David Bowie and Bob Dylan never shared a close relationship, but that didn’t stop the Bromley boy from using his hero as a muse on two focused occasions. Beautifully, the songs in question were created over half a century apart, showing just how much Dylan lingered over Bowie’s artistic life. (Source Faroutmagazine- VMZ)
Bowie featured almost every genre under the sun, except for country music, which he truly loathed. He once said: “I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
David Bowie did not like Gary Numan at all. Despite Numan being a lifelong fan of Bowie, the feelings were not reciprocated. Notoriously, the older statesman had Numan kicked off The Kenny Everett Christmas Show in 1980 for what he perceived as Numan copying his act.
Elton John
Elton John was another notable figure that Bowie did not have time for, despite both of them – and T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan – frequenting gay clubs together when they were younger. Speaking to Rolling Stone in 1976, Bowie admitted that he called John “the Liberace, the token queen of rock”, which would no doubt hurt his target.
Later, Elton John commented: “We started out being really good friends. We used to hang out together with Marc Bolan, going to gay clubs, but I think we just drifted apart.” He added, “David and I were not the best of friends towards the end.”
Paul McCartney
In response to a question of what he thought about “contemporaries” such as The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney, Bowie explained that whilst he liked “some of” the former’s work, he wasn’t keen on McCartney’s. He said: “I don’t like much of Paul’s. He’s a nice guy, I’ve met him a couple of times.”
Axl Rose
A more personal entry. During the late 1980s, when rockstars were precisely that, Bowie found himself in a physical altercation with Axl Rose, the frontman of the world’s then-biggest band, Guns N’ Roses. Guitarist Slash revealed this when writing in his eponymous memoir. He recalled Bowie and Rose fighting over the daughter of an Everly Brother, Rose’s then-girlfriend, Erin Everly.
One night in 1989, Bowie went to watch Guns N’ Roses support The Rolling Stones at The Cathouse venue. He was in attendance alongside Ola Hudson, Slash’s mother, who he had known and worked with for years. (David Bowie Banged Slash's Mom Ola Hudson, famous designer.Of all the possible reasons for musician rivalries, David Bowie and Slash might had a unique one.)
However, at one point, Rose started sneering and throwing some rather choice insults in his direction. Disgusted at Rose, Bowie stood up and left during Guns N’ Roses’ set. No one understood what had happened at the time until Slash divulged that Rose was furious at Bowie for allegedly hitting on Erin.
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“When I knew him in the early days, he was what I would call incredibly hard living! He really did live high and he lived hard, and he could have been another Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon casualty – there’s no question about it.”
“There’s no point gilding the lily here or pulling back on the facts. He was a bit of a wild man; he just was so super cool. So glamorous, and so sweet a man, so kind, and so hard-working too, so interested in the arts. Also so intelligent that it disguised the fact that underneath it all he was a filthy rock star.”
“So no, I wasn’t surprised. What I’m actually leading up to say is that I was relieved that his suffering was over. I think you know he’d been very ill.”
