Bowie Style

INFLUENCES & HEROES: FANTASTIC
VOYAGE
The Doors
Sometimes the most telling influences are rarely
revealed. Jim Morrison’s apocalyptic rock theatre,
which swept America during the late Sixties, was
literate, cinematic, manipulative, steeped in the
politics of insanity and conclusive proof that artistic
pretensions and rock music could co-exist – and
become successful. Bowie ad-libbed The Doors’
‘Hello, I Love You’ during ‘Aladdin Sane’ on a 1996
festival tour.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzschean elitism (and attendant misanthropy) was
an underlying force throughout Bowie’s work in the
Seventies. “I’ve always thought the only thing to do
was to try and go through life as Superman, right
from the word go. I felt far too insignificant as just
another person,” insisted Super-Bowie.
Kenneth Anger
Bowie devoured Anger’s scandalous Hollywood
Babylon book, and spent some time with the
notorious Crowley devotee during the mid-
Seventies. Rumours that Bowie wrote ‘Look Back In
Anger’ for Ken are apparently untrue.