DAVID BOWIE
"I've always felt like a vehicle for something else, but then I've never really sorted out what that was. I think that everybody, at one time or another, gets that kind of feeling: that they aren't just here for themselves, and more often than not they turn to the Bible and agree that it's probably Jesus and God and all of that section of religion. There's a feeling that we are here for another purpose. And in me it's very strong." (David Bowie, 1973)
T.REX
"Bolan with his strong sense of the visual, could see that this was a natural combination, they were both as surrealistic as each other with Finn believing passionately in flying saucers, which he was convinced that he'd seen down at Glastonbury in Somerset, and Bolan the cosmic dreamer, who had also seen flying saucers himself." ('The Marc Bolan Story' by George Tremlett)
GENESIS
"We were sitting out on top of this building, and it was a hot sunny day, and we were just looking out across a vast area of buildings and fields, and there wasn't a soul to be seen. It looked like the whole population had just deserted the planet, and that's what 'Watcher of the Skies' is all about.. an alien being coming to the planet and seeing it completely deserted." (Tony Banks)
JOHN LENNON
"On 23rd August 1974 at 9 o'clock I saw a UFO - J.Lennon." (Sleeve of 'Walls And Bridges' L.P.)
GARY GLITTER
"..Surely we can't be the only ones. Actually, I'm looking out onto my garden at the moment and it's just amazing - there's a whole load of daffodils just come up! And then you look up at the stars and you think 'why haven't they discovered anybody?' I wouldn't mind believing that when we die we go to another planet and live there for a while.." (Gary Glitter, 1986)
PETER GABRIEL
"I think it's an incredibly arrogant assumption for anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes looking up at the stars to assume that we're the only planet with life on. What would they be like? I think insects could handle a planet pretty well." (Peter Gabriel, 1986)
DAVID BYRNE
"We'd have parties and David would invariably show up with questionnaires that he'd pass out. They were usually about outer space: 'Do you believe there's life on other planets?' He seemed to have a real interest in aliens." ('Talking Heads' by Jerome Davis)
PATTI SMITH
"When I was younger I always used to imagine even as a child that I was being secretly filmed. I used'ta pretend when I was, about 16 if I'd be in a subway looking at the window I would pretend that Bergman was shooting a movie or, one of the saints in shooting the whole Earth was doing a zoom on me." (Patti Smith, 1988)
BLONDIE
"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 the description in a book he read of a race of females who were put on this planet from space.." ('Making Tracks:The Rise Of Blondie' by Debbie Harry, Chris Stein & Victor Bockris)
JOHNNY THUNDERS
"Thunders is also starting to write an opera about the holocaust and Christ: "It intrigues me," he says, "is there really someone else responsible for us being here? I'm not sure. I only believe what I see mostly. But I worry."" (Record Mirror article, 1988)
SPEAR OF DESTINY
"I've seen a UFO once with my mother, who's the most down to earth person in the world. Even she admitted there was something there. She disbelieves anything unless she can put it in her pocket or go bake it." (Kirk Brandon, 1984)
NEW ORDER
"I think I actually saw a ghost once in my bedroom, when I was very young, and it really scared me. It was the outline of a person but in really bright light, and very detailed, which is what makes me think it may have been a dream. But I saw the UFO and that wasn't." (Peter Hook, 1986)
GARY NUMAN
"Von Daniken blew it by falsifying the evidence. His theory that God was an astronaut has a lot going for it. Me and a girlfriend saw a UFO once. It was like an upside down pyramid shape. We thought - Jesus Christ! It frightened the life out of me!" (Gary Numan, 1988)
