 |
David Bowie’s new makeover: Rock ‘n’ roll recluse
Last year, he attended a few red-carpet events to help promote his son Duncan Jones’ movie “Moon.” But otherwise the musical chameleon seems to be savoring his latest metamorphosis into married father of a 9-year-old daughter in New York.
“He’s just being Dad, I think, laying low,” said bass player Gail Ann Dorsey, who started working with Bowie almost 15 years ago. “I can’t imagine he’s not writing or doing something, but we’ll just have to wait and see.”
Dorsey said she e-mailed him a birthday greeting in January, but resisted the temptation to ask if he was working on any projects. “I never pry into an artist’s life, or process either,” Dorsey said. “I don’t write to him and go, ‘What are you doing?’ Or call and go, ‘Why aren’t you playing?’ You let people be and you see where it falls.”
Bowie biographer Marc Spitz is slowly losing hope that the singer will make a comeback, even as peers such as Lou Reed and Iggy Pop keep recording and touring. His absence is all the more striking given that Bowie had released an album or single almost every year since 1964. It would be akin to the equally prolific Woody Allen stepping back from filmmaking, Spitz said.
He also noted that people are used to celebrities such as David Letterman and Robin Williams bouncing back after heart ailments, not to mention former Vice President Dick Cheney. But given that Bowie often performed songs about death and the mysteries of life, Spitz said he might have lost his appetite after getting “that close to the abyss.”
He also interviewed people for his book, “Bowie: A Biography,” who told him: “Maybe he’s just done, maybe he’s said his piece,” Spitz recounted. “Some people don’t go forever and ever and ever, like the Rolling Stones.”
Bowie’s managers declined to comment on his current pursuits. The singer has long dabbled in film, painting and photography. Bowie and his second wife, Somali model Iman, are the parents of 9-year-old Lexi. His 38-year-old son Duncan, formerly known as Zowie Bowie, kept the family in the news this past year with his sci-fi movie “Moon,” which recently won a British Academy Film Award.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AMANDA PAUL |  |
||
| Ukraine: a lost country | |||
| MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE |  |
||
| The 52nd anniversary of May 27 | |||
| ABDULLAH BOZKURT |  |
||
| Turkey and Mexico: Distant yet so close | |||
| BERİL DEDEOĞLU |  |
||
| Yemen and beyond | |||
| ARZU KAYA URANLI |  |
||
| On Memorial Day a few words to make your day memorable | |||
| ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ |  |
||
| Google kidnaps Gül! | |||
| CUMALİ ÖNAL |  |
||
| Critical months for Egypt | |||
| GÖKHAN BACIK |  |
||
| Erdoğan, Gül and Davutoğlu: the inner bargain on Turkish foreign policy | |||
| DOĞU ERGİL |  |
||
| Qualities of power | |||
| İHSAN YILMAZ |  |
||
| The Egyptian elections, Islam and Islamists | |||
| EMRE USLU |  |
||
| Operational errors | |||
| MARKAR ESAYAN |  |
||
| There is need for a new initiative | |||
| JOOST LAGENDIJK |  |
||
| Europe can’t have it all. Or can it? | |||
| HASAN KANBOLAT |  |
||
| Are Russian tourists being discouraged from visiting Turkey? | |||
| MELİH ARAT |  |
||
| Handmade | |||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
