‘我在利用搖滾樂’，可以說我是最早這麼做的幾個人之一
我們往哪裡走？ 這邊走 - Where are we going? - We're going down this way.
請你為Bowie先生拿杯可樂好嗎？ Can you get me a Coca-Cola for Mr Bowie, please?
“我只是將搖滾樂當做一種媒介” 'I'm only using rock 'n' roll as a medium.
“我認為之前的搖滾樂沒有真正地發聲過” 'I don't think it had been really voiced before then.
“我想做新思想的策動者 'I wanted to be the instigator of new ideas.
“我想讓人們聚焦新事物和新視點 'I wanted to turn people on to new things and new perspectives.
“我總想成為催化劑那樣的事物， 'I always wanted to be that sort of catalystic kind of thing.'
我只是那個眾人眼中的我
你所擁有的形象好像和真實生活 I mean, the image you have has got almost nothing to do
沒有關係 with your real life.
“這要取決於你說的是哪個形象 'It depends on which image you're talking about.
“我已經見過不少，當然還會有更多” 'I've seen so many because, of course, there will be so many.'
就像在看某個演員出演的電影 It's like looking at an actor's films
再從電影裡截取片段，說，“這就是他” and taking clippings from the films and saying, "Here he is," you know.
嗯，這就是你和其他搖滾明星的不同之處 Well, that's where you're different from most rock stars.
唔，我可不是個搖滾明星，那只是你這麼說 Well, I'm not a rock star, you see. You've just said it.
我不屬於搖滾 非常好… - I'm not in rock and roll. - That's nice.
♪ Fashion!
♪ 向左轉 ♪ Turn to the left
有時候 ♪ Fashion!
♪ 向右轉 ♪ Turn to the right
我覺得自己根本不是一個活生生的人 ♪ Oooh, fashion!
♪ 我們是一群暴徒，正往城裡來 ♪ We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
♪ Beep-beep. ♪
我發現我有收集癖，我是一個收集者 I've always found that I collect. I am a collector.
我總是收集人的性格、想法 And I've always just seemed to collect personalities, ideas.
聽Bowie本人及其小夥伴們的親口訴說⋯⋯ ♪ Let's dance
♪ 穿上你的紅鞋，隨著布魯斯舞動 ♪ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues... ♪
我既講故事，也寫故事 I'm a storyteller and I'm a storywriter
然後我決定親自來演繹自己寫的故事 and I decided that I preferred to enact a lot of the material
而不光光只是這麼唱一下 I was writing, rather than perform it as myself.
本片使用未曾披露過的影像片段 ♪ There's a starman
♪ Waiting in the sky
對Bowie職業生涯的關鍵五年作一敘述
♪ There's a starman
♪ Waiting in the sky. ♪
我自認為是個相當不錯的社會觀察家 I think I'm a fairly good social observer,
我把空間壓縮成一年一年的 and I think that I encapsulate areas maybe every year or so.
然後試圖標記出 I'm trying to stamp that down somewhere,
這一年的精華所在 the quintessence of that year.
♪ 讓我就直說了吧 ♪ Let me make it plain
♪ 給新新人類讓路！ ♪ Gotta make way For the Homo Superior. ♪
大衛鮑伊之關鍵五年
“我想留下印記，但不知道要怎麼做 'I wanted to make a mark and I didn't quite know how to do it,
“整個60年代我都在嘗試各種能想到的形式 'and it took me all the '60s to try everything that I could think of
“戲劇、藝術、音樂 'in terms of theatre and arts and music,
“總之就是想弄清楚我到底想要幹什麼 'to find out what exactly it was I wanted to do anyway.
“我學怎麼演奏節奏藍調 'I was learning about how to play rhythm and blues,
“學怎麼寫歌詞，所有我讀過的書 'learning how to write, finding all these, everything that I read,
“我看過的電影、戲劇 'every film that I saw, any bit of theatre,
“這些都進入了我的腦子裡，並產生了影響 'everything went into my mind as being an influence.'
“不過那時候，我想 'But at the time, I thought,
‘天，這只會存入我的記憶庫’ ' "God, that's going in my memory bank."
“但就在60年代末，它們開始糅合起來 'But just about the end of the '60s, it started to come together for me
“我想我可以嘗試另一種表現形式，不僅是在音樂上 'that there was a way of expressing, not only musically,
“在視覺上也可以花點功夫 'but visually what one can do.'
♪ Well
♪ She takes me up
♪ She takes me down
♪ She takes me down, down, down
♪ Anywhere you want me to be. ♪
關鍵年之一：1971—72
待在舞臺上時，我感覺更像是個演員，而非搖滾歌手
你準備好了嗎？ You ready?
嗯！ Yeah.
紐約
♪ 想做一次水泥塑顏 ♪ Like to take a cement fix
1971年，Bowie來到紐約 ♪ 變身一座活動影院 ♪ Be a standing cinema
與RCA唱片公司簽約 ♪ 打扮起我的朋友，只是為赴一場秀 ♪ Dress my friends up just for show
♪ 他們看起來好像真是那麼回事 ♪ See them as they really are. ♪
沃霍爾，第一場，第一次鏡頭 Warhol, scene one, take one.
他來到Factory（沃霍爾的工作室） ♪ 在我的腦子裡裝上窺視孔 ♪ Put a peephole in my brain
見到了波普藝術家安迪沃霍爾 ♪ 2枚新便士，可以試一試 ♪ Two new pence to have a go
♪ 我想成為一座畫廊 ♪ I'd like to be a gallery
♪ 將你放進我的秀 ♪ Put you all inside my show. ♪
你是怎麼讓攝影機不發出雜訊的？ How come your camera doesn't make any noise?
“這傢伙和他的作品一樣出名” 'This guy was as well-known as the work that he did.'
“事實上，很多人可能只是知道安迪沃霍爾的名字和長相 'In fact, probably more people knew the name and the look of Andy Warhol
“而不理解他到底在做什麼” 'than actually knew what it was he did.'
哦，真是太迷人了 Oh, it's so glamorous.
Bowie欽慕沃霍爾，在某種程度上也有點競爭的味道 Bowie admired Warhol, but also felt competitive with him, in some way.
我想他清楚沃霍爾的作品沒有前些年那麼好了 I think he understood that Warhol's work had waned in the prior years.
Bowie能從沃霍爾的角度感知事物 Bowie felt on Warhol's level,
理所當然地想被視為他的同類 wanted to be taken as his peer,and rightly so.
“我為他寫了一首歌，這在某種方式上的確將我和他 'I did write a song about him, and that rather linked me to him,
“聯繫在一起” 'in a certain way.'
♪ 安迪沃霍爾看著令人尖叫 ♪ Andy Warhol looks a scream
♪ 將他掛在我牆上，哦-哦，哦-哦 ♪ Hang him on my wall, oh-oh, oh-oh
♪ 安迪沃霍爾，還是銀屏大幕 ♪ Andy Warhol, silver screen
♪ 傻傻分不清 ♪ Can't tell them apart at all
♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh. ♪
“他討厭這首歌，聽得很勉強，他後來跟人說 'He hated it. He loathed it. He told people afterwards,
‘我還從沒聽過這麼難聽的東西’ ' "That's the worst thing I've ever heard."
“我對此很失望 'I was upset by that, you know.
“我本以為我是在諂媚地描摹他 'I thought it was kind of a flattering portrait of him.
“我覺得這就像一幅當代派的肖像 'I thought it was a very contemporary picture
完全描繪了那時的他’ 'of Andy at the time.'
如果你可以把相機往後挪一點 If you'd like to take the camera back,
我想展示一點東西 I'd prefer to do something.
你要做些什麼？呆站著？ 不是 You going to do something, still? No.
我確實感覺到Bowie有點沮喪 I do feel that Bowie felt disappointed
因為沒能受到沃霍爾的認同 in not being embraced by Warhol,
通過這段開膛默劇的詼諧表演 and certainly dramatised his own sense of disease
顯然戲劇性地表達了他內心的不悅 by doing his hilarious disembowelling mime
表演被記錄在這次尷尬會面的影像結尾 at the end of the video that recorded this ill encounter.
“哦，好棒哦 'Oh, that's nice.
“這是真的嗎？ 'Did he really?
“哦，很不錯嘛” 'Oh, that's nice.'
從Hunky Dory的Andy Warhol這首歌你能感到 With Andy Warhol from Hunky Dory, you've got the sense
Bowie是少數幾個最早能夠分析 that Bowie's one of the first people who's able to essay
明星體驗、明星夢 the experience of stardom, wanting to be a star,
幻想明星生活的人 imagining what it's like to be a star.
甚至從封面照也能感到 And even the cover picture has a sense that he knows
他開始將自己轉變為，說得浪漫點的話 that he's starting to turn himself into what, if you're being romantic,
可以說是一個偶像，如果諷刺點的話 you'd call an icon, and if you're being horribly cynical
在21世紀，可以說它是一個品牌 and 21st-century, you'd call a brand.
但我不想用這個詞 But I'd rather not use that word
因為這對我們所談論的可不大友好 because it's a huge disservice to what we're talking about.
♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
♪ 轉首面對陌生人 ♪ Turn and face the stranger
♪ Ch-ch-changes
♪ 不想變成個有錢人 ♪ Don't want to have to be a richer man
♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
♪ 轉首面對陌生人 ♪ Turn and face the stranger
♪ Ch-ch-changes
♪ 只想變成一個更好的人 ♪ Just wanted to be a better man
♪ 時間會改變我 ♪ Time may change me
♪ 但我無法趕上時間 ♪ ♪ But I can't trace time. ♪
David打我電話，他直接打給我的 I got a call from David, he called me directly,
他說，“你能來我這裡嗎” and he said, "Can you come over to the house?"
我和他坐在那兒，他拿出這把破舊的 And I sat there with him, and he took out this battered old
12弦吉他，說“我要給你彈一些歌” 12-string guitar and said, "I'm going to play you some songs."
他給我彈了這些歌，一首又一首 And he played me these songs one after the other.
♪ 這只不過是小事一樁 ♪ It's a God-awful small affair
♪ 對這鼠褐發色的女孩說來 ♪ To the girl with the mousy hair
♪ 但她媽媽叫著“不” ♪ But her mummy is yelling "No"
♪ 爸爸卻讓她盡情去 ♪ And her daddy has told her to go
♪ 但夥伴們卻無處可尋 ♪ But her friend is nowhere to be seen
♪ 現在她走過沉陷的夢想 ♪ Now she walks through her sunken dream... ♪
Hunky Dory的 Life on Mars? "Life On Mars?", from Hunky Dory,
在我看來當然是一支傑出的歌曲 was certainly the stand-out song for me,
但在某些細節上也存在挑戰 but it was a challenge in certain areas,
比如一些和絃的結構 because of some of the chord structure,
他會用一個平常的和絃引你進入 because he would lead you down the garden path with quite
花園小徑，然後卻突然消失了 a bog-standard chord structure, and then suddenly go AWOL.
現在我要試試並再回想下 Now I've got to try and remember this,
因為我上次彈這首已經是40年前的事了，但… because it is 40 years since I've played it, but...
♪ 但夥伴們卻無處可尋 ♪ But her friend is nowhere to be seen
♪ 她正走過沉陷了的夢幻 ♪ Now she walks through her sunken dream
♪ 朝視野最佳的位子走去 ♪ To the seat with the clearest view... ♪
這裡有個絕佳的例子 可以說明 Now this is a classic example of where he throws in a chord
他會在你意想不到的地方加上和絃 that you wouldn't expect.
通常都是在… Normally after...
你覺得可能會重複的地方，但他沒有這麼做 他會… You would expect it to go back there, but he doesn't. He goes...
很聰明的做法 But the thing that makes it really clever
他用了個降E調 is he put an E flat in the bass,
加上了低音 然後你可以繼續下去 which just gives it a bass part that you can start to move on.
真的是機智，所以就是… Really clever, so you've got...
♪ 但電影真是無聊得悲慘 ♪ But the film is a saddening bore
♪ 因為她早已看過十多遍 ♪ For she's lived it ten times or more. ♪
現在，這個音後面，你大概會以為它會是… Now, after that chord, you would expect it to go to...
但他沒有這麼做 But he doesn't.
我是說，沒有人…只有David會幹這種事 I mean, nobody... Only David would do something like that.
對彈鋼琴的人倒是種樂趣 但我還得回爐再學一學 It's a piano player's joy. In fact, I must go home and learn it.
♪ 看一眼那些執法者 ♪ Take a look at the lawman
♪ 暴打這所謂的“壞”人 ♪ Beating up the wrong guy
♪ 哦 你呀！驚奇他是否明白 ♪ Oh, man! Wonder if he'll ever know
♪ 自己身處這最熱賣的秀 ♪ He's in the best-selling show
♪ 火星上會有另一種生活嗎？ ♪ Is there life on Mars? ♪
“Life On Mars?”有點魔幻現實主義的感覺 "Life On Mars?" is sort of magic realism, really,
如果你好好聽的話 if you listen to it,
就能認出這寫的是英國 that you recognise it as a song about Britain.
還有一些在郊區成長起來的人 And there are references in it which anyone
才能夠理解的梗 who grew up in suburbia would understand.
非常世俗，但還挺魔幻的 Very mundane, and yet it's magical.
畢竟他在車站上看到了宇宙秩序 You know, he's seen the cosmos in the bus stop.
♪ 在美國人皺起的眉梢上 ♪ It's on America's tortured brow
♪ 是米老鼠長成奶牛的困惑 ♪ That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
♪ 現在工人們為名利而罷工 ♪ Now the workers have struck for fame
♪ 因為列儂的新歌開賣了 ♪ Cos Lennon's on sale again. ♪
聲音本身就是表演，是真實的、活生生的 The vocals are performances, they are real, they are live,
我覺得這也是我們至今仍在討論這些歌的原因之一 and I think that's one of the reasons we're still talking about them today,
因為它們會與聽眾產生共鳴，不像 because they do resonate with people. Unlike the manufactured
現在那些加工流水線上的聲音，他的聲音是真實的 and thrown-together vocals that are so prevalent today, his are real.
♪ 我矗立在11樓上 看著樓下的巡邏車 ♪ I'm up on the eleventh floor and I'm watching the cruisers below
♪ 喔，我下來到了街上，他正在努力…… ♪ Well, I'm down on the street and he's trying hard to... ♪
抱歉 Sorry.
儘管Hunky Dory不完全是一張搖滾專輯 Although most of Hunky Dory is not a rock record,
但能從中看出點苗頭 Bowie快要成型了 there are stirrings of the Bowie to come.
Queen Bitch聽起來有搖擺爵士樂的味道 When you listen to Queen Bitch, it swings.
但是更粗野一些 It has raunch to it, you know.
這張唱片確有令人驕傲的理由 That record shakes its hips very convincingly.
♪ 唔，這本來會是我 ♪ Well, it could have been me
♪ 是的，這原本會是我 ♪ Yes, it could have been me
♪ 為啥我沒有說？ ♪ Why didn't I say?
♪ 裹著她的緞子和麻布衣衫，窸窣作響 ♪ She's so swishy in her satin and tat
♪ 身著長禮服，頭戴嗶啵帽（類似女巫帽） ♪ In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
♪ 哦老天，我本來可以做得比這更好 ♪ Oh, God, I could do better than that. ♪
“我想我正在接近我想做的事情 'I think I was getting nearer to what I wanted to do,
“就是創造這個另類的世界 'which is to create this alternative world,
“Hunky Dory是第一步 'and Hunky Dory was the first,
“真的踏出了這個星球，然後走向宇宙 'really stepping off this planet and going somewhere else.'
嗯，完成了Hunky Dory的幾周後 So, we'd finished Hunky Dory, and a couple of weeks later
我撞見David在三叉戟錄音室的走廊走著 I ran into David walking along the corridor of Trident Studios
他對我說，“我們要開始錄一張新專了 and he comes up to me and he says, "We're going to record a new album,
但你是不會喜歡的” but you're not going to like it".
我問為什麼，他說，這張要更搖滾一些 I said, "Why?" and he said, "Well, this is much more rock and roll."
♪ 我是一條美洲鱷 ♪ I'm an alligator
♪ 我是沖你而來的老爹老娘 ♪ I'm a mama-papa coming for you. ♪
Mick Ronson—‘Ziggy Stardust’的主音吉他手（1992年影像）
Bowie總是能機智地找到正確的合作夥伴 Bowie's always been brilliant at finding the right collaborators.
這個不同凡響的 Mick Ronson He had the extraordinary Mick Ronson,
他可以擺出吉他英雄的瀟灑姿勢，其複段震撼全場 who could strike amazing guitar hero poses and fill the hall with riffs
Bowie和其他任何人 in such a way that Bowie shared the stage with Ronson
都不曾像他和Ronson那樣共用著一個舞臺 in a way that he's never shared a stage with anyone else.
♪ 在月光白日夢中顫慄，哦耶！ ♪ Freak out in a moon-age daydream, Oh, yeah! ♪
“第一次聽見他彈奏，我想 'When I first heard him play, I thought,
‘這就是我的Jeff Beck，好棒啊，這小子了不起’ ' "That's my Jeff Beck, he is fantastic, this kid is great."
“然後我就慢慢忽悠他來和我一起幹 'And so I sort of hoodwinked him into working with me.'
我不記得接下去怎麼彈了，不過差不多就是這樣吧 I forget how it goes, but, I mean, that's basically...
他很善於剽竊 He is good at stealing.
真的，你只要好好看看Ziggy You've only got to look at Ziggy, really.
我的意思是，裡面有不少老李的影子 I mean, there is a lot of Lou Reed in there,
還有很多泡泡的 a lot of Iggy Pop in there, you know. A lot of all sorts
會找到各種影子 of influences that he has got in there, you know,
他就是各方面都剽竊一點 so he would steal little bits.
♪ 嗷，你，甭想賴著我 ♪ Oh, don't lean on me, man
♪ 因為你連票子也買不起 ♪ Cos you can't afford the ticket
♪ 我要回到女權城市去 ♪ I'm back on Suffragette City
♪ 嗷，你，甭想賴著我 ♪ Oh, don't lean on me, man
♪ 因為你連票子也買不起 ♪ Cos you can't afford to check it
♪ 我要回到女權城市去 ♪ I'm back on Suffragette City
♪ 遠離視野之外！ ♪ Is out of sight. ♪
“把這些我喜歡的各種怪異而極端的 'It just seemed like a perfectly natural thing for me at the time,
“藝術和文化形式糅合在一起 我當時覺得很棒 'to put together all these odds and ends of art and culture
“並且順理成章 'that I really adored.
“這就產生了某種完全模仿 'It was just creating something thoroughly artificial,
“但在搖滾的局域內卻行得通的東西 'but something that worked in the confines of rock and roll.'
♪ 這兒只有單人間，她過來了 ♪ There's only room for one and here she comes
♪ 她過來了 ♪ Here she comes... ♪
我想Ziggy能夠和它被預想的同樣成功 I suppose the whole thing that made Ziggy as popular as it was-stroke-is,
完全因為這是一張出色的搖滾樂唱片 was that it was a good rock album.
並沒有特別的原因 Nothing extraordinary, in my opinion,
就是張好的搖滾唱片 然後封面上的形象 but a good rock album, and then the image on top of it,
真的被David打磨至完美 which was really honed to perfection by David,
然後人們就對此愛不釋手 and people grabbed hold of it.
Ziggy Stardust就是將他設想成一個搖滾明星 What Ziggy Stardust does is it projects him as a rock star.
他唱的是幻想中的搖滾明星的經歷 He sings about the imagined experience of being a rock star,
為了要真的變成搖滾明星 and in doing that, becomes a rock star.
還不得不說說他老婆Angie，她站在第一排 And there is a story about his wife Angie, in the front row,
朝著他尖叫，仿佛他已經是個搖滾明星了 screaming at him as if he was a rock star,
儘管邊上只有兩個人和一條狗 despite the fact that two men and a dog were there.
結果就成真了，世界滿足了他的幻想 What happens, then, really, is that the world fulfils his fantasy.
Ziggy和他自身結合起來 It aligns itself with what he wants to be.
大概心理學家會把這叫作“自我實現” Which is what I think psychologists call "self-actualisation".
能成功的人很少，但他做到了 Not many people can do it but he did.
♪ Suffragette! ♪
我坐在這個樂在其中的傢伙旁邊 I was sitting next to this guy who was living it,
從日常情況來看，他早就是‘明星’了 he was already being it on a daily basis,
就算吃早飯他也會端起巨星的范，很滑稽 and it's funny, but he would eat breakfast as a superstar.
好像是，“這傢伙是來真的” It was like, "This guy means it."
♪ Ziggy彈著吉他 ♪ Ziggy played guitar
♪ 和Weird、Gilly配合得不錯 ♪ Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
♪ 火星來的蜘蛛 ♪ And the spiders from Mars
♪ 他是個左撇子 ♪ He played it left-hand
♪ 彈得不著邊際 ♪ But made it too far... ♪
“我要發掘出我的特性所在 'I'd found my character.
“獨自對抗世界的想法真的有點揮之不去 'One man against the world. It really reverberated in my mind.
“我的確有點執著於此 'That's something that I really, kind of, honed in on.'
♪ 眯縫起雙眼，垂落下卷髮 ♪ ..Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
♪ 像是從日本來的貓 ♪ Like some cat from Japan
♪ 以笑容抹殺菲林無數 ♪ He could kill 'em by smiling... ♪
“Ziggy是某種略帶神秘的祭司角色 'Ziggy was this kind of mythological priest figure.
“我也就是在回顧的時候才這麼認為 'And I only say that in retrospect because I didn't quite know
“因為當時我也不知道Ziggy是什麼 'what he was then, but it does occur to me now
“但我現在知道了 歷史上某些雌雄同體的 'that the androgyny of some of the tribal priests throughout history
“部落祭司實質上都是異裝癖 'have been transvestite in nature.
“因為我讀過卡米爾•裴格利亞的相關研究 'I only know this because I read Camille Paglia on the subject.'
我覺得，Ziggy Stardust如同一座巨像 Ziggy Stardust is, to me, a kind of colossus that marks
標誌著從60年代到70年代的劇變 a tremendous transition between the 1960s and the 1970s.
♪ 我們就吐槽他的粉絲 ♪ So we bitched about his fans
♪ 並且粉碎他可愛的雙手？ ♪ And should we crush his sweet hands? ♪
70年代是個黑暗的時代 The 1970s were a dark era, where sexual promiscuity for its own sake
這種對純粹的性的渴求自羅馬帝國以來 was pursued in a way that had never been so universal
還從未如此普遍 since the Roman Empire.
不計後果的性、不知姓名的性、昏暗俱樂部裡速食式的性 Sex without consequence, anonymous sex, pick-ups in dark clubs.
所以Ziggy Stardust先兆般的出現 So Ziggy Stardust, when he appeared, was a kind of prefiguration,
幾乎就像一個啟示錄 almost like the Book of Revelations,
一種末世快要降臨的幻覺 a hallucination of an apocalypse about to occur.
♪ 同他的意志交媾 ♪ Making love with his ego
♪ 吮吸自我的心智 ♪ Ziggy sucked up into his mind
♪ 好似被流放的彌賽亞 ♪ Like a leper messiah
♪ 待崽子們殺死了他 ♪ When the kids had killed the man
♪ 我就不得不將樂隊解散 ♪ I had to break up the band. ♪
使Ziggy或者Bowie與眾不同的原因在於 What made Ziggy different, and Bowie different, at that point,
他將自己設想成人們會崇拜的偶像 was that he turned himself into an idol that people could worship.
以前的流行音樂人可沒這麼幹過 Nobody had actually, in pop music, ever done that before.
這屬於好萊塢的領域 It was the province of Hollywood.
♪ 有個外星人在空中等待著 ♪ There's a starman waiting in the sky
♪ 他想下來看看我們，卻又怕吹亂我們的心緒 ♪ He'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds
♪ 有個外星人在空中等待著 ♪ There's a starman waiting in the sky
♪ 告誡我們不要將其說破 ♪ He's told us not to blow it
♪ 他知道這一切都是值得的 ♪ Cos he knows it's all worthwhile
♪ 他說 讓孩子們丟棄它 ♪ He told me Let the children lose it
♪ 讓孩子們運用它 ♪ Let the children use it
♪ 讓所有的孩子們都舞動起來 ♪ Let all the children boogie. ♪
他的經紀團隊會在音樂會上散發Bowie的海報 His management would distribute posters of Bowie at concerts,
歌迷們就可以拿著它們回家 so that the fans could pick them up and go home
貼在牆上 就是這種對成名過程中 and put them on the walls, and it was that kind of attention
細節的考量使他在這圈子裡 to detail in thinking about the whole process of stardom
顯得鶴立雞群 that singled him out from people that had gone before.
我覺得David對自己要做什麼都會精打細算 I think David was calculating in a lot of things that he did.
他知道如何去操縱利用自己的形象 He understood how to manipulate his image,
他讓自己變得奇貨可居 in that he didn't make himself too available.
只要給人們一點點甜頭 He just gave them a little bit, and they'd go,
他們就會說“我們想要更多David Bowie” "Oh, we want more of David Bowie."
就是這樣 You know, that sort of thing.
我過去還不懂這些 And I used to always wonder about that.
還會想“怎麼不全給他們算了” I was like, "Why don't you just give them it all?"
他就會 “不不，就先給那個就行了 And he was like, "No, I've just got to give them that.
然後他們就會想要更多，然後就再給他們一些” And then they'll come back for more, and then just give them that."
這招還真起作用了 And it worked.
1973年7月3日，Bowie殺死了Ziggy Stardust這個角色
關鍵年之二：1974—75
不用深究Bowie是誰 就像樂高積木一樣，不存在一個絕對的David Bowie…
費城
“那段特殊時期 'At that particular time,
“我變化得真是無端無常 'I was chopping and changing really quite drastically.
“當時我聽的都是靈魂樂 'The music that I was listening to was definitely the soul music
“那時候的美國俱樂部 'that was really, really big in the clubs in America
“全是在放這些 'at that particular time.
“所以我也想做靈魂樂 'So I kind of tried to do my own version of that kind of music,
“也就是Young Americans專輯的基礎 'which was the basis of the Young Americans album.
“我想成為一名靈魂歌手 'I'd become soul man.'
David決心想變成一名靈魂歌手 When David really decided he wanted to be a soul man,
他問我 “要怎麼做？ he said to me, "So, how shall we do it?
我們得去哪兒？” Where shall we go?"
得要召集到歌手和樂隊這些 And, you know, to get the people, the singers, the band and all that.
我說應該去紐約，去哈勒姆區，去阿波羅劇院 And I said we should go to New York. To Harlem and go to the Apollo.
他好像說“OK” So he was like, "OK."
我們就去了後臺，見了所有人 So we went backstage and he met everyone.
我不知道David Bowie是誰 I didn't know who David Bowie was,
但我知道他是我見過的最白的人 but I did know this was the whitest man I've ever seen.
我不是說那種帶粉色的白 I'm not talking about white like pink.
我說的是那種透明的白 I'm talking about translucent white.
然後他還頂著橘紅的頭髮 And then he had orange hair.
我不是說你媽媽那種紅頭髮 I'm not talking about your momma's orange,
我說的是橘紅！ I'm talking about an orange, orange!
他差不多98磅 就是說很瘦很瘦 And he was about 98lbs. I'm talking about thin, thin.
我是說 他就是個怪胎 I mean, he was freaky.
一次我對他說，原諒我說話粗魯 At one point I told him - and you'll have to excuse my language -
朋友你看起來太糟了，你要吃點東西 "You look like shit, man. You need some food.
你要來我家 You need to come to my house."
往前來一點，嗯這樣就好 Come forward. Yeah, that's great.
“Carlos把我介紹給了 'Carlos had been able to introduce me
“很多了不起的新生音樂人 'to a lot of fantastic new musicians,
“其中一名就是Luther Vandross 'one of whom was Luther Vandross, of course.'
你和Bowie就有了這次驚豔的合作 So you have this amazing collaboration between Bowie,
以及不久便會成為史上最偉大的靈魂樂歌手之一的 and soon-to-be one of the greatest soul singers of all time,
Luther Vandross,
還有其他和聲歌手同Luther在一塊唱 along with all the other background singers who would sing with Luther.
♪ 取之以正道 ♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ 掩其於背後 ♪ Keeping it in the back
♪ 取之以正道 ♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ 再也不回頭 ♪ Never no turning back
♪ 再也 再也不需要回頭 ♪ Never need, no Never no turning back
♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ Keeping it in the back
♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ Never no turning back
♪ Never need, no Never no turning back. ♪
Young Americans的Right這首歌，唱起來有難度 Right, from the Young Americans album, was a difficult song
但Luther把它整合起來 but Luther put it all together for him.
我們… We had...
♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ Keeping it all in the back
♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ Never no turning back Never need no... ♪
接下來就是這部分 And then that section comes in.
♪ Wishing, wishing, sometime Doing it, up there, nobody
♪ Nobody doing it, getting up. ♪
太困難了 That was so hard.
♪ Time
♪ Doing it
♪ Giving it
♪ Keeping it back. ♪
對 這樣很酷 很酷 Right. That's cool, that's cool.
David在最後一句 David had, like, a puzzle.
好像設了一個謎 Just the last line.
他給了我們一張紙條 He brought this paper to us and said,
說“我希望你們這麼唱” "This is how I want you to sing this."
哦，抱歉，我還沒跟上 Oh, sorry, I wasn't with you.
它不是就寫著“直接有旋律地唱出來就行” It wasn't a straight "just sing it linearly and melodically".
我知道了，你是從…嗯 我還以為你在唱前奏 Oh, I see, you count from... Yeah. I thought you were doing an intro.
對，一、二…… Right. One, two...
就是“我想要在這邊切入，希望你從那邊跳出來 It was "I want it to jump in here, and I want you to jump out there,
再回到這部分 and jump back in here."
♪ Keeping it back. ♪
好的，很好 好的，我們知道了 這首就這樣了 Right, that's fine. OK, so we've got that. That one's all right.
那首，也是我平生第一次 That, too, was the first time I was singing anything like that.
這樣子唱歌 In my life.
不過挺厲害的，他完全知道他想要什麼 But it was brilliant, because he knew exactly what he wanted.
對，嗯，最後一段 Right, OK, and the last section.
♪ Gimme, gimme, yeah. ♪
哦，天 真是夠了 Oh, Lord, it was too much!
就像“天爺，我真高興錄完了這首歌” It was like, "Man, I'll be glad when we finish with this song."
♪ Wishing that sometimes Sometimes
♪ Doing it, doing it right, till Doing it
♪ One time One time. ♪
“如果弄得很直白的話 都是老一套 'There was no point in doing a straightforward take
“搞美國靈魂樂就沒有意義了 'on American soul music, because that's been done already,
“所以我就想把它弄得繞彎子一點 'so I just wanted to put this spin on it.'
“當然最後專輯出來後 'Eventually, of course, when the album came out,
“還挺受好評的 'it was very well-received,
“Young Americans對我的意義很大 'and Young Americans became a very big album for me.
“我是說 我真的在改進自己 'I mean, I really advanced myself.
“用思想來衝擊自己 'I was tumbling over myself with ideas.'
人們覺得你的表演能力很強 People see you as a very skilful performer,
能夠時時地改變自己，從這一個到那一個 who changes from time to time from one thing to another.
嗯，我可以從一樣事物迅速轉到另一樣 Yeah. I glit from one thing to another, a lot.
"Glit"?
嗯哼 就是“flit”，不過是70年代的說法 Mm-hmm. It's like "flit", but it's the '70s version.
字母“g”在“f”後面 One letter later.
能出現在Dick Cavett的秀上，說明你已經有點成就了 To be on Dick Cavett meant you had arrived.
有趣的是 And what's fascinating about that is he's not really playing
他沒有按照Dick Cavett的規則行事 by the Dick Cavett rules, if there are any,
有人看的話一定會是這樣的感覺 in the sense that one watches it and it's like,
“你想告訴整個美利堅你是個瘋子嗎” "Do you want the whole of America to think you're a complete nutcase?"
“瘋瘋癲癲的，還吸高了”明顯就是這樣 "Out of your mind on cocaine?" And he clearly did.
然後還給他的職業生涯帶來了益處 And it was to the benefit of his career.
給他增添了更多的魅力 It rendered him fascinating.
舞臺下的Bowie也會嚇人一跳嗎 Is the offstage Bowie likely to surprise people?
有人知道你要上這個節目的時候 I've had the weirdest reactions
還對我作出了非常詭異的告誡 from people who know that you're going to be on.
有人說他們會害怕同你說話、和你坐在一起 Some say they'd be scared to sit and talk to you.
還有人說你也許會咬我脖子 Some people said you'd bite my neck.
全是些稀奇古怪的事情 A very peculiar kind of thing.
這就是你想要的，真的 你覺得我像個什麼 It's what you want, really. What do you think I'm like?
在我看來，你像個… To me you seem like a -
工作中的演員，希望這不會冒犯到你 I hope this doesn't insult you - a working actor.
完全正確，非常好 That's right, that's very good.
我說……你在畫什麼？ I mean... What are you drawing?
這是一種治療法 It's therapeutic.
David，他是個人物 David, he was a character.
我知道他是，我也知道他搞得一團糟 I knew he was, excuse my language, I knew he was fucked up.
但要知道，他很棒，很酷，挺過來了 But you know, he was good, he was cool, he got through it.
♪ 在橋後將她撲倒 ♪ Pulls her down behind the bridge
♪ 他令人失望，她緊蹙雙眉 ♪ He lays her down, she frowns
♪ 天啊，我的生活真是一場滑稽 ♪ Gee, my life's a funny thing
♪ 我還是太幼稚了？ ♪ Am I still too young?
♪ 他抓住她的手 ♪ He takes her hand and there
♪ 她帶著他的戒指和孩子 ♪ She takes his ring, takes his babies
♪ 花了他好幾分鐘，帶著她無處可去 Takes him minutes, takes her nowhere
♪ 天知道，她本可以獲得一切 ♪ Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything
♪ 整夜 ♪ All night
♪ 整夜，她只想要一個美國的小年輕 ♪ All night, she wants a young American
♪ 美國小青年，美國小青年，她只想要個美國小青年 ♪ Young American, young American She wants a young American
♪ All right. ♪
製作Young Americans時，他抓住了機會 In terms of the Young American stuff, it was a chance that he grabbed
完成了他12歲以來的夢想 to be able to do something he had wanted to do since he was 12.
他大概想“我不會有40或50年的職業生涯” He may have thought, "I won't have a 40-something, 50-year-old career,"
“可以的話我要儘快去完成” and he may have thought, "I'm going to get this in while I can."
Carlos腦子裡有一段旋律 Carlos had a riff that he'd had in his head for some time
是The Flares的Footstompin' which I put to a standard called Footstompin' by The Flares.
♪ 男女老少 每個人 ♪ Everybody, young and old
♪ 都在學習唱搖滾 ♪ Learns how to rock and roll
♪ 來聽一些新東西 ♪ Listen to something new
♪ 肯定人人都會做 ♪ Everybody sure can do it
♪ 跺跺腳 跺跺腳 ♪ Footstompin', footstompin'. ♪
David一直很喜歡我彈的這一小段 David always liked that little line as I was playing it with...
他本來還喜歡的，但後來就討厭了 He liked that but he hated the song later on.
錄完Young Americans後 So I'm called back into the studio.
我被叫回了錄音室 After we finished Young Americans
他讓我去電音女士錄音室 he called me down to Electric Lady Studio
我到了那裡，他把這首歌剪到了更布魯斯的格式 and I get there and he had cut the song up into a more blues format,
我們叫做1-4-5-4拍 what we called the one-four-five-four format.
他刪了一些，只留下這段… And he had cut it up but the only thing he had kept was...
我聽了，大概說 I heard that and I was like,
“好啊，我們就用這個來做點什麼” "OK, we're going to do something with that,"
然後開始沉澱想法、沉澱想法 and I started laying down ideas and laying down ideas.
我現在先彈一下最早的版本 I'm going to play the first thing that we did and how we layered it
再一層層加上去 你就能聽出不同了 so you can hear what happens.
第一部分，加一點低音 First part, add a little bass.
聽起來像Fame了嗎？ Doesn't that sound like Fame?
David進來，說“哦，我聽見這一段” David comes in, he goes, "Oh, I hear this line."
然後就是John Lennon在錄音期間過來拜訪 What happened is that John Lennon came to the session.
我們說“用這段調子來寫點什麼吧” We sort of said, "Let's take that riff and write something over it."
它是Carlos的樂段 It was Carlos' riff.
Fame.
John彈著彈著，不停發出“Ame！Ame”這種聲音 John was playing and he kept on coming up with, "Ame! Ame!"
我就在前面加了個F，就是這樣了，真的 and I put an F in front of it and that was it, really.
♪ 名聲讓人掌控一切 ♪ Fame makes a man take things over
♪ 名聲讓他失敗，難以下嚥 ♪ Fame lets him loose, hard to swallow
♪ 名聲讓你陷入虛無之中 ♪ Fame puts you there where things are hollow
♪ 名聲 ♪ Fame
♪ 名聲，並非你的理智，只是短暫的火焰 ♪ Fame, not your brain, it's just the flame
♪ 將你逃脫的機會燃燒，使你理性與瘋狂 ♪ That burns your change to keep you insane, sane. ♪
David不是要成為靈魂歌手 David wasn't trying to be a soul singer.
但只要得到嚴肅對待 他當然想要被嚴肅對待 But as far as being taken seriously, he wanted to be taken seriously
他不想要做個偽裝者 but he wasn't trying to be a pretender.
("A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin)
♪ 眺望晨雨 ♪ Looking out on the morning rain
♪ 我感到如此靈感枯竭 ♪ I used to feel so uninspired. ♪
這有點超現實 It was surreal because
因為我們給電影選角時遇到了瓶頸 it was getting close to the point where we were casting the movie.
我知道我想要的是完全不同的東西 I knew there was something I had to get that was totally different.
然後突然出現了這節目，我也碰巧收看了 And suddenly this programme came on and by chance I saw it.
我這牛奶裡漂浮著一隻蒼蠅 There's a fly floating around in my milk.
它在其中是個異物，還沾上了許多牛奶 He's a foreign body in it, you see, and he's getting a lot of milk.
這也是我的感受 That's kind of how I feel.
♪ You make me feel like a natural woman. ♪
他絲毫不擔心會失去形象 He wasn't being over-careful or worried about losing an image.
也許這本身就是一種形象 Maybe that was the image.
幾乎從那一刻起 And almost from that moment,
我感到難以置信，因為“這就是他” I couldn't believe it because I thought, "This is the man."
你曾經看過的、聽過的David Bowie Nothing you have seen or heard about David Bowie
都無法阻擋他在《天降財神》裡的銀幕處女作 will prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic performance
所帶給你的衝擊 in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
這是David Bowie的另一個次元 This is another dimension of David Bowie.
我們時代不多的幾個真正怪才之一 One of the few true originals of our time.
David全都計算好了 David calculated all of this.
我覺得他會說，‘對，我是Ziggy，不，我不是Ziggy，我是靈魂歌手’ I think he said, "Yeah, I'm Ziggy. No, I'm not Ziggy. I'm soul man.
‘我既是個靈魂歌手，現在又是個演員’ "Now I was a soul man, now maybe an actor."
是的，我認為這些都在他計算範圍內 Yes, I think that he calculated all of that.
《天降財神》是一部強有力的愛情片 The Man Who Fell To Earth is a powerful love story.
一個宇宙的奧秘，一場驚奇的幻想 A cosmic mystery. A spectacular fantasy.
一次震懾心智的體驗 A shocking, mind-stretching experience.
出演這部片子是第一件毋需 The film was the first thing I'd been given
我去扮演一名搖滾明星的工作 where I didn't have to play a rock 'n' roll star for a start.
我不需要唱歌 I wasn't required to sing.
我希望人們能夠認可我是在認認真真地演戲 I wanted it to b e considered as a serious sort of attempt at acting.
我們一起在賓館房間的那個場景裡 The early scenes where we're together in the hotel room,
他的皮膚幾乎可以反射光線，太美了 his skin just reflects the light so beautifully.
他看起來的確像是從另一個星球來的 He does look like he's from another planet.
哦，我只是在觀光 Oh, I'm just visiting.
哦，是個旅行者？ Oh, a traveller?
要說他的角色和他本人像不像 可以說幾乎一樣 'As to how close it was to him, pretty close.
你知道劇組對他造型改得不多 'You know there wasn't a lot of changes to him.'
那就是他的發色，他們沒有改變他的發色 That was the colour of his hair. They didn't change his hair.
導演就說“做你自己就可以” He just said, "Be yourself!"
我想Nick意識到了我那時候有些嚴重的問題 I think Nick realised I had some serious problems at the time
然後覺得‘這很完美 and just thought, "He's perfect.
這樣就能直接拍，只要換換衣服 "Just put him in, just change his clothes,
他本人是什麼樣的就怎麼拍，讓他自由發揮’ 所以我也這麼做了 just put him in as he is and let him just walk through it," and I did.
對於他的表演我唯一煩惱的是 All I could do as far as his performances were concerned
如何力圖阻止自己去影響他 was stop myself from trying to influence him.
有幾天我的臉都發疼了，因為皮膚一直繃著不動 And some days my face ached through not being able to use it.
演了整整三個月的‘冰人來了' Everything had to be absolutely expressionless.
需要完全的面癱 Three months of being totally "the iceman cometh".
你不懂？你怎麼會懂？天真 You don't know? How could you? You're simple.
他大概覺得自己沒有表情，但其實不是的 He might think he's being expressionless, but he really isn't.
演對手戲的時候，他的肢體語言 His body language, everything is telling me something
能告訴我很多資訊 when I'm working opposite him.
你再也找不到像我這樣的人了，你知道嗎 You won't find anyone else like me, you know.
“他眨眼、瞥眼的方式 'The way he blinks his eyes, the way he looks away,
“還有他的手勢出都能傳達一些資訊” 'the way he moves his hand tells me something.'
所以他說自己沒有表情是不對的 So he's wrong when he's saying he's expressionless.
真不是 He's really not.
當他褪下牛頓先生的外皮 The actual alien was more that vulnerable part
現出外星人原形的那一段，展現得更加脆弱 when he wasn't Mr Newton.
Candy Clarke發現他從眼睛裡取出了什麼東西 When Candy Clarke found him taking the stuff out of his eye,
她被嚇壞了，由於被看見他自己也嚇壞了 and she's freaked out and he was so freaked out that she saw him
因為他一直想隱瞞這個事實 because he was trying to hide it so well.
在現實生活裡，他對我來說也好像是這樣子 And it just seemed like something about him in real life to me.
可以確定的事實是 It had a certain truth in,
他把秘密告訴她，就是犯下了錯誤 he made the mistake of telling her his secret.
當然，到了最後一幕，故事就不一樣了 Of course, in that final sequence, it can't be the same,
不可能和之前一樣了 it'll never be the same again, you know,
真是極其悲哀 which was terribly sad.
你剛剛拍完一部片子 來自地球的人 You've just finished making the film called The Man Who Came To Earth.
- 是落到地球 - 哦對不起，是落到地球 - Fell To Earth. - Fell To Earth, I beg your pardon.
很難給沒看過片子的人來講解劇情 It's not an easy film to explain to people who haven't seen it.
非常非常悲傷的片子 非常浪漫 It's very, very sad. Very romantic.
我看的時候還覺得喉嚨哽咽 It brought a lump to my throat watching it.
演的時候也覺得不大好受 And it's been a gas working on it.
David，我們這短暫的對話就快要結束了 David, we're coming towards the end of our all-too-brief conversation.
哦，真可惜 Oh, that's a shame.
我想我們可以用一點音樂來收尾 I think what we might do is end with a bit of music.
我是說，在最後，你還要表演一點音樂 I gather that, at your end, you have some music with you.
這首歌叫 The Shape Of Things To Come The song is called The Shape Of Things To Come.
- 不，不是的 - 對，當然不是 - No, it isn't. - No, of course it isn't.
我們是要聽The Shape Of Things To Come的預演 We're having a preview of The Shape Of Things to Come. -Ah.
- 這首歌是叫 Golden Tears - 是Years - The song is called Golden Tears. - Years.
David Bowie先生，放完廣告後我們就回來聽… Mr David Bowie, we'll come back to you after we've seen some.
你真的搞錯了，它是Years，Years You did get it wrong. It's Years. Years.
是Years，你何不來介紹一下這歌呢 Years. Why don't you introduce it from that end?
這是David Bowie演唱的Golden Years This is David Bowie singing Golden Years,
來自他即將發行的專輯 Station To Station from his forthcoming album Station To Station.
♪ Golden years
♪ Gold, whop, whop, whop
♪ Golden years
♪ Gold, whop, whop, whop
♪ 別對我說生活讓你無路可尋 ♪ Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere
♪ Angel
♪ Come, get up my baby
♪ 瞧那天空，生活已經開始 ♪ Look at that sky, life's begun
♪ 黑夜溫暖，白晝如新 ♪ Nights are warm and the days are young
洛杉磯 ♪ Come, get up my baby
♪ 不過是我的寶貝迷失了而已 ♪ There's my baby lost that's all
♪ 我曾經祈求你，請拯救她的幼小靈魂 ♪ Once I'm begging you save her little soul
♪ Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop. ♪
那是一個有點奇葩的年代 It was kind of a very weird time
那是70年代的LA，還有就是可卡因 and it was LA and it was the '70s and it was coke
怪人四處遊蕩，也不交流 and it was weird people hanging around and people who didn't speak
只會吹個口哨這樣 and just whistled and stuff like that.
‘你懂的，嗯？’ "You know, man, heavy."
對，就像在另一個星球 It was like being on another planet, yeah.
♪ 追逐暗影，在這黃金時代，追逐暗影 ♪ Run for the shadows, run for the shadows in these golden years. ♪
極有可能完全是我心理受傷了 I was probably fairly psychically damaged.
不是極有可能，我就是心理受損了 Not probably. I WAS psychically damaged.
我猜是為了獲取在音樂中 I guess trying to get what I was understanding
我能夠理解的表達形式吧 expressed in musical form.
那個時候 Everybody was on drugs.
人人都嗑藥，我們都很出格 At that period of time, we were all well out there.
但還沒有出格到做出一張好專輯的程度 But not so out there that we didn't make a great record
你知道我什麼意思 so, I mean, you know.
不管我們對出格怎麼看 Or maybe our view of being out there
還是人家怎麼看 and being people's views of being out there
都和我們無法做出一張好專輯的 doesn't necessarily correlate with the fact
並沒有絕對的聯繫 that we were incapable of making a record.
無論‘出格’是什麼意思，它都起到作用了 Whatever "out there" was, "out there" worked.
我想對這張專輯影響最大的 I think the biggest influence on that album was
是Kraftwerk的作品，和那些來自德國的新聲音 the work of Kraftwerk, and the new German sound.
我嘗試添加一些隨機音符 I tried to apply some of the randomness
在製作Station To Station這首主題曲的時候 and I utilised a lot of that feeling for especially the title track,
便融入了這種感覺 Station To Station.
Station To Station開頭那段回饋雜音式的前奏 The feedback intro at the beginning of Station To Station
是David的想法 was an idea that David had.
我們在背牆上裝了幾隻馬歇爾電箱 So we had a few Marshall stacks on the back wall
直接做好回饋然後整合在一起 and we just did the feedback together something like...
比如說會讓Earl Slick做一些非常規的事情 Earl Slick was asked to do something unnatural and that was,
類似‘你彈的這個音給我保持15年，別停！’ "I want you to sustain a note for, like, 15 years!"
Boom!
你在等你的那部分，但一直等不到，你得一直緊繃著 You are waiting for your part but you can't. You've got to hold it.
不能彈，不能彈，要保持淡定 Don't play, don't play, just hold it.
最後你就只能彈一點點 Finally you get to play one little thing.
Station To Station，我不知道他的主旨是什麼 Station To Station, I really can't put a title on what it is he does.
我能說出Young Americans的主旨 I mean, I can put a title on Young Americans
但那以後的專輯我就不懂了 but everything after that I don't have a title for it.
它應該蘊含那種死寂的、殘忍的 It was supposed to be deadly, and just brutal.
冷酷的、無情的、陰沉的、黑暗的質感 Just this hard, hard, heavy, dark, dark texture
再就是低沉下來 that just laid down.
就是讓人灰心喪志、垂頭喪氣 Just bog it down, bog it down.
♪ 瘦白公爵的歸來 ♪ The return of the Thin White Duke
♪ 將飛箭射向愛人的雙眼 ♪ Throwing darts in lovers' eyes
♪ 我正在這兒 ♪ Here am I
♪ 一段神奇的樂章 ♪ One magical movement
♪ 由夢幻交織而成 ♪ Such is the stuff from where dreams are woven. ♪
Station To Station牽涉到的角色 Station To Station dealt with a character called
瘦白公爵，旅居美國的歐洲人 the Thin White Duke, who was a European living in America,
想要重新回到歐陸 who wanted to get back to Europe again.
♪ 彎曲的聲音 ♪ Bending sound
♪ 挖掘海洋，迷失在自身的輪回裡 ♪ Dredging the ocean lost in my circle. ♪
知道我怎麼想的嗎？ Know what I think?
我覺得是發生了很多亂七八糟的事情 I think a lot of really nasty shit happened, business wise,
唱片銷量啊、逼上懸樑啊，還有那些你自作孽的事情 and with hangers on and all these useless fucks that you accumulate.
♪ 這不是可卡因的副作用 ♪ It's not the side effects of the cocaine
♪ 我想那一定是愛 ♪ I'm thinking that it must be love
♪ 心懷感恩為時已晚 ♪ It's too late to be grateful
♪ 遲到盡頭已無時 ♪ It's too late to be late again
♪ 令人憎惡為時已晚 ♪ It's too late to be hateful
♪ 歐洲的炮火已近在咫尺 ♪ The European cannon is here. ♪
我真的開始越來越擔心我的生活 I started really getting very, very worried for my life.
我必須得把我自己從這一處境中解脫出來 I just had to get myself out of that situation.
他想離開LA一點也不讓人意外 It wasn't surprising at all that he wanted away from LA.
到最後他已經很討厭LA He hated LA towards the end.
LA那時候是一個非常非常異形的社會 LA at that point was a very, very alien society.
不真實，因為住著不現實的人們 It was kind of unreal with unreal people.
“我嗑了太多，有幾次差點過量死 'I just did too much and I came close several times to overdosing.
“好像坐在一輛方向失控的車子裡 'It was like being in a car where the steering had gone out of control
“而且你還慢慢地逼近懸崖 'and you were going towards the edge of a cliff.
“我幾乎就要自暴自棄，任自己掉下懸崖 'I'd almost resigned myself to the fact that I'm going over the edge.
“你知道，我沒有能力去終止 'You know, I'm not going to be able to stop.'
1976年5月2日，Bowie回到了倫敦
關鍵年之三：1976—77
一旦你知道你已經安全著陸，那你就死定了
巴黎
“我對我寫作的方法感到了厭倦 'I was tiring of the method I was writing.
“我想開發出一套新語言 'I wanted to develop a new language
“我知道我下一步必須這麼做 'so I knew that my next move was to have to do that.
“我被時人與環境所拋棄 'I discarded for the time being characters and environments.
“那時候我無法正視自己 'I couldn't look at myself properly at the time.
“我需要有人來説明我，一起共事，我想到了Eno 'I needed some help and who better to work with, I thought, than Eno.
“當然咯，我發現他和我性情相投 'And, of course, I found what I consider a soul mate there.'
他是個時常變幻的人 He's a constantly changing person.
我瞭解他有點厭倦他在做的事情 I knew he was sort of getting tired with the way he'd been working.
我還知道他特別喜歡我做的一張專輯 I knew also he liked a particular album that I had made very much.
Discreet Music，我最漫長、最舒緩、最安靜的專輯 It was Discrete Music, which is my longest, slowest, quietest album.
他的喜好使我意識到 The fact that he liked that sort of alerted me to the idea that
他想轉變他自己的音樂方向 he was wanting to go somewhere else in his own music.
我們進入錄音室，氛圍相當開放 We would get in the studio, it was really wide open.
這是我喜歡與他錄音的原因 That's why I like doing recordings with him
因為這真的是相當放鬆 because it was, like, real easy, you know.
直到Brian Eno的到來 Until Brian Eno came along.
這個Brian Eno，也是個厲害角色！ That Brian Eno, he was a character!
我那時候真正的困惑是 The problem actually I had at that time was that
我不瞭解優秀的音樂家們是怎麼工作的 I didn't really understand how good musicians worked.
在這層意義上我自身並不是個音樂家 I'm not a musician myself in that sense.
Brian Eno帶了一塊黑板 Brian Eno had a blackboard, you know,
像在小學裡 like elementary school, you know.
我說 ‘你有一塊黑板，然後呢？’ I'm like, "You've got a blackboard. So?"
我們開始冒出這些想法，有不同的和絃 So we started coming up with these ideas for different chords.
E、C、G、B，他就會開始 E, C, G, B, and so he'd go,
“我就會指向那個和絃，你就得彈奏出來 "I'm going to point to that chord and you play that chord
接著我會指向另一個” and then I'll point to another."
我就彈了，變成了個D So I'm playing and it goes D.
當你和這些很棒的演奏者共事的時候 When you're working with really great players,
像Carlos和Dennis他們，你必須得接受 like Carlos and Dennis, you have to accept that they have a way of
他們處理資訊的方式往往會超越智性的範疇 processing information that is beyond intellectual.
“老兄，嘿，Brian，瞧，你這是在，這是… "Dude, man. Hey, Brian, look. What are you... This is...
這對我一點也沒用，老兄” This isn't working for me, man."
但憑藉著他們難以置信的、天生的音樂才能 But with their incredibly natural musicianship,
倆人創造了一些 the two together produce something that, again,
單靠一個人無法創造出的東西 one wouldn't have had with either on their own.
有些起作用了，有些沒有 I mean, some of it worked, some of it didn't,
但老實說這讓我不那麼隨性 but quite honestly it did take me out of my comfort zone
的確讓我在這事上感受到了挫折 and it did make me leave my frustration at what I was doing
促使我完全從另一個角度來看問題 and totally look at it from another different point of view
儘管，我不喜歡這一角度 and, although I didn't like the point of view,
但是在此之後，有些東西就煥然一新了 when I came back, I was fresh.
“我認為Eno開啟了另一種境界 'I think Eno opened up new doors of perception.
“在使用錄音室方面 'In terms of the use of the studio,
“我從沒有以Brian那種方式來用過錄音室” 'I'd never used a studio in quite the way that Brian was using it.'
我接到了David和Brian Eno的電話 I received a phone call from David and Brian Eno
他們說‘你能帶點什麼新玩意兒？’ and they said, "What can you bring to the table?"
我說‘我有個新東西叫泛音器’ I said, "I've got this new thing called a harmoniser."
他們說‘這東西有什麼用？’ And they said, "What does this thing do?"
我想了想，說 And I thought, and I said,
‘它能搞亂時間的構造，就像科幻小說裡的東西’ "It fucks with the fabric of time. This is science fiction."
然後我聽到了他們倆在電話那頭叫起來 And I could hear the two of them whooping on the other end.
他們就是 ‘哇！喔！’這樣 They just went, like, "Whoa! Woo!"
那些東西 Something like that, you know.
令人興奮 It was very exciting
因為它能讓你改變音高 because it enabled you to change the pitch of things.
所以我們用Dennis的軍鼓做了試驗 So what we did with Dennis' snare drum was
把它連上泛音器 we fed it through the harmoniser,
降低音高，然後再連上 dropped its pitch and then fed that back through again.
差不多就這樣……不過聲音更快了 so it goes... but faster.
即使如此，在音樂上 Even though, musically,
它和布魯斯絲毫沒有關係 it has absolutely nothing to do with the blues,
但奇怪的是，Low是Bowie的憂鬱專輯 Low is, in a weird way, Bowie's blues album.
他的婚姻分崩離析 His marriage was breaking up.
他和前經理在商業上爭辯不休 He was having serious business hassles with ex-managers.
和布魯斯歌手一樣，在創作過程中 And, like a blues man, he was attempting to deal with those
他把這些煩惱融進了題材 troubles by, as part of the process, singing about them.
很明顯，他困擾纏身 It was evident that he was having problems
想通過進入錄音室來擺脫它們 and he wanted to come into the studio to get away from everything
結果卻把煩惱帶了進來，所以Breaking Glass but you kind of bring everything with you and so Breaking Glass
就帶有這種情緒，我們開始創作的時候 had that kind of feeling so we started it,
他想做得非常惱怒、非常朋克這樣子 and he really wanted, like, angry, very, very punky.
David寫了… David came up with...
♪ 寶貝兒 ♪ Baby
♪ 我已經 ♪ I've been
♪ 打破你家的玻璃 ♪ Breaking glass in your... ♪
然後我琢磨著 And I was trying to figure out,
他是不是昨天在別人家裡這麼幹過 he probably did that shit yesterday in somebody's room.
你知道的，David寫的就是生活裡那些破事 You know, cos David writes this stuff about life shit.
還有一點…… And it had that kind of...
♪ 我又砸碎了我房裡的玻璃窗 ♪ I've been breaking glass in my room again. ♪
然後Dennis和George的鼓點進來了… Then Dennis and George kicked in with theirs so it was just...
♪ 寶貝兒 ♪ Baby
♪ 我已經 ♪ I've been
♪ 再一次將你屋裡的玻璃砸碎 ♪ Breaking glass in your room again
♪ 聽著 ♪ Listen. ♪
只是需要一個積極的決斷，即只做我想做的事 It just needed a positive decision to only do what I want to do
而不是去做無論是 and not do things for the sake of what,
David Bowie還是我上次扮演的那誰 either David Bowie or whoever I was playing last time,
瘦白公爵或別的誰有可能去做的事 Thin White Duke or something, was expected to do.
♪ 我在上面畫了可怕的東西 ♪ I drew something awful on it. ♪
令我倆人都感到興奮的是 What I think excites both of us
以前從未有人有過的想法 is the idea of going where nobody's been before
並試圖去發掘你能做點什麼 and trying to find out what you could do there, you know.
我認為，David對電子樂中 David, I think, was really interested
新的音樂氛圍、格局和肌理 in new moods and landscapes and textures
真的很感興趣 that you could get with electronics
他並不在乎這些實驗最終會不會捏合成一首歌曲 and he didn't feel a compulsion to turn everything into a song.
在這方面 他是無可比擬的 I cannot think of anybody comparable
那些著名的人物 in terms of being sort of that famous.
像狄倫、滾石、披頭士、貓王 Dylan, The Stones, The Beatles.
達到這些高度的人 Elvis. People of that stature.
你能想像這其中的任何一個人 Can you imagine even any of those people
會在他職業生涯的最巔峰 making a record which was half instrumental
製作一張半數曲目都是純器樂的專輯嗎？ at the supposed peak of their career?
不可能發生的 It was never going to happen.
♪ Milejo
♪ Sula vie
♪ Milejo, ejo. ♪
Warszawa這首，他用了某種非語言 On Warszawa he was using sort of non-language
所以在傳統意義上這並不算是一首歌 so they still weren't songs in the conventional sense.
跟隨著你的直覺，會不會有這樣的危險 Is there a danger that, by following your instinct,
就是賺不了太多錢，生活也會拮据起來？ that you will jeopardise the money and the good life?
簡直扯淡，你這個福爾摩斯！ No shit, Sherlock!
是的，當時我認真考慮過這一點 Yes, I think I've rather hit that one on the head at the moment.
但真的覺得如釋重負 And it's quite a relief, really.
我感受到了更多的…自由 I feel a lot more... free.
一些樂評人寫的真是 Some critics who wrote about it,
天，這幫傢伙真該改行了 god, they really need... they really need to get a proper job sometimes.
他們有點抱怨，‘哦，你這是在做什麼？’ They kind of moan about it. "Oh, what are you doing?"
“我一點也不在乎它是不是有趣，也許有吧 'I don't give a shit about how clever it may or may not be.
“它散發出藝術偽劣品的臭味、精神失敗、徒勞無益 'It stinks of artfully counterfeited spiritual defeat and futility
“與一片空虛，David，我們已經夠低落了 'and emptiness. We're low enough already, David.
“要麼給我們一點快感，要麼繼續和Eno互相郵寄錄音帶 'Give us a high or else just swap tapes with Eno by post
“忘了我們這些寧願去尋找解決方法 'and leave those of us who'd rather search for solutions than lie
“而非一味躺下，嘗試去發現自我而非迷失自我的人吧 'down and be counted to try and find ourselves instead of lose ourselves.
“你很美妙，但你的問題可不小”（Breaking Glass歌詞） 'You're a wonderful person but you've got problems.'
是啊，我當時就是這麼寫的 Yeah, that's what I wrote.
這種音樂我聽起來真的覺得有點疏遠 The music to me sounds really a little a bit alienated
所以我很驚訝… - 和什麼疏遠？ so I'm very surprised... - Alienated from what?
和…和…和，好吧，是和我的世界 From... from... from... OK, from my world.
和你的世界？ 嗯哼，好的 From your world? Uh-huh, OK.
你能理解我說的嗎？ Can you understand it?
是的，我可以，因為這是一種新語言 Yes, I can because it's new language.
柏林
“我空身來到柏林 'I went naked in Berlin.
“我真的試圖捨棄那些曾被我 'I really did try and strip down my life
“認為是生活中絕對基本的必需品 'to what I believed to be absolute basic essentials
“因此我可以推倒重來 'so I could build up again.
“事實上我拋掉了許多身外之物 'I virtually gave a lot of possessions away,
“我的衣服就只有幾條牛仔褲 幾件格子襯衫 'and my wardrobe really was just jeans and checked shirts
“出門一般走路，我還有一輛單車，就是這些了 'and that's how I walked about and I had a bicycle and that was it.
“我認為自從掉入所謂的名人陷阱以來 'I think it was the first freedom I'd had from all those
“這是我第一次擁抱自由” 'so-called trappings of celebrity.'
他好像是在休息療養 He was kind of recuperating.
他攝取了所有這些迷人的歐洲音樂 He soaked up all this very fascinating European music
並繼續製作專輯 and carried on making albums.
這比在修道院裡坐上兩年可要好多啦 It's better than sitting in the Priory for two years.
1977年夏，立足于柏林的Bowie開始創作他的下一張專輯
David和我在討論 我們手頭有好幾段未成形的材料 David and I were talking. We had a number of pieces in progress
David說‘我們下一步要做些什麼？怎麼做呢？’ and David said, "What shall we do next? How should we work on them?"
我說‘好，為什麼不問問Fripp，聽聽他有什麼建議？’ I said, "Well, why don't we call Fripp and see what he would offer?"
一個聲音突然傳過來，說道 The voice came on and said,
“你好，我是Brian！我和David一起在柏林 "It's Brian, hello! I'm here with David. We're in Berlin.
“先別掛斷，我傳一下電話”，Eno就讓David來接電話 "Hang on, I'll pass you over," so Eno passed the phone over to David
David說“你好，我們正在…… and David said, "Hello, we're here in...
“你覺得你可以彈奏一些令人發毛的搖滾吉他嗎？” "Do you think you can play some hairy rock'n'roll guitar?"
什麼叫令人發毛的搖滾？ What is hairy rock'n'roll?
這裡面有風險 It has danger.
在流行樂和搖滾樂之間 What is the difference between pop
有何不同？ and rock'n'roll?
你也許會死得很慘 You might get fucked.
這話你能剪進去麼 Can you put that in
或者我應該選一個術語來表達這個意思？ or should I express it in alternative terminology?
“這是一次合作，一次極為成功的合作 'It was a collaboration, a highly successful collaboration,
“一次全新的合作，新加入的Fripp作為中間人 'the new one, and with the addition of Fripp as middle man,
“我認為他給予了極大的幫助 'I think that helped an awful lot as well.'
Eno說‘好了，你怎麼不插上電源？’我就插上了 And Eno said, "Well, why don't you plug in?" So I plugged in.
他們摁下播放按鈕 They hit the play button.
然後在第三小節，你會聽到… And then on bar three you'll hear...
鋸裂天空式的吉他聲 with skysaw guitars,
直接進入Beauty And The Beast這首歌 and that's straight into Beauty And The Beast
專輯裡你聽到的第一首歌，Heroes裡的第一首 and what you hear on the record, the first track of Heroes,
是我在錄音期彈奏的第一個音符，第一次發聲 is the first note I played on the session, first take,
然後貫穿始終 going all the way through.
♪ 公路之下，吟唱歌曲 ♪ Down the highway, sing the song
♪ 有沒有搞錯，那可是我的公路 ♪ That's my kind of highway gone wrong
♪ My my
♪ 至少笑一笑嘛 ♪ Smile at least
♪ 你不能拒絕美女與野獸 ♪ You can't say never to the beauty and the beast. ♪
任何彈奏Beauty And The Beast的人 Anyone who's playing Beauty And The Beast,
他們都會性奮，你懂的 you know they get erections.
♪ 夜晚有些什麼，白天也有些什麼 ♪ There's something in the night, something in the day
♪ 那都不是錯誤的，但親愛的有人攔在半途 ♪ Nothing is wrong but darling someone's in the way
♪ 那是空中的殺戮，對風的抗訴 ♪ There's slaughter in the air, protest on the wind
♪ 有人深潛在我內心 ♪ Someone deep inside of me
♪ 有人本會被人剝皮，但那又如何？ ♪ Someone could get skinned, how? ♪
Heroes裡的大部分歌都將人帶回Station To Station Most of Heroes takes you back to that very poetic, somewhat obtuse,
時期那種十分詩意、幾分樸拙 often gloriously indecipherable way of doing things
又極難解讀的創造手法 which you'd heard in Station To Station.
專輯很棒，但我真的不知道他在說什麼 It's great but I don't really know what he's talking about
那種神秘兮兮的回歸思想 and so the sort of mystery kind of returns.
但與此同時，Heroes這首同名主題曲 But, at the same time, the title song of Heroes is an exception to
有力反駁了關於他變回樸拙的說法 that idea that he's sort of become very obtuse again.
從這些傢伙們第一次彈奏的那一刻起 I always knew that was going to be a great song
我就知道這會是一支偉大的歌曲 from the very first moment those guys started playing it.
你會想‘OK，是啊，這支不錯’ You thought, "OK, yes, this is a good one."
我認為決定性的時刻 And then I think the really crucial moment in it came
其實是Frip帶來的 actually with Fripp.
♪ 我 ♪ I
♪ 我希望你可以遊弋 ♪ I wish you could swim. ♪
“Fripp用吉他奏出的哀泣聲確實觸發了 'Fripp's plaintive guitar cry really triggered off something
“我內心的某些情緒，這是一首勝利之歌，好像說 'emotive in me, and it was a song of triumph, and it was like,
“‘曾經的我在生活中真是一個傻瓜 ' "I've been a real idiot some of my life
“’將自己投入了荒謬而危險的境地 ' "and put myself in ridiculously dangerous situations
“‘但看起來我已經熬了過來’ ' "and I seem to have been getting through it."
“這種感情成了此歌的重頭戲 'And that became part and parcel of that song.
“你可以披荊斬棘 戰勝一切” 'You can overcome some incredible odds.'
♪ 我們可以擊敗他們 ♪ We can beat them
♪ 永遠直到永遠 ♪ Forever and ever
♪ 哦，我們可以成為英雄 ♪ Oh, we can be heroes
♪ 只為這一天 ♪ Just for one day. ♪
Fripp彈了三遍吉他，三次我們都用上了 Fripp did three takes on it and we used all three.
這兒就多虧了Tony Visconti的天賦 This is Tony Visconti's genius that he can do that
三個音軌才不會疊得亂糟糟 without it sounding a mess.
David在控制室裡坐著 David sat down in the control room
他說‘你能出去散會兒步嗎’ and he said, "Could you just take a walk?"
他繼續說‘我在寫東西，我想一個人待會兒 He goes, "I'm writing and I just want to be to myself
我想寫完這些歌詞’ and I want to finish these lyrics."
容我這麼說吧，我那時候和 So I was having a little flirtation, shall we say,
歌手Antonia Maass有點曖昧 with the singer Antonia Maass.
她是專輯的女聲歌手 She was the female vocalist on the album.
我們走出了錄音室，你可以從控制室 We walked outside the studio where, from the control room,
看到柏林牆，看到很多碎磚石 you could see the Berlin Wall and you could see a lot of rubble
你還能看到守衛和瞭望炮塔 and you could see the guards and the gun turrets.
正對著窗戶下面，我們輕輕接了個吻 And right beneath the window we had a little snog.
被David看見了，說‘這就是第二節’ And David saw that and he said, "That's the second verse!"
♪ 然後我們接了吻 ♪ And we kissed
♪ 仿佛一切都不會墜落 ♪ As though nothing could fall. ♪
“令人高興的是 我發現 'The thing that was most exciting about it all is that
“沒有藥物的刺激，我也能寫出好詞 'I found that without drugs I was still writing very well,
“大概這是最能體現活力恢復的跡象 'you know, and that was probably the most rejuvenating aspect of it all,
“就是你不需要嗑藥嗑得瘋瘋癲癲也能寫出好詞 'is that you don't need to get stoned out of your gourd to write well,
“我覺得這段時期 'you know? I think that was,
“對我異常重要 'you know, an incredibly important period for me.'
花了不少時間，對嗎 Not very fast, are you?
“我不能說一夜之間 'I can't say it was like night and day that suddenly
“我就改頭換面了 'was this different person.
“嗯，用了相當長的一段時間 'It wasn't. It took quite a long time.
“不過我覺得，我確實在隧道盡頭看見了光亮 'But I think, you know, I did see light at the end of the tunnel,
“那可不是火車的燈光喲” 'and it wasn't a train.'
在Heroes時期，我又見到了Bowie When I met Bowie again around the time of Heroes
我被眼前所見的驚到了，那自然色的頭髮 I was struck by the fact that his hair was its natural colour,
沒有化一點妝 he wasn't wearing any make up,
他穿著襯衫，一點也不搖滾明星范 he was wearing a shirt so un-rockstar-y
完完全全是那種城郊常見的休閒服 it virtually qualified as suburban casual wear.
這一切好像在說，‘好吧，這就是真實的我’ It was almost like saying, "OK, this is the real me."
當然事情沒有這麼簡單 Though, of course, one did suspect
的確有人懷疑這個平易近人的本色Bowie is this affable natural Dave
會不會只是他最新的一張面具？ simply the latest mask?
在這似乎栩栩如生的表面之下 And is there something still lurking beneath
有沒有潛藏著別的東西？ this apparently lifelike surface?
- 能最後再問你一件事嗎？ - 嗯 - Can I ask you one last thing? - Mm.
與你一起共事過的人對我說 People I've talked to who worked with you say
你是一個非常注重隱私的人，你明白我的意思嗎？ you're a very personal person, if you know what I mean?
- 和我一起鬼混的人？ - 不，是共事過的人 - People who go out with me? - No, to WORK with you!
我還以為你說的是和我一起鬼混的人！ I thought you said people who go out with me!
說你是一個，額…不能說神秘兮兮，但是非常注重隱私的人 You're a very, erm... Not secretive, but personal.
- 有些事情就只有自己知道這樣 - 是比較安靜吧……對，就是安靜而已 - Keep things to yourself. - Quite... quite quiet, yes.
你覺得自己羞澀嗎？ Do you think you're shy?
……也沒有吧…… No.
嗯，我真的不羞澀啦 只是有點安靜而已 No, I'm not really shy. I'm just a bit quiet.
你有沒有想過，如果你不那麼保持自我的話 Do you think if you didn't keep things to yourself
人們就不會對你下一步要做什麼感到意外了？ people wouldn't be surprised at what you did next?
我從來沒想過這個 I've never really thought about that.
- 等這場演完了我再告訴你 - 哦好的，謝謝 - I'll let you know after the show. - OK, thanks.
現在得上臺了，要跟我來嗎？ Off to do a show. Come with me?
我 ♪ I
我將是國王 ♪ I will be king
還有你 ♪ And you
你將是我的王后 ♪ You will be my queen
儘管一切 ♪ Though nothing
會將我們分離 ♪ Can keep us together
我們可以戰勝他們 ♪ We can beat them
永遠直到永遠 ♪ Forever and ever. ♪
我想一個人如果能做到以下兩點就值得被視作 I guess you merit being seen as the ultimate artist of your era
他這個時代的頂級藝術家 if you do two things.
首先，得以驚人的速度改變你的作品 First of all, if you change what you do at a mind-boggling rate.
不僅作品本身要驚人，其多樣性 If you're not only prodigious, but the diversity of the work you
也要驚人，Bowie在70年代就做到了這點 come up with is incredible, and Bowie does that in the '70s.
其次，就是看你能否 And then the other thing is
敢於直面時代的電閃雷鳴 whether you act as a lightning rod for your time.
而羞恥 ♪ And the shame
掉落在牆的另一側 ♪ Fell on the other side
哦，我們將會打敗他們 ♪ Oh, we can beat them
永遠直到永遠 ♪ Forever and ever
我們會成為英雄 ♪ We could be heroes
只為這一天 ♪ Just for one day. ♪
關鍵年之四：1979—80
你得把你的過往融入如今的角色 這會有助於你看清楚現在的自己…
David，即將進入80年代了，回過頭來看70年代吧 David, looking back over the '70s, into the '80s,
你怎麼看70年代的音樂？ how do you look at music in the '70s?
就像這樣 Sort of like this.
地面控制呼叫湯姆少校 ♪ Ground Control to Major Tom
戴上你的頭盔 吞下蛋白丸藥 ♪ Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
地面控制呼叫湯姆少校 ♪ Ground Control to Major Tom
倒數開始 啟動引擎 ♪ Commencing countdown, engines on
請檢查點火器 願上帝之愛與你同行 ♪ Check ignition and may God's love be with you. ♪
在英國，Kenny Everett視頻秀鼎力支援 The Kenny Everett Video Show was sort of cheerleader in England
我們說的這個錄影帶一代 for what we might call the video generation,
也許是稱作MV的一代吧，那時候 what we might call the music video generation, which, at that time,
MV對英國人來說完全是陌生的，美國人也還真沒聽說過 was so totally new to the Brits and indeed unheard of to the Americans,
我覺得他是立刻盯上了這玩意兒 that I think he immediately clocked it.
Space Oddity這個錄影真的是 And the Space Oddity video
我倆一起匆匆製作而成的，相當快 was really something that we cobbled together quite quickly.
你真的創造了偉大的功績 ♪ You've really made the grade
媒體卻想知道你身著何人的襯衣 ♪ And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear. ♪
“我覺得Major Tom是我第一次 'I think Major Tom is the first time I'd been able to create
創造出來一個靠譜的角色 'a character that was very credible.
“我想對任何作家來說，這都是一個頂點 'I think, for any writer, that's a high point.
“他優先於所有其他角色 'He preceded all the others
“我想應該給他一個特別的地位 'and I suppose one has a special place for him.'
湯姆少校呼叫地面控制 ♪ ..to Ground Control
我正漫步著穿越艙門 ♪ I'm stepping through the door. ♪
這實在是有意思，在70年代末 It is very interesting that, at the end of the '70s,
他又回到了他第一個關鍵的角色 he goes back to his first key character.
Major Tom回來了 Major Tom returns, in the sense of
通過一次升級版Space Oddity的演繹 an updated performance of Space Oddity.
但緊接著，他拿起Major Tom這個角色 But then he takes the character of Major Tom,
把他放進了一首新歌，還拿他做了些有趣的文章 puts it in a new song and does very interesting things with it.
所以Major Tom變成了一個更加令人不安且災難性的象徵 So Major Tom becomes a much more discomforting, sinister figure.
♪ 你是否還記得這個傢伙 ♪ Do you remember a guy that's been
♪ 曾經出現在一首老歌裡 ♪ In such an early song
♪ 我從地面控制那兒聽說了謠言 ♪ I heard a rumour from Ground Control
♪ 哦，不，請別說這是真的 ♪ Oh, no, don't say it's true
♪ 自那行動人偶處，他們得到了這條資訊 ♪ Got a message from the action man
♪ 我過得很快樂，希望你們也快樂 ♪ I'm happy, hope you're happy too. ♪
Major Tom成了某種快活式的墮落英雄 Major Tom became a little, sort of, bouncy hero.
我只是想讓他與時俱進一點 I just wanted to sort of bring him up-to-date a little bit
把他放入了有點維多利亞時代童謠的氛圍中 and put him in a Victorian nursery rhyme kind of atmosphere.
即使這不是維多利亞時代，但還是有那種噁心的感覺 Even though it's not Victorian, it has that queasiness of those,
♪ 環一個玫瑰花環 ♪ Ring a ring of roses
♪ 這是在吟唱瘟疫，我們都將倒地死去 ♪ This is about the plague and we're all going to drop down dead ♪
我想傳達的，就是這種東西 kind of thing about it, which is what I did with the piece.
♪ 我過得很快樂，希望你們也快樂 ♪ I'm happy, hope you're happy too
♪ 我曾經愛過，也曾需要被愛 ♪ I've loved and I've needed love
♪ 齷齪的細節也隨之披露 ♪ Sordid details following. ♪
David打電話問我 ‘我們可以為這支新單曲拍個MV麼’ David rang me. "Could we make a video for this new single?"
我們圍著桌子坐著，他說‘我想變成一個小丑，站在沙灘上’ We sat round a table and he said, "I want to be a clown on the beach."
我說‘哇，我剛對沙灘畫面做了處理，還碰巧 I said, "Whoopee, I've just done something on a beach and by accident
‘發現把天空弄黑、讓每個人帶著光暈 "I found this great effect of making the sky black
‘會出現非常棒的效果’ "and everybody have a halo."
然後他想要個挖掘機 Then he wanted a digger.
♪ 但我仍渴望去反抗，可這星球太過灼熱 ♪ But I'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing
♪ 塵歸於塵，懦弱依舊懦弱 ♪ Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
♪ 我們都明白湯姆少校是個癮君子 ♪ We know Major Tom's a junkie. ♪
導演給了我相當大的自由 按我的想法去剪輯 David allows me lots and lots of freedom to do very much what I want,
我給他畫了個故事線索板 the ways I want it edited. I storyboard it for him,
明確告訴他我想要什麼樣的構架 show him exactly what frames I want done.
然後他把他的想法也放了進去 And then he puts his input in as well.
尤其是在Ashes To Ashes這支裡 And, especially on Ashes to Ashes,
我們的配合非常成功 the combination has been very successful.
MV中沙灘上圍攏在篝火前的人們 The people round the bonfire on the beach in Ashes to Ashes
都來自於Blitz，倫敦的一家夜店 were people from Blitz, which is a London club,
是新浪漫主義運動的先鋒 which was the precursor of the Modern Romantic movement.
David試圖趕在任何人之前 David managed to clock the whole Modern Romantic movement
鎖定整個新浪漫主義運動 way before anybody else.
這說明他看中了新一階段的青年文化 It showed him co-opting a new phase of youth culture,
而他本來就是激發這一文化的主要繆斯 which he'd been the key figure in inspiring in the first place.
所以有些人會說他在模仿他的模仿者 So some might say he was imitating his imitators.
其他人說他是將他們收編入夥 Others were saying he was buying them off and getting them onboard.
“以熟悉度來看，這當然是一首比較好的歌 'It's certainly one of the better songs I've ever written
“也是一首能引人入勝的歌 'in terms of familiarity and a song that really hooks in.
“我對未來感到非常積極 'I felt very positive about the future and I got down
“我開始著手寫一張全方位的、精心製作的專輯” 'to writing a really comprehensive and well-crafted album.'
David帶著很多想法進入錄音室 David came into the studio with a lot of ideas
我記得他還把小樣存在一個叫隨身聽的新玩意兒裡 and I remember he had his demos on a new contraption called a Walkman.
Carlos Alomar看到聽了之後就著迷了 Carlos Alomar flipped when he saw it and heard it.
《Scary Monsters》的Fashion這首 Fashion for the Scary Monsters album,
David感到有需要複製出一點Fame的感覺 David had this need to maybe even reproduce a bit of the Fame feeling
我們就想保持向上的勁頭 so we wanted to keep everything up so it would give him
這對他製作一張具有商業成利益的專輯非常有效 a secure commercially viable album that he could work with.
所以Fashion以這種非常放克風的節拍開啟 So Fashion started just with this very funky beat.
接著它變成了一個怪物 Then it grew it into a monster.
大家開始錄進去各種聲音 People started over-dubbing stuff on it.
Fripp疊加了這段瘋狂的吉他 Fripp started over-dubbing this crazy guitar to it.
它就慢慢演變成了一支出色的曲子 It was just evolving into a fantastic track.
我不相信你還能找到另一個吉他手 I don't believe you'll find another guitarist who would have
會這麼那麼彈 played that to that.
非常瘋狂 It's very out.
從對這張專輯作出貢獻的 From a point of view of making a contribution to the work
音樂人和製作人的角度來看，能有這一參與的機會 of an artist with their producer, the opportunity to do that
並受到支持與鼓舞… and be supported and encouraged in it...
…瘋狂，真是瘋狂 ..it's out, it's out.
♪ 這兒有一支全新的舞蹈，但我不知道它叫什麼 ♪ There's a brand-new dance but I don't know its name
♪ 家境潦倒的人們跳了一遍又一遍 ♪ That people from bad homes do again and again. ♪
“人們甘做時尚的奴隸 'It was kind of a little wary of the Lemming-like quality
“像旅鼠那般謹小慎微 'that people were slaves to fashion.'
♪ 它巨大而冷漠，充斥著恐懼與緊張 ♪ It's big and it's bland, full of tension and fear. ♪
“它是獨裁的權威，控制了人們 'It was dictatorial authority that the thing seems to grasp people.
“這是一首速食式的、一次性消費的歌，如同時尚本身一樣無足輕重 'It was a lightweight, throw-away song, as important as fashion.'
♪ 時尚，讓人轉向左 ♪ Fashion, turn to the left
♪ 時尚，讓人轉向右 ♪ Fashion, turn to the right
♪ Oooh, fashion!
♪ 我們是一群暴徒，正往城裡來 ♪ We are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep-beep. ♪
”我們是一群暴徒，正往城裡來，嗶——嗶——“ 'We are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep-beep.'
這不就是一句令人銘記於心的歌詞嗎？ Now, ain't that a line which sticks in the mind?
♪ 聽我說，別聽我說 ♪ Listen to me, don't listen to me
♪ 和我說，別和我說 ♪ Talk to me, don't talk to me
♪ 和我跳舞，別和我跳舞 ♪ Dance with me, don't dance with me
♪ 別，嗶——嗶—— ♪ No, beep-beep. ♪
紐約
Bowie現下正在紐約 And now Bowie in New York.
由搖滾巨星David Bowie出演的 The play in which rock star David Bowie has scored a remarkable triumph
百老匯舞臺劇《象人》取得了巨大的成功 on Broadway is called The Elephant Man.
Bowie第一次以樸實演員身份的亮相 Bowie's first appearance as a straight actor met with
獲得了來自紐約評論界異口同聲的讚譽 almost universal praise from the New York critics
售票處前也排起了長隊 and there are long lines at the box office.
洗澡去除了你身上的異味，不是嗎 The baths have rid you of your odour, have they not?
這是我第一次有機會有條不紊地洗澡… First chance I've had to bathe regular...ly.
“我去百老匯看過，深受震動 'I went to see it on Broadway and I was totally knocked out by it.'
幾個月後，導演Jack Hofsiss And then Jack Hofsiss, the director, came to see me
過來看我，我當時又回到了紐約 a couple of months later whilst I was back in New York yet again
錄製Scary Monsters的專輯，他問我 doing the Scary Monsters album, and asked me if I would consider
能否考慮在年底接手這個角色 taking over the role at the end of the year.
我驚愕不已，因為我向來和這些 And I was flabbergasted cos I had never been asked to do anything
理應正統而嚴肅的領域沒有瓜葛 that sort of supposedly legit.
這是你的應許之地，不是嗎？ This is your promised land, is it not?
有屋簷，有食物，有人關心，受到庇護？ A roof, food, care, protection?
是的，Treves先生 Right, Mr Treves.
“我注意到，David為這個角色拗出來的嗓音 'I noticed that, as David created the voice for the character,
“感覺非常獨特 'there was a quality there that was very unique.'
我覺得這是他表演中獨特性的精髓 I thought that was the core of the uniqueness of his performance.
你稱它為 家 You call it home.
從來沒有過一個家呢 Never had a home before.
嗯，你現在有了 Well, you have one now.
John，大聲說出來，家！ Say it, John, home!
家？- 不，不，我是說要真的說出來 Home? -No, no, I mean REALLY say it. "I have a home.
‘我有了一個家，這是我的…’- 繼續說 "This is my..." Come on.
我有一個家 I have a home.
這是我的… This is...
家 my home.
“完全沒有化妝” 'There was no make-up at all.'
這是……我的家嗎？ This... is my home?
這就需要觀眾們 And that demanded that the audience,
與這個演員協力 in conjunction with the actor,
共同想像這傢伙到底長什麼樣 imagined what this guy really looked like
怎麼樣挪動他的身軀 and the way he moved.
“我想最困難的是在不化妝的情況下 'I think the toughest part was just working with my own body
“如何僅靠扭動我的身體 'and trying to create this really distorted ugly figure
“創造出這個畸形醜陋的形象 'without using make up.
“這對我倒不是那麼陌生 'It came very naturally to me.
“我估計這和我早先受過 'I presume that it was something to do with the mime training
“默劇的訓練有關係” 'that I had earlier.'
我可以說我能在排練中辨認出 I have to say that you can tell
一個真正的演員 when there's a real actor coming back at you when you rehearse.
在這場戲中他所表現的就是一個真正的演員 And in his case it was a real actor there
而這就是我能給予他的最高的讚美 and that's the highest praise I can give him.
我正在閱讀《羅密歐與茱麗葉》 I am reading Romeo and Juliet.
啊，茱麗葉！多好的愛情故事呐 Ah, Juliet! What a love story.
我喜歡愛情故事 I adore love stories.
我也最喜歡了 I like love stories best, too.
如果換我作羅密歐，你猜會怎麼樣？ If I had been Romeo, guess what?
怎麼樣？ What?
我不會用鏡子去看她還有沒有呼吸 I would not have held the mirror to her breath.
你說什麼？ What?
“我真希望他能意識到在這部分他表演得有多棒” 'I hope that he really knew how good he was in the part.'
一次精彩的表演 And it was a wonderful performance
並且保持了整個檔期 that remained wonderful throughout his entire run.
如果我是羅密歐 If I had been Romeo,
我們就逃離這兒 we would have got away.
關鍵年之五：1982—83
我主要關心如何讓自己僅僅表現為一個表演者 以便弱化一些關於自性的困惑
“我想用音樂來對我想做的事進行價值重估 'I think I wanted to re-evaluate what I wanted to do, musically.
“我在短期內做了太多的事情 'I did a hell of a lot in a short period and I needed to get
“需要從做音樂中抽出一些空閒 'some space away from writing music because it was becoming,
“因為這已經越來越像一次試驗，熱情也正在衰退 'possibly, too much of an exercise and the enthusiasm had gone.
“但現在看起來一切在回歸正軌” 'But now it seems to be back again.'
倫敦：克拉律治酒店
EMI正在進行慶祝 EMI are celebrating.
不顧強烈的反對聲 EMI開出大價錢 Against serious opposition and for very serious money,
簽下了一名真正的超級明星 they've just signed a real superstar.
先生們，女士們，有請David Bowie先生 Ladies and gentleman, Mr David Bowie.
EMI並不經常舉辦這種奢侈的招待宴會 EMI don't give lavish receptions like this very often.
他們沒有透露花了多少錢簽下Bowie They won't say how much they paid for Bowie but rumours
但傳聞這份5年的合約在1000萬到1700萬鎊之間 range from £10 million to £17 million for a five-year contract.
據報導說是這樣，我覺得受寵若驚… Reportedly so, yes. I'm overwhelmed that I've...
有接近精確數字的嗎？ Is that anywhere near accurate?
當然沒有了 It's absolutely nowhere near accurate.
那您能透露一個更精確的數字嗎？- 當然不行！ Can you give us a more accurate figure? -Of course not.
非常感謝你們，午安，先生們女士們 Thank you very much and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
伴隨著製作人的變動 Bowie's attitude to himself and his music seems to have changed
Tony Visconti逐漸淡出 and with that comes a change of producer,
連同那為藝術而藝術的時代也日益遠離 so out goes Tony Visconti,
Bowie對自己和他音樂的態度好像已經改變 who one associates with the art for art's sake period.
Nile Rodgers進入了視野 And in comes Nile Rodgers.
他同Chic和Sister Sledge合作了一連串的金曲 He's just had that huge run of hits with Chic and Sister Sledge.
接著他去製作了Diana Ross的專輯 He's gone on to produce Diana Ross.
但這些都不像是人們對 But it just doesn't seem like what one would have expected from
70年代以及一點點80年代的David Bowie的期待 the David Bowie of the '70s and the first part of the '80s.
看上去沒有什麼特色可言 Seems somewhat uncharacteristic.
我們第一次見面，完全是碰巧 When we met originally, it was completely by chance,
他一個人坐在這個夜店的內座 and he was sitting alone, back of this nightclub,
我一下子就認出他了 and I spotted him right away.
我和Billy Idol一起走進去，Billy走進去了說 I walked in with Billy Idol and Billy walked in and went,
‘見鬼了，那是David Bowie！’ "Bloody hell, that's David Bowie!"
他說 ‘鮑-奧-姨’ And when he said "Bowie,"
因為他叫他鮑姨，我們叫他剝衣 cos he called him BOW-ie, we called him BOH-ie,
他的發音像是在嘔吐一樣 he vomited, he barfed.
真是興奮異常，就那時候我和他聊了起來 It was, like, hysterical. By that time, I was already chatting him up.
然後，David說他想讓我做我最擅長的事情 Later, David said to me that he wanted me to do what I did best.
所以我就問David 他覺得我最擅長什麼 So when I asked David what he thought I did best,
他看著我說，‘你能做出熱門金曲’ he looked at me and says, "You make hits."
我就開始擔負起這個任務 I was charged with the responsibility of doing such.
瑞士的一個早晨 So, one morning in Switzerland,
他走進我的臥室 he walks into my bedroom.
他大概是這麼說的 He says something to the effect of,
‘親愛的Nile，我覺得我一首歌有成為金曲的潛質’ "Nile, darling, I think I have a song that feels like it's a hit".
他帶著12弦吉他 He comes in with this 12-string guitar
不過只有6根弦 that only has six strings on it.
見到12弦吉他，好像立馬進了民謠城似的 When you see a 12-string guitar, you're in folk city right away.
就像這樣 Something like that.
我就開始瞎弄幾下 So when I started fooling around with it,
我把它弄得非常炫，非常酷 I made it very jazzy, very cool,
大多數人都不知道Bowie是個酷炫的傢伙 but Bowie is a jazzy cool guy, unbeknownst to most people,
但我當然知道這點啦 but I certainly knew that.
所以… So...
這算酷的 It was cool.
這是超酷 It was ultra-cool.
這是很正常的酷啦 It was pretty normal cool.
但你稍稍延遲一會，突然把 But you put in the delays and all of a sudden you get groove and funk
律動、情韻和節奏放在一起 and rhythm all at the same time.
♪ Let's dance. ♪
“我有些刻意地把這首歌做成舞曲風格 'It has an intention of being danceable but I think,
“不過在歌詞上，我試著把它弄得 'in terms of lyric, I've tried to keep it simple as anything
“和以前我寫過的一樣簡單 'that I've ever written before.
“我嘗試用較我之前的寫作更為 'I'm trying to write in a more obvious and positive manner
“明瞭易懂的方式去寫” 'than I've written in a long time.'
♪ Let's dance
♪ 穿上你的紅鞋，隨著布魯斯舞動 ♪ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
♪ Let's dance
♪ 跟上他們在電臺播放著的歌曲 ♪ To the song they're playing on the radio
♪ Let's sway. ♪
Let’s Dance這歌挺有意思的 Let's Dance is an interesting song.
因為這基本上是一支放克音樂，一支老放克 because it's basically a funk groove, an old funk...
♪ 穿梭過人群，來到一片空地 ♪ Sway through the crowd to an empty space. ♪
Nile就是知道怎麼把音符放到點上 And Nile just knew how to put that into place
然後再串聯起來 and then put the hook line behind it
一會會兒的時間內一首歌就出爐了 and in the shortest amount of time, you had the song.
Let’s Dance不是，該怎麼說呢，一張傳統的舞曲專輯 Let's Dance is not a traditional, what I would call, dance record,
但這張專輯的確能激起你跳舞的情緒 but it's certainly a record that does make you want to dance.
我就是自己在想 I just thought to myself,
“如果我沒有做出一張讓人想跳舞的專輯 "Man, if I don't make a record that makes people want to dance,
“然後還把它叫做Let’t Dance "and we call the song Let's Dance, I'm going to have to trade in
“就像刷我的黑人勞工證一樣，完全沒有意義 "my black union card, cos that just doesn't make sense."
♪ 顫動猶如花朵 ♪ Tremble like a flower. ♪
這就是美國大賣場之歌 This is something that can be played in every mall in America.
這是一個老資歷藝術家的主流專輯 It's a mainstream record by an artist who already has a pedigree.
好幾次賈大嘴也想做一張他的Let’s Dance Mick Jagger tried to do his own Let's Dance a couple of times.
但都不成功 Never worked.
泡兒爺也來玩票過 McCartney dabbled.
不少這些傢伙都玩票過，這時代就是這樣 A lot of those guys dabbled cos that was what was going on.
但沒有一個能和Bowie的專輯媲美 None of them made a record as good as what Bowie made.
♪ 在月光之下 ♪ Under the moonlight
♪ 這嚴肅的月光 ♪ The serious moonlight. ♪
我嘗試去做一些比我之前一直弄的 I've tried to produce something that's warmer
玩意兒都要溫情和接地氣的東西 and more humanistic than anything that I've done for a long time.
少一點虛無主義之類的宣言 Less emphasis on the nihilistic kind of statement
以及我過去幾年都在搗鼓的 and the icy... one-dimensional kind of thing
那些冰冷的…一元性的東西 that I've been working with over the last few years.
我們錄完Let’s Dance最後一天 So we had cut Let's Dance and at the end of the day he gives me
他給我一份 China Girl的拷貝，說他覺得這首也會大熱 a copy of China Girl and says that he thinks it's a hit.
我就想給它加一段起興 So I wanted it to have a hook.
我想，‘也許我可以緊扣China這個詞來做文章’ I thought, "Man, maybe I'll key off the word China."
我暗自思忖 And I said to myself,
David要麼會很討厭然後炒我魷魚 either David is going to hate this so much that he'll fire me
要麼從中得到喜感的價值來寫些傻兮兮的花兒朵朵那種歌 or he'll get the comedic value of writing a silly little poppy thing.
但我得承認，我緊張得要死 But I have to admit, I was nervous as hell
我彈給他聽 and I played it for him
David說 ‘我喜歡！’ and David went, "I love it."
♪ Uh, oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ 小小的中國女孩 ♪ Little China girl
♪ Uh, oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ Little China girl
♪ 有我的中國女孩相伴 ♪ I could escape this feeling
♪ 或許就能擺脫這情緒 ♪ With my China girl
♪ 離開我的中國小姑娘，便似有厄運降臨 ♪ I feel a wreck without my little China girl
♪ 我聽見她的心在跳動 ♪ I hear her heart beating
♪ 響如雷鳴 ♪ Loud as thunder
♪ 看這星辰墜落 ♪ Saw the stars crashing. ♪
這就是80年代，MTV大爆炸的時代 This is the '80s. It's MTV explosion time.
他成了一個錄影帶實驗者 He had been a video experimenter
但這張專輯將他置於MTV旋風的中心 but this record put him right there in the middle of MTV-isation
完全改變了他的職業生涯 and gave his career a whole other life.
♪ 你是否明白，我要給你TV機 ♪ You know, I'll give you television
♪ 我會給你藍色的眼眸 ♪ I'll give you eyes of blue
♪ 我會給你企圖統治世界的男人 ♪ I'll give you men who want to rule the world
♪ 每當我性奮起來 ♪ And when I get excited
♪ 我的中國小女孩 ♪ My little China girl. ♪
David就從一高端邪典的偶像 David went from being, let's say, a high profile cult star,
變成了爛大街明星 to mainstream.
外表也更大眾了，儘管還頂著一頭 The look was more mainstream, even though he had bleachy blond hair
微微漂白的金髮，還有這些西裝啥的東西 and all the suits and everything.
這跟瘦白公爵或者Ziggy It was a lot different than
那種不祥的角色可是大相徑庭 that Thin White Duke ominous character, or Ziggy.
這是我見過的最隨大流的他 It was the most mainstream I'd ever seen him.
他還在上拳擊課，人更結實了 Out of the clear blue sky, he was taking boxing lessons
毒也不吸了，真是一片清風白日 and, like, he was beefy, he was cleaner.
不用太擔心，他們完全無公害 Don't take any notice of them. They're all perfectly harmless.
“更高興了，也很快活” 'He was happier and jovial.'
在你的新專輯裡，你是決心要做你自己了 On your new album, you're determined to be yourself.
但我們怎麼知道這是不是又是你另一張面具？ How do we know this isn't another one of your masks?
我也不知道，這有點那“狼來了”的故事 I don't know. It's a bit like the boy who cried wolf.
他就是那種“嘿，怎麼怎麼”這種 He was, "Hey!"
我還是覺得有點小奇怪 you, know. I found it a little odd,
因為這是一個非常快樂的剝衣 in that it was a very happy David.
你覺得此後的音樂就這麼往簡單發展了嗎？ Do you see the music going back to basics from here on?
我覺得今晚會非常簡單 Tonight, I think it might be very basic.
女士們先生們 Ladies and gentleman,
這裡是1983年“嚴肅月光”巡演 the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour!
有請David Bowie！ David Bowie!
♪ Let's dance
♪ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
♪ Let's dance
♪ To the song they're playing on the radio. ♪
“我覺得我們現在不搞角色扮演了，就是穿著正裝 'I think we're out of characters now and just into suits
“每一場也都會換換衣服 'and the suit will change from tour to tour,
“但裹在衣服裡的那傢伙基本是同一個人” 'but the bloke inside it is generally much the same.'
♪ Sway through the crowd to an empty space. ♪
Let’s Dance太火了，一切都不同了 Let's Dance hit so strongly that everything changed.
我們本來以為會在歐洲 We thought we were going to do a couple of indoor theatres,
做幾場室內劇院或體育館的演出 indoor arenas through Europe.
結果完全不是這樣，令人吃驚 It just quickly turned around, which was a surprise.
好像你就是搭上了這老舊的大列車 And you're just riding this big old train going,
‘好吧，各位請抓牢，列車就要開動啦’ "All right, everybody, hang on, here we go."
♪ 名聲讓人掌控一切 ♪ Fame makes a man take things over
♪ 名聲讓他失敗，難以下嚥 ♪ Fame keeps him loose and hard to swallow
♪ 名聲使他陷入虛無之中 ♪ Fame puts him there, things are hollow
♪ Fame. ♪
“對我來說真是難以置信，突然之間我就不是那個邪典藝術家了 'It was beyond belief to me. Suddenly I wasn't a cult artist any more.
“令人震驚的是 'It really was a shocker
“因為巡演已經啟動了，我們就急著趕場子 'and we were scurrying around because we'd already started a tour
“還莫名其妙地都是在大型體育場 'and suddenly, like, we were doing stadiums out of nowhere.
“小型演出不再有，取而代之的都是露天大型表演 'Gigs were being thrown out and stadiums were being put in.
“這一切全歸功於襯衣下擺的長度 'It was all by the shirt tails, the whole thing.
“然後突然意識到，‘哇哦，這是我賣得最好的專輯…’ 'Then suddenly, "Wow, I've just had the biggest album I've ever..."
“真是奇怪得不得了！” 'It was extremely odd.'
♪ 我先將你拒絕，很驚訝嗎？ ♪ Is it any wonder, I reject you first?
♪ Fame, fame, fame, fame
♪ 你很酷難以愚弄，很驚訝嗎？ ♪ Is it any wonder, you are too cool to fool. ♪
SM巡演就是他將整個星球抓在手心裡 The Serious Moonlight Tour was him capturing the planet as a whole.
♪ 你感覺特別妙，我卻覺得冷颼颼 ♪ Bully for you, chilly for me
♪ 得淋場雨來澆醒這場疼痛 ♪ Got to get a rain check on pain. ♪
在83年那時候的名氣真是大喲 It was major at that point in time, in '83.
每個中國人，每個韓國人，全世界每個人 Everyone in China, in Korea, and everywhere else in the world
都知道誰是David Bowie knew who David Bowie was
就因為這場巡演，無疑達到了頂點 because of that Serious Moonlight Tour, and it's a peak level.
♪ Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame... ♪
有那麼幾次當觀眾們都向你湧來 There's some moment when the audience comes to you
這與你去迎向他們形成鮮明反差 as opposed to you going to them.
其實他只是做了一張‘實驗性’的專輯 He made a record that was an experimental record for him
結果卻在流行度上大獲成功 that actually worked on a pop level
很多人身上都發生過這種事 and that happens a lot for people.
每個藝術家，其核心團體都不希望外人 Every artist, their core group resents the fact that the outsiders
知曉他們的獨家秘方，但這對一張好專輯卻是不利的 are in on our secret, but that's the danger of a good record.
你永遠也不會知道誰會去聽 You never know who's going to listen to it.
♪ Fame, fame. ♪
“我容許自己被推入這種商業場館裡 'I allowed myself to be pushed into the commercial arena
“因為我還從來沒去過呢，就像是那種‘哇，它是什麼樣的？’ 'because I'd never been there and it was sort of, "Ooh, what's it like?"
“就是這樣，然後我就手握未來投入其中 'But there it was and I jumped in with my future in my hands.'
♪ Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame... ♪
♪ 名聲，請問你叫甚？ ♪ What's your name? ♪
之後的20年裡，David Bowie繼續創作了11張專輯
2007年，他從公眾視野裡消失
人們認為他已經去九霄雲外了 People have this idea that he sort of drifted off into the stratosphere
然後，你知道的，謠言傳聞就風起雲湧 and, you know, rumour and gossip starts, and all of that.
在某種意義上，他重新獲得了 In a sense, he's regained
神秘感與距離感 the mystery and distance
那使他特立獨行於70年代的 which was so powerful a part
重要元素 of what made him so exceptional in the 1970s.
一夜間，我們又一次不知道David Bowie是誰了 Suddenly, we don't know who David Bowie is, once again.
即便近年來Bowie利用其退隱 Even the current rather cat-and-mouse game that Bowie
來玩貓抓老鼠這套把戲 has been playing from his seclusion
也難免令人想起個中的大師級人物——沃霍爾 is reminiscent of Warhol, the master of games,
打著邊緣化的幌子 pretending to be marginal,
實際上他是個了不起的木偶大師，掌控著一切 when, in fact, he is the great puppet master controlling it all.
接著他就帶著這張《The Next Day》王者歸來了 But then he comes back with this record, The Next Day,
還不接受任何採訪 and he doesn't do interviews.
我們又回到了娛樂圈那句箴言——吊吊他們的胃口 We're back to the showbiz adage of leave them wanting more.
多麼David Bowie式的做法呐 Very David Bowie thing to do.
Phil，駝峰日快樂（含性暗示） Happy hump day, Phil.
- 我可不覺得爽，你呢？ - 我也是 - I didn't get humped. You? - Yeah.
哈，有些人就是有點迷失了 Some people, huh, they just get lost.
額，不過比我們在這兒平淡度日可刺激多了 Well, it's more exciting than anything we've got around here.
我可不敢苟同喲 I wouldn't say that.
我們有著如此美好的生活 We have a nice life.
我們有美好的生活 We have a nice life.
我從沒指望過我的人生會是這樣發展的 60年代的時候人家告訴我 對於成功來說我太前衛了
♪ 擠著穿過市集廣場 ♪ Pushing through the market square
♪ 那麼多母親在歎息 ♪ So many mothers sighing
♪ 消息已至 ♪ News had just come over
♪ 只剩下五年去哭泣 ♪ We had five years left to cry in
♪ 新聞人流著淚訴說 ♪ News guy wept when he told us
♪ 地球真的危在旦夕 ♪ Earth was really dying
♪ 淚水打濕了他的臉 ♪ Cried so much that his face was wet
♪ 才明白他沒有說謊 ♪ Knew he wasn't lying. ♪
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