IT'S GOING TO BE A BRAVE NEW WORLD
'Bowie is intensely interested in the idea of Homo Superior, the being that will replace us, homo sapiens, as the ruling creature on Earth, in the same way that man replaced his predecessors:
"One of the reasons, probably the main reason that the Nazis were trying to build up a race of supermen was to combat homo superior when he arrives and stop him from taking over the world..."'
[Dai Davies interview; Music Now, 30.1.1971]
'His other inspiration is mythology. He has a great need to believe in the legends of the past, particularly those of Atlantis; and for the same need he has created a myth of the future, a belief in an imminent race of supermen called Homo Superior. It's his only glimpse of hope, he says - "all the things we can't do they will."'
[Michael Watts interview; Melody Maker, 22.1.1972]
'"There is this awful idea that there's going to be some sort of eruption in the next few years and we'll all be kaput," he announces. "What frightens me even more is that people are holding on to a century that is fast dying. That includes a lot of young people as well, those, for example, who are into the idea of communal living. I think that things are going to change so incredibly and so drastically that we should really start developing our ideas along a different tangent. I don't know which way we should go but what with the pill and sperm banks and with all those trimmings, things have got to change very drastically. It's going to be a brave new world and we either join it or we become living relics."
David pauses. He looks around the room. He smiles at Angela. There is a look of encouragement on her face. "There are people who are aware of this and there are people who are spearheading the future on one level or another. Alice Cooper, Marc Bolan, myself, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed - we all anticipated it almost a few years too early. Now we're all starting to emerge at the same time, which is interesting. There is a wave of the future and the kids have begun to discover that wave. They have begun to discover us. They may not know what to make of us but they are eager to reach out anyway."'
[Report on Dorchester Hotel Press Conference in Henry Edwards' article; Afterdark, October 1972]
"I used to work for two guys who put out a UFO magazine in England. About six years ago. And I made sightings six, seven times a night for about a year, when I was in the observatory.
We had regular cruises that came over. We knew the 6.15 was coming in and would meet up with another one. And they would be stationary for about half an hour, and then after verifying what they'd been doing that day, they'd shoot off.
But, I mean, it's what you do with the information. We never used to tell anybody. It was beautifully dissipated when it got to the media. Media control is still based in the main on cultural manipulation.
It's just so easy to do. When you set up one set of of objectives toward the public and you've given them a certain definition for each code word, you hit them with the various code words and they're not going to believe anything if you don't want them to."
[Bruno Stein interview, 11.74; published in Cream & NME, 2.1975]
"I think the Internet...I don't think we're even seeing a tip of the iceberg. I think that the potential of what the Internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. I think that we're actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying...
It's some alien life form...
Is there Life On Mars? (laughs) Yes, it's just landed here..."
[BBC 2 'Newsnight' interview with Jeremy Paxman, broadcast December 3rd 1999]