David Bowie made the choice to kill off his Ziggy Stardust persona with the complete intention of staging a dramatic comeback, his former supervisor stated.
In a current interview with Mojo, Tony Defries stated they determined to maintain the retirement information secret till the ultimate present in London in July 1973 was practically over – with the announcement stunning Spiders from Mars bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Woody Woodmansey, who hadn’t been informed prematurely.
“Mainly, I feel success wasn’t the best state of affairs for David,” Defries stated. “When Aladdin Sane was promoting huge portions and crowds had been shutting down railway stations, simply to get a look of him, I feel that’s when all of it started to sink in, that he was not an bizarre particular person. The Ziggy impact was taking maintain and he couldn’t deal with it, actually.”
He added that the retirement concept was partly impressed by Frank Sinatra, who’d give up present enterprise in 1971 earlier than staging a large-scale return two years later. “David was a giant Sinatra fan,” he stated. “Making the comeback is the important thing factor.” However the plan did not work, as he continued: “We tried and didn’t get promoters in America to e-book [a Bowie / Ziggy Stardust comeback tour] into giant arenas as a headliner. So, that was an actual purpose for retiring Ziggy, to be sincere with you… nothing to do with music or model or anything.”
The ultimate present was adopted with a glitzy celebration attended by a variety of music and film stars, nevertheless it wasn’t a celebratory occasion for Bolder and Woodmansey. “Mick [Ronson] knew that we had been doing our final Ziggy,” Defries defined, “whereas Woody and Trevor didn’t. I didn’t need too many individuals to know. The place’s the publicity worth if you happen to inform too many individuals? So, inform as few folks as doable. However I stated, ‘If we’re gonna retire, then we’ve acquired to retire in model and have an enormous celebration and invite all people.’ It was a celebration.”
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