stars and the planets and make up stories and do drawings." He grew up passionately interested in the universe, other planets and science fiction, and these themes would later be prominent in his recorded work.

Carol Shiroky, a woman who lived with him at the Lennox Hotel in the spring of 1966, has said: "Jimi always used to say he was not from this planet, he was from somewhere out in space. That was his great line when he got in a crazy-ass mood. 'I'm not from this planet.' Hey, listen, you know he wasn't your average joe, let's face it..."

Lene Lovich

"I've never felt at ease in this world: when I was a little kid I was from another planet. When I was seven or eight I was obsessed with space stories. I thought I was an experiment, a visitor sent from another planet to try living on Earth. This experiment wasn't working too well. I'd hang out of the window every night, searching the sky, looking for the aliens to come and take me back home."

Shirley Maclaine

As a child, Shirley Maclaine would look up at the stars and feel a strong affinity, which she associates with her adult 'New Age' explorations. [shirleymaclaine.com]

Madonna

"I never had a group of friends in school. I kept to myself and did what I wanted to do. But it bothered me. I think I was lonely in lots of ways. And when I latched onto the dance thing, I was with older and more sophisticated people. I felt really superior. I just felt that all this suffering I felt for not fitting in is worth it - I don't fit in because I don't belong here I thought. I belong in some special world." (The Face magazine interview, c.1985)

Marilyn Monroe

'A man who had kissed me once said it was very possible I was a lesbian because I apparently had no response to males - meaning him. I didn't contradict him because I didn't know what I was. There were times even when I didn't feel human and times when all I could think of was of dying..' (Marilyn Monroe 'My Story')

'My mother believed Marilyn was 'a true star, a self-illuminating body.' Now Marilyn is like one of those stars we look up at to make wishes on. It has died, but its light is still traveling toward us.' (Susan Strasberg 'Marilyn and Me')

Jim Morrison

"I'm a changeling. See me change."

('Changeling' on The Doors 'L.A.Woman' L.P.)

"Riders on the storm

Into this house we're born

Into this world we're thrown

Like a dog without a bone

An actor out on loan

Riders on the storm."

('Riders On The Storm' on The Doors 'L.A.Woman' )

Lee 'Scratch' Perry

"Because I am ET! ET mean Ethiopia. I am Ethiopia ET Lee 'Scratch Perry. Who re-create my Merlin brain and my Merlin train for my white fans who love my mad, crazy brain. I, ET Perry, with all Africa's legacy and all the Earth's treasures and all the Earth's pleasures and the Earth's measures, all the Earth's hot pleasures and hot love." (Interview with Mick Sleeper/The Guide 4.98)

Iggy Pop

Asked in the late 1990's what his earliest memory was, Iggy responded that it was of telling his parents that he was from Mars. (Select magazine interview; as yet not located for actual quote)

Elvis Presley

This book excerpt has to do with the friendship between Elvis and a woman named Wanda June Hill:

'Wanda June went outside.. she was surprised when Elvis walked quietly up behind her, pulled a lawn chair next to hers, and laced his fingers through her own, as was his habit when they spoke seriously.

A shooting star flashed across the night sky, and the two made a wish. Elvis told her that it wasn't very often that he was fortunate enough to find a girl who would sit and look at the stars with him. Someone who was interested in the stars, not just the star.

Then Elvis stated that his true home was from the stars, from "out of this world." he said that he was from the "Blue Star Planet" and that it had several moons.

People on Earth, he said, would soon know about other races on other planets outside of their galaxy. He said that earthlings would begin to live longer once they learned the techniques of longevity from outer space beings.

The aliens, Elvis said would combine mysticism and science to produce a powerful healing medicine. They would be able to cure the diseases that earth science currently believed to be incurable.

Presley amazed Wanda June by pointing out various stars and naming them, as if he had a telescope and had made a serious study of astronomy.

When she asked him how he knew so much about the cosmos, he grinned and answered that he had read a few things but mostly it was because he was "from up there," and he pointed toward the stars.

Wanda June laughed, assuming that he was joking, and asked why, if he was from "up there," he did not have pointed ears and blue skin. Elvis replied that the basic difference between earthlings and aliens existed in their spirits, not the appearance of their physical bodies.

Wanda June remembered that there had been something in Presley's eyes that made her believe that he truly did accept the reality of star travel and that he actually considered himself one of the star people...'

(Sherry Hansen-Steiger & Brad Steiger, 'Hollywood And The Supernatural.'

See also: Blue Star Love)

Prince

Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis on 7th June 1958. There were seven children in the family, from his parents' previous marriages. He made number eight and always considered himself a 'mistake.'

On an edition of 'My Top Ten,' broadcast by Radio One in September 1988, Chaka Khan chose a record by Prince, whom she had met.

She said that he is a shy person; that a lot of people see him as a mystical figure, and that some see him as like someone from another planet. She then added, "..He may very well be that..."

Sun Ra

'Sun Ra was born around 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama. His real name was Herman Sonny Blount. Details about his early life are vague largely because Sun Ra kept them that way, later claiming to have arrived on Earth from the planet Saturn and that he was 3,000 years old...' (Mark Roland, Melody Maker)

[Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space]

Lou Reed

'David Bowie, Reed's one-time collaborator, sometime soulmate, styled himself a chameleon and took on the world. But Lou was the real changeling.' (Dave Thompson, sleevenotes to Lou Reed 'Retro,')

Wilhelm Reich

'On March 20, 1956, 10 p.m., a thought of a very remote possibility entered my mind, which I fear, will never leave me again. Am I a Spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women? Are my children offspring of the first interplanetary race? Has the melting-pot of interplanetary society already been created on our planet, as the melting-pot of all earth nations was established in the U.S.A. 190 years ago? Or does this thought relate to things to come in the future? I request my right and privilege to have such thoughts and to ask such questions without being threatened to be jailed by any administrative agency of society...'

(Wilhelm Reich 'Contact With Space' - this book available from:

Wilhelm Reich Museum)

Patti Smith

Introducing the song 'Call Me Helium' (aka 'Distant Fingers') live at CBGB's, New York, on one occasion in 1974, Patti Smith said: "This song I wrote with Allen Lanier.. When I was.. a little girl.. when I used to get mad at my parents I used to think I was adopted, and that.. the people that really owned me were going to come back and get me.. And I wonder where they were from!..."

"..I loved my family, but I felt estranged from everybody and as a child I felt I was like a visitor from an alien culture.. When I found out that my parents were married less than nine months before I was born, I took it as a kind of proof..." (Q Magazine, '96)

Sharon Stone

'Movie star Sharon Stone's parents thought she was an 'alien.' The blonde beauty, who shot to fame in 'Basic Instinct,' was a shy bookworm in her youth who was misunderstood by both family and friends. "I was a bit of a nerd as a child. I was afraid of dating and was the classic misfit," says the 35-year-old.

"Everyone thought I was strange. Sometimes they joked I was from another planet, and Dad was among those who thought I was an alien." ' (Daily Mirror, July 29th 1993)

Barbra Streisand

'She was a strange baby who slept little, cried infrequently, and silently perused the world with wide-open eyes. Her head was bulb-shaped, much too big for her puny body, and not a hair grew on it until she was two years old. When Barbra later heard these often-repeated family recollections, she cast herself as a Martian. Many children express dissatisfaction with their family lot by secretly thinking of themselves as highborn creatures, stolen and misplaced by gypsies. Looking at her baby pictures, trying to conjure up erased images, Barbra's acute sense of alienation rejected not only her time and place, her home and hearth, but the entire planet. Those Martians had certainly goofed when they dropped her incognito on Pulaski Street.'

(Rene Jordan 'Streisand.')

[barbrastreisand.com]

August Strindberg

In his Occult Diary - date January 1st 1905 - Strindberg records this communication to his third wife Harriet Bosse:

'..Our visible bonds could be severed, but not our invisible ones. I think things are beautiful as they are, and, at a distance, I can see you as a being from a higher sphere. I do not believe that we two are real mortals. We are creatures cast down from a loftier home. That is why our bodily clothing is so irksome and why we are so ill at ease together...'

Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax once told Lynn Barber in an interview that growing up she '..thought she came from another planet..'

(The Independent On Sunday, March 31st 1991)

Toyah Willcox

One of Toyah's most successful L.P.'s - released in 1983 - was entitled 'The Changeling.' Around that time, she read out a poem on The Russell Harty Show, in which she asked the question '..Who brought me here?'