Roxetten
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David Bowie :
"It’s easy to get caught up in the hype. It changes you. So I was on the set of the music video ‘Ashes To Ashes’, do you know the one? So we’re on the beach shooting this scene with a giant bulldozer. The camera was on a very long lens. In this video I’m dressed from head to toe in a clown suit. Why not? I hear playback and the music starts.
So off I go, I start singing and walking, but as soon as I do this old geezer with an old dog walk right between me and the camera.
Well, knowing this is gonna take a while I walked past the old guy and sat next to camera in my full costume waiting for him to pass. As he is walking by camera the director said, Excuse me mister, do you know who this is? The old guy looks at me from bottom to top and looks back to the director and said, ‘Of course I do! It’s some c**t in a clown suit.’
That was a huge moment for me, It put me back in my place and made me realise, yes, I’m just a c**t in a clown suit. I think about that old guy all the time."
^I love that anecdote.
