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it wasn’t his biography, it was someone close to him.
There was some discussion about whether he was
writing from my point of view. I don’t know. The end
was nigh. I knew I needed to go, it just took a long
time to figure out how.’
Gabrels had helped lead Bowie out of the
creative cul-de-sac of the late eighties, but both
parties sensed it was time to move on. Mark Plati,
the computer wizard behind Earthling, had now
moved into a more conventional role as bassist, a
change essentially initiated by Reeves. Gabrels had
thus prepared his own replacement. There was no
falling out, says the guitarist: ‘I was basically burning
out. A lot of it didn’t have to do with David as much
as with time away from home, time on the road and
just dealing with some of the people around him. I
thought it was amicable.’
In his later years, David was sometimes
remarkably gracious about his previous
collaborators; this was certainly the case with
Reeves, to whom David would often publicly express
his gratitude. Still, the pair soon fell out of touch: ‘I
think it got misinterpreted over time – Coco got in
there after I left,’ says Reeves. ‘I was no saint either
at the end, but my crimes were entirely personal. I
was trying to make my way home at that point –
literally! I felt like if I had stayed I was going to
become everything I disliked in musicians I had
known – bitter and twisted – or I was gonna die
because I would be so miserable I would just drug
myself to death. I just knew I was done with that.
There were also personal complications because I