‘我在利用摇滚乐’，可以说我是最早这么做的几个人之一
我们往哪里走？ 这边走 - Where are we going? - We're going down this way.
请你为Bowie先生拿杯可乐好吗？ Can you get me a Coca-Cola for Mr Bowie, please?
“我只是将摇滚乐当做一种媒介” 'I'm only using rock 'n' roll as a medium.
“我认为之前的摇滚乐没有真正地发声过” 'I don't think it had been really voiced before then.
“我想做新思想的策动者 'I wanted to be the instigator of new ideas.
“我想让人们聚焦新事物和新视点 'I wanted to turn people on to new things and new perspectives.
“我总想成为催化剂那样的事物， 'I always wanted to be that sort of catalystic kind of thing.'
我只是那个众人眼中的我
你所拥有的形象好像和真实生活 I mean, the image you have has got almost nothing to do
没有关系 with your real life.
“这要取决于你说的是哪个形象 'It depends on which image you're talking about.
“我已经见过不少，当然还会有更多” 'I've seen so many because, of course, there will be so many.'
就像在看某个演员出演的电影 It's like looking at an actor's films
再从电影里截取片段，说，“这就是他” and taking clippings from the films and saying, "Here he is," you know.
嗯，这就是你和其他摇滚明星的不同之处 Well, that's where you're different from most rock stars.
唔，我可不是个摇滚明星，那只是你这么说 Well, I'm not a rock star, you see. You've just said it.
我不属于摇滚 非常好… - I'm not in rock and roll. - That's nice.
♪ Fashion!
♪ 向左转 ♪ Turn to the left
有时候 ♪ Fashion!
♪ 向右转 ♪ Turn to the right
我觉得自己根本不是一个活生生的人 ♪ Oooh, fashion!
♪ 我们是一群暴徒，正往城里来 ♪ We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
♪ Beep-beep. ♪
我发现我有收集癖，我是一个收集者 I've always found that I collect. I am a collector.
我总是收集人的性格、想法 And I've always just seemed to collect personalities, ideas.
听Bowie本人及其小伙伴们的亲口诉说⋯⋯ ♪ Let's dance
♪ 穿上你的红鞋，随着布鲁斯舞动 ♪ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues... ♪
我既讲故事，也写故事 I'm a storyteller and I'm a storywriter
然后我决定亲自来演绎自己写的故事 and I decided that I preferred to enact a lot of the material
而不光光只是这么唱一下 I was writing, rather than perform it as myself.
本片使用未曾披露过的影像片段 ♪ There's a starman
♪ Waiting in the sky
对Bowie职业生涯的关键五年作一叙述
♪ There's a starman
♪ Waiting in the sky. ♪
我自认为是个相当不错的社会观察家 I think I'm a fairly good social observer,
我把空间压缩成一年一年的 and I think that I encapsulate areas maybe every year or so.
然后试图标记出 I'm trying to stamp that down somewhere,
这一年的精华所在 the quintessence of that year.
♪ 让我就直说了吧 ♪ Let me make it plain
♪ 给新新人类让路！ ♪ Gotta make way For the Homo Superior. ♪
大卫鲍伊之关键五年
“我想留下印记，但不知道要怎么做 'I wanted to make a mark and I didn't quite know how to do it,
“整个60年代我都在尝试各种能想到的形式 'and it took me all the '60s to try everything that I could think of
“戏剧、艺术、音乐 'in terms of theatre and arts and music,
“总之就是想弄清楚我到底想要干什么 'to find out what exactly it was I wanted to do anyway.
“我学怎么演奏节奏蓝调 'I was learning about how to play rhythm and blues,
“学怎么写歌词，所有我读过的书 'learning how to write, finding all these, everything that I read,
“我看过的电影、戏剧 'every film that I saw, any bit of theatre,
“这些都进入了我的脑子里，并产生了影响 'everything went into my mind as being an influence.'
“不过那时候，我想 'But at the time, I thought,
‘天，这只会存入我的记忆库’ ' "God, that's going in my memory bank."
“但就在60年代末，它们开始糅合起来 'But just about the end of the '60s, it started to come together for me
“我想我可以尝试另一种表现形式，不仅是在音乐上 'that there was a way of expressing, not only musically,
“在视觉上也可以花点功夫 '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. ♪
关键年之一：1971—72
待在舞台上时，我感觉更像是个演员，而非摇滚歌手
你准备好了吗？ You ready?
嗯！ Yeah.
纽约
♪ 想做一次水泥塑颜 ♪ Like to take a cement fix
1971年，Bowie来到纽约 ♪ 变身一座活动影院 ♪ Be a standing cinema
与RCA唱片公司签约 ♪ 打扮起我的朋友，只是为赴一场秀 ♪ Dress my friends up just for show
♪ 他们看起来好像真是那么回事 ♪ See them as they really are. ♪
沃霍尔，第一场，第一次镜头 Warhol, scene one, take one.
他来到Factory（沃霍尔的工作室） ♪ 在我的脑子里装上窥视孔 ♪ Put a peephole in my brain
见到了波普艺术家安迪沃霍尔 ♪ 2枚新便士，可以试一试 ♪ Two new pence to have a go
♪ 我想成为一座画廊 ♪ I'd like to be a gallery
♪ 将你放进我的秀 ♪ Put you all inside my show. ♪
你是怎么让摄影机不发出噪声的？ How come your camera doesn't make any noise?
“这家伙和他的作品一样出名” 'This guy was as well-known as the work that he did.'
“事实上，很多人可能只是知道安迪沃霍尔的名字和长相 'In fact, probably more people knew the name and the look of Andy Warhol
“而不理解他到底在做什么” 'than actually knew what it was he did.'
哦，真是太迷人了 Oh, it's so glamorous.
Bowie钦慕沃霍尔，在某种程度上也有点竞争的味道 Bowie admired Warhol, but also felt competitive with him, in some way.
我想他清楚沃霍尔的作品没有前些年那么好了 I think he understood that Warhol's work had waned in the prior years.
Bowie能从沃霍尔的角度感知事物 Bowie felt on Warhol's level,
理所当然地想被视为他的同类 wanted to be taken as his peer,and rightly so.
“我为他写了一首歌，这在某种方式上的确将我和他 'I did write a song about him, and that rather linked me to him,
“联系在一起” 'in a certain way.'
♪ 安迪沃霍尔看着令人尖叫 ♪ Andy Warhol looks a scream
♪ 将他挂在我墙上，哦-哦，哦-哦 ♪ Hang him on my wall, oh-oh, oh-oh
♪ 安迪沃霍尔，还是银屏大幕 ♪ Andy Warhol, silver screen
♪ 傻傻分不清 ♪ Can't tell them apart at all
♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh. ♪
“他讨厌这首歌，听得很勉强，他后来跟人说 'He hated it. He loathed it. He told people afterwards,
‘我还从没听过这么难听的东西’ ' "That's the worst thing I've ever heard."
“我对此很失望 'I was upset by that, you know.
“我本以为我是在谄媚地描摹他 'I thought it was kind of a flattering portrait of him.
“我觉得这就像一幅当代派的肖像 'I thought it was a very contemporary picture
完全描绘了那时的他’ 'of Andy at the time.'
如果你可以把相机往后挪一点 If you'd like to take the camera back,
我想展示一点东西 I'd prefer to do something.
你要做些什么？呆站着？ 不是 You going to do something, still? No.
我确实感觉到Bowie有点沮丧 I do feel that Bowie felt disappointed
因为没能受到沃霍尔的认同 in not being embraced by Warhol,
通过这段开膛哑剧的诙谐表演 and certainly dramatised his own sense of disease
显然戏剧性地表达了他内心的不悦 by doing his hilarious disembowelling mime
表演被记录在这次尴尬会面的影像结尾 at the end of the video that recorded this ill encounter.
“哦，好棒哦 'Oh, that's nice.
“这是真的吗？ 'Did he really?
“哦，很不错嘛” 'Oh, that's nice.'
从Hunky Dory的Andy Warhol这首歌你能感到 With Andy Warhol from Hunky Dory, you've got the sense
Bowie是少数几个最早能够分析 that Bowie's one of the first people who's able to essay
明星体验、明星梦 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.
甚至从封面照也能感到 And even the cover picture has a sense that he knows
他开始将自己转变为，说得浪漫点的话 that he's starting to turn himself into what, if you're being romantic,
可以说是一个偶像，如果讽刺点的话 you'd call an icon, and if you're being horribly cynical
在21世纪，可以说它是一个品牌 and 21st-century, you'd call a brand.
但我不想用这个词 But I'd rather not use that word
因为这对我们所谈论的可不大友好 because it's a huge disservice to what we're talking about.
♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
♪ 转首面对陌生人 ♪ Turn and face the stranger
♪ Ch-ch-changes
♪ 不想变成个有钱人 ♪ Don't want to have to be a richer man
♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
♪ 转首面对陌生人 ♪ Turn and face the stranger
♪ Ch-ch-changes
♪ 只想变成一个更好的人 ♪ Just wanted to be a better man
♪ 时间会改变我 ♪ Time may change me
♪ 但我无法赶上时间 ♪ ♪ But I can't trace time. ♪
David打我电话，他直接打给我的 I got a call from David, he called me directly,
他说，“你能来我这里吗” and he said, "Can you come over to the house?"
我和他坐在那儿，他拿出这把破旧的 And I sat there with him, and he took out this battered old
12弦吉他，说“我要给你弹一些歌” 12-string guitar and said, "I'm going to play you some songs."
他给我弹了这些歌，一首又一首 And he played me these songs one after the other.
♪ 这只不过是小事一桩 ♪ It's a God-awful small affair
♪ 对这鼠褐发色的女孩说来 ♪ To the girl with the mousy hair
♪ 但她妈妈叫着“不” ♪ But her mummy is yelling "No"
♪ 爸爸却让她尽情去 ♪ And her daddy has told her to go
♪ 但伙伴们却无处可寻 ♪ But her friend is nowhere to be seen
♪ 现在她走过沉陷的梦想 ♪ Now she walks through her sunken dream... ♪
Hunky Dory的 Life on Mars? "Life On Mars?", from Hunky Dory,
在我看来当然是一支杰出的歌曲 was certainly the stand-out song for me,
但在某些细节上也存在挑战 but it was a challenge in certain areas,
比如一些和弦的结构 because of some of the chord structure,
他会用一个平常的和弦引你进入 because he would lead you down the garden path with quite
花园小径，然后却突然消失了 a bog-standard chord structure, and then suddenly go AWOL.
现在我要试试并再回想下 Now I've got to try and remember this,
因为我上次弹这首已经是40年前的事了，但… because it is 40 years since I've played it, but...
♪ 但伙伴们却无处可寻 ♪ But her friend is nowhere to be seen
♪ 她正走过沉陷了的梦幻 ♪ Now she walks through her sunken dream
♪ 朝视野最佳的位子走去 ♪ To the seat with the clearest view... ♪
这里有个绝佳的例子 可以说明 Now this is a classic example of where he throws in a chord
他会在你意想不到的地方加上和弦 that you wouldn't expect.
通常都是在… Normally after...
你觉得可能会重复的地方，但他没有这么做 他会… You would expect it to go back there, but he doesn't. He goes...
很聪明的做法 But the thing that makes it really clever
他用了个降E调 is he put an E flat in the bass,
加上了低音 然后你可以继续下去 which just gives it a bass part that you can start to move on.
真的是机智，所以就是… Really clever, so you've got...
♪ 但电影真是无聊得悲惨 ♪ But the film is a saddening bore
♪ 因为她早已看过十多遍 ♪ For she's lived it ten times or more. ♪
现在，这个音后面，你大概会以为它会是… Now, after that chord, you would expect it to go to...
但他没有这么做 But he doesn't.
我是说，没有人…只有David会干这种事 I mean, nobody... Only David would do something like that.
对弹钢琴的人倒是种乐趣 但我还得回炉再学一学 It's a piano player's joy. In fact, I must go home and learn it.
♪ 看一眼那些执法者 ♪ Take a look at the lawman
♪ 暴打这所谓的“坏”人 ♪ Beating up the wrong guy
♪ 哦 你呀！惊奇他是否明白 ♪ Oh, man! Wonder if he'll ever know
♪ 自己身处这最热卖的秀 ♪ He's in the best-selling show
♪ 火星上会有另一种生活吗？ ♪ Is there life on Mars? ♪
“Life On Mars?”有点魔幻现实主义的感觉 "Life On Mars?" is sort of magic realism, really,
如果你好好听的话 if you listen to it,
就能认出这写的是英国 that you recognise it as a song about Britain.
还有一些在郊区成长起来的人 And there are references in it which anyone
才能够理解的梗 who grew up in suburbia would understand.
非常世俗，但还挺魔幻的 Very mundane, and yet it's magical.
毕竟他在车站上看到了宇宙秩序 You know, he's seen the cosmos in the bus stop.
♪ 在美国人皱起的眉梢上 ♪ It's on America's tortured brow
♪ 是米老鼠长成奶牛的困惑 ♪ That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
♪ 现在工人们为名利而罢工 ♪ Now the workers have struck for fame
♪ 因为列侬的新歌开卖了 ♪ Cos Lennon's on sale again. ♪
声音本身就是表演，是真实的、活生生的 The vocals are performances, they are real, they are live,
我觉得这也是我们至今仍在讨论这些歌的原因之一 and I think that's one of the reasons we're still talking about them today,
因为它们会与听众产生共鸣，不像 because they do resonate with people. Unlike the manufactured
现在那些加工流水线上的声音，他的声音是真实的 and thrown-together vocals that are so prevalent today, his are real.
♪ 我矗立在11楼上 看着楼下的巡逻车 ♪ I'm up on the eleventh floor and I'm watching the cruisers below
♪ 喔，我下来到了街上，他正在努力…… ♪ Well, I'm down on the street and he's trying hard to... ♪
抱歉 Sorry.
尽管Hunky Dory不完全是一张摇滚专辑 Although most of Hunky Dory is not a rock record,
但能从中看出点苗头 Bowie快要成型了 there are stirrings of the Bowie to come.
Queen Bitch听起来有摇摆爵士乐的味道 When you listen to Queen Bitch, it swings.
但是更粗野一些 It has raunch to it, you know.
这张唱片确有令人骄傲的理由 That record shakes its hips very convincingly.
♪ 唔，这本来会是我 ♪ Well, it could have been me
♪ 是的，这原本会是我 ♪ Yes, it could have been me
♪ 为啥我没有说？ ♪ Why didn't I say?
♪ 裹着她的缎子和麻布衣衫，窸窣作响 ♪ She's so swishy in her satin and tat
♪ 身着长礼服，头戴哔啵帽（类似女巫帽） ♪ In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
♪ 哦老天，我本来可以做得比这更好 ♪ 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,
“就是创造这个另类的世界 'which is to create this alternative world,
“Hunky Dory是第一步 'and Hunky Dory was the first,
“真的踏出了这个星球，然后走向宇宙 'really stepping off this planet and going somewhere else.'
嗯，完成了Hunky Dory的几周后 So, we'd finished Hunky Dory, and a couple of weeks later
我撞见David在三叉戟录音室的走廊走着 I ran into David walking along the corridor of Trident Studios
他对我说，“我们要开始录一张新专了 and he comes up to me and he says, "We're going to record a new album,
但你是不会喜欢的” but you're not going to like it".
我问为什么，他说，这张要更摇滚一些 I said, "Why?" and he said, "Well, this is much more rock and roll."
♪ 我是一条美洲鳄 ♪ I'm an alligator
♪ 我是冲你而来的老爹老娘 ♪ I'm a mama-papa coming for you. ♪
Mick Ronson—‘Ziggy Stardust’的主音吉他手（1992年影像）
Bowie总是能机智地找到正确的合作伙伴 Bowie's always been brilliant at finding the right collaborators.
这个不同凡响的 Mick Ronson He had the extraordinary Mick Ronson,
他可以摆出吉他英雄的潇洒姿势，其复段震撼全场 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那样共享着一个舞台 in a way that he's never shared a stage with anyone else.
♪ 在月光白日梦中颤栗，哦耶！ ♪ Freak out in a moon-age daydream, Oh, yeah! ♪
“第一次听见他弹奏，我想 'When I first heard him play, I thought,
‘这就是我的Jeff Beck，好棒啊，这小子了不起’ ' "That's my Jeff Beck, he is fantastic, this kid is great."
“然后我就慢慢忽悠他来和我一起干 'And so I sort of hoodwinked him into working with me.'
我不记得接下去怎么弹了，不过差不多就是这样吧 I forget how it goes, but, I mean, that's basically...
他很善于剽窃 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，里面有不少老李的影子 I mean, there is a lot of Lou Reed in there,
还有很多泡泡的 a lot of Iggy Pop in there, you know. A lot of all sorts
会找到各种影子 of influences that he has got in there, you know,
他就是各方面都剽窃一点 so he would steal little bits.
♪ 嗷，你，甭想赖着我 ♪ Oh, don't lean on me, man
♪ 因为你连票子也买不起 ♪ Cos you can't afford the ticket
♪ 我要回到女权城市去 ♪ I'm back on Suffragette City
♪ 嗷，你，甭想赖着我 ♪ Oh, don't lean on me, man
♪ 因为你连票子也买不起 ♪ Cos you can't afford to check it
♪ 我要回到女权城市去 ♪ I'm back on Suffragette City
♪ 远离视野之外！ ♪ Is out of sight. ♪
“把这些我喜欢的各种怪异而极端的 'It just seemed like a perfectly natural thing for me at the time,
“艺术和文化形式糅合在一起 我当时觉得很棒 'to put together all these odds and ends of art and culture
“并且顺理成章 'that I really adored.
“这就产生了某种完全模仿 'It was just creating something thoroughly artificial,
“但在摇滚的局域内却行得通的东西 'but something that worked in the confines of rock and roll.'
♪ 这儿只有单人间，她过来了 ♪ There's only room for one and here she comes
♪ 她过来了 ♪ Here she comes... ♪
我想Ziggy能够和它被预想的同样成功 I suppose the whole thing that made Ziggy as popular as it was-stroke-is,
完全因为这是一张出色的摇滚乐唱片 was that it was a good rock album.
并没有特别的原因 Nothing extraordinary, in my opinion,
就是张好的摇滚唱片 然后封面上的形象 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,
然后人们就对此爱不释手 and people grabbed hold of it.
Ziggy Stardust就是将他设想成一个摇滚明星 What Ziggy Stardust does is it projects him as a rock star.
他唱的是幻想中的摇滚明星的经历 He sings about the imagined experience of being a rock star,
为了要真的变成摇滚明星 and in doing that, becomes a rock star.
还不得不说说他老婆Angie，她站在第一排 And there is a story about his wife Angie, in the front row,
朝着他尖叫，仿佛他已经是个摇滚明星了 screaming at him as if he was a rock star,
尽管边上只有两个人和一条狗 despite the fact that two men and a dog were there.
结果就成真了，世界满足了他的幻想 What happens, then, really, is that the world fulfils his fantasy.
Ziggy和他自身结合起来 It aligns itself with what he wants to be.
大概心理学家会把这叫作“自我实现” 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! ♪
我坐在这个乐在其中的家伙旁边 I was sitting next to this guy who was living it,
从日常情况来看，他早就是‘明星’了 he was already being it on a daily basis,
就算吃早饭他也会端起巨星的范，很滑稽 and it's funny, but he would eat breakfast as a superstar.
好像是，“这家伙是来真的” It was like, "This guy means it."
♪ Ziggy弹着吉他 ♪ Ziggy played guitar
♪ 和Weird、Gilly配合得不错 ♪ Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
♪ 火星来的蜘蛛 ♪ And the spiders from Mars
♪ 他是个左撇子 ♪ He played it left-hand
♪ 弹得不着边际 ♪ But made it too far... ♪
“我要发掘出我的特性所在 'I'd found my character.
“独自对抗世界的想法真的有点挥之不去 'One man against the world. It really reverberated in my mind.
“我的确有点执着于此 'That's something that I really, kind of, honed in on.'
♪ 眯缝起双眼，垂落下卷发 ♪ ..Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
♪ 像是从日本来的猫 ♪ Like some cat from Japan
♪ 以笑容抹杀菲林无数 ♪ He could kill 'em by smiling... ♪
“Ziggy是某种略带神秘的祭司角色 'Ziggy was this kind of mythological priest figure.
“我也就是在回顾的时候才这么认为 'And I only say that in retrospect because I didn't quite know
“因为当时我也不知道Ziggy是什么 'what he was then, but it does occur to me now
“但我现在知道了 历史上某些雌雄同体的 'that the androgyny of some of the tribal priests throughout history
“部落祭司实质上都是异装癖 'have been transvestite in nature.
“因为我读过卡米尔·裴格利亚的相关研究 'I only know this because I read Camille Paglia on the subject.'
我觉得，Ziggy Stardust如同一座巨像 Ziggy Stardust is, to me, a kind of colossus that marks
标志着从60年代到70年代的剧变 a tremendous transition between the 1960s and the 1970s.
♪ 我们就吐槽他的粉丝 ♪ So we bitched about his fans
♪ 并且粉碎他可爱的双手？ ♪ And should we crush his sweet hands? ♪
70年代是个黑暗的时代 The 1970s were a dark era, where sexual promiscuity for its own sake
这种对纯粹的性的渴求自罗马帝国以来 was pursued in a way that had never been so universal
还从未如此普遍 since the Roman Empire.
不计后果的性、不知姓名的性、昏暗俱乐部里快餐式的性 Sex without consequence, anonymous sex, pick-ups in dark clubs.
所以Ziggy Stardust先兆般的出现 So Ziggy Stardust, when he appeared, was a kind of prefiguration,
几乎就像一个启示录 almost like the Book of Revelations,
一种末世快要降临的幻觉 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
♪ 好似被流放的弥赛亚 ♪ Like a leper messiah
♪ 待崽子们杀死了他 ♪ When the kids had killed the man
♪ 我就不得不将乐队解散 ♪ I had to break up the band. ♪
使Ziggy或者Bowie与众不同的原因在于 What made Ziggy different, and Bowie different, at that point,
他将自己设想成人们会崇拜的偶像 was that he turned himself into an idol that people could worship.
以前的流行音乐人可没这么干过 Nobody had actually, in pop music, ever done that before.
这属于好莱坞的领域 It was the province of Hollywood.
♪ 有个外星人在空中等待着 ♪ There's a starman waiting in the sky
♪ 他想下来看看我们，却又怕吹乱我们的心绪 ♪ He'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds
♪ 有个外星人在空中等待着 ♪ There's a starman waiting in the sky
♪ 告诫我们不要将其说破 ♪ He's told us not to blow it
♪ 他知道这一切都是值得的 ♪ Cos he knows it's all worthwhile
♪ 他说 让孩子们丢弃它 ♪ He told me Let the children lose it
♪ 让孩子们运用它 ♪ Let the children use it
♪ 让所有的孩子们都舞动起来 ♪ Let all the children boogie. ♪
他的经纪团队会在音乐会上散发Bowie的海报 His management would distribute posters of Bowie at concerts,
歌迷们就可以拿着它们回家 so that the fans could pick them up and go home
贴在墙上 就是这种对成名过程中 and put them on the walls, and it was that kind of attention
细节的考量使他在这圈子里 to detail in thinking about the whole process of stardom
显得鹤立鸡群 that singled him out from people that had gone before.
我觉得David对自己要做什么都会精打细算 I think David was calculating in a lot of things that he did.
他知道如何去操纵利用自己的形象 He understood how to manipulate his image,
他让自己变得奇货可居 in that he didn't make himself too available.
只要给人们一点点甜头 He just gave them a little bit, and they'd go,
他们就会说“我们想要更多David Bowie” "Oh, we want more of David Bowie."
就是这样 You know, that sort of thing.
我过去还不懂这些 And I used to always wonder about that.
还会想“怎么不全给他们算了” I was like, "Why don't you just give them it all?"
他就会 “不不，就先给那个就行了 And he was like, "No, I've just got to give them that.
然后他们就会想要更多，然后就再给他们一些” And then they'll come back for more, and then just give them that."
这招还真起作用了 And it worked.
1973年7月3日，Bowie杀死了Ziggy Stardust这个角色
关键年之二：1974—75
不用深究Bowie是谁 就像乐高积木一样，不存在一个绝对的David Bowie…
费城
“那段特殊时期 'At that particular time,
“我变化得真是无端无常 'I was chopping and changing really quite drastically.
“当时我听的都是灵魂乐 'The music that I was listening to was definitely the soul music
“那时候的美国俱乐部 'that was really, really big in the clubs in America
“全是在放这些 'at that particular time.
“所以我也想做灵魂乐 'So I kind of tried to do my own version of that kind of music,
“也就是Young Americans专辑的基础 'which was the basis of the Young Americans album.
“我想成为一名灵魂歌手 'I'd become soul man.'
David决心想变成一名灵魂歌手 When David really decided he wanted to be a soul man,
他问我 “要怎么做？ he said to me, "So, how shall we do it?
我们得去哪儿？” Where shall we go?"
得要召集到歌手和乐队这些 And, you know, to get the people, the singers, the band and all that.
我说应该去纽约，去哈勒姆区，去阿波罗剧院 And I said we should go to New York. To Harlem and go to the Apollo.
他好像说“OK” So he was like, "OK."
我们就去了后台，见了所有人 So we went backstage and he met everyone.
我不知道David Bowie是谁 I didn't know who David Bowie was,
但我知道他是我见过的最白的人 but I did know this was the whitest man I've ever seen.
我不是说那种带粉色的白 I'm not talking about white like pink.
我说的是那种透明的白 I'm talking about translucent white.
然后他还顶着橘红的头发 And then he had orange hair.
我不是说你妈妈那种红头发 I'm not talking about your momma's orange,
我说的是橘红！ I'm talking about an orange, orange!
他差不多98磅 就是说很瘦很瘦 And he was about 98lbs. I'm talking about thin, thin.
我是说 他就是个怪胎 I mean, he was freaky.
一次我对他说，原谅我说话粗鲁 At one point I told him - and you'll have to excuse my language -
朋友你看起来太糟了，你要吃点东西 "You look like shit, man. You need some food.
你要来我家 You need to come to my house."
往前来一点，嗯这样就好 Come forward. Yeah, that's great.
“Carlos把我介绍给了 'Carlos had been able to introduce me
“很多了不起的新生音乐人 '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就有了这次惊艳的合作 So you have this amazing collaboration between Bowie,
以及不久便会成为史上最伟大的灵魂乐歌手之一的 and soon-to-be one of the greatest soul singers of all time,
Luther Vandross,
还有其他和声歌手同Luther在一块唱 along with all the other background singers who would sing with Luther.
♪ 取之以正道 ♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ 掩其于背后 ♪ Keeping it in the back
♪ 取之以正道 ♪ Taking it all the right way
♪ 再也不回头 ♪ Never no turning back
♪ 再也 再也不需要回头 ♪ 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这首歌，唱起来有难度 Right, from the Young Americans album, was a difficult song
但Luther把它整合起来 but Luther put it all together for him.
我们… 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... ♪
接下来就是这部分 And then that section comes in.
♪ Wishing, wishing, sometime Doing it, up there, nobody
♪ Nobody doing it, getting up. ♪
太困难了 That was so hard.
♪ Time
♪ Doing it
♪ Giving it
♪ Keeping it back. ♪
对 这样很酷 很酷 Right. That's cool, that's cool.
David在最后一句 David had, like, a puzzle.
好像设了一个谜 Just the last line.
他给了我们一张纸条 He brought this paper to us and said,
说“我希望你们这么唱” "This is how I want you to sing this."
哦，抱歉，我还没跟上 Oh, sorry, I wasn't with you.
它不是就写着“直接有旋律地唱出来就行” It wasn't a straight "just sing it linearly and melodically".
我知道了，你是从…嗯 我还以为你在唱前奏 Oh, I see, you count from... Yeah. I thought you were doing an intro.
对，一、二…… Right. One, two...
就是“我想要在这边切入，希望你从那边跳出来 It was "I want it to jump in here, and I want you to jump out there,
再回到这部分 and jump back in here."
♪ Keeping it back. ♪
好的，很好 好的，我们知道了 这首就这样了 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.
这样子唱歌 In my life.
不过挺厉害的，他完全知道他想要什么 But it was brilliant, because he knew exactly what he wanted.
对，嗯，最后一段 Right, OK, and the last section.
♪ Gimme, gimme, yeah. ♪
哦，天 真是够了 Oh, Lord, it was too much!
就像“天爷，我真高兴录完了这首歌” 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. ♪
“如果弄得很直白的话 都是老一套 'There was no point in doing a straightforward take
“搞美国灵魂乐就没有意义了 'on American soul music, because that's been done already,
“所以我就想把它弄得绕弯子一点 'so I just wanted to put this spin on it.'
“当然最后专辑出来后 'Eventually, of course, when the album came out,
“还挺受好评的 'it was very well-received,
“Young Americans对我的意义很大 'and Young Americans became a very big album for me.
“我是说 我真的在改进自己 'I mean, I really advanced myself.
“用思想来冲击自己 'I was tumbling over myself with ideas.'
人们觉得你的表演能力很强 People see you as a very skilful performer,
能够时时地改变自己，从这一个到那一个 who changes from time to time from one thing to another.
嗯，我可以从一样事物迅速转到另一样 Yeah. I glit from one thing to another, a lot.
"Glit"?
嗯哼 就是“flit”，不过是70年代的说法 Mm-hmm. It's like "flit", but it's the '70s version.
字母“g”在“f”后面 One letter later.
能出现在Dick Cavett的秀上，说明你已经有点成就了 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
他没有按照Dick Cavett的规则行事 by the Dick Cavett rules, if there are any,
有人看的话一定会是这样的感觉 in the sense that one watches it and it's like,
“你想告诉整个美利坚你是个疯子吗” "Do you want the whole of America to think you're a complete nutcase?"
“疯疯癫癫的，还吸高了”明显就是这样 "Out of your mind on cocaine?" And he clearly did.
然后还给他的职业生涯带来了益处 And it was to the benefit of his career.
给他增添了更多的魅力 It rendered him fascinating.
舞台下的Bowie也会吓人一跳吗 Is the offstage Bowie likely to surprise people?
有人知道你要上这个节目的时候 I've had the weirdest reactions
还对我作出了非常诡异的告诫 from people who know that you're going to be on.
有人说他们会害怕同你说话、和你坐在一起 Some say they'd be scared to sit and talk to you.
还有人说你也许会咬我脖子 Some people said you'd bite my neck.
全是些稀奇古怪的事情 A very peculiar kind of thing.
这就是你想要的，真的 你觉得我像个什么 It's what you want, really. What do you think I'm like?
在我看来，你像个… To me you seem like a -
工作中的演员，希望这不会冒犯到你 I hope this doesn't insult you - a working actor.
完全正确，非常好 That's right, that's very good.
我说……你在画什么？ I mean... What are you drawing?
这是一种治疗法 It's therapeutic.
David，他是个人物 David, he was a character.
我知道他是，我也知道他搞得一团糟 I knew he was, excuse my language, I knew he was fucked up.
但要知道，他很棒，很酷，挺过来了 But you know, he was good, he was cool, he got through it.
♪ 在桥后将她扑倒 ♪ Pulls her down behind the bridge
♪ 他令人失望，她紧蹙双眉 ♪ He lays her down, she frowns
♪ 天啊，我的生活真是一场滑稽 ♪ Gee, my life's a funny thing
♪ 我还是太幼稚了？ ♪ Am I still too young?
♪ 他抓住她的手 ♪ He takes her hand and there
♪ 她带着他的戒指和孩子 ♪ She takes his ring, takes his babies
♪ 花了他好几分钟，带着她无处可去 Takes him minutes, takes her nowhere
♪ 天知道，她本可以获得一切 ♪ Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything
♪ 整夜 ♪ All night
♪ 整夜，她只想要一个美国的小年轻 ♪ All night, she wants a young American
♪ 美国小青年，美国小青年，她只想要个美国小青年 ♪ Young American, young American She wants a young American
♪ All right. ♪
制作Young Americans时，他抓住了机会 In terms of the Young American stuff, it was a chance that he grabbed
完成了他12岁以来的梦想 to be able to do something he had wanted to do since he was 12.
他大概想“我不会有40或50年的职业生涯” He may have thought, "I won't have a 40-something, 50-year-old career,"
“可以的话我要尽快去完成” and he may have thought, "I'm going to get this in while I can."
Carlos脑子里有一段旋律 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 每个人 ♪ Everybody, young and old
♪ 都在学习唱摇滚 ♪ Learns how to rock and roll
♪ 来听一些新东西 ♪ Listen to something new
♪ 肯定人人都会做 ♪ Everybody sure can do it
♪ 跺跺脚 跺跺脚 ♪ Footstompin', footstompin'. ♪
David一直很喜欢我弹的这一小段 David always liked that little line as I was playing it with...
他本来还喜欢的，但后来就讨厌了 He liked that but he hated the song later on.
录完Young Americans后 So I'm called back into the studio.
我被叫回了录音室 After we finished Young Americans
他让我去电音女士录音室 he called me down to Electric Lady Studio
我到了那里，他把这首歌剪到了更布鲁斯的格式 and I get there and he had cut the song up into a more blues format,
我们叫做1-4-5-4拍 what we called the one-four-five-four format.
他删了一些，只留下这段… And he had cut it up but the only thing he had kept was...
我听了，大概说 I heard that and I was like,
“好啊，我们就用这个来做点什么” "OK, we're going to do something with that,"
然后开始沉淀想法、沉淀想法 and I started laying down ideas and laying down ideas.
我现在先弹一下最早的版本 I'm going to play the first thing that we did and how we layered it
再一层层加上去 你就能听出不同了 so you can hear what happens.
第一部分，加一点低音 First part, add a little bass.
听起来像Fame了吗？ Doesn't that sound like Fame?
David进来，说“哦，我听见这一段” David comes in, he goes, "Oh, I hear this line."
然后就是John Lennon在录音期间过来拜访 What happened is that John Lennon came to the session.
我们说“用这段调子来写点什么吧” We sort of said, "Let's take that riff and write something over it."
它是Carlos的乐段 It was Carlos' riff.
Fame.
John弹着弹着，不停发出“Ame！Ame”这种声音 John was playing and he kept on coming up with, "Ame! Ame!"
我就在前面加了个F，就是这样了，真的 and I put an F in front of it and that was it, really.
♪ 名声让人掌控一切 ♪ Fame makes a man take things over
♪ 名声让他失败，难以下咽 ♪ Fame lets him loose, hard to swallow
♪ 名声让你陷入虚无之中 ♪ Fame puts you there where things are hollow
♪ 名声 ♪ Fame
♪ 名声，并非你的理智，只是短暂的火焰 ♪ Fame, not your brain, it's just the flame
♪ 将你逃脱的机会燃烧，使你理性与疯狂 ♪ That burns your change to keep you insane, sane. ♪
David不是要成为灵魂歌手 David wasn't trying to be a soul singer.
但只要得到严肃对待 他当然想要被严肃对待 But as far as being taken seriously, he wanted to be taken seriously
他不想要做个伪装者 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
♪ 我感到如此灵感枯竭 ♪ I used to feel so uninspired. ♪
这有点超现实 It was surreal because
因为我们给电影选角时遇到了瓶颈 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东西 I knew there was something I had to get that was totally different.
然后突然出现了这节目，我也碰巧收看了 And suddenly this programme came on and by chance I saw it.
我这牛奶里漂浮着一只苍蝇 There's a fly floating around in my milk.
它在其中是个异物，还沾上了许多牛奶 He's a foreign body in it, you see, and he's getting a lot of milk.
这也是我的感受 That's kind of how I feel.
♪ You make me feel like a natural woman. ♪
他丝毫不担心会失去形象 He wasn't being over-careful or worried about losing an image.
也许这本身就是一种形象 Maybe that was the image.
几乎从那一刻起 And almost from that moment,
我感到难以置信，因为“这就是他” I couldn't believe it because I thought, "This is the man."
你曾经看过的、听过的David Bowie Nothing you have seen or heard about David Bowie
都无法阻挡他在《天降财神》里的银幕处女作 will prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic performance
所带给你的冲击 in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
这是David Bowie的另一个次元 This is another dimension of David Bowie.
我们时代不多的几个真正怪才之一 One of the few true originals of our time.
David全都计算好了 David calculated all of this.
我觉得他会说，‘对，我是Ziggy，不，我不是Ziggy，我是灵魂歌手’ I think he said, "Yeah, I'm Ziggy. No, I'm not Ziggy. I'm soul man.
‘我既是个灵魂歌手，现在又是个演员’ "Now I was a soul man, now maybe an actor."
是的，我认为这些都在他计算范围内 Yes, I think that he calculated all of that.
《天降财神》是一部强有力的爱情片 The Man Who Fell To Earth is a powerful love story.
一个宇宙的奥秘，一场惊奇的幻想 A cosmic mystery. A spectacular fantasy.
一次震慑心智的体验 A shocking, mind-stretching experience.
出演这部片子是第一件毋需 The film was the first thing I'd been given
我去扮演一名摇滚明星的工作 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.
我希望人们能够认可我是在认认真真地演戏 I wanted it to b e considered as a serious sort of attempt at acting.
我们一起在宾馆房间的那个场景里 The early scenes where we're together in the hotel room,
他的皮肤几乎可以反射光线，太美了 his skin just reflects the light so beautifully.
他看起来的确像是从另一个星球来的 He does look like he's from another planet.
哦，我只是在观光 Oh, I'm just visiting.
哦，是个旅行者？ Oh, a traveller?
要说他的角色和他本人像不像 可以说几乎一样 'As to how close it was to him, pretty close.
你知道剧组对他造型改得不多 'You know there wasn't a lot of changes to him.'
那就是他的发色，他们没有改变他的发色 That was the colour of his hair. They didn't change his hair.
导演就说“做你自己就可以” He just said, "Be yourself!"
我想Nick意识到了我那时候有些严重的问题 I think Nick realised I had some serious problems at the time
然后觉得‘这很完美 and just thought, "He's perfect.
这样就能直接拍，只要换换衣服 "Just put him in, just change his clothes,
他本人是什么样的就怎么拍，让他自由发挥’ 所以我也这么做了 just put him in as he is and let him just walk through it," and I did.
对于他的表演我唯一烦恼的是 All I could do as far as his performances were concerned
如何力图阻止自己去影响他 was stop myself from trying to influence him.
有几天我的脸都发疼了，因为皮肤一直绷着不动 And some days my face ached through not being able to use it.
演了整整三个月的‘冰人来了' Everything had to be absolutely expressionless.
需要完全的面瘫 Three months of being totally "the iceman cometh".
你不懂？你怎么会懂？天真 You don't know? How could you? You're simple.
他大概觉得自己没有表情，但其实不是的 He might think he's being expressionless, but he really isn't.
演对手戏的时候，他的肢体语言 His body language, everything is telling me something
能告诉我很多信息 when I'm working opposite him.
你再也找不到像我这样的人了，你知道吗 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,
“还有他的手势出都能传达一些信息” 'the way he moves his hand tells me something.'
所以他说自己没有表情是不对的 So he's wrong when he's saying he's expressionless.
真不是 He's really not.
当他褪下牛顿先生的外皮 The actual alien was more that vulnerable part
现出外星人原形的那一段，展现得更加脆弱 when he wasn't Mr Newton.
Candy Clarke发现他从眼睛里取出了什么东西 When Candy Clarke found him taking the stuff out of his eye,
她被吓坏了，由于被看见他自己也吓坏了 and she's freaked out and he was so freaked out that she saw him
因为他一直想隐瞒这个事实 because he was trying to hide it so well.
在现实生活里，他对我来说也好像是这样子 And it just seemed like something about him in real life to me.
可以确定的事实是 It had a certain truth in,
他把秘密告诉她，就是犯下了错误 he made the mistake of telling her his secret.
当然，到了最后一幕，故事就不一样了 Of course, in that final sequence, it can't be the same,
不可能和之前一样了 it'll never be the same again, you know,
真是极其悲哀 which was terribly sad.
你刚刚拍完一部片子 来自地球的人 You've just finished making the film called The Man Who Came To Earth.
- 是落到地球 - 哦对不起，是落到地球 - Fell To Earth. - Fell To Earth, I beg your pardon.
很难给没看过片子的人来讲解剧情 It's not an easy film to explain to people who haven't seen it.
非常非常悲伤的片子 非常浪漫 It's very, very sad. Very romantic.
我看的时候还觉得喉咙哽咽 It brought a lump to my throat watching it.
演的时候也觉得不大好受 And it's been a gas working on it.
David，我们这短暂的对话就快要结束了 David, we're coming towards the end of our all-too-brief conversation.
哦，真可惜 Oh, that's a shame.
我想我们可以用一点音乐来收尾 I think what we might do is end with a bit of music.
我是说，在最后，你还要表演一点音乐 I gather that, at your end, you have some music with you.
这首歌叫 The Shape Of Things To Come The song is called The Shape Of Things To Come.
- 不，不是的 - 对，当然不是 - No, it isn't. - No, of course it isn't.
我们是要听The Shape Of Things To Come的预演 We're having a preview of The Shape Of Things to Come. -Ah.
- 这首歌是叫 Golden Tears - 是Years - The song is called Golden Tears. - Years.
David Bowie先生，放完广告后我们就回来听… Mr David Bowie, we'll come back to you after we've seen some.
你真的搞错了，它是Years，Years You did get it wrong. It's Years. Years.
是Years，你何不来介绍一下这歌呢 Years. Why don't you introduce it from that end?
这是David Bowie演唱的Golden Years This is David Bowie singing Golden Years,
来自他即将发行的专辑 Station To Station from his forthcoming album Station To Station.
♪ Golden years
♪ Gold, whop, whop, whop
♪ Golden years
♪ Gold, whop, whop, whop
♪ 别对我说生活让你无路可寻 ♪ Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere
♪ Angel
♪ Come, get up my baby
♪ 瞧那天空，生活已经开始 ♪ Look at that sky, life's begun
♪ 黑夜温暖，白昼如新 ♪ Nights are warm and the days are young
洛杉矶 ♪ Come, get up my baby
♪ 不过是我的宝贝迷失了而已 ♪ There's my baby lost that's all
♪ 我曾经祈求你，请拯救她的幼小灵魂 ♪ Once I'm begging you save her little soul
♪ Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop. ♪
那是一个有点奇葩的年代 It was kind of a very weird time
那是70年代的LA，还有就是可卡因 and it was LA and it was the '70s and it was coke
怪人四处游荡，也不交流 and it was weird people hanging around and people who didn't speak
只会吹个口哨这样 and just whistled and stuff like that.
‘你懂的，嗯？’ "You know, man, heavy."
对，就像在另一个星球 It was like being on another planet, yeah.
♪ 追逐暗影，在这黄金时代，追逐暗影 ♪ Run for the shadows, run for the shadows in these golden years. ♪
极有可能完全是我心理受伤了 I was probably fairly psychically damaged.
不是极有可能，我就是心理受损了 Not probably. I WAS psychically damaged.
我猜是为了获取在音乐中 I guess trying to get what I was understanding
我能够理解的表达形式吧 expressed in musical form.
那个时候 Everybody was on drugs.
人人都嗑药，我们都很出格 At that period of time, we were all well out there.
但还没有出格到做出一张好专辑的程度 But not so out there that we didn't make a great record
你知道我什么意思 so, I mean, you know.
不管我们对出格怎么看 Or maybe our view of being out there
还是人家怎么看 and being people's views of being out there
都和我们无法做出一张好专辑的 doesn't necessarily correlate with the fact
并没有绝对的联系 that we were incapable of making a record.
无论‘出格’是什么意思，它都起到作用了 Whatever "out there" was, "out there" worked.
我想对这张专辑影响最大的 I think the biggest influence on that album was
是Kraftwerk的作品，和那些来自德国的新声音 the work of Kraftwerk, and the new German sound.
我尝试添加一些随机音符 I tried to apply some of the randomness
在制作Station To Station这首主题曲的时候 and I utilised a lot of that feeling for especially the title track,
便融入了这种感觉 Station To Station.
Station To Station开头那段反馈杂音式的前奏 The feedback intro at the beginning of Station To Station
是David的想法 was an idea that David had.
我们在背墙上装了几只马歇尔电箱 So we had a few Marshall stacks on the back wall
直接做好反馈然后整合在一起 and we just did the feedback together something like...
比如说会让Earl Slick做一些非常规的事情 Earl Slick was asked to do something unnatural and that was,
类似‘你弹的这个音给我保持15年，别停！’ "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，你得一直紧绷着 You are waiting for your part but you can't. You've got to hold it.
不能弹，不能弹，要保持淡定 Don't play, don't play, just hold it.
最后你就只能弹一点点 Finally you get to play one little thing.
Station To Station，我不知道他的主旨是什么 Station To Station, I really can't put a title on what it is he does.
我能说出Young Americans的主旨 I mean, I can put a title on Young Americans
但那以后的专辑我就不懂了 but everything after that I don't have a title for it.
它应该蕴含那种死寂的、残忍的 It was supposed to be deadly, and just brutal.
冷酷的、无情的、阴沉的、黑暗的质感 Just this hard, hard, heavy, dark, dark texture
再就是低沉下来 that just laid down.
就是让人灰心丧志、垂头丧气 Just bog it down, bog it down.
♪ 瘦白公爵的归来 ♪ The return of the Thin White Duke
♪ 将飞箭射向爱人的双眼 ♪ Throwing darts in lovers' eyes
♪ 我正在这儿 ♪ Here am I
♪ 一段神奇的乐章 ♪ One magical movement
♪ 由梦幻交织而成 ♪ Such is the stuff from where dreams are woven. ♪
Station To Station牵涉到的角色 Station To Station dealt with a character called
瘦白公爵，旅居美国的欧洲人 the Thin White Duke, who was a European living in America,
想要重新回到欧陆 who wanted to get back to Europe again.
♪ 弯曲的声音 ♪ Bending sound
♪ 挖掘海洋，迷失在自身的轮回里 ♪ Dredging the ocean lost in my circle. ♪
知道我怎么想的吗？ Know what I think?
我觉得是发生了很多乱七八糟的事情 I think a lot of really nasty shit happened, business wise,
唱片销量啊、逼上悬梁啊，还有那些你自作孽的事情 and with hangers on and all these useless fucks that you accumulate.
♪ 这不是可卡因的副作用 ♪ It's not the side effects of the cocaine
♪ 我想那一定是爱 ♪ I'm thinking that it must be love
♪ 心怀感恩为时已晚 ♪ It's too late to be grateful
♪ 迟到尽头已无时 ♪ It's too late to be late again
♪ 令人憎恶为时已晚 ♪ It's too late to be hateful
♪ 欧洲的炮火已近在咫尺 ♪ The European cannon is here. ♪
我真的开始越来越担心我的生活 I started really getting very, very worried for my life.
我必须得把我自己从这一处境中解脱出来 I just had to get myself out of that situation.
他想离开LA一点也不让人意外 It wasn't surprising at all that he wanted away from LA.
到最后他已经很讨厌LA He hated LA towards the end.
LA那时候是一个非常非常异形的社会 LA at that point was a very, very alien society.
不真实，因为住着不现实的人们 It was kind of unreal with unreal people.
“我嗑了太多，有几次差点过量死 'I just did too much and I came close several times to overdosing.
“好像坐在一辆方向失控的车子里 'It was like being in a car where the steering had gone out of control
“而且你还慢慢地逼近悬崖 'and you were going towards the edge of a cliff.
“我几乎就要自暴自弃，任自己掉下悬崖 'I'd almost resigned myself to the fact that I'm going over the edge.
“你知道，我没有能力去终止 'You know, I'm not going to be able to stop.'
1976年5月2日，Bowie回到了伦敦
关键年之三：1976—77
一旦你知道你已经安全着陆，那你就死定了
巴黎
“我对我写作的方法感到了厌倦 'I was tiring of the method I was writing.
“我想开发出一套新语言 'I wanted to develop a new language
“我知道我下一步必须这么做 'so I knew that my next move was to have to do that.
“我被时人与环境所抛弃 'I discarded for the time being characters and environments.
“那时候我无法正视自己 'I couldn't look at myself properly at the time.
“我需要有人来帮助我，一起共事，我想到了Eno 'I needed some help and who better to work with, I thought, than Eno.
“当然咯，我发现他和我性情相投 'And, of course, I found what I consider a soul mate there.'
他是个时常变幻的人 He's a constantly changing person.
我了解他有点厌倦他在做的事情 I knew he was sort of getting tired with the way he'd been working.
我还知道他特别喜欢我做的一张专辑 I knew also he liked a particular album that I had made very much.
Discreet Music，我最漫长、最舒缓、最安静的专辑 It was Discrete Music, which is my longest, slowest, quietest album.
他的喜好使我意识到 The fact that he liked that sort of alerted me to the idea that
他想转变他自己的音乐方向 he was wanting to go somewhere else in his own music.
我们进入录音室，氛围相当开放 We would get in the studio, it was really wide open.
这是我喜欢与他录音的原因 That's why I like doing recordings with him
因为这真的是相当放松 because it was, like, real easy, you know.
直到Brian Eno的到来 Until Brian Eno came along.
这个Brian Eno，也是个厉害角色！ That Brian Eno, he was a character!
我那时候真正的困惑是 The problem actually I had at that time was that
我不了解优秀的音乐家们是怎么工作的 I didn't really understand how good musicians worked.
在这层意义上我自身并不是个音乐家 I'm not a musician myself in that sense.
Brian Eno带了一块黑板 Brian Eno had a blackboard, you know,
像在小学里 like elementary school, you know.
我说 ‘你有一块黑板，然后呢？’ I'm like, "You've got a blackboard. So?"
我们开始冒出这些想法，有不同的和弦 So we started coming up with these ideas for different chords.
E、C、G、B，他就会开始 E, C, G, B, and so he'd go,
“我就会指向那个和弦，你就得弹奏出来 "I'm going to point to that chord and you play that chord
接着我会指向另一个” and then I'll point to another."
我就弹了，变成了个D So I'm playing and it goes D.
当你和这些很棒的演奏者共事的时候 When you're working with really great players,
像Carlos和Dennis他们，你必须得接受 like Carlos and Dennis, you have to accept that they have a way of
他们处理信息的方式往往会超越智性的范畴 processing information that is beyond intellectual.
“老兄，嘿，Brian，瞧，你这是在，这是… "Dude, man. Hey, Brian, look. What are you... This is...
这对我一点也没用，老兄” This isn't working for me, man."
但凭借着他们难以置信的、天生的音乐才能 But with their incredibly natural musicianship,
俩人创造了一些 the two together produce something that, again,
单靠一个人无法创造出的东西 one wouldn't have had with either on their own.
有些起作用了，有些没有 I mean, some of it worked, some of it didn't,
但老实说这让我不那么随性 but quite honestly it did take me out of my comfort zone
的确让我在这事上感受到了挫折 and it did make me leave my frustration at what I was doing
促使我完全从另一个角度来看问题 and totally look at it from another different point of view
尽管，我不喜欢这一角度 and, although I didn't like the point of view,
但是在此之后，有些东西就焕然一新了 when I came back, I was fresh.
“我认为Eno开启了另一种境界 'I think Eno opened up new doors of perception.
“在使用录音室方面 'In terms of the use of the studio,
“我从没有以Brian那种方式来用过录音室” 'I'd never used a studio in quite the way that Brian was using it.'
我接到了David和Brian Eno的电话 I received a phone call from David and Brian Eno
他们说‘你能带点什么新玩意儿？’ and they said, "What can you bring to the table?"
我说‘我有个新东西叫泛音器’ I said, "I've got this new thing called a harmoniser."
他们说‘这东西有什么用？’ And they said, "What does this thing do?"
我想了想，说 And I thought, and I said,
‘它能搞乱时间的构造，就像科幻小说里的东西’ "It fucks with the fabric of time. This is science fiction."
然后我听到了他们俩在电话那头叫起来 And I could hear the two of them whooping on the other end.
他们就是 ‘哇！喔！’这样 They just went, like, "Whoa! Woo!"
那些东西 Something like that, you know.
令人兴奋 It was very exciting
因为它能让你改变音高 because it enabled you to change the pitch of things.
所以我们用Dennis的军鼓做了试验 So what we did with Dennis' snare drum was
把它连上泛音器 we fed it through the harmoniser,
降低音高，然后再连上 dropped its pitch and then fed that back through again.
差不多就这样……不过声音更快了 so it goes... but faster.
即使如此，在音乐上 Even though, musically,
它和布鲁斯丝毫没有关系 it has absolutely nothing to do with the blues,
但奇怪的是，Low是Bowie的忧郁专辑 Low is, in a weird way, Bowie's blues album.
他的婚姻分崩离析 His marriage was breaking up.
他和前经理在商业上争辩不休 He was having serious business hassles with ex-managers.
和布鲁斯歌手一样，在创作过程中 And, like a blues man, he was attempting to deal with those
他把这些烦恼融进了题材 troubles by, as part of the process, singing about them.
很明显，他困扰缠身 It was evident that he was having problems
想通过进入录音室来摆脱它们 and he wanted to come into the studio to get away from everything
结果却把烦恼带了进来，所以Breaking Glass but you kind of bring everything with you and so Breaking Glass
就带有这种情绪，我们开始创作的时候 had that kind of feeling so we started it,
他想做得非常恼怒、非常朋克这样子 and he really wanted, like, angry, very, very punky.
David写了… David came up with...
♪ 宝贝儿 ♪ Baby
♪ 我已经 ♪ I've been
♪ 打破你家的玻璃 ♪ Breaking glass in your... ♪
然后我琢磨着 And I was trying to figure out,
他是不是昨天在别人家里这么干过 he probably did that shit yesterday in somebody's room.
你知道的，David写的就是生活里那些破事 You know, cos David writes this stuff about life shit.
还有一点…… And it had that kind of...
♪ 我又砸碎了我房里的玻璃窗 ♪ I've been breaking glass in my room again. ♪
然后Dennis和George的鼓点进来了… Then Dennis and George kicked in with theirs so it was just...
♪ 宝贝儿 ♪ Baby
♪ 我已经 ♪ I've been
♪ 再一次将你屋里的玻璃砸碎 ♪ Breaking glass in your room again
♪ 听着 ♪ Listen. ♪
只是需要一个积极的决断，即只做我想做的事 It just needed a positive decision to only do what I want to do
而不是去做无论是 and not do things for the sake of what,
David Bowie还是我上次扮演的那谁 either David Bowie or whoever I was playing last time,
瘦白公爵或别的谁有可能去做的事 Thin White Duke or something, was expected to do.
♪ 我在上面画了可怕的东西 ♪ I drew something awful on it. ♪
令我俩人都感到兴奋的是 What I think excites both of us
以前从未有人有过的想法 is the idea of going where nobody's been before
并试图去发掘你能做点什么 and trying to find out what you could do there, you know.
我认为，David对电子乐中 David, I think, was really interested
新的音乐氛围、格局和肌理 in new moods and landscapes and textures
真的很感兴趣 that you could get with electronics
他并不在乎这些实验最终会不会捏合成一首歌曲 and he didn't feel a compulsion to turn everything into a song.
在这方面 他是无可比拟的 I cannot think of anybody comparable
那些著名的人物 in terms of being sort of that famous.
像迪伦、滚石、披头士、猫王 Dylan, The Stones, The Beatles.
达到这些高度的人 Elvis. People of that stature.
你能想象这其中的任何一个人 Can you imagine even any of those people
会在他职业生涯的最巅峰 making a record which was half instrumental
制作一张半数曲目都是纯器乐的专辑吗？ at the supposed peak of their career?
不可能发生的 It was never going to happen.
♪ Milejo
♪ Sula vie
♪ Milejo, ejo. ♪
Warszawa这首，他用了某种非语言 On Warszawa he was using sort of non-language
所以在传统意义上这并不算是一首歌 so they still weren't songs in the conventional sense.
跟随着你的直觉，会不会有这样的危险 Is there a danger that, by following your instinct,
就是赚不了太多钱，生活也会拮据起来？ that you will jeopardise the money and the good life?
简直扯淡，你这个福尔摩斯！ No shit, Sherlock!
是的，当时我认真考虑过这一点 Yes, I think I've rather hit that one on the head at the moment.
但真的觉得如释重负 And it's quite a relief, really.
我感受到了更多的…自由 I feel a lot more... free.
一些乐评人写的真是 Some critics who wrote about it,
天，这帮家伙真该改行了 god, they really need... they really need to get a proper job sometimes.
他们有点抱怨，‘哦，你这是在做什么？’ They kind of moan about it. "Oh, what are you doing?"
“我一点也不在乎它是不是有趣，也许有吧 'I don't give a shit about how clever it may or may not be.
“它散发出艺术伪劣品的臭味、精神失败、徒劳无益 'It stinks of artfully counterfeited spiritual defeat and futility
“与一片空虚，David，我们已经够低落了 'and emptiness. We're low enough already, David.
“要么给我们一点快感，要么继续和Eno互相邮寄录音带 'Give us a high or else just swap tapes with Eno by post
“忘了我们这些宁愿去寻找解决方法 'and leave those of us who'd rather search for solutions than lie
“而非一味躺下，尝试去发现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，但你的问题可不小”（Breaking Glass歌词） 'You're a wonderful person but you've got problems.'
是啊，我当时就是这么写的 Yeah, that's what I wrote.
这种音乐我听起来真的觉得有点疏远 The music to me sounds really a little a bit alienated
所以我很惊讶… - 和什么疏远？ 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.
你能理解我说的吗？ Can you understand it?
是的，我可以，因为这是一种新语言 Yes, I can because it's new language.
柏林
“我空身来到柏林 'I went naked in Berlin.
“我真的试图舍弃那些曾被我 'I really did try and strip down my life
“认为是生活中绝对基本的必需品 'to what I believed to be absolute basic essentials
“因此我可以推倒重来 'so I could build up again.
“事实上我抛掉了许多身外之物 'I virtually gave a lot of possessions away,
“我的衣服就只有几条牛仔裤 几件格子衬衫 'and my wardrobe really was just jeans and checked shirts
“出门一般走路，我还有一辆单车，就是这些了 'and that's how I walked about and I had a bicycle and that was it.
“我认为自从掉入所谓的名人陷阱以来 'I think it was the first freedom I'd had from all those
“这是我第一次拥抱自由” 'so-called trappings of celebrity.'
他好像是在休息疗养 He was kind of recuperating.
他摄取了所有这些迷人的欧洲音乐 He soaked up all this very fascinating European music
并继续制作专辑 and carried on making albums.
这比在修道院里坐上两年可要好多啦 It's better than sitting in the Priory for two years.
1977年夏，立足于柏林的Bowie开始创作他的下一张专辑
David和我在讨论 我们手头有好几段未成形的材料 David and I were talking. We had a number of pieces in progress
David说‘我们下一步要做些什么？怎么做呢？’ and David said, "What shall we do next? How should we work on them?"
我说‘好，为什么不问问Fripp，听听他有什么建议？’ I said, "Well, why don't we call Fripp and see what he would offer?"
一个声音突然传过来，说道 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.
“先别挂断，我传一下电话”，Eno就让David来接电话 "Hang on, I'll pass you over," so Eno passed the phone over to David
David说“你好，我们正在…… and David said, "Hello, we're here in...
“你觉得你可以弹奏一些令人发毛的摇滚吉他吗？” "Do you think you can play some hairy rock'n'roll guitar?"
什么叫令人发毛的摇滚？ What is hairy rock'n'roll?
这里面有风险 It has danger.
在流行乐和摇滚乐之间 What is the difference between pop
有何不同？ and rock'n'roll?
你也许会死得很惨 You might get fucked.
这话你能剪进去么 Can you put that in
或者我应该选一个术语来表达这个意思？ or should I express it in alternative terminology?
“这是一次合作，一次极为成功的合作 'It was a collaboration, a highly successful collaboration,
“一次全新的合作，新加入的Fripp作为中间人 'the new one, and with the addition of Fripp as middle man,
“我认为他给予了极大的帮助 'I think that helped an awful lot as well.'
Eno说‘好了，你怎么不插上电源？’我就插上了 And Eno said, "Well, why don't you plug in?" So I plugged in.
他们摁下播放按钮 They hit the play button.
然后在第三小节，你会听到… And then on bar three you'll hear...
锯裂天空式的吉他声 with skysaw guitars,
直接进入Beauty And The Beast这首歌 and that's straight into Beauty And The Beast
专辑里你听到的第一首歌，Heroes里的第一首 and what you hear on the record, the first track of Heroes,
是我在录音期弹奏的第一个音符，第一次发声 is the first note I played on the session, first take,
然后贯穿始终 going all the way through.
♪ 公路之下，吟唱歌曲 ♪ Down the highway, sing the song
♪ 有没有搞错，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
♪ 你不能拒绝美女与野兽 ♪ You can't say never to the beauty and the beast. ♪
任何弹奏Beauty And The Beast的人 Anyone who's playing Beauty And The Beast,
他们都会性奋，你懂的 you know they get erections.
♪ 夜晚有些什么，白天也有些什么 ♪ There's something in the night, something in the day
♪ 那都不是错误的，但亲爱的有人拦在半途 ♪ Nothing is wrong but darling someone's in the way
♪ 那是空中的杀戮，对风的抗诉 ♪ There's slaughter in the air, protest on the wind
♪ 有人深潜在我内心 ♪ Someone deep inside of me
♪ 有人本会被人剥皮，但那又如何？ ♪ Someone could get skinned, how? ♪
Heroes里的大部分歌都将人带回Station To Station Most of Heroes takes you back to that very poetic, somewhat obtuse,
时期那种十分诗意、几分朴拙 often gloriously indecipherable way of doing things
又极难解读的创造手法 which you'd heard in Station To Station.
专辑很棒，但我真的不知道他在说什么 It's great but I don't really know what he's talking about
那种神秘兮兮的回归思想 and so the sort of mystery kind of returns.
但与此同时，Heroes这首同名主题曲 But, at the same time, the title song of Heroes is an exception to
有力反驳了关于他变回朴拙的说法 that idea that he's sort of become very obtuse again.
从这些家伙们第一次弹奏的那一刻起 I always knew that was going to be a great song
我就知道这会是一支伟大的歌曲 from the very first moment those guys started playing it.
你会想‘OK，是啊，这支不错’ You thought, "OK, yes, this is a good one."
我认为决定性的时刻 And then I think the really crucial moment in it came
其实是Frip带来的 actually with Fripp.
♪ 我 ♪ I
♪ 我希望你可以游弋 ♪ I wish you could swim. ♪
“Fripp用吉他奏出的哀泣声确实触发了 'Fripp's plaintive guitar cry really triggered off something
“我内心的某些情绪，这是一首胜利之歌，好像说 'emotive in me, and it was a song of triumph, and it was like,
“‘曾经的我在生活中真是一个傻瓜 ' "I've been a real idiot some of my life
“’将自己投入了荒谬而危险的境地 ' "and put myself in ridiculously dangerous situations
“‘但看起来我已经熬了过来’ ' "and I seem to have been getting through it."
“这种感情成了此歌的重头戏 'And that became part and parcel of that song.
“你可以披荆斩棘 战胜一切” 'You can overcome some incredible odds.'
♪ 我们可以击败他们 ♪ We can beat them
♪ 永远直到永远 ♪ Forever and ever
♪ 哦，我们可以成为英雄 ♪ Oh, we can be heroes
♪ 只为这一天 ♪ Just for one day. ♪
Fripp弹了三遍吉他，三次我们都用上了 Fripp did three takes on it and we used all three.
这儿就多亏了Tony Visconti的天赋 This is Tony Visconti's genius that he can do that
三个音轨才不会叠得乱糟糟 without it sounding a mess.
David在控制室里坐着 David sat down in the control room
他说‘你能出去散会儿步吗’ and he said, "Could you just take a walk?"
他继续说‘我在写东西，我想一个人待会儿 He goes, "I'm writing and I just want to be to myself
我想写完这些歌词’ and I want to finish these lyrics."
容我这么说吧，我那时候和 So I was having a little flirtation, shall we say,
歌手Antonia Maass有点暧昧 with the singer Antonia Maass.
她是专辑的女声歌手 She was the female vocalist on the album.
我们走出了录音室，你可以从控制室 We walked outside the studio where, from the control room,
看到柏林墙，看到很多碎砖石 you could see the Berlin Wall and you could see a lot of rubble
你还能看到守卫和瞭望炮塔 and you could see the guards and the gun turrets.
正对着窗户下面，我们轻轻接了个吻 And right beneath the window we had a little snog.
被David看见了，说‘这就是第二节’ And David saw that and he said, "That's the second verse!"
♪ 然后我们接了吻 ♪ And we kissed
♪ 仿佛一切都不会坠落 ♪ As though nothing could fall. ♪
“令人高兴的是 我发现 'The thing that was most exciting about it all is that
“没有药物的刺激，我也能写出好词 'I found that without drugs I was still writing very well,
“大概这是最能体现活力恢复的迹象 'you know, and that was probably the most rejuvenating aspect of it all,
“就是你不需要嗑药嗑得疯疯癫癫也能写出好词 'is that you don't need to get stoned out of your gourd to write well,
“我觉得这段时期 'you know? I think that was,
“对我异常重要 'you know, an incredibly important period for me.'
花了不少时间，对吗 Not very fast, are you?
“我不能说一夜之间 'I can't say it was like night and day that suddenly
“我就改头换面了 'was this different person.
“嗯，用了相当长的一段时间 'It wasn't. It took quite a long time.
“不过我觉得，我确实在隧道尽头看见了光亮 'But I think, you know, I did see light at the end of the tunnel,
“那可不是火车的灯光哟” 'and it wasn't a train.'
在Heroes时期，我又见到了Bowie When I met Bowie again around the time of Heroes
我被眼前所见的惊到了，那自然色的头发 I was struck by the fact that his hair was its natural colour,
没有化一点妆 he wasn't wearing any make up,
他穿着衬衫，一点也不摇滚明星范 he was wearing a shirt so un-rockstar-y
完完全全是那种城郊常见的休闲服 it virtually qualified as suburban casual wear.
这一切好像在说，‘好吧，这就是真实的我’ It was almost like saying, "OK, this is the real me."
当然事情没有这么简单 Though, of course, one did suspect
的确有人怀疑这个平易近人的本色Bowie is this affable natural Dave
会不会只是他最新的一张面具？ simply the latest mask?
在这似乎栩栩如生的表面之下 And is there something still lurking beneath
有没有潜藏着别的东西？ this apparently lifelike surface?
- 能最后再问你一件事吗？ - 嗯 - Can I ask you one last thing? - Mm.
与你一起共事过的人对我说 People I've talked to who worked with you say
你是一个非常注重隐私的人，你明白我的意思吗？ you're a very personal person, if you know what I mean?
- 和我一起鬼混的人？ - 不，是共事过的人 - People who go out with me? - No, to WORK with you!
我还以为你说的是和我一起鬼混的人！ I thought you said people who go out with me!
说你是一个，额…不能说神秘兮兮，但是非常注重隐私的人 You're a very, erm... Not secretive, but personal.
- 有些事情就只有自己知道这样 - 是比较安静吧……对，就是安静而已 - Keep things to yourself. - Quite... quite quiet, yes.
你觉得自己羞涩吗？ Do you think you're shy?
……也没有吧…… No.
嗯，我真的不羞涩啦 只是有点安静而已 No, I'm not really shy. I'm just a bit quiet.
你有没有想过，如果你不那么保持自我的话 Do you think if you didn't keep things to yourself
人们就不会对你下一步要做什么感到意外了？ people wouldn't be surprised at what you did next?
我从来没想过这个 I've never really thought about that.
- 等这场演完了我再告诉你 - 哦好的，谢谢 - I'll let you know after the show. - OK, thanks.
现在得上台了，要跟我来吗？ Off to do a show. Come with me?
我 ♪ I
我将是国王 ♪ I will be king
还有你 ♪ And you
你将是我的王后 ♪ You will be my queen
尽管一切 ♪ Though nothing
会将我们分离 ♪ Can keep us together
我们可以战胜他们 ♪ We can beat them
永远直到永远 ♪ Forever and ever. ♪
我想一个人如果能做到以下两点就值得被视作 I guess you merit being seen as the ultimate artist of your era
他这个时代的顶级艺术家 if you do two things.
首先，得以惊人的速度改变你的作品 First of all, if you change what you do at a mind-boggling rate.
不仅作品本身要惊人，其多样性 If you're not only prodigious, but the diversity of the work you
也要惊人，Bowie在70年代就做到了这点 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
敢于直面时代的电闪雷鸣 whether you act as a lightning rod for your time.
而羞耻 ♪ And the shame
掉落在墙的另一侧 ♪ Fell on the other side
哦，我们将会打败他们 ♪ Oh, we can beat them
永远直到永远 ♪ Forever and ever
我们会成为英雄 ♪ We could be heroes
只为这一天 ♪ Just for one day. ♪
关键年之四：1979—80
你得把你的过往融入如今的角色 这会有助于你看清楚现在的自己…
David，即将进入80年代了，回过头来看70年代吧 David, looking back over the '70s, into the '80s,
你怎么看70年代的音乐？ how do you look at music in the '70s?
就像这样 Sort of like this.
地面控制呼叫汤姆少校 ♪ Ground Control to Major Tom
戴上你的头盔 吞下蛋白丸药 ♪ Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
地面控制呼叫汤姆少校 ♪ Ground Control to Major Tom
倒数开始 启动引擎 ♪ Commencing countdown, engines on
请检查点火器 愿上帝之爱与你同行 ♪ Check ignition and may God's love be with you. ♪
在英国，Kenny Everett视频秀鼎力支持 The Kenny Everett Video Show was sort of cheerleader in England
我们说的这个录影带一代 for what we might call the video generation,
也许是称作MV的一代吧，那时候 what we might call the music video generation, which, at that time,
MV对英国人来说完全是陌生的，美国人也还真没听说过 was so totally new to the Brits and indeed unheard of to the Americans,
我觉得他是立刻盯上了这玩意儿 that I think he immediately clocked it.
Space Oddity这个录像真的是 And the Space Oddity video
我俩一起匆匆制作而成的，相当快 was really something that we cobbled together quite quickly.
你真的创造了伟大的功绩 ♪ You've really made the grade
媒体却想知道你身着何人的衬衣 ♪ And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear. ♪
“我觉得Major Tom是我第一次 'I think Major Tom is the first time I'd been able to create
创造出来一个靠谱的角色 'a character that was very credible.
“我想对任何作家来说，这都是一个顶点 'I think, for any writer, that's a high point.
“他优先于所有其他角色 'He preceded all the others
“我想应该给他一个特别的地位 'and I suppose one has a special place for him.'
汤姆少校呼叫地面控制 ♪ ..to Ground Control
我正漫步着穿越舱门 ♪ I'm stepping through the door. ♪
这实在是有意思，在70年代末 It is very interesting that, at the end of the '70s,
他又回到了他第一个关键的角色 he goes back to his first key character.
Major Tom回来了 Major Tom returns, in the sense of
通过一次升级版Space Oddity的演绎 an updated performance of Space Oddity.
但紧接着，他拿起Major Tom这个角色 But then he takes the character of Major Tom,
把他放进了一首新歌，还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变成了一个更加令人不安且灾难性的象征 So Major Tom becomes a much more discomforting, sinister figure.
♪ 你是否还记得这个家伙 ♪ Do you remember a guy that's been
♪ 曾经出现在一首老歌里 ♪ In such an early song
♪ 我从地面控制那儿听说了谣言 ♪ I heard a rumour from Ground Control
♪ 哦，不，请别说这是真的 ♪ Oh, no, don't say it's true
♪ 自那行动人偶处，他们得到了这条信息 ♪ Got a message from the action man
♪ 我过得很快乐，希望你们也快乐 ♪ I'm happy, hope you're happy too. ♪
Major Tom成了某种快活式的堕落英雄 Major Tom became a little, sort of, bouncy hero.
我只是想让他与时俱进一点 I just wanted to sort of bring him up-to-date a little bit
把他放入了有点维多利亚时代童谣的氛围中 and put him in a Victorian nursery rhyme kind of atmosphere.
即使这不是维多利亚时代，但还是有那种恶心的感觉 Even though it's not Victorian, it has that queasiness of those,
♪ 环一个玫瑰花环 ♪ Ring a ring of roses
♪ 这是在吟唱瘟疫，我们都将倒地死去 ♪ This is about the plague and we're all going to drop down dead ♪
我想传达的，就是这种东西 kind of thing about it, which is what I did with the piece.
♪ 我过得很快乐，希望你们也快乐 ♪ I'm happy, hope you're happy too
♪ 我曾经爱过，也曾需要被爱 ♪ I've loved and I've needed love
♪ 龌龊的细节也随之披露 ♪ Sordid details following. ♪
David打电话问我 ‘我们可以为这支新单曲拍个MV么’ David rang me. "Could we make a video for this new single?"
我们围着桌子坐着，他说‘我想变成一个小丑，站在沙滩上’ We sat round a table and he said, "I want to be a clown on the beach."
我说‘哇，我刚对沙滩画面做了处理，还碰巧 I said, "Whoopee, I've just done something on a beach and by accident
‘发现把天空弄黑、让每个人带着光晕 "I found this great effect of making the sky black
‘会出现非常棒的效果’ "and everybody have a halo."
然后他想要个挖掘机 Then he wanted a digger.
♪ 但我仍渴望去反抗，可这星球太过灼热 ♪ But I'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing
♪ 尘归于尘，懦弱依旧懦弱 ♪ Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
♪ 我们都明白汤姆少校是个瘾君子 ♪ We know Major Tom's a junkie. ♪
导演给了我相当大的自由 按我的想法去剪辑 David allows me lots and lots of freedom to do very much what I want,
我给他画了个故事线索板 the ways I want it edited. I storyboard it for him,
明确告诉他我想要什么样的构架 show him exactly what frames I want done.
然后他把他的想法也放了进去 And then he puts his input in as well.
尤其是在Ashes To Ashes这支里 And, especially on Ashes to Ashes,
我们的配合非常成功 the combination has been very successful.
MV中沙滩上围拢在篝火前的人们 The people round the bonfire on the beach in Ashes to Ashes
都来自于Blitz，伦敦的一家夜店 were people from Blitz, which is a London club,
是新浪漫主义运动的先锋 which was the precursor of the Modern Romantic movement.
David试图赶在任何人之前 David managed to clock the whole Modern Romantic movement
锁定整个新浪漫主义运动 way before anybody else.
这说明他看中了新一阶段的青年文化 It showed him co-opting a new phase of youth culture,
而他本来就是激发这一文化的主要缪斯 which he'd been the key figure in inspiring in the first place.
所以有些人会说他在模仿他的模仿者 So some might say he was imitating his imitators.
其他人说他是将他们收编入伙 Others were saying he was buying them off and getting them onboard.
“以熟悉度来看，这当然是一首比较好的歌 'It's certainly one of the better songs I've ever written
“也是一首能引人入胜的歌 'in terms of familiarity and a song that really hooks in.
“我对未来感到非常积极 'I felt very positive about the future and I got down
“我开始着手写一张全方位的、精心制作的专辑” 'to writing a really comprehensive and well-crafted album.'
David带着很多想法进入录音室 David came into the studio with a lot of ideas
我记得他还把小样存在一个叫随身听的新玩意儿里 and I remember he had his demos on a new contraption called a Walkman.
Carlos Alomar看到听了之后就着迷了 Carlos Alomar flipped when he saw it and heard it.
《Scary Monsters》的Fashion这首 Fashion for the Scary Monsters album,
David感到有需要复制出一点Fame的感觉 David had this need to maybe even reproduce a bit of the Fame feeling
我们就想保持向上的劲头 so we wanted to keep everything up so it would give him
这对他制作一张具有商业成利益的专辑非常有效 a secure commercially viable album that he could work with.
所以Fashion以这种非常放克风的节拍开启 So Fashion started just with this very funky beat.
接着它变成了一个怪物 Then it grew it into a monster.
大家开始录进去各种声音 People started over-dubbing stuff on it.
Fripp叠加了这段疯狂的吉他 Fripp started over-dubbing this crazy guitar to it.
它就慢慢演变成了一支出色的曲子 It was just evolving into a fantastic track.
我不相信你还能找到另一个吉他手 I don't believe you'll find another guitarist who would have
会这么那么弹 played that to that.
非常疯狂 It's very out.
从对这张专辑作出贡献的 From a point of view of making a contribution to the work
音乐人和制作人的角度来看，能有这一参与的机会 of an artist with their producer, the opportunity to do that
并受到支持与鼓舞… and be supported and encouraged in it...
…疯狂，真是疯狂 ..it's out, it's out.
♪ 这儿有一支全新的舞蹈，但我不知道它叫什么 ♪ There's a brand-new dance but I don't know its name
♪ 家境潦倒的人们跳了一遍又一遍 ♪ That people from bad homes do again and again. ♪
“人们甘做时尚的奴隶 'It was kind of a little wary of the Lemming-like quality
“像旅鼠那般谨小慎微 'that people were slaves to fashion.'
♪ 它巨大而冷漠，充斥着恐惧与紧张 ♪ It's big and it's bland, full of tension and fear. ♪
“它是独裁的权威，控制了人们 'It was dictatorial authority that the thing seems to grasp people.
“这是一首快餐式的、一次性消费的歌，如同时尚本身一样无足轻重 'It was a lightweight, throw-away song, as important as fashion.'
♪ 时尚，让人转向左 ♪ Fashion, turn to the left
♪ 时尚，让人转向右 ♪ Fashion, turn to the right
♪ Oooh, fashion!
♪ 我们是一群暴徒，正往城里来 ♪ We are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep-beep. ♪
”我们是一群暴徒，正往城里来，哔——哔——“ 'We are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep-beep.'
这不就是一句令人铭记于心的歌词吗？ Now, ain't that a line which sticks in the mind?
♪ 听我说，别听我说 ♪ Listen to me, don't listen to me
♪ 和我说，别和我说 ♪ Talk to me, don't talk to me
♪ 和我跳舞，别和我跳舞 ♪ Dance with me, don't dance with me
♪ 别，哔——哔—— ♪ No, beep-beep. ♪
纽约
Bowie现下正在纽约 And now Bowie in New York.
由摇滚巨星David Bowie出演的 The play in which rock star David Bowie has scored a remarkable triumph
百老汇舞台剧《象人》取得了巨大的成功 on Broadway is called The Elephant Man.
Bowie第一次以朴实演员身份的亮相 Bowie's first appearance as a straight actor met with
获得了来自纽约评论界异口同声的赞誉 almost universal praise from the New York critics
售票处前也排起了长队 and there are long lines at the box office.
洗澡去除了你身上的异味，不是吗 The baths have rid you of your odour, have they not?
这是我第一次有机会有条不紊地洗澡… First chance I've had to bathe regular...ly.
“我去百老汇看过，深受震动 'I went to see it on Broadway and I was totally knocked out by it.'
几个月后，导演Jack Hofsiss And then Jack Hofsiss, the director, came to see me
过来看我，我当时又回到了纽约 a couple of months later whilst I was back in New York yet again
录制Scary Monsters的专辑，他问我 doing the Scary Monsters album, and asked me if I would consider
能否考虑在年底接手这个角色 taking over the role at the end of the year.
我惊愕不已，因为我向来和这些 And I was flabbergasted cos I had never been asked to do anything
理应正统而严肃的领域没有瓜葛 that sort of supposedly legit.
这是你的应许之地，不是吗？ This is your promised land, is it not?
有屋檐，有食物，有人关心，受到庇护？ A roof, food, care, protection?
是的，Treves先生 Right, Mr Treves.
“我注意到，David为这个角色拗出来的嗓音 'I noticed that, as David created the voice for the character,
“感觉非常独特 'there was a quality there that was very unique.'
我觉得这是他表演中独特性的精髓 I thought that was the core of the uniqueness of his performance.
你称它为 家 You call it home.
从来没有过一个家呢 Never had a home before.
嗯，你现在有了 Well, you have one now.
John，大声说出来，家！ Say it, John, home!
家？- 不，不，我是说要真的说出来 Home? -No, no, I mean REALLY say it. "I have a home.
‘我有了一个家，这是我的…’- 继续说 "This is my..." Come on.
我有一个家 I have a home.
这是我的… This is...
家 my home.
“完全没有化妆” 'There was no make-up at all.'
这是……我的家吗？ This... is my home?
这就需要观众们 And that demanded that the audience,
与这个演员协力 in conjunction with the actor,
共同想象这家伙到底长什么样 imagined what this guy really looked like
怎么样挪动他的身躯 and the way he moved.
“我想最困难的是在不化妆的情况下 'I think the toughest part was just working with my own body
“如何仅靠扭动我的身体 'and trying to create this really distorted ugly figure
“创造出这个畸形丑陋的形象 'without using make up.
“这对我倒不是那么陌生 'It came very naturally to me.
“我估计这和我早先受过 'I presume that it was something to do with the mime training
“哑剧的训练有关系” 'that I had earlier.'
我可以说我能在排练中辨认出 I have to say that you can tell
一个真正的演员 when there's a real actor coming back at you when you rehearse.
在这场戏中他所表现的就是一个真正的演员 And in his case it was a real actor there
而这就是我能给予他的最高的赞美 and that's the highest praise I can give him.
我正在阅读《罗密欧与朱丽叶》 I am reading Romeo and Juliet.
啊，朱丽叶！多好的爱情故事呐 Ah, Juliet! What a love story.
我喜欢爱情故事 I adore love stories.
我也最喜欢了 I like love stories best, too.
如果换我作罗密欧，你猜会怎么样？ If I had been Romeo, guess what?
怎么样？ What?
我不会用镜子去看她还有没有呼吸 I would not have held the mirror to her breath.
你说什么？ What?
“我真希望他能意识到在这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
并且保持了整个档期 that remained wonderful throughout his entire run.
如果我是罗密欧 If I had been Romeo,
我们就逃离这儿 we would have got away.
关键年之五：1982—83
我主要关心如何让自己仅仅表现为一个表演者 以便弱化一些关于自性的困惑
“我想用音乐来对我想做的事进行价值重估 'I think I wanted to re-evaluate what I wanted to do, musically.
“我在短期内做了太多的事情 'I did a hell of a lot in a short period and I needed to get
“需要从做音乐中抽出一些空闲 'some space away from writing music because it was becoming,
“因为这已经越来越像一次试验，热情也正在衰退 'possibly, too much of an exercise and the enthusiasm had gone.
“但现在看起来一切在回归正轨” 'But now it seems to be back again.'
伦敦：克拉律治酒店
EMI正在进行庆祝 EMI are celebrating.
不顾强烈的反对声 EMI开出大价钱 Against serious opposition and for very serious money,
签下了一名真正的超级明星 they've just signed a real superstar.
先生们，女士们，有请David Bowie先生 Ladies and gentleman, Mr David Bowie.
EMI并不经常举办这种奢侈的招待宴会 EMI don't give lavish receptions like this very often.
他们没有透露花了多少钱签下Bowie They won't say how much they paid for Bowie but rumours
但传闻这份5年的合约在1000万到1700万镑之间 range from £10 million to £17 million for a five-year contract.
据报道说是这样，我觉得受宠若惊… Reportedly so, yes. I'm overwhelmed that I've...
有接近精确数字的吗？ Is that anywhere near accurate?
当然没有了 It's absolutely nowhere near accurate.
那您能透露一个更精确的数字吗？- 当然不行！ Can you give us a more accurate figure? -Of course not.
非常感谢你们，午安，先生们女士们 Thank you very much and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
伴随着制作人的变动 Bowie's attitude to himself and his music seems to have changed
Tony Visconti逐渐淡出 and with that comes a change of producer,
连同那为艺术而艺术的时代也日益远离 so out goes Tony Visconti,
Bowie对自己和他音乐的态度好像已经改变 who one associates with the art for art's sake period.
Nile Rodgers进入了视野 And in comes Nile Rodgers.
他同Chic和Sister Sledge合作了一连串的金曲 He's just had that huge run of hits with Chic and Sister Sledge.
接着他去制作了Diana Ross的专辑 He's gone on to produce Diana Ross.
但这些都不像是人们对 But it just doesn't seem like what one would have expected from
70年代以及一点点80年代的David Bowie的期待 the David Bowie of the '70s and the first part of the '80s.
看上去没有什么特色可言 Seems somewhat uncharacteristic.
我们第一次见面，完全是碰巧 When we met originally, it was completely by chance,
他一个人坐在这个夜店的内座 and he was sitting alone, back of this nightclub,
我一下子就认出他了 and I spotted him right away.
我和Billy Idol一起走进去，Billy走进去了说 I walked in with Billy Idol and Billy walked in and went,
‘见鬼了，那是David Bowie！’ "Bloody hell, that's David Bowie!"
他说 ‘鲍-奥-姨’ And when he said "Bowie,"
因为他叫他鲍姨，我们叫他剥衣 cos he called him BOW-ie, we called him BOH-ie,
他的发音像是在呕吐一样 he vomited, he barfed.
真是兴奋异常，就那时候我和他聊了起来 It was, like, hysterical. By that time, I was already chatting him up.
然后，David说他想让我做我最擅长的事情 Later, David said to me that he wanted me to do what I did best.
所以我就问David 他觉得我最擅长什么 So when I asked David what he thought I did best,
他看着我说，‘你能做出热门金曲’ he looked at me and says, "You make hits."
我就开始担负起这个任务 I was charged with the responsibility of doing such.
瑞士的一个早晨 So, one morning in Switzerland,
他走进我的卧室 he walks into my bedroom.
他大概是这么说的 He says something to the effect of,
‘亲爱的Nile，我觉得我一首歌有成为金曲的潜质’ "Nile, darling, I think I have a song that feels like it's a hit".
他带着12弦吉他 He comes in with this 12-string guitar
不过只有6根弦 that only has six strings on it.
见到12弦吉他，好像立马进了民谣城似的 When you see a 12-string guitar, you're in folk city right away.
就像这样 Something like that.
我就开始瞎弄几下 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,
大多数人都不知道Bowie是个酷炫的家伙 but Bowie is a jazzy cool guy, unbeknownst to most people,
但我当然知道这点啦 but I certainly knew that.
所以… So...
这算酷的 It was cool.
这是超酷 It was ultra-cool.
这是很正常的酷啦 It was pretty normal cool.
但你稍稍延迟一会，突然把 But you put in the delays and all of a sudden you get groove and funk
律动、情韵和节奏放在一起 and rhythm all at the same time.
♪ Let's dance. ♪
“我有些刻意地把这首歌做成舞曲风格 'It has an intention of being danceable but I think,
“不过在歌词上，我试着把它弄得 'in terms of lyric, I've tried to keep it simple as anything
“和以前我写过的一样简单 'that I've ever written before.
“我尝试用较我之前的写作更为 'I'm trying to write in a more obvious and positive manner
“明了易懂的方式去写” 'than I've written in a long time.'
♪ Let's dance
♪ 穿上你的红鞋，随着布鲁斯舞动 ♪ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
♪ Let's dance
♪ 跟上他们在电台播放着的歌曲 ♪ To the song they're playing on the radio
♪ Let's sway. ♪
Let’s Dance这歌挺有意思的 Let's Dance is an interesting song.
因为这基本上是一支放克音乐，一支老放克 because it's basically a funk groove, an old funk...
♪ 穿梭过人群，来到一片空地 ♪ Sway through the crowd to an empty space. ♪
Nile就是知道怎么把音符放到点上 And Nile just knew how to put that into place
然后再串联起来 and then put the hook line behind it
一会会儿的时间内一首歌就出炉了 and in the shortest amount of time, you had the song.
Let’s Dance不是，该怎么说呢，一张传统的舞曲专辑 Let's Dance is not a traditional, what I would call, dance record,
但这张专辑的确能激起你跳舞的情绪 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,
“如果我没有做出一张让人想跳舞的专辑 "Man, if I don't make a record that makes people want to dance,
“然后还把它叫做Let’t Dance "and we call the song Let's Dance, I'm going to have to trade in
“就像刷我的黑人劳工证一样，完全没有意义 "my black union card, cos that just doesn't make sense."
♪ 颤动犹如花朵 ♪ Tremble like a flower. ♪
这就是美国大卖场之歌 This is something that can be played in every mall in America.
这是一个老资历艺术家的主流专辑 It's a mainstream record by an artist who already has a pedigree.
好几次贾大嘴也想做一张他的Let’s Dance Mick Jagger tried to do his own Let's Dance a couple of times.
但都不成功 Never worked.
泡儿爷也来玩票过 McCartney dabbled.
不少这些家伙都玩票过，这时代就是这样 A lot of those guys dabbled cos that was what was going on.
但没有一个能和Bowie的专辑媲美 None of them made a record as good as what Bowie made.
♪ 在月光之下 ♪ Under the moonlight
♪ 这严肃的月光 ♪ The serious moonlight. ♪
我尝试去做一些比我之前一直弄的 I've tried to produce something that's warmer
玩意儿都要温情和接地气的东西 and more humanistic than anything that I've done for a long time.
少一点虚无主义之类的宣言 Less emphasis on the nihilistic kind of statement
以及我过去几年都在捣鼓的 and the icy... one-dimensional kind of thing
那些冰冷的…一元性的东西 that I've been working with over the last few years.
我们录完Let’s Dance最后一天 So we had cut Let's Dance and at the end of the day he gives me
他给我一份 China Girl的拷贝，说他觉得这首也会大热 a copy of China Girl and says that he thinks it's a hit.
我就想给它加一段起兴 So I wanted it to have a hook.
我想，‘也许我可以紧扣China这个词来做文章’ I thought, "Man, maybe I'll key off the word China."
我暗自思忖 And I said to myself,
David要么会很讨厌然后炒我鱿鱼 either David is going to hate this so much that he'll fire me
要么从中得到喜感的价值来写些傻兮兮的花儿朵朵那种歌 or he'll get the comedic value of writing a silly little poppy thing.
但我得承认，我紧张得要死 But I have to admit, I was nervous as hell
我弹给他听 and I played it for him
David说 ‘我喜欢！’ and David went, "I love it."
♪ Uh, oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ 小小的中国女孩 ♪ Little China girl
♪ Uh, oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ Little China girl
♪ 有我的中国女孩相伴 ♪ I could escape this feeling
♪ 或许就能摆脱这情绪 ♪ With my China girl
♪ 离开我的中国小姑娘，便似有厄运降临 ♪ I feel a wreck without my little China girl
♪ 我听见她的心在跳动 ♪ I hear her heart beating
♪ 响如雷鸣 ♪ Loud as thunder
♪ 看这星辰坠落 ♪ Saw the stars crashing. ♪
这就是80年代，MTV大爆炸的时代 This is the '80s. It's MTV explosion time.
他成了一个录影带实验者 He had been a video experimenter
但这张专辑将他置于MTV旋风的中心 but this record put him right there in the middle of MTV-isation
完全改变了他的职业生涯 and gave his career a whole other life.
♪ 你是否明白，我要给你TV机 ♪ You know, I'll give you television
♪ 我会给你蓝色的眼眸 ♪ I'll give you eyes of blue
♪ 我会给你企图统治世界的男人 ♪ I'll give you men who want to rule the world
♪ 每当我性奋起来 ♪ And when I get excited
♪ 我的中国小女孩 ♪ My little China girl. ♪
David就从一高端邪典的偶像 David went from being, let's say, a high profile cult star,
变成了烂大街明星 to mainstream.
外表也更大众了，尽管还顶着一头 The look was more mainstream, even though he had bleachy blond hair
微微漂白的金发，还有这些西装啥的东西 and all the suits and everything.
这跟瘦白公爵或者Ziggy It was a lot different than
那种不祥的角色可是大相径庭 that Thin White Duke ominous character, or Ziggy.
这是我见过的最随大流的他 It was the most mainstream I'd ever seen him.
他还在上拳击课，人更结实了 Out of the clear blue sky, he was taking boxing lessons
毒也不吸了，真是一片清风白日 and, like, he was beefy, he was cleaner.
不用太担心，他们完全无公害 Don't take any notice of them. They're all perfectly harmless.
“更高兴了，也很快活” 'He was happier and jovial.'
在你的新专辑里，你是决心要做你自己了 On your new album, you're determined to be yourself.
但我们怎么知道这是不是又是你另一张面具？ How do we know this isn't another one of your masks?
我也不知道，这有点那“狼来了”的故事 I don't know. It's a bit like the boy who cried wolf.
他就是那种“嘿，怎么怎么”这种 He was, "Hey!"
我还是觉得有点小奇怪 you, know. I found it a little odd,
因为这是一个非常快乐的剥衣 in that it was a very happy David.
你觉得此后的音乐就这么往简单发展了吗？ Do you see the music going back to basics from here on?
我觉得今晚会非常简单 Tonight, I think it might be very basic.
女士们先生们 Ladies and gentleman,
这里是1983年“严肃月光”巡演 the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour!
有请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. ♪
“我觉得我们现在不搞角色扮演了，就是穿着正装 'I think we're out of characters now and just into suits
“每一场也都会换换衣服 'and the suit will change from tour to tour,
“但裹在衣服里的那家伙基本是同一个人” '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.
我们本来以为会在欧洲 We thought we were going to do a couple of indoor theatres,
做几场室内剧院或体育馆的演出 indoor arenas through Europe.
结果完全不是这样，令人吃惊 It just quickly turned around, which was a surprise.
好像你就是搭上了这老旧的大列车 And you're just riding this big old train going,
‘好吧，各位请抓牢，列车就要开动啦’ "All right, everybody, hang on, here we go."
♪ 名声让人掌控一切 ♪ Fame makes a man take things over
♪ 名声让他失败，难以下咽 ♪ Fame keeps him loose and hard to swallow
♪ 名声使他陷入虚无之中 ♪ Fame puts him there, things are hollow
♪ Fame. ♪
“对我来说真是难以置信，突然之间我就不是那个邪典艺术家了 'It was beyond belief to me. Suddenly I wasn't a cult artist any more.
“令人震惊的是 'It really was a shocker
“因为巡演已经启动了，我们就急着赶场子 'and we were scurrying around because we'd already started a tour
“还莫名其妙地都是在大型体育场 '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.
“这一切全归功于衬衣下摆的长度 'It was all by the shirt tails, the whole thing.
“然后突然意识到，‘哇哦，这是我卖得最好的专辑…’ '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.'
♪ 我先将你拒绝，很惊讶吗？ ♪ Is it any wonder, I reject you first?
♪ Fame, fame, fame, fame
♪ 你很酷难以愚弄，很惊讶吗？ ♪ Is it any wonder, you are too cool to fool. ♪
SM巡演就是他将整个星球抓在手心里 The Serious Moonlight Tour was him capturing the planet as a whole.
♪ 你感觉特别妙，我却觉得冷飕飕 ♪ Bully for you, chilly for me
♪ 得淋场雨来浇醒这场疼痛 ♪ Got to get a rain check on pain. ♪
在83年那时候的名气真是大哟 It was major at that point in time, in '83.
每个中国人，每个韩国人，全世界每个人 Everyone in China, in Korea, and everywhere else in the world
都知道谁是David Bowie knew who David Bowie was
就因为这场巡演，无疑达到了顶点 because of that Serious Moonlight Tour, and it's a peak level.
♪ Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame... ♪
有那么几次当观众们都向你涌来 There's some moment when the audience comes to you
这与你去迎向他们形成鲜明反差 as opposed to you going to them.
其实他只是做了一张‘实验性’的专辑 He made a record that was an experimental record for him
结果却在流行度上大获成功 that actually worked on a pop level
很多人身上都发生过这种事 and that happens a lot for people.
每个艺术家，其核心团体都不希望外人 Every artist, their core group resents the fact that the outsiders
知晓他们的独家秘方，但这对一张好专辑却是不利的 are in on our secret, but that's the danger of a good record.
你永远也不会知道谁会去听 You never know who's going to listen to it.
♪ Fame, fame. ♪
“我容许自己被推入这种商业场馆里 'I allowed myself to be pushed into the commercial arena
“因为我还从来没去过呢，就像是那种‘哇，它是什么样的？’ 'because I'd never been there and it was sort of, "Ooh, what's it like?"
“就是这样，然后我就手握未来投入其中 'But there it was and I jumped in with my future in my hands.'
♪ Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame... ♪
♪ 名声，请问你叫甚？ ♪ What's your name? ♪
之后的20年里，David Bowie继续创作了11张专辑
2007年，他从公众视野里消失
人们认为他已经去九霄云外了 People have this idea that he sort of drifted off into the stratosphere
然后，你知道的，谣言传闻就风起云涌 and, you know, rumour and gossip starts, and all of that.
在某种意义上，他重新获得了 In a sense, he's regained
神秘感与距离感 the mystery and distance
那使他特立独行于70年代的 which was so powerful a part
重要元素 of what made him so exceptional in the 1970s.
一夜间，我们又一次不知道David Bowie是谁了 Suddenly, we don't know who David Bowie is, once again.
即便近年来Bowie利用其退隐 Even the current rather cat-and-mouse game that Bowie
来玩猫抓老鼠这套把戏 has been playing from his seclusion
也难免令人想起个中的大师级人物——沃霍尔 is reminiscent of Warhol, the master of games,
打着边缘化的幌子 pretending to be marginal,
实际上他是个了不起的木偶大师，掌控着一切 when, in fact, he is the great puppet master controlling it all.
接着他就带着这张《The Next Day》王者归来了 But then he comes back with this record, The Next Day,
还不接受任何采访 and he doesn't do interviews.
我们又回到了娱乐圈那句箴言——吊吊他们的胃口 We're back to the showbiz adage of leave them wanting more.
多么David Bowie式的做法呐 Very David Bowie thing to do.
Phil，驼峰日快乐（含性暗示） Happy hump day, Phil.
- 我可不觉得爽，你呢？ - 我也是 - I didn't get humped. You? - Yeah.
哈，有些人就是有点迷失了 Some people, huh, they just get lost.
额，不过比我们在这儿平淡度日可刺激多了 Well, it's more exciting than anything we've got around here.
我可不敢苟同哟 I wouldn't say that.
我们有着如此美好的生活 We have a nice life.
我们有美好的生活 We have a nice life.
我从没指望过我的人生会是这样发展的 60年代的时候人家告诉我 对于成功来说我太前卫了
♪ 挤着穿过市集广场 ♪ Pushing through the market square
♪ 那么多母亲在叹息 ♪ 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
♪ 新闻人流着泪诉说 ♪ News guy wept when he told us
♪ 地球真的危在旦夕 ♪ Earth was really dying
♪ 泪水打湿了他的脸 ♪ Cried so much that his face was wet
♪ 才明白他没有说谎 ♪ Knew he wasn't lying. ♪
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